HOUSE and SENATE The House passed legislation embodying the deal (H.R. 3877) to raise the U.S.’s debt limit and increase the budget caps for Fiscal Years (FYs) 2020 and 2021 on a 284 to 149 vote. The bill would raise limits on non-defense discretionary spending by $24.5 billion and defense discretionary spending by $19.5 billion […]

HOUSE and SENATE Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have stated that negotiations on an extension of the Federal debt limit as well as increases for the Fiscal Year 2020 and 2021 spending caps for Defense and Non-Defense discretionary spending are continuing. It has been reported that the […]

HOUSE and SENATE The Senate confirmed Robert King as the Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) on a 56 to 37 vote. The Senate confirmed John Pallasch as the Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Employment and Training Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on a 54 […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate were in recess this week and will return next week. ADMINISTRATION The President signed a $4.6 billion emergency border relief package into law. The bill provides $2.9 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, which takes custody of migrant children from the U.S. Customs and […]

ADMINISTRATION The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) completed its review of the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED’s) final regulatory action on Gainful Employment (GE). ED is appealing a Federal judge’s ruling that ED’s delay of the Obama-era State Authorization regulation was improper. A group of students who attended for-profit institutions of higher education […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House passed its Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) appropriations bill as part of a larger package of appropriations bills (H.R. 2740) on a 226 to 203 vote. The measure was combined with the Defense, Energy and Water, and State and Foreign Operations appropriations bills. […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House has finished considering amendments to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) appropriations portion of a larger four-part appropriations bill (H.R. 2740). The overall measure combined LHHS with the Defense, Energy and Water, and State and Foreign Operations appropriations bills into one package for […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate were in recess this week and will return next week. The House was blocked from passing a disaster relief package by unanimous consent that would provide $165 million in funding for schools and institutions of higher education (IHEs) and $55 million for Head Start programs affected by recent […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House Judiciary Committee passed the Dream Act (H.R. 2820) on a 19 to 10 vote, which would provide a pathway to citizenship for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. The Senate passed a disaster relief package on a 85 to 8 vote, that would provide $165 million in funding for schools […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler (D-NY) confirmed that the Committee will be marking up the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act next week. The House Education and Labor Committee passed the Equity and Inclusion Enforcement Act (H.R. 2574) and the Strength in Diversity Act (H.R. 2639). Both bills were […]