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GOP divisions force Mike Johnson to punt on spending bills - Axios

Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images. House Republicans on Thursday pulled their third government funding vote in two weeks ...

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House Democrats Highlight Republican Hypocrisy in Agriculture-Rural Development-FDA Funding Bill ... House Republicans are already reneging on the ...

Senator Murray Rips House GOP CR as Dangerous and Derelict ...

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ( ...

Mann and Davids diverge on U.S. House committee's agriculture ...

Kansas' two members of the US House agriculture committee disagreed Friday on overall merit of a proposed farm bill with Republican Tracey Mann lauding it as a ...

House-Passed GOP Budget Would Decimate Science Funding

It would result in devastating cuts to discretionary programs across the federal government, including federal science agencies and other research activities.

Food Research & Action Center

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation's first line of defense against hunger and helps over 40 million people put food on the table ...

Climate Action Opportunities and Setbacks Under Trump

With the president focused on deregulation and supporting fossil fuels, federal initiatives to reduce emissions or invest in clean energy will ...

Five months late, Congress is poised to pass a huge chunk of ...

Dems tout WIC funding. The first batch of government funding bills brokered by the divided Congress includes the Agriculture-FDA, Commerce ...

U.S. House Republican farm bill approach may test Biden hunger ...

U.S. President Joe Biden's pledges to slash emissions from farming and to end American hunger by 2030 may be harder to realize now that ...

House passes agriculture finance, policy agreement with bipartisan ...

a climate coordinator to help Minnesota farmers tap into federal resources;; a full-time emerging farmer coordinator;; a new staff member in the ...

Governors Priorities to Reauthorize the Farm Bill

The co-chairs of the National Governors Association (NGA) Education, Workforce and Community Investment Task Force wrote a letter to ...

House, Senate Agriculture Committees release frameworks for 2024 ...

On May 1, House Agriculture Committee Chairman G.T. Thompson (R-Penn.) released a summary of his proposal for the 2024 Farm Bill. This was ...

Mike Johnson gets his own Trump bump — but it might be short-lived

The House speaker's job looks safer than ever after the president-elect gave his full endorsement. Yet hardliners may still make trouble for ...

Five big things on Congress's to-do list as lawmakers return to the ...

House lawmakers will return to Washington, D.C., after a lengthy recess and the 2024 election on Tuesday, with a lengthy list of tasks to ...

House Republicans Show Their Hand: Committee Spending Levels ...

House Republicans have started to show how they plan to budget at discretionary funding levels that are the lowest in a decade, adjusted for inflation.

CT delegation outlines priorities for lame-duck Congress session

Democrats, including Connecticut's delegation, have a long to-do list of priorities they want to get over the finish line before the end of ...

What's At Stake: Appropriations, Shutdown, and Farm Bill

Last week, both the House and Senate were back in session after more than a month of Congressional recess. As of today, Congress has one ...

Congress returns to unfinished business and a new Trump era

In the Senate, where Republicans seized power from Democrats on election night, three Republican senators who are vying to become the new GOP ...

Inflation Reduction Act - Wikipedia

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) is a United States federal law which aims to reduce the federal government budget deficit, lower prescription drug ...

Guide to the 119th Congress - NAM

119th Congress Leadership Elections. Upon having control of both chambers next Congress, House and Senate Republicans returned to Washington ...