Issue / Federal Governance
Update on Appropriations and on Democratic Senate Committee Assignments
Dec 12, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 12, 2014 - 4:07 p.m. Appropriations. This afternoon, the House of Representatives passed another seven-‐day clean...
Two-Day CR Extension Cleared For White House
Dec 11, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 11, 2014 – 10:52 p.m. Both the House and Senate have now cleared H. J. Res. 130, a two-day extension of the existing...
House Passes FY 2015 Omnibus Appropriations
Dec 11, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 11, 2014 – 9:40 P.M. After a day of delays and confusion, the House of Representatives has passed the fiscal year...
FY 2015 Omnibus Appropriations Up For House Vote Today
Dec 11, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 11, 2014 – 8:45 A.M. Omnibus. House leaders are proceeding on the omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 83) as if they...
Full Analysis of FY 2015 Omnibus Appropriations for Transportation and Public Works
Dec 10, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 10, 2014 Last night, Congressional negotiators made public the long-awaited text of the omnibus appropriations package for...
Omnibus FY 2015 Appropriations Bill Now Online
Dec 09, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 9, 2014 - 8:21 P.M. The text of the omnibus FY 2015 appropriations package, funding most federal agencies through September...
Overview of Final FY 2015 USDOT Appropriations
Dec 09, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 9, 2014 – 9:05 p.m. Initial overview. The omnibus package will take the form of a House amendment to the Senate...
Omnibus Appropriations Delayed For Non-Appropriations Reasons
Dec 09, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 9, 2014 – 9:45 A.M. Delays in negotiating non-appropriations provisions of the final omnibus appropriations measure for...
Update – The Week Ahead
Dec 08, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 8, 2014 – 7:30 a.m. This is the last scheduled week of session for the 113th Congress, and Congressional leaders have a...
How To Get A Transportation User Tax Increase Through the House of Representatives
Dec 04, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 4, 2014 Many observers of transportation debates have long wondered: how do we get a user tax increase through an anti-tax...
Congress Returns For Hectic Final Session
Dec 02, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 2, 2014 – 11:00 A.M. As Congress returns from the Thanksgiving recess to face what is supposed to be the last two weeks...
Could Building a Canal In Nicaragua Be the Answer?
Nov 25, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY AARON J. GELLMAN Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern University In 2013, Chinese interests revealed their...