President Barack Obama announced last week additional proposals related to his “Rebuild American Partnership” that was first outlined in his State of the Union speech. The $21 billion push was announced during Obama’s visit to PortMiami and is largely comprised of items he has proposed before, including the creation of…
Sign up here to receive email updates like this from Keystone Public Affairs. Budget: Last week, the Senate passed the first budget resolution in nearly four years. According to legislators, the measure will reduce the deficit by $1.85 trillion between spending cuts and tax increases. “Although Senate Democrats finally generated…
Last week, President Obama missed the deadline – the first Monday in February – for submitting his annual budget request to Congress. Though the delay was not unexpected, it drew strong criticism from Republicans and others. Furthermore, while the administration did not say when Obama would release the 2014 spending…
President Obama’s first State of the Union since his second inauguration focused overwhelmingly on domestic policy, calling on the 113th Congress to address issues like tax and entitlement reform, sequestration, climate change, energy and education spending, as well as immigration reform and gun control. According to documents released by the White…
Senate Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Lisa Murkowski this week released a 115-page document titled, “A Vision for America’s Energy Future,” which she says is meant to begin a conversation about where energy and natural resource policies should go over the next few years. “I believe there is a…
In a memo sent to Energy Department staff last week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced he intends to resign from his position once a successor is confirmed. In the memo, Chu states: Serving as Secretary of Energy during such a momentous and important time has been incredibly demanding but enormously…
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee last week approved subcommittee assignments for the 113th Congress (available here), the Committee rules and the Committee oversight plan. Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) announced that the Committee will also form several “special” panels to look at issues that fall under multiple subcommittees. The…
The House Natural Resources Committee approved its rules and an oversight plan that lays out the panel’s policy focus for the 113th Congress. The oversight plan outlines the initial, primary focuses of the Committee and Subcommittees, “though additional oversight activities are expected to be generated throughout the first and second…
Roll Call recently published an article on the gridlock of the 112th Congress and its possible relation to the moratorium on appropriations earmarks. Authors Frisch and Kelly assert that in the past, earmarks could be used to “incrementally entice members to support the leadership on politically risky votes,” and without…
The 113th Congress was officially sworn in this month, and while the fiscal cliff deal has been delayed for several months, Washington will continue to face some major battles this session. From the sequestration to the debt limit, and with issues such as immigration reform or gun control, the Members…
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