The partial government shutdown extended to its fourth day on Tuesday as President Donald Trump continues his call for lawmakers to approve funding for a border wall, The Hill reported Tuesday. “I
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Senators announced plans to add a bipartisan amendment to the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act that would retain the Commerce Department’s penalties against Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE for breaching U.S. sanctions
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The Senate’s version of an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2018 includes funds for NASA‘s Earth science missions that are facing cancellation under President Donald Trump’s FY 2018 budget request, Space
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At least 100 lawmakers have sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee to call for annual funding of more than $32 billion to support the National Institutes of Health‘s biomedical research. Rep. Chris
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Four House Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill that calls for bipartisan efforts to raise sequestration spending caps and avert another government shutdown at the end of this month. Rep. Chris Van
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House and Senate Democrat lawmakers are demanding changes to Republican-crafted appropriations bills that would boost defense budget and reduce domestic spending, Defense One reported Monday. Alex Brown writes Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
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The Congressional Budget Office has released a report on its analysis of federal contracting activity and spending on the contracted workforce in response to a request by Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). In the
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The Congressional Budget Office says in a to Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) that cancelling sequestration for fiscal year 2014 would increase the country’s gross domestic product by 0.7 percent. Unemployment in
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Led by Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the House majority leader, a bevy of local lawmakers is pushing back against the Obama administration’s plans for a two-year federal pay freeze. In a letter
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This is the second part of interview with Joe Kernan, vice president of business development at SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2), on his company’s non-profit organization NS2 Serves, and its mission
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