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Congress
Critics of FAA reauthorization bill say it fails to address major upgrades to air traffic control system
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Renata Sago
Sep 19, 2018
Congress has pushed off deadlines for the reauthorization bill, but the next one is at the end of September.
Bernie Sanders wants to tax companies whose workers rely on public assistance
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Jed Kim
Sep 6, 2018
His bill is called the "Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies," or "Stop BEZOS" Act.
Congress is set to vote on more mandatory financial counseling to help curb student loan defaults
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Justin Ho
Sep 5, 2018
Student debt is topping $1.4 trillion dollars.
First-time candidates rush to staff up for the elections
Aug 28, 2018
With hundreds of first-time candidates on the ballot across the country this year, many are learning the ropes of campaigning as they go.
How savvy investments help members of Congress
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Amy Scott
Aug 9, 2018
U.S. Rep. Chris Collins of New York was arrested and charged this week with allegedly passing on information he learned as a board member of a Australian pharmaceutical company to family members who quickly sold their stock to avoid big losses. Collins, like about of half of his colleagues in Congress, owns stock in publicly […]
Senators head to Moscow for pre-summit talks and look-see
Jul 2, 2018
Congress is out this week for its Fourth of July break. But rather than go back home to their districts, a handful of senators are in Russia. They are getting their own sense of what’s happening there ahead of President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a couple of week. Click the […]
Greater scrutiny of Chinese investment still likely
Jun 27, 2018
The Trump administration announced it is not imposing additional investment restrictions on China for now. Instead, the White House endorsed a plan working through Congress to reform the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. It’s an interagency committee, commonly known as CFIUS, that doesn’t come up much in casual conversation, not even in […]
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Senate committee takes a crack at a bipartisan farm bill today
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Jed Kim
Jun 13, 2018
While this version is less partisan than previous ones, safety net programs are still a hurdle
Will federal funding fix help prevent forest fires?
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Andy Uhler
Jun 5, 2018
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources is holding a hearing on the 2018 Wildland Fire Outlook and Wildland Fire Management Programs today. This comes just a few months after a so-called “fire funding fix” was included in the omnibus spending bill. Last year the costs to fight wildfires exceeded $2 billion. Click the […]
Trade tensions between the U.S. and China heat up again on President Trump’s latest tariffs threat
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Scott Tong
May 29, 2018
The president wants to stop China from acquiring intellectual property and stealing our technology.