Auditors: Senior appropriators' states dominate earmark tally - Roll Call States represented by top Senate appropriators received a disproportionately high amount of earmarked dollars. Roll Call · Sep 22, 2022
Senate leans toward Dec. 16 stopgap funding bill Senate leaders appear to be on board with an interim spending measure that will keep the government operating until Dec. 16, which is also the preferred expiration date for House Democrats as they prep a continuing resolution for a vote as soon as next week. Tribune News Service · Sep 7, 2022
Senate leans toward Dec. 16 stopgap funding bill - Roll Call Navigating the evenly divided Senate to get 60 votes to advance the bill will likely require talks on pandemic funding and other issues. Roll Call · Sep 7, 2022
Earmarks in Senate bills favor small states, retiring senators WASHINGTON — Appropriations bills for the upcoming fiscal year unveiled in the Senate last week contain more than 3,100 earmarks totaling almost $7.8 billion, with Sen. Richard C. Shelby once again the uncontested champion of what senators have rebranded “congressionally directed spending.” Tribune News Service · Aug 3, 2022
Earmarks in Senate bills favor small states, retiring senators - Roll Call Senate appropriations bills for the upcoming fiscal year contain more than 3,100 earmarks totaling almost $7.8 billion. Roll Call · Aug 3, 2022
Leahy to return in time for expected budget vote - Roll Call Sen. Patrick J. Leahy will return to the Senate the week of Aug. 1 after recovering from hip surgery and available to vote on reconciliation. Roll Call · Jul 29, 2022
He went from intern softball to the Congressional Baseball Game - Roll Call Rep. Dean Phillips played softball, used the autopen and sweated through his suit when he worked for Sen. Patrick Leahy in the late 1980s. Roll Call · Jul 28, 2022
Leahy has second surgery related to hip fracture - Roll Call Senate Appropriations Chair Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., underwent a second surgery Tuesday after fracturing his hip in a fall in late June. Roll Call · Jul 20, 2022
Leahy’s surgery could complicate Democratic agenda Senate Democrats suddenly found themselves Thursday potentially without a critical vote they will need in their uphill effort to pass a major tax and spending reconciliation package before the August recess. Tribune News Service · Jun 30, 2022
Leahy recovering from hip replacement surgery - Roll Call A health scare showed Democrats Thursday how hard it may be to pass a partisan tax and spending package in an evenly divided Senate. Roll Call · Jun 30, 2022
Brett Kavanaugh's Roe vote proved it again, He has a problem with truth Brett Kavanaugh is a serial liar. Los Angeles Times · Jun 30, 2022
Senate Judiciary Committee ties on Biden pick to lead ATF WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked on President Joe Biden’s pick to be the nation’s top gun regulator Thursday amid a nascent effort to pass legislation following a wave of mass shootings across the country. Tribune News Service · Jun 16, 2022
Senate Judiciary Committee ties on Biden pick to lead ATF - Roll Call The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked on President Joe Biden’s pick to be the nation’s top gun regulator Thursday. Roll Call · Jun 16, 2022
Bicameral appropriations talks stalled as House charges ahead - Roll Call Negotiations on a spending ceiling to govern the fiscal 2023 appropriations process have ground to a halt. Roll Call · Jun 15, 2022
Roll Call · May 6, 2022 School nutrition waiver issue emerges in supplemental talks Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow wants to extend pandemic waivers for providing universal free school meals in a funding bill.
Roll Call · Apr 27, 2022 Conflicting incentives for quick election-year spending deal - Roll Call Dynamics for a spending agreement this year are there, but history also says election years lead to delays and stopgap bills.
Tribune News Service · Mar 30, 2022 With ink barely dry, Biden budget put through the wringer WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies on Capitol Hill are in for another protracted standoff over fiscal priorities, based on Republicans’ reaction to Biden’s election-year budget released Monday.
Roll Call · Mar 29, 2022 With ink barely dry, Biden budget put through the wringer - Roll Call Democrats are in for another protracted standoff over fiscal priorities, based on Republicans' reaction to the budget released Monday.
Tribune News Service · Mar 23, 2022 Supreme Court hearing gets heated, as the end is in sight WASHINGTON — Ketanji Brown Jackson navigated cleanly through a second day of questioning at her confirmation hearing, despite several Republicans who ratcheted up their confrontations with the Supreme Court nominee.
Roll Call · Mar 23, 2022 Supreme Court hearing gets heated, as the end is in sight - Roll Call The Supreme Court hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson got heated on Wednesday, but the overall political dynamics did not.
Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022 Democrats, Republicans draw lines at opening of Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court confirmation hearing WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson kicked off Monday with Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee using their opening statements to try to head off some Republican criticisms.