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House FY22 Appropriations The House voted, 219-208, to approve an FY22 appropriations bill that includes funding for the $11.4 billion for the Interior-Environment (H.R. 4372) and Energy-Water (H.R. 4549) FY22 spending bills on July 29, as part of the $620 billion seven-bill “minibus” package.  As...

The White House and bipartisan Senate infrastructure negotiators on July 28 broke a nearly month-long logjam announcing an infrastructure agreement and successfully passing a Senate procedural “test” vote advancing the $1 trillion package to the Senate floor for debate. By Aug. 1, negotiators unveiled the...

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Infrastructure The fate of the bipartisan infrastructure deal remains up in the air as Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) runs out of time on the congressional calendar and final negotiations remain fruitless.  In an effort to force negotiators to wrap up and move forward...

Appropriations The House Appropriations Committee has started marking up and approving its FY22 spending bills with several committees including language on single-use plastic-related in their reports. In its Committee report for the FY22 Financial Services and General Government spending bill, the Committee encouraged the General...

Appropriations The House Appropriations Committee has started marking up and approving its FY22 spending bills with several committees including language on single-use plastic-related in their reports. In its Committee report for the FY22 Financial Services and General Government spending bill, the Committee encouraged the General...

Infrastructure After little progress over the past month, a group of 21 bipartisan senators announced Wednesday evening that they agreed with the White House on a tentative framework for a roughly $1.2 trillion infrastructure package with $579 billion in new spending. The group will be...

Infrastructure President Joe Biden ended negotiations with Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and other Republicans on June 8, after failing to come to a deal on an infrastructure plan that both sides could accept. In a major setback on one of his top agenda priorities,...