Oversight
Spending bills are filling the Senate's fall calendar
Majority leader says he hopes to finish four of eight remaining appropriations bills before the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1.
Defense
Parties nearing deal to move agency nominations
OMB deputy director, GSA chief nominees could be confirmed soon.
Oversight
Senate, House to turn to spending bills
House is expected to finish the last of the 12 appropriations measures by the end of next week.
Defense
House to work on approps, Senate on Defense
Pay/go, food safety bills are also on next week's congressional agenda.
Oversight
Regulatory nominee courts lawmakers, farm groups
Cass Sunstein is working at OMB on an unconfirmed basis.
Defense
Democrats set fast schedule for Defense bill
Senate leaders want to clear floor for health care legislation and vote on Supreme Court nominee.
Oversight
Lawmakers face big agenda, tight calendar
In the next six months, Democrats want to pass the fiscal 2010 spending bills, overhaul the healthcare and financial regulatory systems and perhaps tackle immigration reform.
Defense
Amendment process for DHS spending bills attracts attention
Democratic leaders hope to finish all 12 appropriations measures before end of the fiscal year.
Defense
Senate approves $106 billion supplemental conference report
Bill includes $79.9 billion for the wars Afghanistan and Iraq and $10.4 billion for the State Department and foreign operations.
Defense
Senate moves toward vote on compromise version of wartime supplemental
Administration assures GOP senator that if necessary, detainee photos will "never see the light of day."
Oversight
Animal rights views slow OMB regulatory nominee
Case appears to be an example of individual senators with specific, local concerns using their power to hold up a nominee.
Defense
War supplemental tops next week’s congressional agenda
Democrats hope to garner enough votes to override possible filibuster of bill.
Oversight
Senators prepare for battle over Alaska native contracting
The Alaska delegation is ready to defend rules that allow ANCs to win no-bid contracts of unlimited value under a small business program.
Defense
Congress returns to nominations, finance, water bill
Supplemental defense spending request and conference version of the fiscal 2010 budget resolution also are on the agenda.
Oversight
House passes budget resolution as Senate looks to recess exits
House and Senate staffers will begin conferring during Easter recess to work out a compromise version of the fiscal 2010 blueprint.
Oversight
Moderate Democrats flexing muscles on fiscal matters
Centrists are forming a working group in an attempt to keep spending down.
Oversight
Senate OKs bill funding agencies until October
Passage of $410 billion omnibus bill prevents Congress from having to approve another continuing resolution.
Oversight
House speaker suggests second stimulus may be needed
Unemployment rose to 8.1 percent in February as the economy lost 651,000 jobs, the Labor Department reported last week.
Oversight
Senate to vote Tuesday on catch-all spending bill
Lawmakers pass another stopgap measure to keep agencies running until Wednesday.
Oversight
Senate leader plots endgame for omnibus spending bill
The legislation must be approved by midnight on Friday, when the continuing resolution that has been funding most agencies since October expires.
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