While seeking to prevent shutdowns is a laudable goal, automatic CR legislation raises significant concerns and is likely to ...

"Everyone from the traveling public to freight haulers will benefit from improved reliability and systems," said House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole, R-Okla. With the GOP's budget ...

Congressional negotiators are working quickly to move billions of dollars in federal funding, but debates are raging over a wide range of prickly issues. With less than three months until a government ...

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Communications Director Douglas Heye said Thursday on Fox News that Congress’ failure to pass a revised spending bill is due to their botched “working ...

As we reflect on the just-ended Department of Homeland Security funding impasse, we face a familiar problem. Such shutdowns occur because Congress struggles to assemble 60 votes in the Senate to pass ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is eying a proposal to end the government shutdown as the gridlock in Washington, D.C., enters its ninth day. Thune is “ready” to use Congress’s appropriations ...

When Congress returns from their August recess, they will have their hands full with the FY 2024 Appropriations process. With the end of the fiscal year quickly approaching on Sept. 30 and bills still ...

A handful of farm policy lobbyists say the debate to fund the Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration could offer them insight into how the politics of Capitol Hill might shape the ...

Senators are not thrilled with a top White House official's comments that the government funding process should become more partisan, and fear that doing so could erode Congress’ power of the purse.