Nearly 90 years after the launch of the New Deal, the Biden Administration is setting out plans for unprecedented investment in modernizing the US infrastructure, producing clean energy, and focusing on sustainability and equity – plans that are at the heart of the administration’s recovery program. Amid all the fanfare, the key questions for the … Continue Reading
LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY Budget Breakthrough? Forgoing formal conference negotiations, in recent weeks the leaders of the Budget Conference Committee – Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) – have taken it upon themselves to forge a limited budget agreement and appear to be close to a deal that would increase FY 2014 and FY … Continue Reading
LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY Budget Conference Committee The Budget Conference Committee will hold its second formal meeting on Wednesday, November 13 in an effort to reach an agreement on a topline discretionary funding for FY 2014 and possibly a one- to two-year sequestration mitigation package. Appropriators are pushing the committee to establish the topline number by November … Continue Reading
