Podcast: Private Fund Regulatory Update: Post-U.S. Government Shutdown
III-39 - 2nd Anniversary Special Episode
Podcast: Keeping Up with Recent Changes and Trends in Private Fund Regulation
Both the House and Senate are in session this week to continue working on an agreement to fund the government beyond September 30. A stopgap measure proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was pulled from consideration last...more
The presidential campaign is in full swing, but attention will turn to Capitol Hill after Labor Day as Congress has one important task to accomplish before the November elections....more
Both the Senate and House are in session this week. House Republicans are returning from their annual retreat with plans to consider legislation that would counter President Biden’s climate policies as well as promote...more
On Friday night, the U.S. Senate cleared the Fiscal 2024 Omnibus spending measure for President Biden’s signature. On Saturday morning, President Biden signed into law the Fiscal 2024 Minibus appropriations legislation...more
US DOL Budget Will Remain at its Present Level Through March 22, 2024 - It has now become clear that neither Republicans nor Democrats have the stomach to shut the federal government agencies down, but neither does either...more
It is finally healthcare week in the 118th Congress. Congress has produced an agreement to fund six of the dozen outstanding appropriations bills and should avoid the partial government shutdown pending on Friday. To that...more
A version of this blog post was originally published in September and then published again in January. Funding for several federal agencies will run out Friday night, with funding for the remaining agencies expiring March 8,...more
Below is this week’s congressional update by BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team. We’ll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session....more
Look Ahead to the Week of February 26: A Partial Government Shutdown Looms on Friday - Both the Senate and House return this week, and once again Congress finds itself on the cusp of a partial government shutdown....more
On September 30, 2023, Congress passed a temporary stopgap funding bill, which allows the federal government to continue to operate until November 17, 2023. At which time there will be a government shutdown....more
Shutdown Fallout: McCarthy Out. On September 30, 2023, the U.S. Congress acted quickly—and surprisingly—to pass stopgap funding legislation to avoid what looked to be an inevitable shutdown of the federal government. With a...more
With approximately one hour to spare, Congress passed a temporary spending bill which allows the federal government to continue to operate for 45 days, averting what would have been the third government shutdown in the last...more
On the afternoon of Saturday, September 30, 2023, Congress passed H.R. 5860, the Continuing Appropriations, 2024 and Other Extensions Act, averting a government shutdown and funding the federal government for forty-five days...more
As we near a standoff in Congress on the budget, we write to remind clients about how a government shutdown would affect patent and trademark operations at the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), copyright operations at the...more
Federal appropriations are set to expire at midnight (ET) on Saturday, September 30. Unless lawmakers agree to a spending plan before then, much of the federal government will shut down....more
As the standoff in Congress on the budget threatens to shut down vast swaths of the federal government, we write to remind clients about how a federal government shutdown would affect international trade and investment. The...more
What’s Next After Congress (Temporarily) Avoided a Shutdown? House Speaker Kevin McCarthy put a continuing resolution (CR) on the House floor that funds the government at current levels, extends key otherwise-expiring...more
Shutdown Showdown. Rather than hurtling into a federal government shutdown, this week has been more of a slow, gradual, depressing slide into the shutdown, as it became apparent this week that last-minute measures to keep the...more
Each year, Congress passes annual appropriation bills to continue funding federal agencies and federal programs through the next fiscal year. As of today, with the new fiscal year looming on October 1, 2023, Congress has yet...more
The US Congress must agree on a new budget by midnight on September 30, 2023 to support the US federal government’s new fiscal year on October 1. With a shutdown appearing to be on the horizon, countless federal programs will...more
In anticipation of a possible 2023 government shutdown this weekend, many employers are wondering how a shuttering of U.S. government agencies for budgetary reasons could impact or delay their U.S. immigration processing,...more
September 30th represents a number of things, the end of September, entry into Autumn, and, most critically, the end of the Federal Government’s fiscal year, to name a few. As such, the Government must have a budget in place...more
Introduction - Current federal funding expires this Saturday. As we approach the deadline, it is looking less likely that Congress will pass a continuing resolution, a short-term stopgap measure that continues appropriations,...more
Congress is barreling toward the first full-government shutdown in roughly five years after repeated attempts to enact short-term funding stopgaps stalled or failed. Existing levels of government funding expire at midnight on...more
Federal law (the “Antideficiency Act”) restricts the conduct of business by agencies during a lapse of Congressional appropriations, looming this weekend, and federal regulations (OMB Circular A-11) require agencies to have...more