Nota Bene Episode 70: Examining the USMCA: Is it Simply a Rebranded NAFTA? with Scott Maberry
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Compliance Report-International Edition, Doreen Edelman on Current State of NAFTA Negotiations
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Recent Developments Include Proposed Federal Acquisition Regulation Amendments And An Investigation Of Foreign Trade Zones - The United States continues to take several actions in connection with implementation of the...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Congress Returns. The House and Senate return on Tuesday from a two week recess that included multiple House committee meetings related to the impeachment inquiry....more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Partial Government Shutdown Continues With No End in Sight: The ongoing partial government shutdown, a result of 7 of the 12 annual appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2019...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Shutdown Delay. President Trump is open to pushing back a potential shutdown after the death of former President George H.W. Bush. ...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Recess. The House and Senate, along with new member orientation, recess this week for the Thanksgiving holiday and will start up sessions again the week of Nov. 26....more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Fall Agenda. With the Kavanaugh confirmation completed, Senate Republicans want to quickly begin confirming additional circuit court nominees....more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Kavanaugh Vote. The Senate was previously planning to tee up the final vote on Kavanaugh over the weekend, but the vote on the floor has been delayed a week to accommodate a...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Farm Bill Re-vote? Last week’s vote on the farm bill failed after the Freedom Caucus refused to support the measure. A roll call vote on the motion to reconsider was postponed...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - FY18 Appropriations Work Already Underway. Since the passage of the bipartisan budget deal this past Friday, House and Senate Appropriations Committees have already begun...more
Shutdown. The government officially shutdown at 12:01am on Saturday but the effects have not yet been fully felt given it was the weekend. Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate would vote...more
Tax Vote This Week: After Senators Corker and Rubio announced their support of the tax bill on Friday afternoon, both Chambers announced their plans to move forward with voting on the compromise tax package this week. The...more
Ryan Hints at Short-Term Spending Bill: Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday said Republicans might need a short-term spending bill to prevent a government shutdown on December 9. Ryan said the House GOP's goal is to pass a...more
House Passes Bill on Disaster Funding: House Republicans easily passed a supplemental spending bill that included $36.5 billion of disaster aid with a vote of 353-69 after some initial worries on Thursday afternoon that it...more
White House to Request Emergency Supplemental Funding for Puerto Rico: The White House will submit an additional request to Congress in the next two to four weeks which is not expected to include any deficit restructuring...more
Hurricane Harvey Could be the Most Expensive Natural Disaster in US History: Republican House members from Texas and Louisiana are pressing congressional leaders and top Trump administration officials for immediate federal...more
CBO Confirms Size of Breach of Defense Cap for FY18 Bills: The House FY18 Omnibus Appropriations Bill scheduled to be taken up in September would bust the Defense cap by $72 billion. This would cause the Office of Management...more
House Rules Committee Posts Text of Spending Bills, Striking DACA Provision: House Rules Committee posts text for eight appropriations bills, striking language in the financial services spending bill allowing participants in...more
US Budget Deficit Narrowed to $42.9 Billion in July: The federal budget deficit fell sharply in July from a year earlier, largely because of a quirk in the calendar. The U.S. Treasury Department said that the budget gap came...more
The Senate Appropriations Committee Did Three Things This Week: Marked up the FY2018 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill, a measure to fund the nation’s priorities for energy development, research, and water...more
House Appropriators Float 12-Bill Omnibus Before Recess: House Republicans are weighing an ambitious plan to pass a 12-bill appropriations package for fiscal 2018 ahead of the August recess, top GOP appropriators told CQ Roll...more