On June 14, the House voted 217-199 to pass its version of the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) (H.R. 8070), and the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 22-3 to advance their chamber’s version of...more
CONGRESS BUYS MORE TIME - Last Friday President Biden signed a short-term funding patch. This extends government funding through a continuing resolution (CR) into March. Specifically, this CR gives Congress until March 1...more
GOVERNMENT FUNDING EXPIRES SOON - The government will run out of funding in 11 days, on November 17. The House will continue to work to advance annual appropriations bills this week. However, a continuing resolution (CR)...more
What Happened? The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), was removed from his leadership position due to the successful use of an obscure parliamentary procedure. The final vote was 216 to...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
Earlier today, House Democrats unveiled the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act, which would extend current federal funding levels through Dec. 11, 2020. The bill also includes a yearlong extension of...more
Earlier this evening, the House passed the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act (H.R.8337) with broad bipartisan support 359-57, extending current federal funding levels through Dec. 11, 2020. ...more
Yesterday, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District General Manager David Pedersen (a Best Best & Krieger client), testified before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment on...more