“If March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb.” As both chambers of Congress kick off the March legislative work session this week there is likely to be a lot of roaring as they deal with a March 11 government funding deadline, a lengthy list of...

Congress is on recess this week for the President’s Day work period. The Senate will return on February 28th and the House will return on March 1st. Although they did not finalize a budget before the recess, they did pass a temporary continuing resolution until March...

“Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” – Rebecca Johnson The Budget: Let’s hope that Congress is doing a lot of talking about the weather AND budget! As the February 18th deadline for the temporary...

No Go on Voting Rights and Election Reforms While the legislation did not pass last week, there is a small group of Senators turning last week's discussions into momentum for a narrower bipartisan effort to reexamine the 1887 law that governs how Congress counts...

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”- Martin Luther King Jr. This King quote is something that we live by as families in the care of our loved ones and as family leaders in efforts to bring about systems change. While 2022 has...

Happy New Year! Both houses of Congress are back in session this week after a Holiday break. Build Back Better is… no one is sure what it is or where it stands. Is it alive? Is it dead? It appears that Build Back Better (BBB) is on “pause” now as committees turn to...