Legislative Updates The House and Senate are out of session until February 23, 2023. Healthcare Workforce Shortage Prior to the President’s Day recess, the Senate HELP committee held its first hearing of the year about the healthcare workforce shortage. Senators...

Legislative Updates The House is out of session for the next two weeks for the Presidents Day work period. Many members of the House will be in their home districts. The Senate is in session this week working on judicial nominations. This might be a great time to...

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Things are picking up steam in DC! The proposed calendars for when the Senate and House of Representatives are in session are available. Committee assignments will be finalized this week. Here are the links for the committees of jurisdiction for the F2F program: The...

On January 3rd, the 118th Congress began its session. The House of Representatives will be controlled by the Republicans, who have 222 seats. The House Minority Leader will be Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-8), and the Speaker of the House will be Representative...

We have a draft Omnibus bill… and 3 days to pass it! The continuing resolution to fund the government ends on December 23rd, so Congress has until midnight on that day to either pass this bill or another continuing resolution to avoid the government shutdown.4,155...

Talks on a year-end government funding package continue among leadership. As it currently stands, the "four corners" (meaning the democratic and Republican leaders of the committee in each house of congress) leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees...

This week preventing a strike of railway workers is demanding the attention of Congress but rest assured legislators have not lost sight of the December 16th deadline for the budget. Will there be an end of the year omnibus bill that sets the budget? Will be robust...

Both houses of Congress returned this week to kick off a busy "lame duck" session to close out the 117th Congress. The date to watch, other than the end of the year, is December 16th, when government funding is set to expire. What is a lame duck session? This is the...

Congress will return to Washington, D.C. next Monday, November 14, 2022. Read the full newsletter here