by James Fite | Mar 22, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Congress unveiled a sprawling legislative package worth $1.2 trillion on Thursday, March 21 – just a day before government funding runs out – and adjourned without a vote. The deadline to avoid partial government shutdown is midnight tonight. Will they make it? Maybe...
by James Fite | Mar 8, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
A package of six full-year funding bills has cleared the US House ahead of the Friday deadline. After a fourth continuing resolution for fiscal year 2024, Friday, March 8 was the deadline to either pass the first half of the 12 annual spending bills, punt with yet...
by James Fite | Mar 1, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
February 29 was a special day, and not just because it only comes around every four years. It’s also the day lawmakers in Congress were able to set aside their partisan differences just long enough to pass an emergency stopgap funding bill to defer the dreaded...
by James Fite | Jan 12, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Barely a week remains before 20% of the government runs out of funding, with the rest expiring on February 2. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) has a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on a top-line spending number – and the upper chamber...
by James Fite | Oct 1, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
After weeks of virtue signaling, partisan bickering, and fear mongering over a government shutdown, Congress finally managed to pass a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the wheels turning beyond September 30. But a 70-plus-page bill that only keeps the government...