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Huge end-of-the-year deadlines looming in Congress

Congress is back from its Thanksgiving recess this week — with not very much time to go before several different impending deadlines. We’ve talked a lot…

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Contract spending is set to grow across the board in 2024

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With no time to lose, Congress is functional again, more or less

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FILE - People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare program. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions leftover to pay down federal deficits. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

As the world turns, the House speaker meltdown enters its third week

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Fiscal 2024 starts with a CR, but contractors still have lots of opportunities

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FILE - People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare program. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions leftover to pay down federal deficits. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

If you’re not surprised there’s not a shutdown, you’re prescient or a prevaricator

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(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. To enact President Joe Biden’s expansive domestic agenda this year, Democrats have mapped out a convoluted legislative maze. The party wants to push the new president's multitrillion-dollar plans for supercharging federal infrastructure, climate change and social programs through a Congress in which they have only paper-thin majorities. GOP opposition is certain to be solid. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Congress shoves that budget boulder uphill one inch at a time

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The outlook for Capitol Hill, as the Senate returns to Washington

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Debt Limit

All congressional eyes focus on the great question: CR or government shutdown?

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Defense budget work continues even with Congress on recess

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FILE - People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare program. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions leftover to pay down federal deficits. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Congress recesses with its federal budget still under construction

The House and Senate have a lot more to do for any chance of a budget by September 30. For one thing, the two chambers are $100 billion apart. This as…

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Both houses of Congress are churning out appropriations bills, believe it or not

This week Congress is hard at work on spending bills for 2024. It’s the last work week before the August recess, as the fiscal year rushes towards Sept. 30.

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Debt Limit

Both the House and Senate have a lot to take care of and not that much time to do it

Coming back from its holiday recess, both chambers of Congress have a lot of business to take care of before their next one.

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