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From the budget to gun control protests, Roll Call's David Hawkings offered analysis of Capitol Hill's busy weekend March 23-25.
Lawmakers have spent the last four weeks finalizing appropriations for fiscal 2018, with the intent of packaging all 12 spending bills into one omnibus.
Congress is back after a 10 day recess. Roll Call's David Hawkings tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what's up ahead in budget talks.
Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings discusses the latest budget deal on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Senators seem as far apart as ever on fiscal budget talks. But will Tuesday's State of the Union address help avert a shutdown, or hurt even more?
Congress is trying to avert a shutdown, but some are concerned a continuing resolution could trigger sequestration.
Time is running out for Congress. A third continuing resolution expires on Friday, Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings reviews the chances for another temporary budget on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Congress is looking likely to pass a short-term extension to the current continuing resolution. Still, many more fights lie ahead over a long-term budget.
In Congress, the majority leadership's hopes on health insurance, immigration and taxes have so far produced little.
President Trump is insisting congressional Democrats go along with the border wall if they want an immigration reform bill.
The great tax debate is alive and well on Capitol Hill this week. While no bill is dealing with death directly, there's a new one on health care insurance.
Just hours into the new fiscal year, it will finish marking up the 2018 budget. That's something it could've done six months ago.
With a continuing resolution bill already signed and sealed, Congress has other matters to wind up before the end of the fiscal year this Saturday.
The federal flood insurance program was already billions of dollars in the red before Hurricanes Harvey and Irma arrived.