Loren Duggan
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After a busy start to the 118th session, Congress is on recess this week. Members are contemplating a number of important issues, though. Besides the debt limit, they have got some crucial re-authorizations ahead.
February 21, 2023 -
Congress will be particularly partisan this week. It's the week of the State of the Union Address, with a governor and former Trump administration press spokeswoman giving the response to President Biden.
February 06, 2023 -
Committees are forming, hearing schedules still being worked out. You might say the blob that is the 118th Congress still hasn't quite jelled. Yet it has plenty to do.
January 23, 2023 -
Besides the tragedy-comedy drama over selection of a House Speaker, there is a rather potent agenda for the 118th Congress. Authorizations. Appropriations are so far off. Debt ceiling. And the gambits Republicans in the house are hoping to launch.
January 09, 2023 -
It will have things to love and hate, but it looks like the National Defense Authorization Bill will make it to passage in the remainder of the 117th Congress. But what about Friday's government funding deadline?
December 12, 2022 -
The remaining days of the 117th Congress leave both chambers with a bit of an agenda. Perhaps topping the list for the Senate is keeping its record of passing Defense authorization bills by the end of the calendar year.
November 28, 2022 -
The House will be back in session this week. The agenda will likely include the NDAA, the budget and some veterans' issues.
November 14, 2022 -
What Congress will do about the budget when it comes back from recess after the elections
October 17, 2022 -
The continuing resolution that Congress is debating is sort of like COVID. You know it's coming, but how bad will it be? CRs can go for days or they can go for months. Last year's went nearly halfway through the fiscal year. To find out how this one is shaping up, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked with Loren Duggan, Bloomberg Government deputy news director.
September 19, 2022 -
Congress trucks back to Washington this week with only a few legislative days left before the end of the fiscal year.
September 06, 2022 -
Just yesterday afternoon, the Senate gave final passage to the Inflation Reduction Act after a full weekend of votes on amendments.
August 08, 2022 -
The Senate will continue debating the Chips Bill this week. Find out more about that and other important happenings on Capitol Hill, Tom Temin talked with Bloomberg Government deputy news director Loren Duggan.
July 25, 2022 -
Reeling from two highly controversial Supreme Court decisions and some revelatory hearings concerning the Capitol break-in, Congress is in recess this week. But not everything has stopped on the Hill.
June 27, 2022 -
The House has made some initial progress on 2023 federal spending levels, and various pieces of legislation are expected to make their way through votes on the House and Senate floors in the week ahead.
June 13, 2022 -
From infant formula to the devastating war in Ukraine, nothing is to big or small for Congressional attention this week. You can throw veterans and Veterans Affairs into the mix.
May 16, 2022