Rand Paul

Senate pulls SBIR back from brink of sunsetting

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chairman of Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, introduced and the full body passed the SBIR and STTR Extension…

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FILE - The U.S. Capitol in Washington is pictured on Friday, August 5, 2022. Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022, a compromise less ambitious than Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

The fate of the SBIR program hangs in the balance of the next month

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., listens during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update from Federal officials on efforts to combat COVID-19 on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

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President Donald Trump walks into the Oval Office of the White House for a meeting with Mongolian President Khaltmaa Battulga, Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Budget, debt deal clears Senate, heads to Trump

Budget

Is an automatic CR the answer to government shutdowns?

Government Shutdown

Feds group gives 4 lawmakers score of ‘0 percent’ for voting on key legislation

Congress

President Donald Trump prepares to sign Section 201actions in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. Trump says he is imposing new tariffs to

Trump signs spending bill, ending early morning government shutdown

Government Shutdown

House passes defense budget, CR for civilian agencies through March 23

Budget

DHS makes the case for cyber info sharing bill as Senate prepares to vote

Congress

Endless CRs, appropriations problems drive end of year spending surge

Agencies spend more on contracts in September than any other month of the year, as part of a governmentwide push to spend every last dollar before the…

Contracts/Awards

Military sex assault bill gains steam in Congress

The Military Justice Improvement Act would shift the decision to prosecute sexual assault cases from the chain of command to independent military lawyers….

Congress

Senate committee approves DHS hiring freeze in reauthorization bill

Congress

The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to hold the number of federal employees stable for the foreseeable future. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) said he also wants to look at the size of the agency\’s contractor workforce as well. The freeze was approved in the committee\’s first-ever DHS reauthorization bill.

Rand Paul

Senate pulls SBIR back from brink of sunsetting

The fate of the SBIR program hangs in the balance of the next month

Congress makes government overlap, duplication problems worse, senator says

Senator wants to reward feds who find extra federal money

CBP joins preparation efforts for Hurricane Dorian’s arrival

Budget, debt deal clears Senate, heads to Trump

Is an automatic CR the answer to government shutdowns?

Feds group gives 4 lawmakers score of ‘0 percent’ for voting on key legislation

Trump signs spending bill, ending early morning government shutdown

House passes defense budget, CR for civilian agencies through March 23

DHS makes the case for cyber info sharing bill as Senate prepares to vote

Endless CRs, appropriations problems drive end of year spending surge

Military sex assault bill gains steam in Congress

Senate committee approves DHS hiring freeze in reauthorization bill