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On Tuesday, July 15, the Senate voted 51-50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote, on the motion to proceed with debate on H.R.4, the Rescission Act of 2025. Democrats used 10 hours of the statutorily...more
Among the flurry of activity in the first 100 days of the new Trump Administration, with its policy priorities making their way through the legislative process, there is also the consistent, annual federal funding process...more
It’s September 24, 2020, and the 2020 fiscal year ends at the stroke of midnight on September 30th. Back in July, the House and Senate had passed their respective versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for...more
As we begin a new year and the second session of the 116th Congress, ML Strategies is pleased to share some highlights of where we see action this year on Capitol Hill. Although the impending impeachment trial of President...more
Cybersecurity, supply chain risks, data rights, software acquisitions, and cost or pricing data are among the procurement-related issues targeted in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which...more
House and Senate lawmakers came to a bipartisan agreement on an end-of-year spending deal that will fund the government for FY 2020. The $1.37 trillion package includes a total of $738 billion in funding for the military and...more
Congress returns to Washington this week after the Thanksgiving recess to find a feast of leftover legislative items still on the table. Congress has a limited number of days remaining on the 2019 legislative calendar to...more
Article II, Sec. 4 of the U.S. Constitution states that a president, vice president or any other civil officer can be removed from office if he or she has committed “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”...more
On Friday, Sept. 27, President Trump signed a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government at current levels until Nov. 21. This extended funding for the 20 health care programs that were set to expire at the end of the...more
Congress returns to D.C. this week for a short three-week sprint to a series of important deadlines on September 30. Chief among them is funding the federal government for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 which begins on October 1,...more
Well, they did it. Despite lingering resentment between Democrats and Republicans after the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (P.L.115-97), Congress was able to pass tax legislation that was overwhelmingly supported by...more
The summer season has arrived in Washington and things are heating up in the halls of Congress. A number of high priority legislative proposals ranging from health care to appropriations to patent reform to defense...more
From the start of his presidential campaign, President Donald J. Trump made America's "crumbling infrastructure" one of his top priorities, promising a $1 trillion investment in the infrastructure sector over a ten-year...more
On February 15, President Trump signed H.J. Res. 31, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019,” averting a new government shutdown and authorizing appropriations for the remaining unfunded federal agencies through September...more
HEADLINES - • The 116th Congress convenes for its first full week of session, with no end in sight to a standoff over border wall funding that has shut down about one-quarter of the government since before Christmas....more
Foley & Lardner LLP’s (“Foley”) Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our “Public Policy Weekly* Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest Health Care policy news and legislation. *Please note that we...more
Lawmakers returned from their Independence Day recess prepared for more legislative fireworks over a slew of outstanding agenda items, including a showdown over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace...more
Foley & Lardner LLP’s (“Foley”) Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our “Public Policy Weekly* Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest Health care policy news and legislation. *Please note that we...more
HEADLINES - President Donald Trump on Wednesday will hold a rally in Duluth, Minnesota. The House plans again to take up several bills aimed at addressing the opioid crisis, and merge them into one; votes are also...more
Lawmakers have returned from the Memorial Day recess and are facing a packed legislative agenda over the summer. With the announcement this week of a shortened August recess, the Senate will have more time to address...more
Foley’s Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our “Public Policy Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest health care policy news and legislation. *Please note that we publish this newsletter only...more
Congress returned from its spring recess with a host of issues to address—trade, Trump administration nominations and opioid legislation sitting atop the priority list. Given the ongoing data scandal at Facebook, privacy...more
Opioid Funding Overview - In 2016, through the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) and the 21st Century Cures Act, Congress authorized roughly $1.4 billion in spending to combat the opioid crisis....more
I often joke with my clients that following issues too closely at the federal level can result in whiplash. To that regard, it has been a very active summer in Washington, DC on the water infrastructure front. Here’s a rapid...more
On July 13, 2017, the House Committee on Appropriations signaled what could be a devastating blow to the future of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) revised Form EEO-1. As you may recall, in February...more