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On July 3, the House adopted the Senate substitute to H.R. 1, the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) by a vote of 218-214. The bill was signed into law on July 4, 2025 and is now Public Law 119-21....more
On July 1, 2025, the Senate passed One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) in a 51-50 vote, with Vice President J.D. Vance casting a tiebreaker vote. Although the House of Representatives previously passed its own version of OBBB (see...more
Over the last week, the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Agriculture Committee released their portions of reconciliation text, which includes most of the Medicaid and food insecurity provisions. The Senate committees will...more
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed, as part of a larger omnibus budget bill, a 10 year moratorium on regulation of AI by the states. If passed by the Senate, this provision would be one of the most significant...more
On Friday, May 30, the Trump administration released the Technical Supplement to the 2026 Budget (“Appendix”). The appendix follows the May 2 release of the president’s recommendations on discretionary funding levels for...more
On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). Tax-related proposals contained in the OBBBA would extend or make permanent select corporate, international and individual tax...more
On May 22, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed House Bill 1, officially titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA). This budget reconciliation bill includes significant energy-related provisions that would...more
Last week, a sensitive internal government document was leaked to the public: the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) passback to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) laying out proposed...more
On February 13, the House Budget Committee, voting 21-16 along party lines (Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed), passed a 2025 budget resolution. The bill does not expressly reference the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017...more
OMB Memorandum (M-25-13) advises federal agencies that they must temporarily pause all activities and disbursements of federal financial assistance that may be implicated by any of President Trump’s recent Executive Orders at...more
With President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the November elections, the former and next occupant of the White House is expected to shake up “business as usual” in Washington. The president’s plans include the Department of...more
With unified Republican control and President-elect Trump in the White House, the new 119th Congress is certain to launch a wave of oversight activities. Organizations should prepare now for a high-stakes and unpredictable...more
On December 21, 2024, President Biden signed a stopgap spending bill into law to fund the federal government through March 14, 2025, following approval by the U.S. Senate just hours before the deadline to avoid a government...more
The Canadian economy is confronting high global uncertainty and risk. A new U.S. administration will reshape economic policy and international relations in a period already characterized by a fragmentation of global trade and...more
The presidential campaign is in full swing, but attention will turn to Capitol Hill after Labor Day as Congress has one important task to accomplish before the November elections....more
Welcome to our inaugural issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter! As such, we wanted to pull together our insights and pass them along to you. Our goal is to create a publication that is...more
On April 16, 2024 (Budget Day) the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Minister of Finance, delivered the Liberal Party’s federal budget (Budget 2024). Budget 2024 included a number of proposed...more
Below is this week’s congressional update by BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team. We’ll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session....more
Both the House and Senate will be back in session this week after passing a bipartisan “laddered” continuing resolution before the Thanksgiving holidays that would fund the government through January 19 and February 2, 2024....more
Artificial intelligence wins big in President Biden’s FY 2024 budget request with billions in new funding proposed for AI-related research, hardware, software and services at the departments of Defense, Energy, Homeland...more
In October 2022, I circulated “An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor[.]” Much has occurred since. Inflation remains an acute problem. In turn, contractors and subcontractors continue...more
Both chambers will be in session and have less than a week to fund the government before a potential shutdown. After hitting an impasse in negotiations last week, Democrats had planned to introduce their own funding package...more
Both chambers will be in session this week and plan to authorize defense spending for the rest of the fiscal year. In previous weeks, it appeared as though negotiators were trying to include a must-pass National Defense...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House and Senate will return to DC this week for the lame duck session of the 117th Congress with continued funding of the government as the top priority. Current...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House and Senate are in campaign mode. Neither will return until after the November 8th midterm elections. Originally, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)...more