President and Administration
On 11/12 the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the DACA lawsuit…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) must hand over to Congress certain redacted information from Robert Mueller's special counsel report, a federal judge ruled in a major win for House Democrats investigating President Trump…
On Sunday, 10/27, President Trump announced that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadihad been killed in a U.S. military raid in northwest Syria…
Earlier in September the Trump administration released a multi-agency proposal for housing finance reform…
Education
On Tuesday, 10/29, the House Committee on Education and Labor will markup H.R. 4674, College Affordability Act…
A Republican U.S. senator has introduced legislation to address mass violence that encourages schools to identify students who present an "imminent risk" of harming themselves or others through their internet activity, and also directs the federal government to develop best practices for school behavioral intervention teams…
Massachusetts senator and 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is proposing a K-12 education plan that includes $450 billion in new federal aid over 10 years to disadvantaged students…
Congress
On Wednesday, 10/23, the Senate rejected a Democratic effort to overturn IRS regulations blocking workarounds to a portion of President Trump’s tax law that is disliked by high-tax states: the cap on the SALT deduction of $10,000…
Lawmakers appear resigned to another stopgap spending bill (a Continuing Resolution) to avoid a government shutdown just before Thanksgiving, suggesting the two chambers of Congress remain too far apart to enact regular spending bills before that deadline…
On Thursday, 10/3, U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), along with Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), announced the Ending Homelessness Act, a comprehensive plan to confront homelessness in our country…
Of all the testimonies so far, that of William Taylor, the U.S. diplomat now leading the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, appears most fruitful for investigators seeking a roadmap to documents they need — documents the State Department is resisting sharing for now…
On Tuesday, 10/1, the United State Court of Appeals blocked an Federal Communications Commission’s order preventing states from setting their own neutrality rules…