DC Update 9/16/19

President and Administration

The Trump administration said it planned to halt the sale of flavored e-cigarettes as youth use continues to rise and amid a national outbreak of lung illnesses that may be linked to vaping devices…

Congress

This week the House is expected to start work on a clean Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government through 11/21…

On Thursday, 9/12, Senate GOP appropriators advanced their funding levels for fiscal 2020 spending bills along partisan lines, setting up what could be difficult negotiations with the Democratic-led House as a deadline looms at the end of the month for Congress to act or face a shutdown…

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday, 9/12, that the House would vote in the coming weeks on a resolution to condemn Trump’s national emergency declaration…

On Sunday, 9/15, Democratic leaders said they will not accept anything less than universal background checks in negotiations with Trump over gun control…

On Wednesday, 9/11, the House Education and Labor Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education Subcommittee held a hearing…

Moderate Democrats are growing wary of more liberal party members' fixation on potentially impeaching Trump…

H.R. 530, Accelerating Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 2019, was referred…

Election 2020

The questions on education focused more on K-12 education than on higher education this time around…