October 25, 2019 - 13:03 — Sean Kennedy
Nearly all of the programs that received earmarks last year in the relevant appropriations bills were funded again in the Senate omnibus bill. It appears that Senators loaded up the bill with the same old earmarks.
September 25, 2019 - 16:35 — Deborah Collier
In the ongoing saga of the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud services contract, the bill and report language for S. 2474, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2020 was filed by Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on September 12, 2019. Unlike its House of Representatives counterpart, H.R.
September 5, 2019 - 13:35 — Allen Johnson
Both chambers need to reach an agreement on government spending.
August 29, 2019 - 16:27 — Allen Johnson
Current state of NIH facilities could undermine life saving research.
August 21, 2019 - 03:27 — Peter Klensch
An already grim fiscal outlook grew worse in the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) update to its Budget and Economic Outlook for 2019 to 2029.
July 12, 2019 - 11:41 — Thomas Schatz
The decision announced today in favor of the Department of Defense (DOD) in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims case challenging the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract likely means that it will be awarded shortly to a single vendor.
July 12, 2019 - 09:21 — CAGW Staff
With looming trillion-dollar deficits, it’s time for the federal government to learn a thing or two about budget process reform and other cost-savings measures from state governments.
June 20, 2019 - 17:15 — CAGW Staff
Even with the national debt at more than $22 trillion and trillion-dollar annual deficits beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2022, Congress continues full-speed ahead towards another fiscal disaster. This week’s poor spending decision comes from H.R. 2740, an appropriations “megabus.”
June 20, 2019 - 15:53 — Peter Klensch
After 32 consecutive victories on the TV game show “Jeopardy,” James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada, saw his incredible winning streak come to an end. Finishing with $2,462,216 in total prize money, James fell just $58,484 short of the all-time record set by Ken Jennings in 2004 (it took Jennings 74 games to reach that mark). While this is surely not the ending “Jeopardy James” had hoped for, he still goes home with just under $2.5 million.
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