CQ MAGAZINE; June 17, 2024 Advocates see 'temporary' victory in abortion drug ruling MOORHEAD, Minn. — Nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, dramatically changing the U.S. landscape for abortion, abortion rights supporters Thursday saw a rare win from a separate high court...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 17, 2024 Editor's note: Mixing baseball and contempt COMMENTARY —The Congressional Baseball Game, long held up as a refuge of rare legislative branch camaraderie, keeps finding itself in the middle of partisan strife. Among the last actions of the House on Wednesday before gaveling...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 17, 2024 Post-Dobbs, maternal mental health care is even more complicated When J.H. became pregnant in 2022, she was already a single mom grappling with a recent autism diagnosis for her youngest child. She was exhausted, physically and mentally. Overwhelmed by her situation and in...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 17, 2024 House passes NDAA amid partisan disputes The House voted 217-199 on Friday to pass a defense authorization bill laden with GOP-favored provisions that Democrats widely revile. The fiscal 2025 NDAA (HR 8070) cleared its last hurdle in the chamber despite the no votes of all...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 17, 2024 Senate NDAA bill would boost defense topline by $25 billion The Senate version of the fiscal 2025 defense authorization bill would authorize roughly $25 billion more for national defense than the Biden administration requested, throwing a wrench into statutory budget caps...

CQ MAGAZINE – COVER STORY; June 17, 2024 On Capitol Hill, Trump urges GOP to focus on fall races Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump, center, is applauded by Senate Republicans before giving remarks to the press at the National Republican Senatorial Committee building...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 17, 2024 Appropriators mull steps to boost Indian Health Service funding Lawmakers should make additional Indian Health Service spending, needed after a Supreme Court decision this month, a mandatory part of the budget, House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole said Wednesday. The mov...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 17, 2024 Defense spending boost weighed for GOP reconciliation plans The leading contenders to become the new Senate Republican leader next year said Wednesday they would favor trying to increase defense spending and cut some entitlement programs through the budget reconciliation p...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 17, 2024 In the Spotlight: Christopher H. Smith New Jersey Republican Rep. Christopher H. Smith is the lead author on a bill (HR 7213) aimed at boosting federal autism research that advanced, 42-0, in the Energy and Commerce Committee on June 12. The bill would reauthorize several...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 10, 2024 Editor's Note: Running the numbers in Congress COMMENTARY — The number of things about Congress to keep track of is staggering, so every so often we’ll boil it down to just a few, ahem, numbers. For the record, or your amusement, or both, here is a small quantitative batch...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 10, 2024 Fauci faces skeptical GOP to bat back COVID-19 accusations Fauci testifies on June 3. (Source: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call.) Anthony Fauci pushed back against Republican accusations tying him to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic while testifying before the House Oversight...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 10, 2024 Senate rejects move to codify right to contraception The Senate on June 5 used a procedural vote to quash efforts to codify protections for accessing contraception, part of a flurry of legislative activity in advance of the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decis...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 10, 2024 Cannabis rider divides GOP lawmakers Edwards arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Source: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call.) Internal divisions within the Republican Party on federal marijuana policy were on display Wednesday as the House Fi...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 10, 2024 Push for defibrillators in schools becomes personal Matthew Mangine and Rep. Andy Barr are tied together by unimaginable loss and one singular, horrible date: June 16, 2020. That's the day Mangine, a dad from northern Kentucky, lost his 16-year-old son, who collapsed at a...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 10, 2024 What would Congress do without Chevron deference? Washington is not ready for the tsunami of lawsuits and regulatory anarchy that may soon be headed its way. The Supreme Court is expected to release an opinion by the end of June that could kill or limit the Chevron doctrin...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 10, 2024 Oregon casino battle works its way into appropriations process Merkley opposes the project, but wants to avoid contentious policy riders. (Source: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo.) A long-stalled southern Oregon casino project pitting competing Native American tribes ag...

CQ MAGAZINE – COVER STORY; June 10, 2024 Biden immigration order looks to counter GOP criticism U.S. Border Patrol agents round up migrants in Jacumba Hot Springs, California, on June 5, the day after President Joe Biden signed an executive order to change border policy. (Source: Katie McTiernan/Ana...

CQ MAGAZINE; June 10, 2024 In the Spotlight: Kathy Manning North Carolina Democratic Rep. Kathy Manning filed a discharge petition on June 4 to force a vote on her bill (HR 4121) that would codify access to contraception. Manning faces an uphill path to gaining the required 218 signatures, but the H...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 28, 2024 Something strange afoot at the Capitol: Actual legislative movement COMMENTARY — It is migratory tour bus season in Washington, with scads of bucket-hat-clad students clumping about the capital city and its environs for drop-ins at Arlington National Cemetery, Mount Vernon,...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 28, 2024 House panel advances farm bill with controversial SNAP changes The House Agriculture Committee approved a five-year farm bill, as amended, early Friday, wrapping up about 13 hours of debate that grew heated over the measure's changes to the food stamp program, a reallocatio...

CQ MAGAZINE – COVER STORY; May 28, 2024 Republicans look to reverse rule based on gun law they backed Sen. John Cornyn , R-Texas, is seen in the Capitol on April 23, 2024. (Source: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call.) Republican backers of a once-in-a-generation gun violence bill now lead the charge against...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 28, 2024 AI 'road map' potentially a dangerous detour, critics say Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer ’s outline for potential federal legislation on artificial intelligence systems was widely welcomed by tech companies for its light touch and promise of federal spending. Civ...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 28, 2024 In the Spotlight: Thom Tillis North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is leading a Congressional Review Act joint resolution of disapproval (S J Res 83) of a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rule that would widen mandatory background checks requirement...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 28, 2024 Energy and Commerce panel advances privacy, online safety bills The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce on Thursday advanced bills on data privacy and online safety of kids, though lawmakers obtained assurances of changes in both measure...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 28, 2024 House Armed Services advances defense policy bill The House Armed Services Committee approved the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill with near-unanimous support late Wednesday night, clearing the way for floor consideration of the must-pass legislation next month. The marked u...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 28, 2024 Panel backs bill to limit Biden's discretion on arms to Israel The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved bipartisan legislation on Wednesday that would impose new oversight on the Biden administration's ability to withhold most weapon transfers to Israel. The bill from H...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 20, 2024 House Agriculture touts baseline boost in farm bill text The House farm bill would redirect conservation funds already appropriated, keep changes in the Thrifty Food Plan cost-neutral, and suspend the Commodity Credit Corporation’s Section 5 authority, among other things. H...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 6, 2024 House, Senate farm bill summaries show SNAP, climate division House and Senate Agriculture committee leaders released summaries of proposed farm bills Wednesday as they ramp up action on agricultural policy legislation, but they remain divided on food stamp benefits and on t...

CQ MAGAZINE; Dec. 11, 2023 Stabenow rejects farm bill that makes food stamps budget neutral Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow said Thursday she will fight Republican efforts to require future updates of food stamp benefits to be budget neutral. The 2018 farm bill ( PL 115-334 ) removed t...

CQ MAGAZINE – COVER STORY; Nov. 20, 2023 Rumblings over farm bill extension may signal rough road ahead Turkeys are seen outside a barn at a farm in Orefield, Pennsylvania, on November 20, 2020, ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. (Source: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images.) A one-year farm bill extensi...