President Biden on Saturday signed the stopgap measure approved by Congress on Friday that will prevent a government shutdown. The White House announced Biden had signed the bill in a brief statement. The legislation will keep the...
Just as the government funding deadline arrived early Saturday, Congress passed an interim plan to prevent a shutdown after a chaotic few days and nights in Washington. President Biden signed the legislation Saturday morning. Lawmakers...
Twenty GOP senators voted against legislation approved by the Senate late Friday that would bolster Social Security benefits for over 2 million American citizens working in a range of occupations. The legislation, dubbed the Social...
The Senate early Saturday approved legislation to transfer administrative jurisdiction of Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Stadium to the District of Columbia. The legislation had been removed from a continuing resolution to fund the government,...
A state circuit court judge blocked some parts of Missouri’s near-total abortion ban after an abortion ballot measure’s passage in November. But the ruling preserved other restrictions, including that abortion facilities have to be...
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee condemned the Supreme Court for an “ethical crisis of its own making” in a new report released Saturday. The report follows Democrats’ 20-month investigation into the court’s ethics, spurred by...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a weight-loss drug to help sleep apnea, becoming the first drug to treat the disorder affecting millions of Americans. On Friday, the federal agency green-lighted Eli Lilly’s Zepbound drug...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) averted a government shutdown, but the days-long rollercoaster as the leaders cycled through multiple plans leaves serious questions about how the Speaker will manage the House GOP under President-elect Trump...
The independent mindset — politically incorrect, anti-establishment, anti-elistst, pro-innovation, anti-identity politics and pro-people — is shaking up politics as usual. I
Without all hands on deck for affordable housing, we will never address America’s most pressing issue. The ball is in the Trump administration’s court.
One of my favorite posts to do for In Custodia Legis is the annual recap for Congress.gov. Last year was terrific, and this year we were able to keep building on that success. We have been working on incorporating the Century of...
Today on the blog, legislative data specialist Andrew from the Congressional Research Service brings us a post on modernizing Congressional data as it pertains to House legislation and Amendments on Congress.gov.
We are very excited to bring you the Senate Journal as part of today’s release. There is content for the Senate Journal from the 1st to the 43rd Congress. In addition to searching, it is available from the Browse page.
Today's blog post is a guest post by Andrew Reiter, legislative data specialist with CRS on modernizing Congressional data with a focus on Senate Legislation and Amendments on Congress.gov.