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The Past Week in D.C. Climate change was front and center at the United Nations General Assembly meeting this week. Among other important topics (covered in further detail below), President […]

The Past Week in D.C. Build Back Better Act Updates: After a long summer of deliberations, today marks the end of the committee markup process in the House of Representatives. […]

The Past Week in D.C. Yesterday, environmental groups, including the League of Conservation Voters, Climate Power, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Center for American Progress, and Sierra Club sent […]

The Past Week in D.C. Hurricane Ida On Sunday, Hurricane Ida struck the Louisiana coast with wind gusts reaching 150 miles per hour and mass flooding throughout parts of the […]

The Past Week in D.C. Updates from Congress: Yesterday, after days of negotiations with moderate members of the party, House Democrats passed the $3.5 trillion budget blueprint that would drastically […]

The Past Week in D.C. Build Back Better Updates: A group of nine centrist Democratic House members are pushing to move forward with a vote on the infrastructure bill, threatening […]

The Past Week in D.C. Infrastructure Bill: On Tuesday, after months of negotiations, the Senate passed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on a 69-30 vote that included all Senate […]

The Past Week in D.C. The Senate is busy at work this week voting on amendments to the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Normally the amendment process could take weeks on a […]

The Past Week in D.C. The White House and a bipartisan group of Senators announced they have hammered out the final details needed to move forward on the Bipartisan Infrastructure […]

The Past Week in D.C. Today, Senator Schumer called a test vote to move forward on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan. As expected, Senate Republicans blocked the effort, arguing […]