View as Webpage Dan, From my perspective, the main event on Capitol Hill this week is the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. They start tomorrow and are likely to continue through Thursday.     The hearings will begin with opening statements. Then, each senator will have a set […]

View as Webpage Dan, After months of difficult negotiations—the House set spending levels last July while Republicans stonewalled—Congress passed a budget bill that begins to turn the page on a decade of austerity for education and other domestic programs. The rush to provide aid to Ukraine, also included in the bill, helped end the stalemate. The measure […]

View as Webpage Fellow Members, Last week, we witnessed—if briefly—moments of unity as President Biden delivered his first official State of the Union address to members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, military leaders, and special guests of the First Lady gathered in the House chamber. Republicans and Democrats alike stood and applauded the response of […]