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2012-02-082012 Supplemental Session: Week 5
This week the Senate and the House turned their full attention to the fiscal committees. All bills with a fiscal impact must have passed out of their respective fiscal committee by February 7. Over the last two days the Senate and House Ways & Means Committees have held marathon sessions to move bills forward in [...]
2012-02-03House Education Appropriations Wraps Up Work
This morning the House Education Appropriations & Oversight Committee held the last public hearing and work session before the House deadline tomorrow – February 3. Among the bills heard this morning was legislation to encourage the public baccalaureate institutions to design innovative approaches to increase the number of resident students gaining baccalaureate degrees and a [...]
2012-02-02More and More Bills
The Washington House and Senate continue to steadily move through bills as deadlines pass and new deadlines near. Washington House In the House the deadline to move policy bills from commitee and to either an appropriation committee or the House floor passed yesterday (January 31). With the passage of this deadline the House has refocused [...]
2012-01-31Committees Continue to Work to Move Bills
Policy committees in both the House and Senate continued their work to move bills forward in the process. Today marks the last day for House policy bills to move out of committee followed by a February 3 deadline in the Senate. This morning kicked-off with dualing committees in the House. The House Capital Budget Committee [...]
2012-01-31Details Emerge About Obama’s Blueprint for Higher Education
Late last week, several days after President Obama announced new proposed federal policies focused on the availability of affordable quality higher education, details emerged about how the Obama Administration would go about achieving this goal. In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for a comprehensive approach to tackling rising college costs. In [...]