Tag Archives: Nancy Pelosi

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she hopes the lower chamber can pass a deal to raise the debt ceiling and set spending levels by July 26, CNBC reported Wednesday. Pelosi said she expects the White House and the chamber to agree on a measure by Friday, July 19 to allow lawmakers to work on the legislative text over the weekend.

The White House sent a bill to Congress to authorize the transition of the Office of Personnel Management to the General Services Administration, Government Executive reported Thursday. Russell Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) saying the proposal seeks to move OPM’s functions and resources to GSA, including information technology, human resources, health and insurance services.

Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., has been appointed to lead the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress as chairman. The new committee is intended to address the demand of U.S. citizens for a more ethical, transparent, unifying and responsive Congress, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

House Democrats have proposed a package of six appropriations bills to put an end to a partial government shutdown that started on Dec. 22, CNBC reported Monday. They also introduced a separate continuing resolution that would fund that Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 8.

Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., and former congressman Patrick Murphy, D.-Fla., have been inducted into the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. The new commission will work to build a response strategy to address growing threats in cyberspace, the office of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Tuesday.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) will meet with President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on Thursday to reach a budget deal for fiscal 2018 in order to avoid a government shutdown at the end of this week, Reuters reported Monday. The scheduled …

National Intelligence Director Dan Coats and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have called on Congress to reauthorize a provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that is set to expire by the end of 2017. Sessions and Coats wrote in a Thursday letter to congressional leaders FISA’s Title VII permits the intelligence …

President Donald Trump has agreed with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-New York) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) to advance a bill that would authorize a debt limit increase and a continuing resolution for three months, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Trump made the deal with Pelosi and …

The White House has said President Donald Trump expressed plans to delay his call for funds for the proposed U.S. border wall with Mexico in an effort to facilitate negotiations over a budget deal to avert a possible government shutdown, Reuters reported Monday. Richard Cowan and Steve Holland write Trump told media …

The U.S. Navy was scheduled to commission the 10th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship Oct. 8 at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The service branch said Friday House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) was set to deliver the keynote address for the USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) vessel, which is named after …