Bullet Points: What is ENDA and Why Does Capitol Hill Care?
One of the biggest legislative issues to come to floor this week on Capitol Hill, was the debate over ENDA legislation. Formally known as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, ENDA is designed to...
View ArticleBullet Points: The White House's Push to Raise the Minimum Wage
President Barack Obama made waves last January with his 2013 State of Union address, in which he announced his desire to raise the federal minimum wage to nine dollars. Now, nearly a year later, the...
View ArticleBullet Points: What 'If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep it' Means for Obamacare
Since the Affordable Care Act was first passed in 2010, the Obama Administration has been trying to ward off public fears, by promising that "if you like your plan, you can keep it." Fast forward to...
View ArticleBullet Points: Why the Nuclear Option Had to Happen
This past Thursday, the Senate, guided by Majority Leader Harry Reid, voted 52 to 48 to employ the "nuclear option." No, this doesn't involve bombing anything. It is simply a Senate maneuver that...
View ArticleBullet Points: A Look at the Mismanaged Department of Defense Budget
Appropriations is probably the hardest thing for Congress to do. The government shutdown was case in point, as this catastrophe came about due to the failure of Congress to agree on and pass a budget....
View ArticleBullet Points: 4 Lessons American Politicians Can Learn From Nelson Mandela
Most many American politicians, news of former South Africa president Nelson Mandela's passing was heartbreaking. His legendary struggle of apartheid and later embracing of the nonviolence movement,...
View ArticleBullet Points: Where We Are on Gun Control, One Year After the Newtown Tragedy
This weekend marked the one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults. That national tragedy sparked furious debate on Capitol...
View ArticleBullet Points: A Guide to the 2014 Defense Authorization Act
Every year Congress is required to pass legislation authorizing the budget and program expenditures of the Department of Defense. This department takes some of the most federal funding, and while at...
View ArticleBullet Points: What You Need to Know About the Expiration of Unemployment...
Yesterday, Saturday, December 28th, 1.3 million Americans who are considered long-term unemployed lost their federal benefits. This emergency unemployment insurance program that just expired, was...
View ArticleBullet Points: A Look at Eric Cantor's Legislative Agenda For the House in...
Eric Cantor, the Republican from Virginia who serves as the Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, recently released his legislative agenda for January 2014. After what can only be described...
View ArticleBullet Points: How the New 2014 Trade Bill Will Change Everything
It may not be as interesting or controversial as gun control or immigration reform, but trade legislation probably has the biggest impact on the American economy and way of life than anything else our...
View ArticleBullet Points: A Look at What's Inside the $1 Trillion Federal Budget For 2014
This week Congress narrowly avoided a second government shutdown by passing a $1.012 trillion spending bill for the 2014 fiscal year. The first omnibus budget Congress has passed in well over a year,...
View ArticleBullet Points: A Complete Review of the Q4 Lobbying Numbers
The final-quarter financial reports for the lobbying industry were released this week, giving us a complete picture of how K Street fared in 2013. Overall, the industry didn't do great, with many of...
View ArticleBullet Points: A Look Inside the 2014 Farm Bill
The Farm Bill is a piece of legislation Congress undertakes every five years to dole out agricultural subsidies, set food policy, and budget for food stamps. This seemingly simple task however, has...
View ArticleBullet Points: Everything You Need to Know About the Trans-Pacific Partnership
This week President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid got into an uncharacteristic show down over the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. President Obama is seeking to have the...
View ArticleBullet Points: What's the Deal With the Discharge Petition?
Law makers on Capitol Hill appear determined to break the partisan gridlock that kept their legislative agendas at a stand still during 2013. In order to force movement on two of the biggest...
View ArticleBullet Points: What the New Tax Reform Bill Means For You
This past Tuesday Republican Representative David Camp of Michigan introduced the Tax Reform Act of 2014, a major overhaul of the current tax code. “We've already lost a decade,” Camp said in a...
View ArticleBullet Points: What You Need to Know About Barack Obama's 2015 White House...
President Obama unveiled his new budget for fiscal year 2015 on Tuesday. While Congress has already set spending levels for the upcoming year as part as the Ryan-Murray budget amendment passed back in...
View ArticleBullet Points: What is Dark Money?
Put simply, dark money is funding spent to influence an election that is not disclosed to voters. While dark money has featured prominently in every election in recent memory, it has been making...
View ArticleBullet Points: What's the Deal With the CIA-Senate Scandal?
Senator Dianne Feinstein made headlines this past week, when she accused the CIA of violating the Constitution for searching through the Senate Intelligence Committee's computers and intimidating...
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