Legislative Update

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK  Federal budget negotiations dominated the work of the 119th Congress in February. The House and Senate Republican leaders pursued separate strategies for developing a budget resolution required as a first step to enable Republicans to draft and pass federal legislation using the reconciliation process to achieve […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK  The 119th Congress convened in January with Republicans controlling both the House and the Senate. Donald Trump was sworn into office on January 20 as the 47th American President in a ceremony conducted indoors in the U.S. Capitol building due to bitterly cold temperatures. The prominent […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK By day’s end on December 18, the threat of a partial U.S. federal government shutdown at midnight on December 20 intensified. House and Senate lawmakers spent the last weeks of the 118th Congress struggling to complete difficult negotiations on a continuing resolution (CR) to keep federal […]