US Policy

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK After months of negotiations, Congress passed and President Biden signed into law a supplemental $95 billion foreign aid package providing funding to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The package also imposed new sanctions against Russia, China, and Iran. The national security “sidecar” portion of the package added […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK The U.S. Congress finally completed the two-phase, contentious federal government funding process for FY 2024 on March 22, just prior to the start of a two-week spring recess period and almost halfway through the current fiscal year. President Biden signed the FY 2024 spending legislation into […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK When the House and Senate return to Washington from their February recess periods, they will have little time left to reach an agreement on the FY 2024 federal government budget legislation expected to exceed $1.7 trillion in order to avert a government shutdown. Negotiations are intensifying […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK On January 18, Congress avoided another federal government shutdown threat by passing phased legislation to secure temporary funding of departments and agencies through March 1 (for Agriculture, Energy & Water, Transportation-HUD, and Military Construction) and March 8 (for Commerce, Justice & Science; Financial Services and General […]