Legislative Updates

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK The impending potential default of the United States looms over Washington as the standoff between House Republicans and President Biden over raising the debt ceiling continues. House Republicans unveiled budget-cutting and debt ceiling legislation and approved it on April 26 by a close 217-215 vote. The […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK President Biden delivered his State of the Union address on February 7 before the closely-divided 118th Congress asserting that his policy agenda is producing positive results for the American people, including progress in fighting off inflation and recession threats. The President touted his administration’s successes in […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK The U.S. Congress spent much of its efforts during January on organizing and populating its legislative and operational committees.  Following a lengthy process involving fifteen rounds of voting and extensive negotiations on rule changes and committee assignments with a select group of Republican conservative Representatives who […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK With the 117th Congress drawing to a close, the U.S. House and Senate aim to pass a nearly $1.7 trillion FY 2023 omnibus federal government spending bill before adjourning for the holiday break. If the omnibus spending bill is not passed by a December 23 deadline, […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues Outlook With the November 8 midterm elections concluded, Republicans successfully regained control of the U.S. House for the next (118th) Congress that begins on January 3, 2023, but by a far narrower margin than they had expected. Democrats have retained control in the next Congress of the […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues. OUTLOOK The midterm elections on November 8 will determine political control of the U.S. House and Senate starting in January 2023. The results will substantially influence U.S. policy-making efforts in key economic sectors for the next two years and have a major impact on the Biden administration’s […]

This is your brief update on important Internet policy issues. More detailed information is available to members in the i2Coalition Sept. 2022 Legislative Brief.  OUTLOOK In the last days of September, the U.S. Congress focused on the need to pass a short-term Continuing Resolution (CR) by October 1 to fund the federal government and avert […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues. OUTLOOK The House and Senate are out of session until after the September 5 Labor Day holiday. Before leaving for the August recess, Senate Democrats utilized budget reconciliation procedures and achieved a key goal of the Biden Administration by passing on August 7 the Inflation Reduction Act. […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK With U.S. midterm elections only a few months away, Congress accelerated legislative activity on multiple fronts just prior to the August recess. On July 27, Senate Majority Leader Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) made a surprise announcement that they had revived core pieces of […]