Legislative Updates

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK In late June, world attention abruptly turned to news of the U.S. entry into the Israel-Iran conflict with a bunker-buster bombing mission against Iran’s nuclear capabilities. President Trump and his Cabinet defended the move and asserted that the U.S. strikes had obliterated Iran’s nuclear facilities. President […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK Following days of tense intraparty negotiations, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) led the House Republicans’ May 22 passage by a 1-vote margin (215-214) of a massive budget reconciliation bill that is central to achieving President Trump’s economic agenda, including the extension of 2017 tax cuts and an […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK  Following a two-week spring recess period in mid-April, Republican leaders in Congress returned to Washington to conduct crucial work at the committee level drafting portions of a budget reconciliation bill encompassing many of President Trump’s immediate domestic policy priorities. The bill, which can be approved by […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK  After several weeks of tense uncertainty and sharp partisan debate, Congress avoided the threat of a federal government shutdown on March 14 by passing a continuing resolution to fund federal agencies through the end of September. The House and Senate Republican leadership also accelerated work in […]

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 […]

Your brief update on important Internet policy issues OUTLOOK  Congress returned to Washington following the November 5 elections in which the Republican party won the Presidency as well as control of the House and Senate in the next (119th) Congress, which will convene in January 2025. President-elect Donald Trump quickly began announcing his key White […]