Monday Morning Memo and More

Good Morning from the Nation's Capital...  The White House is pushing for a vote in the House this week on the Reconciliation Bill and Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has aggressively been lobbying her own members to resolve their...

Good Morning from Capitol Hill... The United States Senate returns today from recess (the House returns tomorrow) and Democrats need to sprint through the end of the month in order to pass both a slimmed down social spending bill and the Bipartisan Infrastructure...

  Good Morning from the Nation's Capital... Negotiations on the White House’s landmark Build Back Better Plan continue to be a slough.  Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) set a new deadline of October 31st to pass the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure...

  Good Morning from the Nation's Capital... Last week came and went without a House vote on either the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (the “BIF”) or the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act—and it could be more than a month before both...

    Good Morning from the Nation's Capital... Will Rogers once said, “I am not the member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” Washington last week was further evidence that Rogers’ maxim remains true. Democrats, under the leadership of President Joe...

     Good Morning from Washington, D.C....   The next few months will be the busiest legislative period in Congress in years (read more in last week’s MMM). In addition to passing the White House Build Back Better Agenda, Congress faces a handful of critical fiscal...