On July 16, the Senate passed the “Every Child Achieves Act (S.1177), its version of legislation to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). ESEA is the federal education… Read more»
Jul 2015
Action Alert and Recent Activity
Tomorrow, July 21, 2015, the Senate Finance Committee will debate a bill that could retroactively reinstate the IRA rollover back to January 1, 2015. Read more»
House & Senate ESEA Action Alert 7.2.15 Read more»
The House resumed floor consideration of the FY16 Interior Bill on July 7 after the Independence Day recess. This bill contains the budget for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Representatives began… Read more»
House appropriators approve $102M for the Office of Citizen Exchanges, an increase over both the President’s request and FY15. Read more»
On June 19, the State Department reported a technical issue with the part of its visa processing system that performs security checks and identity verification. Read more»
The FCC’s new Net Neutrality rules officially took effect on June 12, 2015. Read more»
The NEA appropriations process kicked off on June 10 when the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies met to discuss its FY16 spending bill. Read more»
Congressional appropriators have begun debating the distribution of the federal budget for FY16 which begins October 1, 2015. Read more»
Both the House and Senate are considering their FY16 Interior Appropriations bills which contain recommendations for the NEA’s budget for the next fiscal year. Read more»
