Lame Duck Congress Wraps Up FY 2005 Spending Bills
December 2004
This year provides no opportunity for lame jokes about lame ducks. The 108th Congress finished its work on all federal funding bills quickly after the election. More »
Lame Duck Session Slated for November
November 2004
This is not fair. You know the election results. We are writing this in late October and we don't. There is, therefore, little to say here about which you don't already know more. More »
Congress To Defer Final Action on Public Health Spending Until After Election
October 2004
The months of September and October in a Presidential election year are always a time for extraordinary volatility on Capitol Hill. It is no easier to predict how much of the nation's essential business will be accomplished than it is to predict how the stock market will move. More »
House Committee Completes Health Funding Measure
August 2004
The House Appropriations Committee completed its work on FY 2005 funding for the Department of Health and Human Services in early July. More »
Legislators Introduce Breakthrough Bipartisan Tobacco Control Bill
June 2004
Amidst the unremitting, cutthroat partisanship of an election year in Washington, DC and the unremitting horrors in the headlines, it is rare to find some good news. But there is some good news this month. Let's start with that. More »
Plugging Public Health in a Partisan Environment
May 2004
"Iraq sucks the air out of everything else." —Senior Congressional Appropriations staff member, noting scant attention now paid on Capitol Hill to funding for ongoing domestic programs. More »
