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The current federal government shutdown is now the longest in American history, and remains deeply concerning to millions of people, including many in Northern Virginia. Almost 87,000 of my constituents in Virginia’s Eighth Congressional District work directly for the government, thousands more work as government contractors, and the whole community feels the personal and… Read more »

The Hill |  Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.) on Thursday introduced legislation aimed at providing essential government workers access to unemployment benefits during the partial government shutdown. The bill’s introduction comes as federal workers affected by the shutdown are expected to miss their second consecutive paycheck. The measure would overturn a Department of… Read more »

The current federal government shutdown is now the longest in American history, and remains deeply concerning to millions of people, including many in Northern Virginia. Almost 87,000 of my constituents in Virginia’s Eighth Congressional District work directly for the government, thousands more work as government contractors, and the whole community feels the personal and… Read more »

ARL Now |  Federal officials think they have a good shot at winning $126 million in grant funds to make a series of badly needed repairs on a long section of the GW Parkway, and Northern Virginia’s congressional delegation is throwing its weight behind the effort. The National Park Service, which maintains the road, is currently applying for a hefty U.S.… Read more »

ABC News |  Democrats have for months fired up supporters with the promise that control of the House of Representatives would finally allow them to seize copies of President Donald Trump's tax returns. They have argued the filings could produce a road map for investigations into Trump’s tangle of global businesses and provide a cure for anxiety caused by his refusal to share… Read more »

The Hill |  A small, bipartisan group of House members on Tuesday introduced a bill that would allow federal workers affected by the partial government shutdown to withdraw funds from their retirement accounts without penalty. If passed, the bill would allow workers to draw down funds from retirement accounts without having to pay the usual 10 percent fee. “Families of… Read more »

Federal News Network |  As furloughed and excepted federal employees working without pay are set to miss their first scheduled paycheck of 2019 this Friday, hundreds showed up on a cold and windy Thursday to demand an end to the partial government shutdown. The impact of the government shutdown, now closing in on 20-days long, is setting in for furloughed and excepted employees,… Read more »

New York Daily News |  The government can’t reopen itself — but it can apparently accommodate deep-pocketed lobbyists. The Treasury Department reinstated an Internal Revenue Service program essential to the mortgage industry this week after the powerful lending block launched a lobbying effort amid an ongoing government shutdown set to become the longest in… Read more »

The Hill |  Democratic Rep. Don Beyer (Va.) is throwing his support behind the progressive climate change vision known as the Green New Deal, and he thinks a carbon tax should be its driving policy. “A Green New Deal would use major infrastructure investments and policy changes to rapidly shift the U.S. economy towards clean energy solutions and away from greenhouse gas emissions… Read more »

The Hill |  Some House Democrats are endorsing the idea of President Trumpdeclaring a national emergency at the southern border to dissolve a partisan standoff about funding his border wall and end a weeks-long government shutdown. The supportive Democrats are quick to emphasize they don’t believe the president has the legal authority to declare such an emergency,… Read more »