Congress Prepares Final Must-Do Bills to Avoid Year-End Crash

The House on December 7 advanced new plans to enact the final "must-pass" vehicles of 2021: a debt ceiling increase to avert...
Budget Reconciliation Basics: What To Expect from Democrats' New Climate and Families Plan

Congress passes funding law to avoid shutdown, hold FY 2021 funding through February 18

Tonight, the House and Senate passed a stopgap law (H.R. 6119) to avert a federal shutdown that would have kicked in at...

Michael Best Strategies Tami Jackson Buckner & Lucia Alonzo Named to The Hill’s Top...

Michael Best Strategies LLC (Strategies) is pleased to announce that Partner Tami Jackson Buckner and Principal Lucia M. Alonzo have been named...
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House of Representatives Releases Legislative Calendar For 2022

Today, the House of Representatives released its legislative calendar for 2022, which can be found below. The calendar signals when the House...
Budget Reconciliation Basics: What To Expect from Democrats' New Climate and Families Plan

House Passes Build Back Better Reconciliation Proposal, Setting Senate Showdown

Today, the House of Representatives passed in a 220-213 vote an updated version of the Build Back Better Act (BBB, H.R. 5376),...

President Biden to Sign Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill on Monday, November 15

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) President  Joe Biden will sign the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law on...
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OSHA Publishes Emergency Rule Implementing Vaccine Mandate

President Biden’s long-anticipated rulemaking on workplace vaccine mandates has been published by the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)....

Veteran Public Affairs Executive Tami Jackson Buckner Joins Michael Best Strategies as Partner

Michael Best Strategies LLC (Strategies), a fast-growing national government relations firm, announced today that public affairs veteran Tami Jackson Buckner has joined...
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The Food Waste Challenge

The United States enjoys the safest and most abundant food supply in the world. Yet, one in eight or 41 million Americans are food...
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Governor Veto Power in Wisconsin

History of the partial veto The governor of Wisconsin has always had package veto power, which, until the early 1900s, proved sufficient as a check...