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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...