NYEC Federal Policy Roundup (3/4/22)

By Thomas Showalter | March 4, 2022

This Week’s Update Supreme Court Nomination: Confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will begin March 21. FY22 appropriations: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) announced the House will vote on an FY22 omnibus appropriations bill, including supplemental appropriations (aid) for Ukraine, on March 8. Hopefully the Senate will follow suit shortly after, before the…

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NYEC Federal Policy Roundup (2/25/22)

By Thomas Showalter | February 28, 2022

This Week’s Update Supreme Court Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: If confirmed, she would be the first Supreme Court Justice to have worked as a public defender – and the first Justice since Thurgood Marshall with significant experience defending (rather than prosecuting) criminal defendants. She also served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission during a time…

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NYEC Federal Policy Roundup (2/14/22)

By Thomas Showalter | February 14, 2022

BBB: We’ve been hearing that anything branded BBB is unlikely to pass. This article in Politico indicates that the BBB bill is dead but that reconciliation may still be a vehicle to move some of these ideas forward.  If there is a smaller package, pieces we care about may be included in some way. Sen. Manchin…

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NYEC Federal Policy Roundup (2/4/22)

By Thomas Showalter | February 4, 2022

BBB news: It’s unclear how much momentum is behind Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s proposal for Congress to pass the most popular portions of the $1.7 trillion Build Back Better (BBB) social spending package. Sen. Manchin said Build Back Better in its current form is “dead,” and this week seemed focused on amendments to the tax code as…

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