NYEC Federal Policy Roundup (3/25/22)

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NYEC Federal Policy Roundup (3/11/22)

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NYEC Federal Policy Roundup (3/4/22)

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)

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)

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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