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Budget Reconciliation 3.0: Another Legislative Push Before the Election

  • July 15, 2026
Congressional Republicans are pursuing a third budget reconciliation bill before the midterm elections to fund defense priorities and potentially advance election-security measures, using reconciliation to bypass the Senate filibuster.
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The House at a Crossroads for Reconciliation Bill

  • May 21, 2025
The “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” containing much of President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ domestic agenda, and which has bedeviled House Speaker Mike Johnson for most of the year, finally appears to be headed for a vote on the House floor.
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Major Tax Increases Proposed in Biden’s 2024 Budget

  • March 15, 2023
President Joe Biden submitted his proposed fiscal year 2024 federal budget to Congress on March 9. It contains numerous tax increases that repeatedly failed to clear the House of Representatives and Senate even when these chambers were controlled by Democrats. But the president’s budget submission makes sense if you acknowledge that its primary purpose is as a political messaging document, meant to provide a contrast between his administration and Republicans in advance of the 2024 presidential election.
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Return to the Hill: CL&LR 2023

  • January 18, 2023
In less than two weeks, NAIOP members and chapter local executives will be headed to Capitol Hill to meet with their elected representatives, senators and congressional staff. In so doing, they will be taking the opportunity to establish relationships with newly elected members of Congress; renew and deepen existing ties with incumbents; and talk to their elected officials about issues important to the commercial real estate industry.
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Congress Recesses for the Midterms

  • October 5, 2022

Members of Congress, both the House and Senate, finally got the chance to do what they have been desperate to do for weeks: get out of Washington, D.C., and campaign full time for re-election. With the only must-pass legislation in September being a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government running past Sept. 30, most […]

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Biden’s Dilemma: Placating the Progressives

  • August 4, 2021

Increasing tension with the progressive wing of his own party is causing headaches for President Joe Biden and his staff, complicating efforts to get portions of his domestic agenda through Congress. Of late, dissatisfaction with the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure legislation among many Democrats in the House of Representatives, coupled with a failed effort to extend […]

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