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President Barack Obama's fiscal 2017 budget will propose spending about $1 billion to address the opioid and heroin abuse epidemic, the White House announced Tuesday. That compares to about $400 [...]

The Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations title includes boosts for space exploration and federal law enforcement under the $1.15 trillion fiscal 2016 omnibus spending bill that House and Senate negotiators released Wednesday. The [...]

A year after a nasty policy fight over immigration, appropriators largely sidestepped the hot-button issue in the Homeland Security portion of the $1.15 trillion fiscal 2016 omnibus spending bill, focusing [...]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has repackaged most of the fiscal 2016 appropriations bills for potential floor votes that would challenge Democrats on spending matters even as his staff delves [...]

The House Appropriations Committee Wednesday approved the fiscal 2016 Agriculture spending bill with a provision on tobacco regulation opposed by most Democratic appropriators and the Obama administration. But it is [...]

The House Appropriations Committee's fiscal 2016 Agriculture spending bill includes a provision that could allow companies to continue selling e-cigarettes and some tobacco products by limiting the Food and Drug [...]

House Republicans criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission's crowdfunding plan, calling it 'inoperable' and arguing that it will cost too much for small businesses, according to a report attached to [...]

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday advanced, 30-21, a $30.2 billion fiscal 2016 Interior-Environment spending measure that targets the EPA for funding cuts and limits on its regulation of wetlands [...]

House GOP appropriators intend to increase spending for medical research and fighting narcotic addiction while shaving funds for education and labor agencies favored by Democrats and targeting the 2010 health [...]

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday advanced, 30-21, a $30.2 billion fiscal 2016 Interior-Environment spending measure that targets the EPA for funding cuts and limits on its regulation of wetlands [...]

The House Rules Committee teed up its fiscal 2016 Defense spending for floor action under a modified open rule Tuesday after the White House warned lawmakers the president would veto [...]

Senate appropriators on Thursday adopted a fiscal 2016 spending blueprint that would boost funding for the bills to finance the departments of Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs above current enacted [...]

Senate appropriators on Thursday adopted a fiscal 2016 spending blueprint that would boost funding for the bills to finance the departments of Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs above current enacted [...]

The Interior Department today is expected to unveil the long-delayed final rule to govern hydraulic fracturing on public lands, The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports. The timing fits the [...]

A provision tacked onto the $1.1 trillion fiscal 2015 spending package would allow Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans, which cover 100 million people, to count so-called health quality [...]

Democratic complaints over the fiscal 2015 spending bill are gathering over a policy rider that would roll back a piece of the Dodd-Frank law, the regulatory overhaul Democrats consider a [...]

Ending any chance of a government shutdown in October, President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law stopgap spending legislation (H J Res 124) that will keep federal funds flowing [...]

Thirteen senators are appealing to appropriators to reject a rider in the House’s Agriculture spending bill that would block the Department of Agriculture from implementing some livestock industry regulations. The [...]

The senator who oversees many federal health programs is pressing for what could be the first comprehensive set of rules for a decades-old drug discount initiative. In the report accompanying [...]

The House Appropriations Committee approved legislation Wednesday that would loosen derivatives regulations under the Dodd-Frank Act. An amendment (PDF) attached to the fiscal 2015 Financial Services spending bill would repeal [...]

The House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee Wednesday approved a $21.3 billion fiscal 2015 spending bill by voice vote, with some Democrats registering no votes. The bill includes [...]

The fiscal 2015 Defense spending bill that a House Appropriations subcommittee will mark up on Friday retains statutory language aimed at ensuring that the National Security Agency does not read [...]