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The Senate Appropriations Committee held a hearing about ongoing federal government efforts to protect Americans from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Witnesses included Health and Human S…

Federal health officials and health workers testified at a joint hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Ebola out…

Description: Agenda Markup of the FY 2015 Appropriations Bill for the Department of Defense Vote The Full Committee approved the fiscal year 2015 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill u…

Witnesses testified on President Obama’s request for emergency funds to deal with the flood of migrant children from Central America at the U.S. border. The respective secretaries of Homelan…

Business meeting to markup proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2015 for the Department of Homeland Security.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Joint Chiefs Chair General Martin Dempsey testified about the fiscal year 2015 defense budget request. They answered questions about the situations in Iraq …

Business meeting to markup proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2015 Energy and Water Development, State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, and the Legislative Branch (H.R. 4487…

Business meeting to markup proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2015 for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, and  Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Relat…

Witnesses that included the heads of the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz testified on federal investments in innovation. They …

Mary Jo White and Mark Wetjen testified on oversight of U.S. financial markets, and the fiscal year 2015 budget for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Tra…

Labor Secretary Thomas Perez testified before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on his department’s fiscal year 2015 $11.8 billion budget proposal. The proposal includes discretionary spe…

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and his deputy, Daniel Poneman, testified on their department’s fiscal year 2015 $27.9 billion budget request. Other topics included climate change and nuclear …

Surgeons General from the Army, Navy and Air Force testified on the Defense Department’s fiscal year 2015 health programs budget request. The Defense Health Program procurement budget is the…

Attorney General Eric Holder and Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified on their department’s fiscal year 2015 budget request, which totaled $27.4 billion, including $25.3 billion for …

Witnesses testified on U.S. foreign aid for Jordan and Lebanon. Among the issues they addressed were a recent influx of Syrian refugees, the impact of refugee populations on host countries, …

The chairs of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) testified on their agencies' fiscal year 2014 budget requests. The President’s …

Defense Department officials testified on the cost, schedule, and performance of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.

Federal transportation officials testified on funding needs for highways and bridges, particularly for transportation infrastructure that had been found to be structurally deficient.

Senior cybersecurity officials testified on their efforts to protect the U.S. from cyber attacks. Much of the hearing focused on leaks revealing the extent of domestic phone surveillance by …

Secretary Chuck Hagel and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Martin Dempsey testified on the Defense Department fiscal year 2014 defense budget request.*Among the issues discussed were sexual assau…