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In the April 23 Federal Register, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued what it called “FairPay” rules that will take effect on August 23.

On June 9, Kentucky Gov.

• As anticipated, President Bush vetoed the $124 billion bill for funding military operations.

• At the end of March, lawmakers took a spring break that ended in mid-April, leaving in a holding pattern approval of House and Senate supplemental emerge

With election time nearing, look for presidential candidates to fuss, fret and be defensive about government spending.

Can and should Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) be opened to general aviation and charter aircraft? That was the principal topic during an u

Earmark or pork amendments were banned as the 110th Congress passed its Continuing Resolution (H.J.Res.20) to fund the nine 2007 appropriations bills that

• Congress dodged the dog days of August by taking a six-week recess beginning July 22, but not before legislators increased their bills introduced count t

Congress bailed out of Washington in early December and was scheduled to land back in place on January 20.

In his State of the Union message to Congress, President Bush laid out the broad and ambitious objectives and goals the administration hopes to achieve dur

• After the November elections, House Democrats vowed to pass the “Six for ’06” bills (minimum wages, stem cell research, energy and so on) in the first 10

Beginning in mid-February, Congress took a couple of weeks off and returned to business in early March.

• H.R.2115, the “Flight 100-Century of Aviation Revitalization Act” introduced in May by Rep.

H.R.2115, the House of Representatives’ “Vision 100–Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act.”

Having missed the October 1 deadline for funding nine of the 13 government agencies that had been neglected, a lame-duck Congress made up for that lack of

• Congress closed up shop on September 29, and November 13 was set as the date for what might be a lame-duck Congress to reconvene.

• Before Congress took a couple of weeks off beginning on March 20, there were 687 bills introduced in the Senate and 1,454 in the House of Representa

• In view of the enormous funds allocated for hurricane relief ($62 billion to date with more to come) and a mounting budget deficit, President Bush and le