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Roll Call – February 28, 2023
House Republican appropriators have banned earmarks from the Labor-HHS-Education, Financial Services and Defense bills and cut the cap on "community project funding" in half in new rules regulating the process on that side of the Capitol.

Fiscal Year 2024 Member Request Guidance
House Committee on Appropriations – February 28, 2023
This week, the House Committee on Appropriations released fiscal year 2024 member request guidance. In their guidance, the Appropriations Committee provided information on programmatic, community project funding, and language requests with additional submission deadlines.

Roll Call – February 28, 2023
Both parties agree that the U.S. will need more critical minerals to fuel the expansion of clean energy, but recent actions from the Biden administration blocking two major mining projects have drawn Republican criticism that it will be unable to meet future demand.