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Capitol to Capitol is an information service of the Washington D.C., office of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Capitol to Capitol provides up-to-the-minute information on important federal legislation, and advises members of when to contact their congressional delegations to show support or disapproval of bills that affect the states. Published since 1994, Capitol to Capitol comes out on an as-needed basis, averaging approximately one issue per week over the calendar year.
Issues
- Oct. 3, 2022: Congress Passes Short-Term CR Funding Measure
- Sept. 26, 2022: Treasury Notifies COVID State and Local Recovery Program Recipients of Potential Reduction in Department Support
- Sept. 19, 2022: NCSL Letters to the Hill
- Sept. 7, 2022: NCSL Town Hall on the Inflation Reduction Act and Its Impact on States
- Aug. 29, 2022: NCSL Hosts Briefing With US Department of Education on Student Debt Relief Plan and Public Service Loan Forgiveness Waivers
- Aug. 22, 2022: USDOT Awards Nearly $4B in Infrastructure Grants
- Aug. 15, 2022: Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 Heads to Biden for Signature
- Aug. 9, 2022: Inflation Reduction Act Passes Senate
- July 25, 2022: NCSL’s 2022 Legislative Summit in Denver
- July 18, 2022: NCSL Hosts Briefing on Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
- July 11, 2022: Join NCSL for Special Briefing on State, Federal Housing Policy
- June 27, 2022: Congress Passes Major Federal Gun Safety Bill
- June 21, 2022: Congress Passes Major Changes to Shipping Industry; President Signs Into Law
- June 13,2022: NCSL Policy Week
- June 6, 2022: Department of Housing and Urban Development Launches ‘Our Way Home’ Initiative
- May 31, 2022: NCSL Executive Committee Adopts Interim Resolution in Support of the Improving Intergovernmental Cooperation and Reducing Duplication Act of 2022
- May 16, 2022: State Lawmakers Brief Federal Officials on Responses to Mental Health Crisis
- May 2, 2022: Going Big on Clean Water, NCSL Podcast on IIJA Water Funding Released
- April 25, 2022: Rule Restricting State Authority to Implement Clean Water Act Reinstated
- April 5, 2022: NCSL and Others Lend Support to the LIFELINE Act
- March 28, 2022: Senate Committee Approves the Just and Reasonable Telephone Bill to Keep Incarcerated People Connected
- March 21, 2022: NCSL Summary of FY 2022 Omnibus Spending Bill
- March 14, 2022: Agreement Reached on Federal Funding for Remainder of Fiscal Year
- March 7, 2022: Senate HELP Committee to Mark Up Bipartisan Pandemic Preparedness Bill
- Feb. 28, 2022: NCSL Hosts Broadband Briefing With NTIA
- Feb. 14, 2022: Register for Feb. 17 NCSL-Sponsored Broadband Briefing With NTIA
- Jan. 31, 2022: NCSL Launches New Webpage on Federal Infrastructure Bill
- Jan. 24, 2022: Army Corps of Engineers Announces Billions in New Projects
- Jan. 10, 2022: Treasury Issues Final Rule for State and Local Recovery Funds Program to Support COVID Response
- Dec. 20, 2021: Congress Passes Debt Ceiling Extension Measure
- Dec. 6, 2021: Member Briefing on the State/Local Cybersecurity Grant Program of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- Nov. 22, 2021: Member Briefing on Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- Nov. 15, 2021: Urge Congress to Pass Federal COVID-19 Aid Flexibility
- Oct. 25, 2021: Senate Approves New Flexibility in Use of ARPA Funds
- Oct. 18, 2021: USDOT Checks In With NCSL’s Natural Resources and Infrastructure Committee
- Oct. 4, 2021: Lawmakers Stave Off Shutdown but Still Face Daunting List of Tasks
- Sept 27, 2021: Federal Transportation Funding Could Lapse Without Immediate Action
- Sept. 20, 2021: House and Senate Continue Work on Reconciliation Package
- Aug. 30, 2021: House Adopts $3.5 Trillion Budget, Congress Returns Mid-September to Continue Work
- Aug. 23, 2021: NCSL Hosts Hill Briefing on Student Athlete Compensation
- Aug. 16, 2021: Department of Labor Announces Additional Guidance on Unemployment Insurance
- Aug. 10, 2021: Senate Passes $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Package
- Aug. 2, 2021: Senate Moves Forward on Infrastructure; Passage Expected Later This Week
- July 26, 2021: Senators Continue Negotiations to Turn Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework into Legislative Text
- July 19,2021: House Introduces Bipartisan Addiction and Recovery Legislation
- June 28, 2021: President Joe Biden and Bipartisan Senate Group Reach Infrastructure Agreement
- June 21, 2021: U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against NCAA in Education-related Compensation Dispute
- June 14, 2021: House Committee Approves Two Major Infrastructure Bills
- June 7, 2021: President’s FY 2022 Budget
- June 3, 2021: Senate Committee Approves Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill
- May 17, 2021: Analysis of Treasury Guidance on American Rescue Plan Funds
- May 10, 2021: U.S. Treasury Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund Guidance
- May 3, 2021: Senate Passes Bipartisan Water Infrastructure Bill
- April 26, 2021: U.S. House of Representatives Passes Bipartisan Marijuana Banking Bill
- April 19, 2021: NCSL Testifies Before Senate Committee on Transportation Funding and Financing
- April 12, 2021: Treasury Statement on State Fiscal Recovery Funds and Tax Conformity
- April 6, 2021: White House Unveils Infrastructure Plan
- March 22, 2021: Congressional Democrats Focus on Passing Infrastructure Bill to Close the Digital Divide
- March 15, 2021: House Holds Hearing on Fair Housing
- March 8, 2021: Senate-Passed COVID-19 Relief Bill
- March 1, 2021: House Passed COVID Relief, Senate Begins Consideration
- Feb. 22, 2021: U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 Introduced in the House and Senate
- Feb. 15, 2021: House Committee Advances $350 Billion in Flexible Aid for State and Local Governments
- Feb. 8, 2021: House and Senate Approve the 2021 Budget Resolution, NCSL Works With Congress to Craft COVID Bill
- Feb. 1, 2021: Biden Signs Additional Executive Orders
- Jan. 25, 2021: White House Executive Orders and Other Actions
- Jan. 11, 2021: Additional Federal Stimulus Potential Renewed
- Dec. 22, 2020: Congress Passes COVID-Relief and FY 2021 Funding Package
- Dec. 14, 2020: Stimulus Talks Continue as One-Week Stopgap Funding Measure Passed
- Dec. 7, 2020: Bipartisan $908B Funding Package Reignites Stimulus Negotiations, Could be Added to Year-End Funding Deal
- Nov. 23, 2020: Stimulus Negotiations Remain Stalled
- Nov. 16, 2020: Senate Releases Spending Bills
- Nov. 9, 2020: Northern District Court of Illinois Denies DHS Public Charge Rule
- Nov. 2, 2020: House Ways and Means Committee Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Increase Retirement Security
- Oct. 19, 2020: If No Stimulus Deal Reached by Tuesday, Talks to Continue During Lame Duck Session
- Oct. 5, 2020: Stimulus 4 Update
- Sept. 28, 2020: Congress Expected to Pass Stopgap Funding Bill to Avoid Shutdown
- Sept. 14, 2020: NCSL Continues to Advocate for Additional Stimulus Funding Even as Senate Fails to Advance ‘Skinny’ Version
- Aug. 31, 2020: NCSL Letter to FEMA Administrator Details Concerns Over Proposed Change to PPE Coverage
- Aug. 17, 2020: House Called Back to D.C, Senate Not Likely to Return until September
- Aug. 10, 2020: NCSL Base Camp: Mapping the Way Forward for States
- Aug. 3, 2020: Update on Stimulus 4
- July 27, 2020: COVID-19 Proposal Does not Include Additional Funding Flexible for States
- July 20, 2020: Fourth Stimulus Still Being Developed as House Appropriations Completes FY 2021 Spending Bills
- July 13, 2020: Call to Action
- June 29, 2020: Strength in Numbers: NCSL and Others Call for Flexible Assistance to States
- June 22, 2020: House, Senate and White House Consider Police Reform
- June 15, 2020: Capitol Hill Briefing: Fiscal Health of States
- June 8, 2020: NCSL Spearheads Virtual Fly-In Hill Briefing
- June 1, 2020: Update on Allowable Uses of Coronavirus Relief Fund
- May 18, 2020: House Passes $3 Trillion Relief Package
- May 11, 2020: Flexible State Funds Still Considered as House Works on Next Virus Relief Measure
- May 4, 2020: Lawmakers Call for Paid Sick Leave Tax Credits for Public Employers
- April 27, 2020: NCSL in D.C.
- April 20, 2020: NCSL in D.C.
- April 6, 2020: FDA Guidance on Drug Shortages and COVID-19 Testing Updates
- March 30, 2020: EPA to Ease Enforcement During Pandemic
- March 23, 2020: NCSL in D.C.
- March 16, 2020: NCSL in D.C.
- March 9, 2020: NCSL in D.C.
- March 2, 2020: Administration, Congress Propose Funds for Coronavirus in Advance of March Recess
- Feb. 24, 2020: Surprise Billing Legislation in House Education and Labor Committee
- Feb. 10, 2020: NCSL in D.C.
- Feb 3, 2020: NCSL in D.C.
- Jan 27, 2020: NCSL in D.C.
- Jan. 21, 2020: Senate Passes USMCA, Now Awaits Trump’s Signature
- Jan. 13, 2020: On Heels of FY 2020 Appropriations Enactment, President Set to Release FY 2021 Budget in February
- Dec. 16, 2019: Congress Reaches Overall Spending Deal, Will Take Up Spending Bills This Week
- Dec. 9, 2019: NCSL in D.C.
- Nov. 25, 2019: NCSL in D.C.
- Nov. 18, 2019: From NCSL in D.C.
- Nov. 5, 2019: From NCSL in D.C.
- Oct. 28, 2019: NCSL State and Local Cybersecurity Day on the Hill
- Oct. 21, 2019: NCSL in D.C.
- Oct. 7, 2019: Surprise Billing and Prescription Drugs, Congress Marches On
- Sept. 30, 2019: Stopgap Funding for Federal Government Enacted
- Sept. 24, 2019: House Passes CR to Stop Shutdown
- Sept. 16, 2019: NCSL Letters to Capitol Hill
- Sept. 9, 2019: Senate Appropriations Work Begins
- Aug. 19, 2019: Senate Infrastructure Committee Approves New Five-Year Transportation Bill
- July 29, 2019: Letter of Support for State Cyber Resiliency Act
- July 22, 2019: House Passes Minimum Wage Increase
- July 15, 2019: U.S. Budget Gap Widens
- July 1, 2019: House Passes Senate Emergency Border Bill
- June 24, 2019: House Democrats Advance Major Tax Package
- June 18, 2019: House Continues to Take up “Mini-Bus” Appropriations Package
- June 10, 2019: House Passes the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019
- June 3, 2019: Draft Health Care Costs Proposal Released by Senate
- May 28, 2019: Senate Approves Long-Awaited Disaster Relief Bill
- May 20, 2019: FY 2020 Appropriations Bills Moving Forward
- May 14, 2019: FY 2020 Discretionary Spending Levels
- May 6, 2019: House Passes Its First Climate Change Bill in a Decade
- April 23, 2019: Spending Caps Negotiations a Priority
- April 8, 2019: House Eschews Budget to Advance Spending Caps Negotiations
- April 1, 2019: Congressional Budget Writers at Odds Over FY 2020 Spending Limits
- March 25, 2019: FY 2020 Budget Update
- March 18, 2019: Congress in Recess
- March 11, 2019: President Releases FY 2020 Budget
- March 5, 2019: House Passes National Emergency Resolution of Disapproval, Senate Poised to Vote Soon
- Feb. 25, 2019: Military Services Testify on Emergency Declaration Impacts on State MILCON Funds
- Feb. 11, 2019: The National Emergencies Act
- Feb. 4, 2019: A Major Step in Fixing Systems of Election
- Jan. 28, 2019: Partial Shutdown Ends, Conferees Named for DHS Funding Bill
- Jan. 15, 2019: USDA Shutdown Update
- Jan. 7, 2019: Partial Federal Government Shutdown Continues
- Dec. 17, 2018: No Progress on Appropriations
- Dec. 11, 2018: Government Shutdown Avoided…for the Moment
- Nov. 26, 2018: The Clock on the 115th Congress Continues to Wind Down
- Nov. 14, 2018: Laundry List of To-Do’s Remain for the Lame Duck
- Oct. 29, 2018: NCSL Capitol Forum Policy Deadline is Nov. 7
- Oct. 22, 2018: U.S. Budget Deficit Swells
- Oct. 15, 2018: Countdown to the Next Showdown
- Oct. 1, 2018: Shutdown Averted...For Two Months
- Sept. 24, 2018: New Tariffs Could Imact Consumer/Elections
- Sept. 17, 2018: Legislation Introduced to Tie States’ Hands on Sales Taxes
- Sept. 10, 2018: Tax Custs 2.0 Tension
- Sept. 4, 2018: Congress Returns to a "Full Plate"
- Aug. 20, 2018: Budget Showdown Begins and Time is Running Out
- Aug. 13, 2018: Is it Almost Mueller Time?
- July 23, 2018: The House: See you in September
- July 16, 2018: "Setting States' Agenda" at NCSL Legislative Summit
- July 9, 2018: Another Supreme Court Nominee, But Different Politics
- June 25, 2018: In the Name of Federalism and Free Markets
- June 18, 2018: SCOTUS Will Issue Opinions in Next Two Weeks
- June 11, 2018: North Korea, Immigration, Net Neutrality and Trade
- June 4, 2018: Congress Returns to an Immigration Debate
- May 21, 2018: Immigration Politics Sink Farm Bill in the House
ARCHIVE: Previous Issues can be found on the Capitol to Capitol Archive page here.
TRIVIA ARCHIVE: Trivia from previous issues of Capitol to Capitol can be found in a sortable table here.
NCSL’s Advocacy in Washington
NCSL’s Washington staff advocates on behalf of state legislatures before Congress, the White House and federal agencies in accord with the policy directives and resolutions that are recommended by the NCSL Standing Committees and adopted by the full conference at the annual NCSL Legislative Summit Business Meeting. As a result of the advocacy that is guided by these policies’ positions, NCSL is recognized as a formidable lobbying force in state-federal relations.
More information on the NCSL Policy Process can be found here.
NCSL Staff in Washington, D.C.
- Molly Ramsdell | 202-624-3584 | Director
- Susan Frederick | 202-624-3566 | Law, Criminal Justice, and Public Safety
- Nicole Ezeh | 202-624-3568 | Law, Criminal Justice, and Public Safety
- Ben Husch | 202-624-7779 | Natural Resources and Infrastructure
- Kristen Hildreth | 202-624-3597 | Natural Resources and Infrastructure
- Jon Jukuri | 202-624-8663 | Labor, Economic Development and International Trade
- Deanna Ross | 202-624-8680 | Labor, Economic Development and International Trade
- Austin Reid | 202-624-8678 | Education
- Erlinda Doherty | 202-624-8698 | Communications, Financial Services and Interstate Commerce
- Brian Wanko | 202-624-5400 | Budget and Revenue
- Lauren Kallins | 202-624-8170 | Health and Human Services