WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK
Administration Proposal. President Joe Biden will travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on March 31, where he will unveil the contours of the infrastructure package.
Biden Preliminary Budget Outline. This week, the Biden administration will release a preview of its Fiscal Year 2022 budget. The figures will allow lawmakers to begin the appropriations process and give Congress information about the president’s discretionary funding priorities. The final budget request is currently expected in May.
Congress Continues Work. Although both chambers will be out of session for the next two weeks on a district work period, lawmakers will continue discussions on the contents of the infrastructure package.
“Over the next few weeks, I’ll set out more of a road map for what the year ahead looks like for Aotearoa and how vaccines will affect our elimination strategy, particularly as we get more certainty around vaccine delivery,” Ardern said.
Stuff understands more information is expected either by the middle of this week or early next week. Almost 300 million vaccine doses have now been administered globally, mostly in countries with serious ongoing transmission such as the United States (85 million) and the United Kingdom (21 million) – although China, where Covid-19 is mostly eliminated, has also injected 52 million doses. At midnight last Tuesday, 9431 people in New Zealand had received their first dose of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, which requires two doses.
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Well, maybe not out your window but definitely here at Parliament.
That may need some explanation.
Parliament s House calendar is changed by hand. Some days are very, very long.
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The deadline is to save a couple of local bodies money by having them no longer obliged to run referendums they do not wish to run.
Urgency means that when the debating wasn’t finished by 10pm on Tuesday evening everyone went home for a kip and returned to pick it back up at 9am on Wednesday morning. But in the House it was still counted as Tuesday, and it would remain so until the Bill was finished.
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