President Joe Biden pledged to build a modern, sustainable infrastructure and an equitable, clean energy future during his campaign. At the end of March, he took the first step by introducing a massive spending proposal...

President Joe Biden called for national unity in his inauguration address, but will Congress get the message? The first 100 days of a president’s term is often called the honeymoon period, when friends and opponents alike offer support in a gesture of...

Now that the election is over, attention on Capitol Hill has shifted to what can be accomplished in the lame-duck session – the time after the election until the 116th Congress concludes on Jan. 3, 2021...

Will there or won’t there be another round of coronavirus relief before Election Day? The White House, the House, and the Senate are still apart, but the gap is narrowing, at least between the White House and the House...

President Donald Trump’s executive order to defer employee payroll taxes through the end of 2020 took effect on Sept. 1. The new policy defers an employee’s obligation to pay the 6.2% Social Security tax from every paycheck, but it doesn’t forgive it...

Tim Shinbara has been serving as a Congressional Fellow in the office of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. as the chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (SBC). The SBC develops legislation to strengthen small businesses...

The U.S. government has consistently shown that it can come together and act swiftly to provide short-term support in times of crisis. But when it comes to a vision for the future, bipartisanship falls apart, becoming more about political ideology than...

AMT’s vice president and chief technology officer, Tim Shinbara, was recently named a Congressional Fellow – Manufacturing by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for 2020-2021. Serving in the office of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla...

In June, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a rule permitting limited sharing of some export-controlled technology with Chinese telecom giant Huawei in the context of international efforts to establish technical...

In a summary of all loans approved by the program through June 30, the Small Business Administration revealed that the Payroll Protection Program had spent $521 billion on almost 5 million loans provided by 5,461 lenders. More than 229,000 companies in ...