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Congress narrowly avoids government shutdown, gears up for new fight over debt ceiling

by Jason Harward | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Politics, Topics

WASHINGTON — Congress passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday, averting a government shutdown and maintaining the federal government’s budget at current levels for the next two months. President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bill shortly after 6 p.m. Eastern...

Affordable Care Act tax hurting health-care industry, survey says

by Lauren Caruba | Feb 18, 2014 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The medical device excise tax, part of the Affordable Care Act, is hurting jobs, investment and research in the health-care industry, a new survey suggests. Since the beginning of 2013, medical companies have fired 14,000 workers and declined to hire an...

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STATE OF THE UNION 2018

Medill on the Hill teamed up with Northwestern News Network in Evanston to produce a package of stories covering President Barack Obama's seventh and final State of the Union address. The two newsrooms collaborated across time zones to produce a three-hour broadcast and more than a dozen print and digital reports. Check out our broadcast here.

CYBERSECURITY

In a series of investigative reports, Medill on the Hill reporters uncovered threats to privacy and security in the digital age ranging from the safety of your online campaign donations to how computer hacking could impact food safety.