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Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - Senate Homeland Security Chair Paul also releases his cmte’s part of the reconciliation bill to fund DHS immigration agencies due to Budget Cmte by May 15 including $19.1 billion for CPB, $7.5 billion for ICE, $3.5 billion for border security, technology, & screening, & $2.5 billion for additional border security use.
Bill:
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/MDM26A11.pdf
Summary:
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026.05.04_HSGAC-Reconciliation-Text-Section-by-Section.pdf
https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/2051496786615771492
Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - Senate Judiciary Chair Grassley releases his cmte’s part of the reconciliation bill to fund ICE & CPB due to Budget Cmte by May 15. Also includes funding for “security adjustments & upgrades, including within the perimeter fence of the WH Compound to support enhancements by the U.S. Secret Service relating to the East Wing Modernization Project (WH ballroom), including above-ground & below-ground security features” but no funds included for “non-security elements.”
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/reconciliation_-_senate_judiciary_committee_title.pdf
https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/2051477950466228608
Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - Answer: The 100th of 100 Senators, the newest Senator Alan Armstrong (R-OK), who was sworn into the Senate on March 24th.
https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/2051281399814988269
Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - Early morning Senate duty for Senator Alan Armstrong (R-OK), the newest & 100th Senator in seniority, who presided over the Senate briefly at 6:45am for the first of two pro forma sessions this week during the Senate's weeklong state work period. Senators next return for votes one week from today on May 11. @cspan 2
https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/2051254932406226987
C-SPAN Classroom @CSPANClassroom - This week's #CSPAN Classroom e-newsletter is available at
https://newsletters.c-span.org/icymi-ap-review-programs-for-ap-u.s.-government-politics-and-ap-u.s.-history-first-ladies-collection-contemporary-u.s.-history-may-on-this-day-in-history-collection
and features:
📝 #APGov and #APUSH review materials,
👩 our #FirstLadies collection,
🇺🇸 contemporary #USHistory bell ringers and lesson plans,
📅 and our May #OnThisDay in History collection.
https://x.com/CSPANClassroom/status/2051319689314234847
C-SPAN Classroom @CSPANClassroom - Congratulations to Luisa Marietta from Kirkwood High School in @kwoodschools, Missouri who won 3rd Prize in the High School Central Division of the 2026 C-SPAN StudentCam documentary competition for her video titled, “The 1904 Philippine Reservation: Forgotten Pieces of American History.”
https://www.studentcam.org/2026-3rd-prize-high-school-central-division-the-1904-philippine-reservation-forgotten-pieces-of-american-history-by-luisa-marietta/
Click the link above to view her video, a press release about her win, and a congratulatory message from Missouri History Museum Historian Adam Kloppe.
https://x.com/CSPANClassroom/status/2051313418032832856
C-SPAN Classroom @CSPANClassroom - Video: Ipsos public affairs senior vice president and lead pollster @alec_h_tyson talked about the marketing research and consulting firm's new poll exploring Americans' view of the state of the United States as the nation marked its 250th anniversary:
https://www.c-span.org/classroom/document/?25933
https://x.com/CSPANClassroom/status/2051302311826251830
CSPAN @cspan - Video: Shaquille O'Neal (@SHAQ) on the values he learned from his father, recounting a story where his father gave his food to someone in need.
https://x.com/cspan/status/2051463749425369124
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