The Senate agreed to pass a $1.2 trillion spending package but failed to meet the deadline, leading to a partial government shutdown pending passage of a vote. The bill has yet to be signed by President Biden, as senators will not enter the chamber until just before midnight to begin voting on spending changes.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that an agreement had been reached in the Senate minutes before midnight, saying: “It's been a very long and difficult day, but we just...
A renewed push to bring back abortion to Louisiana failed in a legislative committee Monday, March 25. A bill authored by State Rep. Aimee Freeman, D-New Orleans, would have enshrined into the state’s constitution a person’s right to make decisions on reproductive health care without the government stepping in.
The bill would have transferred ownership of the arch hangar from the Loring Development Authority to the Loring Air Museum.
The U.S. Senate passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill in the early hours of Saturday morning, with numerous Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues in approving the bill to avert a government shutdown.The vote, 74-24, in the Senate was concluded at approximately 2 a.m. on Saturday, after the funding bill passed in the House of Representatives late Friday morning. Voting continued after the midnight funding deadline and will now go to President Joe Biden's desk for a signature to avert a...
The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a sprawling $1.2 trillion package to fund large swaths of the government, capping off a dramatic negotiation in the upper chamber and an intense months-long spending fight. The chamber approved the mammoth package, which spans more than a thousand pages, in a 74-24 vote, sending the []
The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a sprawling $1.2 trillion package to fund large swaths of the government, capping off a dramatic negotiation in the upper chamber and an intense months-long spending fight. The chamber approved the mammoth package, which spans more than a thousand pages, in a 74-24 vote, sending the []
The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a sprawling $1.2 trillion package to fund large swaths of the government, capping off a dramatic negotiation in the upper chamber and an intense mon
Congress will vote Friday on a $1.2 trillion, 1,000-plus page spending bill revealed Thursday just before 3:00 a.m.
The Senate reached a deal on the $1.2 trillion government spending package. Earlier in the day the 1,000-page bill was passed by the House. Now the legislation heads to President Joe Biden so he can sign it into law. The government has entered a partial shutdown as the deal missed the deadline
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Reps. Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., voted Friday in favor of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 – a bipartisan package of six appropriations bills that will complete funding for all government agencies through fiscal year 2024. Here's their statements, in full, on what's included: Bipartisan Government Funding Package Backed by
Pub owners across Britain are grappling with a perfect storm of soaring costs and falling demand as they close as early as 8pm in a battle to stay in business.