As Congress prepares to go on a two week recess, the House has passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill to fund the government for the next six months, averting a potential shutdown. Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) joins Andrea Mitchell to weigh in as the bill is set to give Israel nearly $4 billion in military aid.
'Verifying the identities of accounts with large followings allows us to weed out those that seek to corrupt our information stream,' said the bill's sponsor, Democratic Senator Steve Padilla.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Legislation intended to prosecute more Kentucky teenagers on gun-related felony charges in adult courts where they could face harsher penalties moved closer Tuesday to clearing the legislature. The bill passed the House on a 68-19 vote and now returns to the Senate, where it could receive a final vote if senators accept the changes made by the House. Senate Bill 20 is part of a broader push by the Republican-dominated legislature to toughen penalties for a range of crimes....
Senate must act quickly to keep government open while Marjorie Taylor Greene moves to oust House speaker Mike JohnsonThe House voted on Friday to pass a $1.2tn spending package that would fund much of the federal government through September, with just hours left to avert a partial shutdown. The bill now advances to the Senate, which will have to act quickly to keep the government open.The House vote was 286 to 134, with 101 Republicans and 185 Democrats supporting the funding bill. Twenty-two...
Lawmakers welcomed the governor to the Georgia House where he thanked them
The House on Friday passed a $1.2 trillion spending package to fund the rest of the government through the end of the fiscal year, beating back objections by conservative Republicans who said it didn’t go far enough on border security.
When the bill was passed five years ago, it was touted as a method to help foster children and to save the state money by keeping them out of the state foster care system.
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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
The Senate remains deadlocked at this hour on passing the bill that would fund roughly three-quarters of the government for the next six months.
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...
The bill calls for a 9.3% rise in spending from fiscal 2023, with a budget deficit to 693 billion baht, down 0.3% from the previous year.Its passage followed a three-day debate, with 298 lawmakers in favour and 166 against, with one abstention and one absent.Pending Senate approval and royal endorsement next week, long-awaited disbursement of state investment funds is expected to begin in early April.Rapid disbursement in the remaining months of the fiscal year is seen as crucial to efforts of...