• Congress and White House Reach Funding Deal. Now the Race Is On to Pass It.

    Yuval RosenbergMarch 19, 2024They have a deal. Now they just need the votes. President Joe Biden and congressional leaders announced Tuesday

  • House conservatives oppose government spending deal before negotiators can finalize deal

    Congressional leaders are dealing with a new headache after more than 40 House Republicans came out in opposition to any spending legislation that does not include core components of the party’s signature border security bill passed last summer. While no deal has been struck on the remaining six appropriation bills, Reps. Bob Good (R-VA) and […]

  • House finally passes budget bill

    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...

  • House passes 2-rate income tax package

    Update: Senators derail House tax bill Wednesday, making room for potential negotiations. Click here, for latest update. TOPEKA (KSNT)- The Kansas House has passed a bill that would effectively set the state income tax to a two-rate system. The House voted 123-0 to unanimously pass House Substitute Bill for SB 300 on Wednesday, forwarding it []

  • US House passes bill to avoid government shutdown

    The US House of Representatives has passed a government funding bill with more support from Democrats than the majority Republicans, leading to a fresh threat by a hardline conservative lawmaker to oust the Speaker. The House’s 286-134 vote sends the $US1.2 trillion ($A1.8 trillion) bill to the Democratic-majority Senate, which has hours to act ahead […]

  • House passes final spending bills over Republican opposition

    The House of Representatives passed the remainder of its annual appropriations bills on Friday, marking the first step toward avoiding a shutdown just hours before federal funding is set to lapse for a slew of government agencies. Lawmakers passed the $1.2 trillion spending bill in a 286-134 vote, overcoming the two-thirds threshold needed to advance The House passed the remainder of its annual appropriations bills on Friday, marking the first step toward avoiding a shutdown just hours before...

  • AOC Pushes a Green New Deal for Public Housing

    Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is reportedly planning to propose a new version of the Green New Deal, and it is loaded with provisions Read More

  • House Democrats request hearing on Jared Kushner business dealings

    House Democrats are requesting a hearing into the business dealings of former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, turning their focus to the former president’s son-in-law as Republicans pursue similar investigations into President Joe Biden’s son. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, along with Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), sent […]

  • Sweet deal: Amsterdam has to rent back bridge houses from hotel

    The Amsterdam water board Waternet is spending tens of thousands of euros a year renting back bridge keepers’ houses from a hotel chain because a plan to monitor bridges remotely has flopped. The Parool reported at the weekend that Waternet has also resorted to using containers and other temporary accommodation because of the contract with the hotel – which rents the rooms out for hundreds of euros per night. The situation dates back 15 years, when the city decided that

  • House passes $1.2trn spending bill to avert shutdown

    Two-thirds majority reached to pass spending package – 286 voted in favour

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    House passes government spending bill hours before potential shutdown

    The House of Representatives has voted to pass a $1.2 trillion government funding bill, sending it to the Senate for a vote hours before a potential shutdown. NBC News' Julie Tsirkin has details on the deal and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., planning to file a motion to vacate against Speaker Mike Johnson.

  • Bill requiring annual State BOE report passes House

    TOPEKA (KSNT) - A bill requiring the Kansas State Board of Education (BOE) to submit a report to the Legislature each year on student assessments has passed the House. On Thursday, House Bill 2731 passed the house 80-40. Now the bill moves to the Senate. HB 2731, introduced by Representative Susan Estes, would require the []