• House GOP sounds out Democrats on Israeli aid vote

    The United States House of Representatives Republicans are allegedly testing the waters on another vote on a standalone aid package for Israel, an idea previously dismissed by Democrats, Axios reporte

  • Voting on Final Budget Measure to Keep the Federal Government Open

    Voting on Final Budget Measure to Keep the Federal Government Open /span/span/p pspanspanspanspanDear Friend, /span/span/span/span/p/div spanspanBartholomew.Su /span/span spantime datetime="2024-03-22T15:29:56-04:00" title="Friday, March 22, 2024 - 15:29"Fri, 03/22/2024 - 15:29/time /span div class="col-auto"March 22, 2024 /div

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    Louisiana crawfish farmers can apply for federal aid through Small Business Administration

    Congressman Troy Carter is partnering with the Small Business Administration to bring federal aid to crawfish farmers.

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    Chavez-DeRemer, Bentz vote for spending bills, outline funded priorities; Bentz calls it a 'difficult vote'

    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

  • 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...

  • Want to Cut the National Budget? Start With Military Spending.

    Julia Gledhill, William D. Hartung The biggest driver of overspending is an unrealistic, self-indulgent, and militaristic national defense strategy.

  • Thai Lower House Votes Approval for Same-Sex Marriage

    Country inches towards becoming the first Southeast Asian nation to recognize LGBTQ nuptials, seismic legal shift lauded as 'fantastic first step' towards full gender parity

  • Jamestown City Council To Vote On Two Housing Ordinances

    Jamestown City Council will consider two housing ordinances at their monthly voting session tonight. The proposed vacant property registration ordinance would require the owners to register the property for a fee of $250. The fee would go toward the administrative costs of registering the building and the costs for the city to monitor the vacant […]

  • Would House approve ‘loaning’ rather than giving Ukraine aid?

    As the nearly $100 billion Senate-passed national security supplemental continues to stall in the House of Representatives, lawmakers are looking for alternatives. One idea that has been circulating Capitol Hill this week: formatting the next tranche of funding as a waivable loan instead of a grant in an effort to convince skeptical Republican members. But so far, the plan seems to have caused confusion among supporters of further to Kyiv, and has seemingly not meaningfully moved its opponents...

  • ATR Applauds Anti-Carbon Tax Vote in the House

    The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a resolution condemning carbon taxes, the first such vote since 2018. Americans for Tax Reform released a Key Vote Alert in favor of the resolution ahead of the vote. The House approved H. Con. Res. 86, “Expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental […]

  • 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...

  • House Democrat apologizes for racial slur during budget hearing

    During a House Budget Committee hearing Thursday, Maryland Democratic Rep. David Trone dropped a racially offensive term.