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.
The state Senate voted unanimously on legislation that would ban revenge porn, a topic they were unable to agree upon during the last legislative session.
The U.S. Congress approved a funding bill Saturday in a rare show of cross-party unity, keeping federal agencies running through September and averting a damaging partial government shutdown.Senators missed a midnight deadline to pass the $1.2 trillion package to keep the lights on in several key government agencies but voted in the early hours to pass a resolution that had already advanced from the House."It wasn't easy, but tonight our persistence has been worth it," Democratic Majority Leader...
The Health and Human Services as well as Defense departments are among the
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) set up a path to vote on a bill to fund the government’s remaining agencies Friday, putting in place an alternative plan in case a time agreement is not met ahead of a looming partial government shutdown at midnight. The action in the Senate comes after the House passed […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Six months late, Congress finally completed work on the last of fiscal 2024 appropriations bills in the wee hours of the morning on Saturday, Mar. 23. That $1.2 trillion funding package cleared the Senate by a 74-to-24 vote, sending the appropriations bills for the Pentagon; Financial Services; Homeland Security; the departments of […]
Prospects for a short-term government shutdown had appeared to grow Friday, but shortly before midnight Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a breakthrough.
(The Center Square) - The Iowa Senate passed a bill that would give school districts control of money used to provide special education and other services. House File 2612 would give school districts the option to no longer contract with Area Education Agencies who currently receive the funding. The districts could have their own in-house special education department, contract with another service or still use an AEA. The bill drew heated comments from Democrats...
The proposal, as it passed the Senate committee, is not considered traditional “expansion” under the Affordable Care Act, and therefore would not qualify for the enhanced federal funding the law grants to newly-expanded states.
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.
The Kentucky senate passed a bill that enables parents to collect child support before the baby’s born. How will this impact Black families?
One senator called it 'an embarrassment' to be asked to vote on a bill without reading it.