The South Carolina Senate approved its budget Wednesday after debating items like requiring school children use the bathrooms of their sex assigned at birth and whether universities can spend state money to move to another athletic conference.
Opposition parties were unhappy with plans announced on Tuesday to raise taxes and cut spending to improve the state's bottom line by some three billion euros in 2025.
The S.C. Senate’s version of the state’s $13 billion budget for 2024-25 calls for an income tax cut as well as pay raises for teachers and state employees. Senators will start debating the budget this week in Columbia.
The Senate early Saturday passed a two-year reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance program after hours of intense and sometimes acrimonious debate on the Senate floor, narrowly avoiding a key national intelligence gathering capability going dark. Senators voted 60-34 to send the bill to President Biden’s desk shortly after the midnight
On Monday, April 15, the ASCMC Senate voted to pass a student resolution written in response to the April 5 arrests of 20 5C students at Pomona College.
DHARAMSALA/WASHINGTON, DC (IANS) – The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) on April 17 applauded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s approval of the Resolve Tibet Bill, an effort of the US to push the Chinese government to resolve the longstanding Tibet-China dispute through dialogue with Tibetan leaders. […]
(The Center Square) - The Arkansas Senate adopted a resolution Monday that would impose a regulation on the crypto mining industry in Arkansas. The resolution, sponsored by Sen. Bryan King, R-Green Forrest, would require digital asset mining businesses in the state to pay an annual fee for “extraordinary electrical energy usage.” The fee would range from $25,000 to $100,000 per year depending on the amount of electrical energy used. Senate...
In a bipartisan vote, the U.S. Senate has approved a potential ban on popular social media app TikTok and a long-awaited foreign aid package for Israel and war-torn Ukraine.The Senate passed the $95.3 billion bill—which also includes aid for Taiwan—by a vote of 79-18. The House on Saturday approved the bill's individual components following months of gridlock. President Joe Biden has indicated that he intends to swiftly sign the bill into law.The ContextWhile the Senate initially passed a very...
An Arkansas Senate committee unanimously approved two bills Thursday that would regulate cryptocurrency mining operations, and the committee will reconvene Tuesday to hear more public comment on the policies.
A big task awaits the Missouri Senate as the upper chamber plans to address the state budget this week.
Iowa Senate lawmakers gave final approval to the governor’s K-12 literacy bill on Wednesday, sending the bill to the Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk for her signature. The bill, House File 2618, would require students at teacher prep programs around the state to take a test similar to the Massachusetts state “foundations of reading assessment”
The Brazilian senate’s Economic Affairs Commission has approved a bill that regulates VoD operators, including Netflix, YouTube, TikTok and FAST channels. The approved text, which will now go to