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...
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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 […]
The $1.2 trillion funding package has hit a snag in the Senate, and negotiations to pass the bill before the midnight deadline to fund the government are not going well.
A decade after two firefighters died when they became trapped in a brownstone in Boston’s historic Back Bay neighborhood by a fire caused by sparks from welders working next door, the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill Thursday aimed at toughening oversight of so-called “hot work.”
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.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) announced Thursday he will not run for reelection in the Democratic primary for his Senate seat but hopes an “exoneration” of his legal troubles would allow him to launch an independent bid in June. “I am hopeful that my exoneration will take place this summer and allow me to pursue my […]
(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...
"Employers who are knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, and skirting our federal immigration laws, oftentimes they're breaking other labor laws, in addition to tax laws," Sen. Jordan Rasmussen said.