Policy · 117th Congress
Border showdown could preview spending battle
Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Chairman Christopher S.
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review in the Journal of Adolescent Health of 30 years of data on school programs “offers strong support for comprehensive sex education” rather than abstinence-only programs, wrote the authors, Eva S.
Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, part of a bipartisan border delegation last Friday, have made similar calls for more transparency.
as the Internet Research Agency, has been under intense scrutiny by U.S. law enforcement agencies, the Pentagon’s Cyber Command and social media companies ever since former special prosecutor Robert S.
Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during the news conference outside the Capitol to announce the introduction of S 1, the “For the People” Act, on Wednesday.
A former three-term senator from Florida, Nelson was a House member when he flew aboard the shuttle Columbia in 1986.
The Senate confirmed Xavier Becerra as President Joe Biden's health secretary. He will be the first Latino to hold the post.
Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., offered the universal background checks proposal as one of four side-by-side amendments to an appropriations bill.
The Republican senators said the president’s freeze on construction was a “blatant violation of federal law and infringe(s) on Congress’s constitutional power of the purse.”
The bill will be designated as S 1 to highlight its importance; the House-passed companion is HR 1.
Also being considered is a $2 trillion energy tax, raising the estate tax and potentially taking aim at small businesses and S corporations.
Visa Inc.’s failed acquisition of fintech startup Plaid Inc. is among several industry deals that have prompted concerns from antitrust regulators in recent years.
Two Senate panels advanced President Joe Biden’s pick for deputy budget director, but not without some unexpected partisan fireworks.
Toomey ‘s floor comments echoed his criticism of Fudge at the Feb. 4 committee vote for her response to his question about better targeting HUD programs to low-income people.
Donald S. Beyer Jr., have been asking for the federal government to take charge of vaccinating federal employees.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna S. Pressley over Joseph Crowley in New York and Michael E. Capuano in Massachusetts, respectively.
On matters of policy, there’s little daylight between Democrats like Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut and his Senate colleagues in neighboring Massachusetts, Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren.
The Democrats got their way on 168 of 176 party unity votes for a winning percentage of 95.5 percent, only topped in the 60-year history of CQ Roll Call’s study by 2019’s 96.2 percent.
Senate Democrats won two procedural battles Monday on a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package they hope to pass by week’s end.