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Congress ditches State Department bill after fight with Ivanka Trump
Congress nearly passed, after a 20-year hiatus, a State Department authorization bill this month. But then something happened to torpedo the effort.
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Congress · 116th Congress
3 Defense takeaways from the massive spending bill
Watch as CQ Roll Call's John Donnelly breaks down some of the defense spending in Congress' massive year-end spending bill.
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Trump pardons ex-Reps. Duncan Hunter, Chris Collins
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he's granting full pardons to former Republican Reps. Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins,
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Senate circulates 2021 calendar
The Senate's 2021 calendar shows several weeks of sessions early in the year, presumably to handle Biden nominations, and recess weeks around holidays.
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Package includes new museums focused on women and Latinos
The Smithsonian can start the process of building museums in Washington honoring women and American Latinos after Congress clears the year-end omnibus bill.
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Omnibus spending package reflects shaky detente in Trump’s final chapter
The $1.4 trillion omnibus spending agreement includes many of the shaky compromises that have kept the government functioning in recent years.
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Senate clears massive year-end spending bill with coronavirus relief
The Senate late Monday night cleared a mammoth spending bill, including a nearly $900 billion coronavirus relief package.
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Midwestern carpenters would get relief in year-end tax package
The plan allows members to take a form of early retirement starting at age 55 while technically staying as employees to train and oversee younger workers.
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Trump signs weeklong funding extension to buy time to prep omnibus
President Donald Trump signed into a seven-day stopgap funding measure Monday night that was designed to avoid the risk of a government shutdown.
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Robert E. Lee’s statue removed from the Capitol
Robert E. Lee’s statue is expected to be replaced with a statue of Barbara Johns, who in 1951 led a student strike protesting unequal education.
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Legislative Branch bill includes new accountability measures for Capitol Police
The measure would prompt new Capitol Police transparency but leaves out the removal of statues of Confederates from the Capitol.
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Deal reached on $900B coronavirus relief package; votes likely Monday
Congressional leaders on Sunday night reached agreement on a massive pandemic rescue measure that will be attached to a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill.
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Coronavirus relief package set to clear Monday, ending months of stalemate
Lawmakers are on the cusp of sending a long-delayed $900 billion economic recovery and health care package to President Donald Trump’s desk.
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Breakthrough seen on coronavirus relief bill with Fed lending compromise
A long-awaited coronavirus relief package seemed to be at hand late Saturday after a compromise was reached on Federal Reserve lending authorities.
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Lawmakers begin receiving COVID-19 vaccines
Members of Congress, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, started getting the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday.
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With calendar winding down, GOP makes case for Trump judicial pick in the 117th Congress
Sen. Lindsey Graham said his committee won't send more judge nominees to the Senate floor before the 116th Congress ends, but held a hearing on one more.
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Trump signs two-day stopgap funding bill, averts shutdown
President Donald Trump on Friday night signed a very short-term spending bill to avoid a midnight government funding lapse.
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Toomey Fed demand rocks coronavirus relief bill talks
Negotiations on a coronavirus relief package appeared to hit an eleventh-hour setback Friday over a dispute involving Federal Reserve lending authority.
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Toomey digs in on ‘redundant’ Fed facilities provision
Sen. Patrick J. Toomey wants to make sure the next Congress can't revive five Fed lending facilities that expire at the end of December.
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Palazzo subject of House Ethics Committee inquiry
Palazzo has spent about $230,000 from his campaign since 2010 on purchases associated with home upkeep, reimbursements to himself among other spending.