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State, local virus aid bill gains bipartisan momentum
New bipartisan legislation would provide $500 billion in aid to state and local governments, territories and tribes to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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New bipartisan legislation would provide $500 billion in aid to state and local governments, territories and tribes to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sen. Marco Rubio will be the acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, taking over for Richard M. Burr, who stepped aside last week.
As the latest relief legislation heads to the Senate, public and commercial transportation providers assess their needs.
The reopening debate is breaking along party lines. Democrats envision a long path ahead, driven by public health experts. Republicans see a much quicker restoration of activity that will skirt the guidance of the health experts because GOP lawmakers see the economic catastrophe as too big for the government to reverse,
The panel charged with overseeing the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve’s management of coronavirus-related business is raising a lot of questions.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi muscled a $3 trillion aid package through the House late Friday, overcoming defections from her party's moderate wing.
Backers took to the Senate floor as part of an effort to get names of 74 people killed on the USS Frank E. Evans added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Our photojournalists caught members of the Senate and House at the Capitol this week wearing the latest in face mask couture.
The legislation heading to the House after this week’s Senate passage could be an early test of a new proxy voting system.
The coronavirus has prompted the House to allow lawmakers to vote by proxy, a change to operations not enacted during any other national crisis in history.
The Senate on Thursday easily passed an amended bill to revive and increase oversight of surveillance powers.
Whistleblower Rick Bright told Congress that without a science-based national response to the pandemic, 2020 will be the “darkest winter in modern history.”
Congressional Progressive Caucus leaders had pushed for a delay in the vote to next week so lawmakers could discuss potential changes.
Sen. Richard M. Burr is stepping aside as Intelligence Committee chairman as a federal investigation of his stock sales has grown.
A bill designating 988 as the national suicide prevention hotline passed the Senate on Wednesday. The bill comes as coronavirus causes "deaths of despair."
House lawmakers flocked back to Washington ahead of Friday votes on trillions of dollars in coronavirus aid and a big change to the House voting process.
House Democrats propose to extend labor benefits added in previous economic relief bills, but stop short of other changes.
Panel finds experts skittish on quick reopening of economy - Health Care
Rep. Steve King said he and Leader Kevin McCarthy agreed he should be able to sit on committees, a privilege King was stripped of after racist comments.
Even customers who dropped flights because they feared infection could get their money back under the bill. Airlines say they'd risk bankruptcy.