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With the victory, Democrats now lead the all-time series by one game, 39-38-1.
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Highway Administration would submit a list of projects of between $700 million and $1.4 billion meeting requirements for the grants to the House and Senate transportation authorizing committees by January 1
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Burr, R-N.C., and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to add a cybersecurity bill that the Intelligence panel had backed on a 14-1 vote.
Congress, as codified in law,” Rubio wrote in a June 1 letter.
“I think that [what] Congress can do, as I suggested earlier, is offer the bipartisan cybersecurity bill that came out of the Intelligence Committee 14 to 1 on the defense authorization act.
Natural gas, on the other hand, has been enthusiastically promoted as the nation’s No. 1 fossil fuel, with only a nod to growing concerns about environmental dangers from fracking fluids and seismic
NSA legislation before midnight Sunday, making Monday the intervening day for a motion by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to limit debate on the bill itself, setting up key votes as early as 1
And that vote, under the rules, wouldn’t occur until 1 a.m. Tuesday at the earliest.
Shortly after that, McConnell said that unless there was a deal, the next votes would be at 1 a.m. Saturday.
Burr, R-N.C., has been backing a two-month extension of all of the surveillance powers under the Patriot Act that are set to lapse by June 1, including the bulk collection of telephone records.
McConnell filed a cloture motion on the Trade Promotion Authority package that should happen no later than 1 p.m. Thursday.
Rand Paul the answer is “yes,” because a lack of affirmative legislative action by the Senate by June 1 would mean the expiration of the authorities under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.
The Senate voted, 98-1, to pass the measure as agreed upon by Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and ranking member Benjamin L.
resolution, and while Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has made moving spending bills across the floor a priority, it is too early to know if any of the standalone measures can be finalized before Oct. 1,
Updated 1:28 p.m. | Senate Democrats want Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to embrace lessons of the budget vote-a-rama that took place just before recess.
Paragraph (1) may be waived or suspended only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.