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permitting laws, rewrite the Clean Water Act and approve a gas pipeline should not be folded into the so-called continuing resolution, or CR, to fund the government in the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
When Zients became the administration’s COVID-19 coordinator in January 2021, less than 1 percent of the country was fully vaccinated.
bill, which would reauthorize surface transportation programs and includes $550 billion in new funding for roads, bridges, broadband and other infrastructure projects, up for a vote by midnight Oct. 1,
agenda across the finish line, lawmakers are starting down a Thursday deadline to pass a stopgap funding measure needed to avoid a partial government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins on Oct. 1.
The House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed legislation that would provide $1 billion in supplemental military assistance to Israel, but there were some notable Democrats in opposition.
As part of that offer, Democratic leaders pledged to bring the infrastructure legislation to the floor by Oct. 1.
target date holds, it would mean a vote on the infrastructure bill days before current surface transportation program authorizations are set to expire, as well as government-wide agency funding, on Oct. 1.
Shelby released an 11-page bill totaling $632.9 million the same day, before later agreeing to include some funding for Afghan relocations in a subsequent counteroffer that topped $1 billion.
[jwp-video n=”1″] “So we’ll have a better gauge at that point,” Aguilar said.
The pay and benefits changes, which include special compensation items like hazard pay, would take effect Jan. 1.
Schumer, D-N.Y., had asked for unanimous consent to pass the bill that advanced out of the House 417-1 last week.
Purchase of up to 1 million barrels for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would take advantage of record low prices, may help domestic oil producers as well.
But the only direct support for renewable energy in the bill is a proposal to pay biofuel producers 45 cents a gallon for fuel produced between Jan. 1 and May 1.
[jwp-video n=”1″] “One of the things I have to be careful about is watching any attempts to use this crisis to do deregulation, and so I’ll be keeping an eye on that,” she said.
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White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest termed the Senate’s 97-1 override vote “the single most embarrassing thing that the United States Senate has done” in more than 30 years.