Senate adopts gun provision among amendments to spending bill
The chamber voted 47-51 to reject an amendment offered by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., opposed by low-income housing and energy efficiency advocates.
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The chamber voted 47-51 to reject an amendment offered by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., opposed by low-income housing and energy efficiency advocates.
On the Senate side, lawmakers are working on a 47-day bipartisan stopgap funding measure, with a cloture vote scheduled for Saturday.
In the Senate Military Construction-VA measure, this year’s split is 63-37 in favor of Democrats with less money to go around for earmarks compared to last year’s Senate version, which had a 53-47 split
Forty-seven senators voted in favor of attaching an environmental permitting bill to the annual defense authorization language, which became law, and 47 voted against it, leaving the permitting legislation
Biggs agreed, saying in a statement that the measure only lowers the projected gross national debt a decade from now from $52 trillion to $47 trillion.
In 2020, because of the pandemic, the budget jumped 47 percent to $6.5 trillion, as both Democrats and Republicans supported the need for emergency funding.
It was rejected, 47-49. Competing amendments that would have provided fire departments with the ability to fund construction of fire stations, training or health facilities were also rejected.
Wexton has since been reelected twice, most recently by a narrower margin of 53 percent to 47 percent in a redrawn district heavily targeted by Republicans in the 2022 midterms.
Toomey’s amendment, considered under a 60-vote threshold, was rejected on a 47-48 vote, with all Republicans voting for it except Sen.
They believe, by a margin of 47 percent to 39 percent, that gas prices are down over $1.50 from their peak.
Nearly $47 billion of the supplemental funding is military, economic and humanitarian aid for Ukraine to continue its defense against a Russian invasion.
The chamber overwhelmingly rejected the Sinema-Tester measure, 10-87, but it gave wavering Democrats cover to reject the Lee amendment, which went down on a 47-50 vote.
The latter amendment then was rejected, 47-50.
Lee’s amendment then was rejected on a 47-50 vote. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said Thursday that the Sinema-Tester amendment extending Title 42 was “set up not to pass.”
While strong majorities of Americans continue to back providing economic and military assistance to Ukraine, some 47 percent believe Washington should urge Ukraine to enter peace talks as soon as
Murphy, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, said if the Lee amendment were attached it would sabotage the omnibus in the House later this week, including $47 billion
The chamber rejected a cloture motion related to attaching the amendment 47-47, which required 60 votes for advancement.
Scott’s amendment to eliminate tens of billions of dollars in mandatory IRS funding Democrats enacted in their climate, tax and health law was rejected on a 45-47 vote.
The NDAA would authorize increased funding for CH-47 Chinook helicopters, UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters and MQ-1 Gray Eagle drone platforms.
Toomey pushed to amend the bill to keep the spending in the discretionary category, but his amendment was defeated in a 47-48 vote.