Congress · 117th Congress
House prepping stopgap funding bill through mid-December
If neither contender reaches the 50 percent threshold on Election Day, the race moves to a Dec. 6 runoff.
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Congress · 117th Congress
Biden signs major climate, health care and tax bill into law
It won the vote of every Democrat in Congress, even though the party’s progressive wing had hoped for a more expansive package that would have cost as much as $6 trillion.
Policy · 117th Congress
Census missed housing units in rural, Native American areas
Corrected 6:20 p.m. | The 2020 census missed the most housing units on Native American reservations and in other rural areas, according to the latest Census Bureau report released Tuesday.
Congress · 117th Congress
Budget bill clears as Democrats seek to head off midterm losses
Numerous priorities from the original House measure were dropped, including an expanded child tax credit, paid family and medical leave, universal pre-kindergarten, child care for kids under 6, higher
Policy · 117th Congress
Asylum-seekers face delays on recent work permit applications
That fell to 68 percent in March, 41 percent in April, 21 percent in May, and then 6 percent in June and less than 5 percent last month.
Congress · 117th Congress
Sweeping budget package passes Senate; House on deck Friday
the table — although other Democrats kept prodding — were major party priorities like an expanded child tax credit, paid family and medical leave, universal pre-kindergarten, child care for kids under 6,
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee grills FBI director on violent crime
He also acknowledged some of the agency’s shortcomings in addressing major threats, such as its inability to predict the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee airs threats against elections workers
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol also has highlighted threats against election workers, including Trump’s targeting of Georgia election workers like Ruby
Congress · 117th Congress
Legislative Branch spending proposal would harden security
The proposal comes as the campus continues to reckon with deep security and communication issues exposed during last year’s mob attack on Jan. 6.Â
Congress · 117th Congress
Semiconductor, science bill passes Senate, heads to House
research and development programs and facility upgrades, including roughly $15 billion for basic energy sciences, around $7 billion each for advanced scientific computing and high-energy physics, roughly $6
Policy · 117th Congress
Halting backdoor government snooping seen as key to data privacy
Republicans are concerned about the surveillance measures the government used, for example, to identify those who took part in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Congress · 117th Congress
Fight brews over Pentagon’s push to counter extremists
University of Maryland National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, has found that 17 percent of those charged with crimes during the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6,
Policy · 117th Congress
How ‘Build Back Better’ started, and how it’s going: a timeline
Progressive Democrats sought to bump that up to $6 trillion. Now Democrats will be lucky to pass just a fraction of that before the midterm elections this fall. Sen.
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate NDAA to Pentagon: ‘Immediately’ halt fight against extremism
Jan. 6 alarm After the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Pentagon placed a major focus on countering extremism. One month afterward, Defense Secretary Lloyd J.
Policy · 117th Congress
Army tells House panel of enormous personnel shortfalls
The survey also showed that 1 in 6 military families has trouble feeding its members — a problem that pre-dated both the pandemic and the recent surge of inflation but that has not gone away.
Congress · 117th Congress
Roe reversal spurs worries about miscarriage care
Jackson Women’s Health Organization have come in rapid succession: A doctor in South Dakota accused of inducing an abortion could be guilty of a Class 6 felony punishable by two years in prison.Â
Policy · 117th Congress
Court hobbles EPA on climate, and its options are limited
The court’s 6-3 ruling, issued Thursday, did limit the EPA’s authority to rein in those emissions, saying the agency did not have sweeping power under the law regulating carbon pollution from utilities
Policy · 117th Congress
Supreme Court conservatives flex in term full of controversial cases
The decisions represent triumphs for a conservative legal movement that has sought for decades to remake American law and found its moment in a high court with a bolstered 6-3 conservative tilt that
Congress · 117th Congress
Democrats fume, GOP lauds ruling to weaken EPA
By a 6-3 vote, the conservative majority ruled the agency does not possess broad authority to regulate pollution from electric utilities.
Policy · 117th Congress
Supreme Court limits EPA power plant carbon emissions authority
In a 6-3 vote, with Chief Justice John G.