Senate sends spending package to Biden, wrapping up fiscal 2024
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that would prevent the Biden administration from waiving sanctions on Iran and an amendment offered by Sen.
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Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that would prevent the Biden administration from waiving sanctions on Iran and an amendment offered by Sen.
Mike Garcia, R-Calif., said after the meeting. Final passage wouldn’t come until this weekend at the earliest, and senators are working to accommodate Sen.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told GOP lawmakers in a meeting Tuesday that he’d consider putting the measure on the floor Friday, people familiar with the discussions said.
Justice Brett M.
Specifically, the two largest measures in the package, the Defense and Labor-HHS-Education bills, have limited remaining issues, Senate Appropriations ranking member Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Thursday
Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and 44 other Republicans in Congress signed onto a brief in the case arguing to uphold the injunction, claiming the Biden administration has suppressed conservative speech online.
The president claimed credit for substantial deficit reduction already in the pipeline, including through the debt limit and spending caps law he brokered with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.,
For his part, Johnson, R-La., called Schumer’s missive "counterproductive" and said it fails to acknowledge "good faith" attempts to reach an agreement.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is under heavy pressure from conservatives to eke out some policy victories despite Democrats controlling the Senate and White House, however.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., announced Thursday afternoon she’s not seeking another term.
Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., said a vote on a stand-alone bill seemed like a reasonable compromise.
Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., the chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, described some of the challenges in a letter this month to Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo.
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., who negotiated the deal with Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is due to pitch the GOP conference on the deal Tuesday.
But Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., pushed back against Gaza aid, saying the Palestinians had no reliable governing entity that could be trusted with it.
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh argued that the doctrine has meant less stability in the legal system as each administration brings in its own interpretation of the law.
"I told the president what I had been saying for many months, and that is we must change at the border, substantive policy change," Johnson, R-La., said outside the West Wing.
Johnson met with some swing-district members and supporters of his deal on Friday morning, including senior appropriators Ken Calvert, R-Calif., the Defense appropriations chairman, and David Joyce, R-Ohio
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., also lauded the bill’s authorization of the military pay raise plus its requirements for new oversight mechanisms for Ukraine security assistance.
Ralph Norman, R-S.C., rhetorically asked Democrats on the floor Wednesday.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., announced as the committee jousted that the full chamber would hold a floor vote on the measure Wednesday.