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Senate NDAA debate could have something for everyone
For example, Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal and others are pushing a draft bill that would temporarily halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
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Manchin push on pipeline approval recalls 1970s dam project
Beyond that Alaska project and Tellico, “Congress has passed similar laws to mandate timber sales in spotted owl habitat and to delist the gray wolf in the Rockies regardless of what the ESA says,” Parenteau
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Senate’s Medicare drug pricing may ripple into private market
Seven Republicans voted in favor of the private-sector insulin cap in floor action that ran from Saturday to Sunday, but that still fell short of the 60 votes needed.
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Sweeping budget package passes Senate; House on deck Friday
Manchin identified three goals he was willing to pursue in those negotiations: lowering prescription drug costs; shoring up fossil fuels in the short term and transitioning to more clean energy sources
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Cannabis advocates push senators to ease draft bill’s tax burden
But that measure would offer no credit for early sales and includes a lower tax rate of 8 percent after five years, along with a $1,000 per-site tax.
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Lawmakers face pressure to pass mental health legislation
aspirational and say that if Congress were to actually meet the scope of the needs, a figure more in the $100 billion range over 10 years, similar to the approach taken with HIV/AIDS, would still fall short
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House competition bill includes more trade aid for workers
Committee Democrats said a Senate competition bill fell short of their goals by omitting the Trade Adjustment Assistance program and by renewing the Generalized System of Preferences without requiring
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Ten key climate and energy elements in reconciliation package
That $1.75 trillion legislation, which analysts say would amount to the biggest climate bill in U.S. history, is well short of the $3.5 trillion bill President Joe Biden and many congressional Democrats
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Democrats tout climate spending in reconciliation
And it would require the Interior Department to hold offshore wind lease sales in federal waters in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and off the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
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Ethics panel releases reports on Malinowski, Kelly, Mooney and Hagedorn
knowingly failed to enter reportable PTR transactions into the online reporting system in accordance with STOCK Act deadlines, intentionally conflated PTR transactions he did report, did not disclose short
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Democrats promise to do it all despite dissension in the ranks
The bipartisan plan, with $580 billion in new spending, falls far short of the ambition that Biden has set out.
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Schumer lays out ambitious spring, early summer agenda
“Pushing through legislation of this magnitude on a partisan basis may garner short-term benefits, but will inevitably only exacerbate the distrust that millions of Americans harbor against the U.S. government
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Democrats pushing to weaken the filibuster say it enables racism
Foremost among those is HR 1, the elections, campaign finance and ethics bill that is subject to the 60-vote threshold, along with measures to overhaul police practices, expand background checks for gun sales
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On this issue, even Joe Manchin and public opinion can’t move the GOP
House Democrats last week again passed their preferred background checks bill, which would close those same loopholes but go further in requiring background checks for private, person-to-person sales
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Schumer puts gun control on Senate agenda
show loophole” that Democrats say allows sales to felons, domestic abusers or others who are prohibited from owning firearms.
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Vilsack meets Agriculture panel with clear return path to USDA
Farmers who relied on sales to restaurants say they are still hurting because of closures or limited hours and service resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lawmakers call for hearings as apps pause trading in GameStop
“Committee investigators should examine any retail services freezing stock purchases in the course of potential investigations — especially those allowing sales, but freezing purchases.” Sen.