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↵↵The rule came under threat partly because of a push from farm-state Republicans who were advocating for a provision allowing year-round sales of gasoline containing a higher percentage of corn-derived
For congressional Republicans, the year's big question is how aggressive they should be in trying to advance President Donald Trump's policies as the midterm elections approach as opposed to making the sales
Still, the Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster of the Defense spending measure, and GOP leaders conceded that the ANWR language had to be removed so the spending bill could be
On the campaign trail, his sales pitch focused, in large part, on extending Republicans’ 2017 tax cuts and slapping tariffs on what his team had dubbed the world’s worst actors on trade and access to economic
Democrats have pushed to revive and make permanent a fully refundable child tax credit on the national level, but have fallen short since their pandemic aid program that delivered the credit as monthly
He made the comment at a media briefing last week organized by the Forum on the Arms Trade, which helps disseminate expert views about the humanitarian implications of arms sales.
Marc Molinaro, R-N.Y., from a district Biden carried in 2020, opposes the bill due to language that would block sales of the birth control drug mifepristone in pharmacies, among other concerns.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is planning a Thursday vote on a bill that would require the Supreme Court to adopt a code of ethics, but the legislation is expected to fall short of becoming law amid strong
For example, Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal and others are pushing a draft bill that would temporarily halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
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
Schumer, have so far resisted negotiating anything short of a comprehensive aid deal, but rank-and-file lawmakers’ calls for compromise have gotten louder.
Even ambitious legislation — to combat climate change, add a public insurance option to the 2010 health care law and restrict gun sales — looks risky, with a House majority that could be just a handful
The Senate voted Tuesday to further restrict the kind of excess Defense Department weapons that can be legally sent to police forces but stopped short of setting numerous additional conditions on such
[jwp-video n=”1″] Democrats agree that state and local aid should stem from coronavirus needs, but their calculus includes sales and other state tax revenues lost because of the pandemic.
The report also found that background checks “are complicated by statutory requirements, including short data purge windows, and increased Examiner requirements to complete reviews in order to verify
The bill would expand background checks conducted for in-store firearm purchases to include online and gun show sales.
Those jobs could include the short-staffed red teams at the Pentagon and other cybersecurity roles across the government. “Students often want to work on ‘cool’ projects,” Luzader said.
It has decimated a top export market, which a major Washington state grower told the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee last year accounts for as much as one-third of the company’s sales.
But protecting medical marijuana businesses operating within their respective state laws falls short of the type of sweeping overhaul advocates hope to accomplish.
But when her predecessor, Marc Short, announced his departure as White House liaison to the Hill, the Trump team persuaded her to take the job.