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House leaders reject tying debt limit to defense bill
Yellen has told Congress that without additional borrowing room, the government may exhaust its ability to pay its financial obligations by Dec. 15.
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House panel: Border agents lightly disciplined for lewd posts
The board recommended one agent who posted a “sexually explicit doctored image” of a member of Congress be fired, but he was instead suspended for 60 days and received back pay, the report said.
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Debt limit patch cleared for Biden, setting up year-end battle
House Democrats’ original longer-term debt limit bill would have suspended the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022. The House passed it in late September on a mostly party-line vote with Rep.
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Short-term debt limit increase passes Senate, heads to House
Yellen that the country could face an economic crisis if Congress didn’t act before Oct. 18.
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Senate Democrats weigh ‘nuking’ filibuster for debt limit bill
Yellen has said Congress must act by Oct. 18 or the agency would be at risk of failure to meet U.S. financial commitments.
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Biden signs short-term spending bill, averting shutdown
All the “no” votes came from Republicans, but passage wasn’t really in doubt after Democratic leaders agreed to drop language in the original House-passed version that would have suspended the debt ceiling
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Lawmakers scramble for Plan B on stopgap funds, debt ceiling
Congress moved closer to a partial government shutdown Monday after Senate Republicans blocked a temporary spending bill over their opposition to a debt limit suspension Democrats attached.
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Democrats mull disapproval process to break debt limit stalemate
If the debt ceiling isn’t raised or suspended in time, Treasury would be forced to fall back on whatever cash is left on hand and incoming revenue on a day-to-day basis.
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Setting the stage for the next debt limit showdown
Budget deals in 2019, 2018 and 2015 suspended the debt limit after lawmakers arrived at agreements on setting discretionary spending on defense and nondefense programs, giving each side wins on their policy
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Debt limit deadline likely October or November, CBO says
The government will likely run out of borrowing authority sometime in October or November unless Congress takes action to raise or suspend the debt limit, the Congressional Budget Office warned Wednesday
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Democrats mull keeping debt limit out of budget reconciliation
The regular order process would allow Congress to use another suspension, rather than a straight dollar amount, which seems likely to be required under reconciliation.
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Democrats hope to expand housing vouchers on infrastructure bill
The need so outstrips the funds available that local public housing authorities charged with distributing the vouchers can have yearslong or suspended waiting lists for subsidies.
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Intelligence agencies: UFOs are real but origins a mystery
A U.S. intelligence assessment released to Congress on Friday confirmed that military pilots over the years had observed, and in some cases recorded, more than 100 instances of high-speed craft whose origin
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Court case probes Capitol Police-press relationship
A federal appeals panel heard arguments Tuesday on whether a former Capitol Police sergeant, Officer Jodi Breiterman, should have been suspended and later demoted for sending to the media a photo of a
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Appropriators pressure Capitol Police to make Jan. 6 IG report public, hold press briefings
The IG’s office suspended all other projects pending the completion of the review and committed its entire staff to it.
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Capitol Police investigating 35 officers after Jan. 6 insurrection
We currently have suspended six of those officers with pay,” Stolnis said in an emailed statement.
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Capitol Police officer appeals her gender discrimination case
that the Capitol Police did not engage in unlawful gender discrimination against Breiterman, a veteran officer who rose to the rank of sergeant and was recognized as officer of the year in 2011, when it suspended
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Capitol Police IG opens investigation into Jan. 6 riot
Three officers are currently suspended with pay. Eva Malecki, a spokeswoman for Capitol Police, did not respond to a request for comment.
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Democrats fume at tech companies, but legislation may be elusive
Capitol, Facebook and Twitter initially suspended Trump’s accounts. They later moved to permanently ban him from their platforms.
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Mob fallout: Pelosi calls for Capitol Police chief to be fired; House SAA to resign
Wednesday’s events resulted in four deaths and extensive damage to the Capitol complex and exposed a clear failure of the Capitol Police to execute its mission, which is to protect and secure Congress