Nail-Biting Vote Moves ‘Cromnibus’ Closer to House Passage (Video)
</p> <p/> At a certain point, the votes were tied. At the very end, Republican leaders pressured two members to vote “yes.” One, Rep.
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</p> <p/> At a certain point, the votes were tied. At the very end, Republican leaders pressured two members to vote “yes.” One, Rep.
</p> Leadership </p> Republican leadership all voted for the bill: Speaker John A.
Michael Conaway, incoming-Republican Study Committee Chairman Bill Flores and Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith all voted no. </p> Outgoing-Reps.
Here’s a few of note:</p> </p> — The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill (S 2828) that includes provisions tightening sanctions on Russia, while increasing U.S. energy aid to the Ukraine
</p> </p> Pelosi delivered a stunning floor speech earlier Thursday where she said she was “enormously disappointed” the White House had called for Democrats to support the bill.
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</p> “Ideally, we would have been able to do this work one bill at a time,” Boehner said, referring to a regular appropriations process.
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</p> Updated 10:19 p.m. | The House narrowly advanced a trillion-dollar spending bill Thursday night to fund nearly all federal operations through the end of the fiscal year.
</p> </p> “This is exactly the way I don’t want to do business,” Boehner said Thursday, just hours before the House was slated to vote on the funding package.
Mike Pompeo, who introduced a bill that would block federal or state action to require labeling of foods made with genetically engineered ingredients.
hours of hard-fought negotiations could be lost Thursday if House Democrats decide, just hours before the government is to due to shut down, to band together and rebuff a trillion-dollar federal spending bill
President Barack Obama opposes a rider on the “cromnibus” prohibiting the District of Columbia from implementing a voter referendum legalizing marijuana but will sign the bill anyway.
Mike Pompeo, who introduced a bill that would block federal or state action to require labeling of foods made with genetically engineered ingredients.
</p> Other agencies also have a contingency plan — just in case.
He’s vowing to require the Senate to exhaust the 30 hours of debate allowed under the rules on the annual defense policy bill, objecting to the inclusion of an unrelated package of lands bills that might
</p> </p> “We’ve already made the changes. Thanks to my efforts we had the Detainee Treatment Act and another bill that prohibits that,” he said Thursday.
</p> Her unassuming presence belied the significance of her work.
And that’s rarely been truer than this week — an ending for the lame-duck session marked not only by the tensions surrounding the behemoth budget bill and the gut-wrenching Senate report on CIA excesses