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In defiance of Trump, Senate overrides defense veto
annual bill to become law for the 60th straight year.
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Congress · 116th Congress
House rules would exempt coronavirus, climate bills from budget limits
Tax and spending changes can also be combined into one reconciliation bill, though the limit on one per budget cycle stands.
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House rules package offers compromise on members’ requests
it has become a substantive vote that would actually amend the bill if adopted.
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Opening day for the Senate won’t be clean break from the old
</p> But not on the list will be Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga.
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2020: Roll Call’s photo picks of the year
Watch as Roll Call photographers Bill Clark, Tom Williams and Caroline Brehman talk about some of their top photo picks of 2020.
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McConnell blocks Democrats’ attempts to boost relief checks to $2,000
</p> Sanders then objected to McConnell’s attempts to set up a veto override vote on the defense bill Wednesday, likely delaying that vote until Jan. 1 at the earliest.
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Senate could be in session (and voting) through New Year’s and beyond
</p> “President Trump has rightly noted this year’s defense bill doesn’t contain every provision that we Republicans would have wanted.
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House GOP votes boost Trump’s $2,000 checks proposal
</p> Some moderate House Republicans, also conscious of the political optics heading into the 2022 cycle where their party hopes to win back the majority, supported the bill.</p> New York GOP Rep.
Congress · 116th Congress
House votes to override Trump veto of defense bill
</p> Trump took issue with a provision in the bill to rename military bases that honor Confederate figures and the lack of a provision that would repeal legal protections for social media companies found
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Trump signs massive omnibus spending, coronavirus relief package
</p> The House was scheduled to take up a new version of the bill on Monday when the chamber reconvenes for votes, including to override Trump’s defense authorization bill veto.
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Dueling objections leave omnibus, coronavirus relief bill in limbo
</p> </p> </p> He said Democrats were discussing the potential need for another stopgap bill to keep the government open and they would make a decision Monday about how to move forward if Trump has
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Congress ditches State Department bill after fight with Ivanka Trump
</p> And the two lawmakers, rather than cave to the attack from the White House, threw out the anchors, absorbed the explosion and watched as the State Department authorization bill was scuttled by the
Congress · 116th Congress
Trump vetoes defense bill
President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed the fiscal 2021 defense authorization bill, making good on repeated vows to do so and setting the stage for an eleventh-hour override vote in Congress.
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Shelby’s FBI, other omnibus priorities among those trashed by Trump
</p> The bill expressly avoids funding for FBI headquarters construction, which Trump has been seeking to keep at the current location on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Confederate monuments at national parks get reprieve
The Senate cleared the spending bill Monday. </p> House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Betty McCollum, D-Minn., lamented the absence of the monument provision.
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Bipartisan group’s success on COVID-19 relief could just be the beginning
</p> As the two sides talked, caucus members remained engaged, trading ideas and paper without choosing a corner. </p> “We became the Switzerland,” New York Rep.
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3 Defense takeaways from the massive spending bill
Watch as CQ Roll Call’s John Donnelly discusses some of the big takeaways on defense spending in the massive year-end spending bill that Congress passed before leaving town for the holidays.
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Trump pardons ex-Reps. Duncan Hunter, Chris Collins
</p> A frequent Trump critic, Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey, called the actions “pardon abuse” in a post on Twitter.
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Legislative Branch bill includes new accountability measures for Capitol Police
</p> Overall, the bill would boost spending on Congress by about $251 million over current law.
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Package includes new museums focused on women and Latinos
</p> The Friends of the American Latino Museum issued a statement at the time calling Lee’s decision to block the bill “insultingly dismissive, condescending, and misguided.”