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</p> The House bill introduced Monday would also extend $3 billion in payroll support for airline contractors as originally approved in March, as well as $300 million to cargo airlines.
House bill.
</p> Stopgap spending Before heading out of Washington for a four-day weekend, the Senate teed up the House-passed continuing resolution bill that extends current government funding levels, with some
</p> The House passed the stopgap bill by an overwhelming 359-57 vote last week, amid grumbling on both sides of the aisle about lack of progress on full-year spending bills.
</p> Pelosi has said House Democrats are prepared to put the bill on the floor, however, if talks with the administration falter.
</p> House Democrats followed suit, dropping the loan and grant program from their $3.4 trillion coronavirus bill that passed in May.
</p> Late Thursday, U.S.
</p> [White House shows flexibility on coronavirus aid; Pelosi holds firm]</p> House Democrats haven’t filed a discharge petition to force a bill to the floor without Pelosi’s blessing.
</p> Cheap dates? The decision to put out a bill reflecting reduced spending totals represents a reversal from the last few months.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo) Sund stressed that misconduct is the exception and not the norm on his force, which he says shows integrity and professionalism.
</p> The last time a standalone appropriations bill was signed into law was 2012, and 1996 marked the last time Congress completed all spending bills on time and avoided a continuing resolution.
</p> Take the $494 billion surface transportation bill that House Democrats passed July 1. Republicans criticized it as an outgrowth of the Green New Deal.
</p> A stopgap bill must be signed into law by Sept. 30 to avoid a partial government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins.
If, as also expected, President Donald Trump signs the bill, it would spare the country a partial government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, in the midst of a pandemic and just over
</p> Smoke-filled rooms The term “earmarks” still has negative connotations, conjuring images of smoke-filled rooms and wasteful projects like the famed “bridges to nowhere” in the 2005 highway bill connecting
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</p> The House bill did not receive a warm welcome from Republicans who control the Senate, making its viability uncertain.
</p> By contrast, Democrats’ deal-killing insistence on a comprehensive $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill this summer, and before that their rejection of a GOP policing bill, were out of character
</p> The Democrats’ bill would remove agriculture and nutrition policy riders that were in dispute late last week when talks on a bipartisan continuing resolution reached an impasse.
One bill would prevent imports of any goods manufactured in whole or in part by forced labor of Uighur detainees, while the other would require U.S.