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Photos of the week ending August 5, 2022
Kyrsten Sinema‘s reconciliation bill decision. CQ Roll Call’s photojournalists were there to catch all of the action. </p> Sen.
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Joe Biden is on fire — signing bills and killing terrorists, but he still can’t catch a break
That follows passage late last month of a bill to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry.
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Sinema ready to advance budget bill after tax changes
</p> With those changes, Sinema said in a statement she would vote to proceed to the bill “subject to the Parliamentarian’s review.”</p> Senate Majority Leader Charles E.
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Senate appropriators want $4 billion for ships Navy didn’t seek
</p> The fiscal 2023 bill requires the Navy to spend that $4 billion to build all or part of a destroyer, two amphibious ships, a cargo vessel and several troop-ferrying hovercrafts.
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Democrats race to prep sweeping budget bill for weekend votes
</p> Democrats chose to edit the portion of the bill allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices in response to that scrubbing.
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Senate Judiciary Committee grills FBI director on violent crime
</p> Heading into the midterm elections, Democrats have argued for more action on gun control bills, which includes a bill to create a new assault weapon ban that the House passed last month.
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‘We were all there on Jan. 6’: Manchin, Collins make the case for elections overhaul
</p> [Senate Judiciary Committee airs threats against elections workers]</p> Collins and Manchin helped lead a group of more than a dozen senators who produced a bill that seeks to shore up provisions
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Earmarks in Senate bills favor small states, retiring senators
</p> Much of Shelby’s haul comes from the Transportation-HUD bill, which overall contained the highest earmarked dollar amount at $2 billion.
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Lawmakers want stronger oversight of troops’ housing conditions
The bill also mandates an annual Defense Department briefing for lawmakers on the health and status of military housing privatization projects.
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Senate Judiciary Committee airs threats against elections workers
</p> Wednesday’s hearing came at the same time the Senate Rules Committee considered a bill to overhaul the Electoral Count Act, intended to prevent a repeat of the pressure campaign on then-Vice President
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Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski killed in car crash
</p> Walorski had served in Congress since 2012, when she first won election in Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District.
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Democrats could face tough immigration votes on reconciliation bill
</p> Republicans appear likely to try to force votes on thorny issues such as immigration and border security that could divide Democrats and possibly put the overall bill in jeopardy.</p> Sen.
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Veterans toxic exposure bill clears Senate after tortuous path
</p> President Joe Biden is certain to sign the bill into law in the coming days.
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Democrats confident about budget vote as GOP plans amendments
Schumer insists the chamber is “on track” to take up the bill later this week. </p> Lead negotiators Schumer and Sen.
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Senate reconciliation keeps farms, forests in climate formula
</p> Altogether, the bill proposes $5 billion in funding for work in public and private forestlands.
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Senators slated to take up bill to expand security support to Taiwan amid high-stakes Pelosi visit
</p> The fiscal 2023 State-Foreign Operations spending bill Senate Democrats released last week did not include any FMF grant funds for Taiwan — though it did authorize FMF loan guarantees to Taiwan of
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Long push for Camp Lejeune toxic water lawsuits clears Congress
The House passed that bill last month.
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NSF director: Funding boost can steer research money to more states
</p> “These are states that have good leadership, good institutions emerging, and they are ready to play,” Panchanathan said.
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Climate bill said to put emission goals in ‘striking distance’
</p> With the bill enrolled into law, cutting emissions 40 percent “is entirely within the realm of plausible,” Larsen said.
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Bill to declaw ‘big cat’ breeders heading to the Senate
</p> The 2020 bill did not see action in the Senate before the end of the 116th Congress, and a new bill was introduced in this Congress by Reps. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa.