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House passes assault weapons ban in wake of mass shootings
The bill would also ban the sale of some firearm accessories like pistol braces.</p> The Biden administration backed the bill Friday.
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The bill would also ban the sale of some firearm accessories like pistol braces.</p> The Biden administration backed the bill Friday.
</p> The bill would spend $64 billion to extend expiring health insurance subsidies through the end of 2025.
</p> Schumer, a New York Democrat who personally pressed for SALT relief, pointed to Manchin’s opposition on Thursday, saying Democrats have to get a bill done.
</p> Leahy, 82, needed hip replacement surgery after suffering a fall in his McLean, Va., home in June. He underwent a second surgery on July 19.
</p> Sinema is withholding comment on the $300 billion deficit-reducing bill that Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Charles E.
</p> The House passed what lawmakers are now calling the “chips and science” bill by a bipartisan vote of 243-187, with 24 Republicans joining all but one Democrat in voting for the measure.
</p> The committee’s request is $780.4 million above fiscal 2022 spending, lower than the 20 percent jump requested in the $5.7 billion House bill.
to the bill text.
Burr of North Carolina, one of the key authors of the Senate ARPA-H bill, said he signed on to a letter with other North Carolina lawmakers “only because it seemed like every other state had a letter out
Davis said he plans to introduce a bill he called the American Confidence in Elections Act, which would include model state elections legislation and support for nationwide voter ID requirements.
border; $2.9 billion in the Interior-Environment measure, largely for disaster relief, including at national parks; $1.4 billion in housing recovery funds for disaster victims in the Transportation-HUD bill
</p> [Amended veterans toxic exposure bill teed up in House]</p> Toomey used a floor speech Tuesday night to urge his fellow Republicans to join him in blocking the bill because of its potential for
</p> The Senate voted 64-33 Wednesday to pass the “chips and science” bill.
</p> The unusual circumstances under which the reconciliation bill came together mean that senators can offer amendments during the upcoming “vote-a-rama” that extend far beyond the drug pricing and health
convene to vote on a reconciliation bill.
</p> A handful of senators said they wouldn’t support a chips incentive bill unless it also included the science provisions.
</p> Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said in floor remarks ahead of Tuesday’s vote that it would set up work to wrap on the bill “before the end of the week.”
</p> The House Republican majority in 2016 moved a child nutrition bill through the committee, then known as the Education and the Workforce Committee, that would have raised the threshold for community
</p> Oh, and a “Tiger King” bill — because why not? — that would generally prohibit private individuals from owning big cats, like lions and tigers.
The committee approved the bill in June, but the legislative text and the report weren’t made public until Monday evening.