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Lawmakers, advocates hopeful for more bills to curb maternal deaths
</p> The policy was approved for five years, but advocates also back a bipartisan bill to make the policy permanent.
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</p> The policy was approved for five years, but advocates also back a bipartisan bill to make the policy permanent.
</p> The announcements include changes to the implementation of the income-driven repayment option, known as IDR.
</p> But a second booster for the broader public is posing more complicated questions.
</p> The effort comes on the heels of a new law Congress passed as part of the fiscal 2022 omnibus spending bill that requires operators of critical infrastructure to report any cyberattacks they suffer
of Assembly Bill 979.
</p> But senators want to see more done, sooner.
The House bill got 12 Republican votes.
So, in reality, it’s just a phantom offset that leaves the bill partially unpaid for, budget experts say.
</p> The House’s top Republican appropriator, Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, said she expects the bill will get some GOP votes.
</p> Without a deal on amendments Republicans want to offer, the Senate on Tuesday rejected a procedural motion needed to begin debate on the bill, which would provide $10 billion for the Department of
</p> Still, it’s happened twice since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
</p> Pelosi’s comments run counter to the position of a group of six Senate Democrats — four seeking reelection — who last month introduced a bill to cut the excise tax on gasoline produced, imported
</p> Rep.
Congressional leaders reached a quick agreement to add a $15.6 billion supplemental to the fiscal 2022 omnibus, but stripped it from the bill when some Democrats objected to the way it was paid for.
</p> SolarWinds also is building a database of all the software code that goes into its products in order to develop a so-called software bill of materials, Brown said.
</p> It is not known whether the Ukraine war and inflation will still be raging during the time the fiscal 2023 bill would presumably be in effect, if it were enacted on time — that is, from Oct. 1, 2022
</p> Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., signed on as a co-sponsor to the bill, saying that “Wyoming has more than enough uranium to fill” the void of lost uranium imports.
</p> “Number one, I’m not walking anything back.
Congress could send him legislation requiring the federal government to do more, but Biden would need to agree with enough of such a bill and sign it into law.)
</p> The letter, shared first with CQ Roll Call, cites Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to underscore the urgent need for the action.