Search the Roll Call archive by keyword, date, Congress, section, or tags.
</p> “I’m not going to give up and accept things as they are,” Biden said. “Some people may call what’s happening now the new normal. I call it a job not yet finished.”</p> Reaction Rep.
</p> That includes the conservative majority’s 5-4 decision in Citizens United v.
Generally, states are required to match federal funding with up to 20 percent state or local funding, but the bipartisan bill allows 100 percent of federal funds to pay for the repair or rehabilitation
</p> “We’re working to get 50 votes,” Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said. </p> Sen.
</p> However, the lack of any Republican co-sponsors to the bill from Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez raises serious questions about its future in the sharply divided Senate.
A bipartisan Senate group is negotiating a bill to provide about $40 billion in fresh funding for pandemic-battered restaurants, Senate Small Business Chairman Benjamin L. Cardin said Wednesday.
</p> But he didn’t mention the stalled budget reconciliation bill, which Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., says he won’t support in its current form.
The annual defense policy bill enacted last month authorized $768 billion, roughly $25 billion more than the Defense Department asked for.
is $52.5 billion, well above last year’s level of $47 billion, states can spend no more than $17.9 billion through Feb. 18 because of the restrictions imposed by operating under last year’s spending bill
</p> Added Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.: “Let’s just say I’m highly suspicious of his (Cruz’s) motives in pursuing the bill.
But we’ll take a look at that and see how that fits in with an omnibus” fiscal 2022 spending bill.
</p> A handful of lawmakers have examined ways to make the U.S. immigration system more accessible to Uyghurs. A bill introduced in April by Sens.
</p> The recently passed Pentagon policy bill for 2022 didn’t include a provision requiring federal agencies and private companies to report cyber attacks to CISA.
</p> Senate Democrats said Tuesday they would plunge ahead with their own version of the House-passed legislation, which experts say would be the largest climate bill Congress has written into law.
</p> The start of tax season is in line with past years, but several weeks earlier than the 2021 filing period kicked off.
</p> Right before the holiday break, Schumer, D-N.Y., reached a deal with Sen.
</p> As of the end of November, state and local governments spent about $14.6 billion total of the $25 billion in rental assistance Congress provided in a December 2020 relief bill.
Ted Cruz struck a deal before the chamber’s holiday break to hold a vote no later than Jan. 14 on the Texas Republican’s bill to sanction the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
</p> The benchmark 10-year U.S.
Bill Cassidy, R-La., told CQ Roll Call, expressing his frustration.