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</p> Senators had hoped to finish work on the bipartisan bill as early as Thursday night, with Senate leadership trying to push through 16 amendments and then pass the bill before senators leave Friday
</p> Whether it passes or not, his work on the bill is a fitting coda for a lawmaker who is said to prefer policymaking to politicking, as Portman, 65, prepares to retire at the end of this term.
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a bill that honors the Capitol Police, Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department and other law enforcement agencies with Congressional Gold Medals for
</p> The bill allocates $5 billion for greener school buses, with half of that money going to zero-emission electric buses.
</p> The provision in the infrastructure bill would add those who regularly provide services for transferring digital assets on behalf of others to the definition of a “broker” required to provide certain
</p> Eventually, lawmakers passed a four-bill spending package and an eight-bill measure in December 2019 after using two continuing resolutions to keep the government running while they worked out final
</p> DeFazio, whose Senate counterparts declined to include any earmarks in the bipartisan infrastructure bill that chamber is set to take up, is No. 1 in the House with $43.8 million.
</p> “We don’t want cloture to be filed soon,” said Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, one of the Republicans who negotiated the bill.
The text of the bill originally didn’t do that.”</p> Wyden said he’s working to achieve the consensus needed to get changes in a manager’s amendment.
</p> The Senate passed, by unanimous consent, a bill that would provide four Congressional Gold Medals to the Capitol Police and those who protected the Capitol during the attack.
infrastructure bill too.
</p> “Given how bipartisan the bill is and how much work has already been put in to get the details right, I believe the Senate can quickly process relevant amendments and pass this bill in a matter of
</p> “Given how bipartisan the bill is, and how much work has already been put in to get the details right, I believe the Senate can quickly process relevant amendments and pass this bill in a matter
</p> Another member who protested, Rep.
</p> Graham said he was glad he got vaccinated, saying that without it, “My symptoms would be far worse.”</p> Rep.
</p> A leaked document — “which is not the version we agreed upon,” said negotiator Bill Cassidy, R-La. — that purported to be bill text circulating on K Street spurred Republicans to wonder if Democratic
</p> The bill, critics said, didn’t invest enough in safety. It spent too much on highways and not enough on transit.
</p> “It just depends on what happens in the next few hours on that,” Cuellar said.</p> Swing-district Democrats were not the only ones who had concerns about the bill.
</p> Braun was the only Republican to speak out against the emergency spending in the bill, with other senators urging their colleagues to support it.
</p> A separate bill in Waters’ package would offer 500,000 new vouchers in fiscal 2022 and 1 million each year through fiscal 2025, and then make rental vouchers an entitlement.