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House passes abortion rights legislation
</p> No Republicans voted for it. Rep. Henry Cuellar, of Texas, was the only Democrat to vote against the bill.</p> The legislation by Rep.
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</p> No Republicans voted for it. Rep. Henry Cuellar, of Texas, was the only Democrat to vote against the bill.</p> The legislation by Rep.
</p> Here’s at look at the week in Washington:</p> Police in riot gear take up positions by the Capitol Reflecting Pool on Saturday ahead of the Justice for J6 rally for jailed Capitol insurrectionists
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</p> The House bill is tied up in the Senate, where 60 votes are required to advance legislation unless all senators grant unanimous consent.
The days are in the single digits for Congress to pass a government funding bill that keeps the lights on after next Thursday.
But the bill still faces united Republican opposition in the evenly split chamber.
The text of the Senate bill became available Wednesday.</p> “It’s not come up in the context of our bill, so I’ve had no input or discussions about it.
</p> Moderates are threatening to withhold support on the larger bill if they don’t get their Sept. 27 vote.
</p> That ambitious timeframe, if it holds, would line up the multitrillion-dollar reconciliation bill with a vote on a smaller bipartisan infrastructure measure that may otherwise be defeated.
</p> Progressives have threatened to vote down the infrastructure bill because they don’t want to send it to Biden until both chambers also pass the second piece — a sweeping social spending and tax bill
</p> Debate on the bill began Tuesday and stretched into Thursday night as lawmakers debated and voted on 476 amendments on everything from the proper level of U.S. defense spending to how best to handle
</p> The bill to provide the funding to Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system passed 420-9 under suspension of the rules, a process that allowed a quick floor vote given strong bipartisan support.
</p> Ways and Means bill Neal told reporters that every revenue measure his committee approved last week is still in play.
</p> Luckily, there’s a bill in Congress that would address this: the Equality Act.
</p> Cruz, who has introduced a bill banning vaccine mandates, said he is worried the Biden administration will institute such a requirement.
Earlier this month, the California Legislature unanimously passed AB 962, a bill that paves the way for the state to reuse glass bottles by removing a recycling requirement that requires single-use glass
</p> Democrats said Thursday that they had agreed on a “framework” for how the bill would be paid for.
</p> <p id="h-a-spokesman-for-grassley-said-the-senator-declined-to-comment">A spokesman for Grassley said the senator declined to comment.
</p> “I’m honored … to come up here and be a part of this,” he said.</p> “This” is the Senate’s annual bipartisan barbecue lunch, a tradition started a little over a decade ago by retired Sen.
</p> The Democratic-led House passed its bill in March that included provisions to ban chokeholds by federal officers and end qualified immunity for law enforcement against civil lawsuits, as well as