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</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.”
As the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a federal data privacy bill last week, lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee were looking to plug a gap in law that allows government agencies to
</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.
They also argue it could have a tangible impact on international gun violence rates even as prospects for a gun control bill at home remain dim.
The committee approved the bill in June, but the legislative text and the report weren’t made public until Monday evening.
</p> The bill passed 228-195, with eight Republicans joining 220 Democrats. Two Republicans voted present.
</p> [‘Chips-plus’ bill passage could slip to next week in Senate]</p> A time agreement on the chips bill was not reached before the Senate adjourned Thursday, so the Senate is scheduled to vote to invoke
</p> If Democrats successfully advance the slimmed-down bill, it will represent barely a tenth of Biden’s original economic vision when combined with $550 billion in new infrastructure spending Congress
</p> House GOP members attempted to use the six-bill fiscal 2023 spending package (HR 8294) to derail the SEC’s proposed climate risk disclosure rule through amendments in the Financial Services bill
</p> A lead Republican proponent of the chips bill, Indiana Sen. Todd Young, also said he’s expecting the Senate to pass the package next week.</p> Majority Leader Charles E.
</p> Nahra said the compromise bill, if passed in its current form, “will make some of the risks better,” but would not eliminate the Dobbs-related risks.
said Bill Braniff, an Army veteran and director of the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, via email.
</p> Schumer based his decision on what he called a “test vote” held Tuesday evening to determine the level of Republican support for a broader bill containing the science provisions.
</p> The current plan, as Schumer outlined it, is to hold a test vote on a motion to bring up the shell legislative vehicle for the as-yet-unfinished bill.
</p> Betty McCollum, D-Minn., chair of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, said she is working toward bringing the Defense bill to the floor.
</p> The bill contains thousands of provisions, dozens of funding tables and attracts hundreds of amendments.
</p> The bill would authorize $846.86 billion for defense programs — mainly at the Pentagon and the Energy Department, which manages U.S. nuclear bomb and warhead programs.
</p> The House approved the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act by a 329-101 vote, and the Senate plans to take up its own bill.
</p> No limits The House NDAA and the stock ownership provision it contains still must be reconciled with the Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the bill, which the Senate has yet to consider