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Appropriations gavel candidate pledges federal resources for minorities
</p> The Commerce-Justice-Science bill would establish a $400 million grant program for initiatives that would overhaul police departments.
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Congress · 116th Congress
Domino effect: Washington football team’s name, statues in DC, in Capitol, face removal
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Norton filed a bill last year titled the “RFK Memorial Stadium Campus Conveyance Act,” which calls for the sale of the 190-acre Robert F.
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Negotiators look for common ground on unemployment aid extension
</p> [Republicans discussing coronavirus aid package contours]</p> Eager to trim the size of any extended benefits, Mnuchin said “you can assume it will be no more than 100 percent” of what workers would
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Capitol Police force faces lawmaker demands for change
</p> Their draft fiscal 2021 Legislative Branch spending bill and accompanying report call on the department to take numerous steps to give lawmakers and the public more access to its work.
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House Defense spending report shows bad blood with Pentagon
A House panel report accompanying the latest Pentagon spending bill reveals enormous ill will between defense appropriators and the department they fund.
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House bid to remove Confederate statues at Capitol sets up fight with Senate
</p> These items would be removed from the Capitol under the House spending bill:</p> The busts of John Cabell Breckinridge and Roger Brooke Taney.
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Layoff threats scare Senate food workers, but most spared until September
</p> When workers had shifts, they were paid by their contractor, Restaurant Associates.
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Bill to remove Capitol’s Confederate statues OK’d by House panel
Amid the nationwide furor over Confederate statues, the House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee approved a spending bill that would order the removal of Confederate imagery from the Capitol
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House Democrats propose removal of ‘racial intolerance’ statues from Capitol
</p> The draft text of a $4.2 billion bill, which calls for the Architect of the Capitol to remove statues with ties to the nation’s racist past, comes as the country grapples with racial injustice highlighted
Congress · 116th Congress
Issues linger after House Armed Services’ smooth NDAA markup
</p> But beneath the decorous celebration, some real policy disagreements linger. And some of them are likely to resurface when the full chamber takes up the bill later this summer.
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Senate GOP aid package may tailor payments to low-income households
</p> That bill would provide nearly $1 trillion in additional aid to state and local governments as well as billions in funding for education, health care, rental assistance for low-income households,
Congress · 116th Congress
Groups critical of taxes, spending not opposed to PPP loans
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> The Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, whose president, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist is also president of Americans for Tax Reform, posted identical statements saying
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Senators leave for first recess since Memorial Day
</p> Once Vought is confirmed, it will be back to work on the fiscal 2021 defense authorization bill.</p> “This legislation has global reach.
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Bill Cassidy’s campaign has spent $5,500 on membership dues at private club in New York
</p> In total, Bill Cassidy for US Senate has spent more than $12,400 at the club since 2013.
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Congress clears sanctions bill to punish China over Hong Kong
Chris Van Hollen, a primary co-sponsor of the sanctions bill, said in a press call.
Congress · 116th Congress
Senate undoes proposed power shift in nuclear arms budgeting
</p> Under the committee’s bill, the president and Congress would still have had final say over the spending blueprint, but the Pentagon council would have been able to set the parameters of the annual
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Duckworth blocks military promotions to protect impeachment witness
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Duckworth told reporters that her hold, which applies to 1,123 scheduled promotions to the rank of “06” (colonel or Navy captain) or above, could actually make things easier
Congress · 116th Congress
Passing infrastructure bill, Democrats go all-in on climate
</p> Republicans, miffed at being left out of a bill traditionally heralded as bipartisan, dismissed the climate change provisions in the bill.
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Republicans push back on Democrats’ DC statehood bill
</p> [Milestone House vote on DC statehood is where it likely ends … for now]</p> Republicans and Democrats held dueling news events Wednesday on the bill, which would give the district two senators
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Black Caucus lays out legislative priorities for combating systemic racism
</p> [‘Slap in the face’: Why Democrats won’t use GOP policing bill as starting point]</p> “The difference is this time CBC members will be supported by a national movement that is beginning to penetrate