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The House Armed Services Committee kicked off its 60th annual markup of the Pentagon policy bill unlike any other — in the larger Ways and Means Committee room with a dais full of socially distanced, masked
</p> “Whoever ends up as chair is going to have a really challenging task next session,” said Bill O’Keefe, executive vice president for mission and mobilization at Catholic Relief Services, one of the
</p> But the bulk of the bill would be funded from general revenue.
</p> The Kentucky Republican called up a bill that would require the Social Security Administration and the U.S.
</p> “A month from now we should be in the final stages of getting that bill together,” Blunt said.
</p> The Senate Armed Services Committee’s fiscal 2021 defense authorization bill would require the Pentagon to report to Congress on the extent of Russian support for “racially and ethnically motivated
</p> Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer supports the Murkowski-Manchin effort to alter the defense authorization bill, an aide to Schumer confirmed.
</p> “Nothing in the briefing that we’ve just received led me to believe it is a hoax.
</p> In casting 45 votes against the Scott bill, Senate Democrats and Vermont independent Bernie Sanders indicated that they’re willing to make their own case to voters: that the GOP bill was so deeply
</p> The coronavirus pandemic is partially responsible for the lack of partisan rancor on this bill, at least so far.
</p> [Carbon-free nuclear power in a crisis just when it’s most needed]</p> They wrote that the nuclear bill would “accelerate the commercialization of a new generation of nuclear reactors that are designed
</p> Key among those agreements: the October 2019 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s bipartisan vote to advance a bill that would reauthorize the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.
</p> It also inspired six pages about Amtrak food service in the 2,309-page House Democratic infrastructure bill that will be debated on the floor this week.
</p> Aside from the Confederate conflagration, this year’s defense policy bill shied away from most contentious areas.
</p> The need for a briefing on the bounties in the next 48 hours is due, Thornberry said, to the fact that the full House Armed Services Committee will mark up its fiscal 2021 defense authorization bill
</p> As a result, the Senate couldn’t even muster 60 votes to begin debate on the Republican bill Wednesday.
A House vote Friday on a bill to admit the District of Columbia as the 51st state was the first time a D.C. statehood bill passed either chamber of Congress.
</p> [Senate GOP policing bill might be stranded at the gate]</p> “We don’t want chokeholds. They allow chokeholds, what are we going to compromise? A certain number of chokeholds?”
Concerns about police abuses and the military’s outsize role in responding to recent protests could roil the Senate’s debate on the annual Pentagon policy bill.
</p> Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said the bill championed by Sen.