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‘Sex-starved males’ comment sets off House floor kerfuffle
</p> The abortion fight came amid routine debate on a rule for further amendment consideration of a four-bill appropriations package.
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Congress · 116th Congress
House floor shenanigans punctuate start of spending season
</p> Wednesday was supposed to be a relatively quiet one — at least during normal business hours — as the House debated a four-bill spending package.
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Republicans move for House to adjourn over inaction on border crisis
The House was already scheduled to have a long legislative day, with votes as late as 11 p.m., because it is working through a long list of amendments to a four-bill spending package.
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Panel approves pilot program to take military sexual assault cases outside chain of command
</p> Rep.
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Women senators ‘shame the guys to hurry up and vote’
</p> Hawaii Democrat Mazie K. Hirono said Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski came up with the idea.</p> “There was discussion about ‘Why the heck is this taking so long?’
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Trump stiffs Iowa Democrat from ethanol tour in her own district, she claims
</p> Earlier this week, Axne applauded the president’s decision to lift the ethanol restrictions on car gasoline and to sign a disaster aid bill that will provide billions of dollars in disaster aid to
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Senate GOP border aid package to largely track Trump request
</p> Members of Congress should have access to the detention facilities, he said.
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Military bases unprepared for gathering climate change storm
</p> That lack of preparedness is an issue likely to emerge when the House Armed Services Committee begins its markup of the fiscal 2020 defense policy bill.
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Border wall, nuclear weapons to spark partisan fight at defense bill debate
</p> Smith’s bill would put a “blanket” ban on the Pentagon using its funds to construct a wall, fence or physical barrier.
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Repeal of abortion funding ban won’t be part of spending debate, sponsor says
</p> That was the view Monday night of Rep.
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Border spending package seeks aid for migrants, but no money for Trump’s wall
</p> The decision marked the first sign of movement on a stand-alone border funding bill, which President Donald Trump first requested on May 1.
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Rep. King’s ‘Diamond and Silk Act’ gets ripped by conservative pundits
Steve King’s new bill aimed at providing aid and resources to veterans and homeless people as a politically motivated ploy that unnecessarily involves the controversial conservative YouTube personalities
Congress · 116th Congress
On congressional pay raise, maximum political pain and no gain
</p> Amid the fallout from Democrats in the chamber abruptly pulling a legislative spending bill from a broader package, leaders on Tuesday were left to state an easy to articulate but difficult to achieve
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Contractors would receive shutdown pay in next spending package
House Democrats would make whole federal contractors who didn’t get paid during the 35-day partial government shutdown that ended in January as part of a $383 billion fiscal 2020 spending bill set to hit
Congress · 116th Congress
Fight over pay raise for Congress causes Democrats to pull spending bill
</p> The fiscal 2020 Legislative Branch bill did not include a provision to block automatic pay raises for members, something appropriators had done in previous bills going back to 2009.
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Hyde amendment, other abortion riders in the spending limelight
on an appropriations bill.
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House Armed Services strikes agreement on Trump’s Space Force
</p> The draft version of the bill known as the chairman’s mark did not include language on Space Force, which appeared to indicate that House Armed Services Democrats were not on board with authorizing
Congress · 116th Congress
Road ahead: House tackles first spending package and NDAA endurance contest
</p> House lawmakers have been warned that late-night votes are on the schedule as they work through floor consideration of a five-bill package that amounts to about $990 billion in discretionary spending
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Rep. Hartzler to host $500-per-person event for defense executives on eve of defense markup
</p> House Armed Services has scheduled its marathon markup of the fiscal 2020 defense authorization bill, which sets the Defense Department’s annual policy and budget priorities, for Wednesday.