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</p> House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot L.
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</p> House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot L.
</p> Beginning his investigations at Fort Leonard Wood in his home state, Truman drove an estimated 10,000 miles across the country to document the waste, the incompetence and the bill padding that came
</p> “We’ve got a bit of a doughnut hole in the CARES Act,” said North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis, using the acronym for the third rescue bill. “’I’m worried about some [businesses] that are in between
</p> North Dakota GOP Sen.
</p> Not everything in the Democrats’ bill will be anathema to Republicans.
</p> Rather, this is the week that the Senate is expected to clear a bill to revive and overhaul some surveillance authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
</p> The House points out that a House-passed bill would strengthen existing ethics laws with more disclosure and prohibit contracts between the government and the president — and points to other similar
</p> Pelosi is hoping to get back to work soon.
</p> The bill would also authorize $200 million in funding to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations — a public-private vaccine research initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
</p> A large crowd gathers on the National Mall on Saturday to watch the Navy Blue Angels and the Air Force Thunderbirds conduct a flyover to honor essential workers and health care providers confronting
“So, a part of this is the things that they never agreed to before and kept saying, ‘In the next bill,’ ‘In the next bill,’ ‘In the next bill.’ So, these are a part of those negotiations.
House Democrats are pushing for a variety of provisions to help undocumented immigrants in the next coronavirus relief bill, but they acknowledge they’ll need more help from Republican allies if they want
</p> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in addition to wanting to provide more money in another bill, has said she wants tweaks to the PPP included in the next legislation.
</p> [CBO details coronavirus economic shock]</p> The CBO attributed the huge deficit increase to the economic disruption caused by the pandemic and by the federal government’s response to it, including
</p> Sens. Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Edward J.
</p> If Murkowski or Hawaii Sen. Mazie K.
</p> “The military and our national security efforts have real, legitimate needs that ought to be considered if we do another bill,” he said.
</p> House committee chairs submitted their proposals for the relief package to Pelosi earlier this week, and leadership is expected to finalize the bill in the coming days.
</p> The base bill for Senate floor debate will be a broader House-passed reauthorization and overhaul that represented a compromise among House Democrats, Republicans and the administration, with talks