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</p> [Democrats decry harsh conditions after border facility tours]</p> President Donald Trump signed a $4.59 billion supplemental spending bill Monday to aid cash-strapped agencies struggling to house
</p> Those tensions were a backdrop to the Senate’s debate this week on its fiscal 2020 defense authorization bill, a $750 billion policy measure that the Senate voted 86-8 to pass on Thursday.
Except for rare occasions — President Harry Truman honoring the 175th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 1951, President Bill Clinton commemorating the turn of the millennium in 2000 — presidents
</p> [The Democrats’ tax package explained]</p> “Every Democrat has their hands on that money,” said Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-New Jersey, a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
</p> Facing a revolt from moderates, including freshmen facing tough reelections next yera, House Democratic leaders were forced to take up a Senate-passed bill with fewer restrictions on the Department
</p> The tours came the same day President Donald Trump signed a $4.59 billion supplemental spending bill for cash-strapped agencies dealing with poor conditions and overcrowded shelters for the unprecedented
</p> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">There are 20,000 TOTAL Customs & Border Patrol agents in the US.</p> 9,500 – almost HALF that number – are in a racist & sexually violent secret CBP Facebook group.
</p> There were several roadblocks that culminated with the Republican-led Senate jamming the Democrat-led House with its border bill.
</p> The issue will likely be debated next month in the House, when that chamber takes up its own version of the defense bill.</p> The amendment, offered by Sen.
</p> Norton says she expects a vote on the bill to make D.C. the 51st state this year. In May, House Majority Leader Steny H.
</p> Harris is a co-sponsor of a bill introduced by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the other candidate in Thursday’s debate who raised his hand to indicate support for eliminating private insurance.
</p> After all that action, it’s time for recess. </p> Here’s the entire week in photos:</p>Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., listens as Sen.
</p> The House this month passed and sent to the Senate on Tuesday a bill that would grant permanent citizenship to up to 2.5 million undocumented immigrants, including “Dreamers.”
</p> Sanders is the lead sponsor of a “Medicare for All” bill and campaigned on the issue ahead of the 2016 election.
</p> A bill passed by the the new Democratic majority in the U.S. House this year, HR 1, would require all states to use independent commissions to draw district lines.
</p> [Familiar offsets could resurface in spending caps talks]</p> That announcement throws cold water on Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard C.
</p> [jwp-video n=”1″]</p> Early birds this morning included yea votes from Democrats Richard J.
</p> “We have a bill, the Senate-passed bill, that the House could send today to the president,” Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., said.
</p> [Senate approves border bill; Pelosi and Trump talk compromise] </p> Some moderates, many of them freshmen considered vulnerable for re-election in 2020, lobbied leadership Wednesday to just take