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</p> The committee’s new intelligence authorization bill would enable spy agency whistleblowers to more easily communicate concerns straight to Congress.
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</p> The committee’s new intelligence authorization bill would enable spy agency whistleblowers to more easily communicate concerns straight to Congress.
</p> The Agriculture spending bill included $187.2 million in earmarks, with about 10 percent for Republicans.
The campaign will stretch until the fall, when Democrats are expected to unveil the legislative text of the reconciliation bill.
Kennedy’s amendment to sail through on a voice vote, which suggests Biden’s proposal — opposed by the real estate industry, farm groups and more — will have trouble making it into the reconciliation bill
House Democrats have proposed a sweeping bill that would allow Medicare to negotiate prices for a subset of prescription drugs, while Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is working on a separate proposal
</p> Van Hollen unveiled a draft of the bill on Aug. 4 in a press release, but it hasn’t been introduced on the Senate floor.
</p> The reconciliation bill, however, won’t be ready for weeks.</p> Senate Majority Leader Charles E.
</p> The New York Democrat says he wants the reconciliation bill, which is crafted from the instructions in the $3.5 trillion blueprint adopted on a party-line vote Wednesday, “done on September 15.”
</p> Malinowski helped push through the House bill, which later became the legislative vehicle for the Senate bill, in July, and he’s disappointed that many of the policy provisions from that bill aren
</p> [Democrats unveil blueprint for $3.5T budget reconciliation bill]</p> Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., said that if senators remained on the floor and voted from their desks, and were able
</p> After their disappointment that the bipartisan infrastructure bill nearing a vote in the Senate did not include as much funding for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as the White House requested
well as young people who have maintained status as dependents — in any upcoming reconciliation bill,” the lawmakers wrote in their Monday letter, led by Rep.
The House bill, backed by Science Committee Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, includes money to help NSF research science and technology education programs at the pre-kindergarten through 8th
</p> Portman took issue Monday with Democrats talking in the same breath about the infrastructure bill and the coming budget resolution, saying the latter represents a “tax and spending extravaganza.”
</p> But Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., then sought consent for his own unrelated amendment, which would add $50 billion in defense spending to the infrastructure bill.
The Senate then voted 68-29 on cloture on the bill.</p> As the Senate heads toward a passage vote, one Republican signed onto the bill while another fell away.</p> Sen.
</p> Hagerty first expressed his opposition when the Senate had hoped to pass the bill under an expedited process Thursday, saying in a written statement he opposed the bill because of a Congressional
And it could put more pressure on the stopgap funding bill needed to get past the Sept. 30 end of the current fiscal year without a partial government shutdown.
House appropriators took a bipartisan tough-on-China stance in the fiscal 2022 Agriculture spending bill with language to block acquisition of U.S. farmland and ranchland by companies partly or fully controlled
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