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</p> The fiscal 2022 appropriations bill for the legislative branch approved by the House in July includes a 21 percent increase, to $774.4 million, to the Members Representational Allowance, which is
</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> The bill passed 69-30, a margin that demonstrated its popularity in the evenly divided chamber. All 50 Democrats voted for final passage, as did 19 Republicans.
</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> Doing so would have required their own party to bear the entire burden of voting for the big tax-and-spend bill, as well as the blame for lifting the national borrowing cap, even though Republicans
</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 House passed the bill in May, so now it awaits President Joe Biden’s signature.
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
</p> “It’s just the way this place works,” said Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, one of the lead negotiators on the bill.
</p> [Wyden, Toomey team up on cryptocurrency tax fixes]</p> Later on Thursday, Senate Finance ranking member Michael D.
</p> Senators had hoped to finish work on the bipartisan bill as early as Thursday night, with Senate leadership trying to push through 16 amendments and then pass the bill before senators leave Friday
</p> Whether it passes or not, his work on the bill is a fitting coda for a lawmaker who is said to prefer policymaking to politicking, as Portman, 65, prepares to retire at the end of this term.
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a bill that honors the Capitol Police, Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department and other law enforcement agencies with Congressional Gold Medals for
</p> The bill allocates $5 billion for greener school buses, with half of that money going to zero-emission electric buses.
</p> The provision in the infrastructure bill would add those who regularly provide services for transferring digital assets on behalf of others to the definition of a “broker” required to provide certain
</p> Eventually, lawmakers passed a four-bill spending package and an eight-bill measure in December 2019 after using two continuing resolutions to keep the government running while they worked out final