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Democrats agreed to support a three-week stopgap measure on Monday after a promise from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to put an immigration bill on the chamber floor should the government remain
Changing the filibuster rules is possibly the only escape hatch Republicans have for ending the shutdown without striking a deal with Democrats.
An OMB official told Roll Call that agencies are being directed to comply with the law barring the improper spending of funds without appropriations, known as the Antideficiency Act, but not to inflict
But over in the House, Republicans are happy they were able to pass a four-week stopgap measure without turning to the Democrats for help.
Lindsey Graham said Wednesday he believes Congress should address the program that covers immigrants brought illegally to the country as children before it expires later this year.
When a figure in power reflexively calls any press that doesn’t suit him ‘fake news,’ it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press,” Flake said.
Jerrold Nadler, the committee’s top Democrat, said the foreign lobbying bill was not “yet ripe for markup, as it might raise several constitutional and policy questions that should give us some pause before
Other immigration policy areas where Democrats and Republicans disagree, like whether to continue extended family visas or the diversity visa lottery program, should be addressed later in discussions
“I urge you to say yes, for now, because otherwise you’re going to get rejected and then you’re going to find yourself without health care.”
“My personal view is no speaker should ever commit to a timeline on something like that,” GOP Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma said last month.
“You could take two districts that we should win and almost take them off the table” if those previous nominees make it through the primaries.
They argue that the Pentagon cannot get by on stopgap funding, particularly without assurances of large full-year budget increases.
For nearly two hours, the commander in chief even broke with his own White House’s stance on whether the law should remain on the books.
collect and analyze emails and other digital communications of foreigners living overseas, but the agency also ends up collecting data on an unknown number of U.S. persons, which it can later search without
The Supreme Court appeared divided along familiar lines Wednesday as the justices considered how states such as Ohio can remove voters from registration rolls without violating federal laws to protect
So far, PABs have worked well and without much controversy. Taking them away wouldn’t serve anyone’s interest, he said.
That estimate, far lower than previous projections, should ease lawmakers’ task of passing legislation this month. In a four-page letter to Senate Finance Chairman Orrin G.
The House Republican Conference must ratify the choice, but that is routinely done without objection. The winner will become the third Budget chairman in as many years.
Without the Obama-era guidance, known as the Cole memo, Colorado pot businesses that opened in January 2014 after the state’s voters legalized recreational marijuana are “operating under a cloud of
“Without question, it is critical that lawmakers take real action to reverse the trajectory of our nation’s growing debt.