The House on Thursday passed an $839 defense authorization act bill for the 2023 fiscal year, $37 billion beyond what President Biden requested in his budget. The Senate still needs to vote on its version of the National Defense Authorization Act before the two bills can be reconciled. The ...
The Senate is now voting on the House-passed short-term funding bill. The bill, which funds the government for 45 days and provides funding for disaster relief, is expected to pass overwhelmingly. It'll need 60 votes to clear the Senate. Once the bill passes the Senate, it will head t...
but its future remains uncertain. Assuming the bill passes again in the House, it would need support from several Republicans in the Senate, even if the Democrats gain control by winning two runoff races in Georgia. For now, Susan Collins of Maine is the only GOP co-sponsor in the Senate....
Day 1149 (March 13, 2024): US House of Representatives Passes Bill to Ban TikTok The US House of Representatives has voted to pass a Bill that would force ByteDance to divest from TikTok or be banned from operating in the US. The Bill passed with a vote of 352 in favor to 65 against...
President Joe Biden took shots at "extreme House Republicans" as he applauded the bill's passage. "This is good news for the American people. But I want to be clear: we should never have been in this position in the first place," Biden said in a statement after the bill passed out ...
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WASHINGTON (AP)-President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a bill raising the nation's debt limit until early December, delaying the prospect of an unprecedented federal default that would cause economic disaster. The House passed the $480 billion increasein the country’s borrowing ceiling ...
Scott’s discussions over a bipartisan Senate bill overhauling policing with Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Democratic Rep. Karen Bass of California, the author of the House-passed George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, have intensified in recent weeks. ...
ban. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson also supports the bill and has indicated it would soon come up for a full vote in the House. “If they pass it, I’ll sign it,” Biden said when asked by reporters about the legislation. The White House had provided technical support in the ...
Despite Congress passing a bipartisan gun reform bill in 2022, Mr. Biden said, "we know our work is not done." The president acknowledged Brandon Tsay, the 26-year-old who wrestled a gun away from the shooter in Monterey Park, California, who was one of the White House's guests at ...