Democrats hold the narrowest possible majority in the Senate, with 50 seats. Most legislation requires 60 votes to advance, and it is unlikely that 10 Republicans will join Democrats in voting to open debate on the bill. Still, Democrats appealed to the Senate to consider the bill's merit. ...
(C)Give the Senate(参议院) some credit: in shaping the current immigration-reform bill, it has come up with one ide a that almost everybody hates. That's the plan to create a new class of "guest workers" - immigrants who would be allowed to work in the U.S. for three two-year...
根据第二段中“With the broader concerns about the effects of illegal immigration, the hostility to the new plan is understandable. However imperfect, the guest-worker program is better than any politically feasible alternative.(由于对非法移民影响的广泛担忧,对新计划的敌意是可以理解的。尽管不完美,但...
Hours after the bill's text was released, the plancleared a procedural hurdlein the Senate, with the backing of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Senate leaders are hoping it passes the upper chamber this week. Fourteen Republican senators voted with Democrat...
“We don’t have any indication of what the subcommittee is going to do,” he said. “But as the bill stands, we are opposed. It sets a very dangerous precedent in allowing for future dams.” Coyne noted that Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.) has an identical bill in the Senate and sai...
The legislation signed by Biden gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, with a possible three-month extension if a sale is in progress. The US Senate passed legislation on Tuesday requiring the popular social media app TikTok to be divested ...
What’s in the Stopgap Funding Bill? House Republicans passed a stopgap bill to keep government funding at current levels until September. Now the measure heads to the Senate, where its fate is uncertain. Aneeta Mathur-Ashton March 12, 2025 Inflation Rises Less...
“The House bill is not particularly good,” said Sen. John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), co-author of a far more modest tort reform bill in the Senate. “It will not pass. And if it did, it would not be signed.” ...
In Hopes of Reducing Hospital Readmissions, Senators Reintroduce Telehealth Technology Bill to the SenateFrederick Robinson
it"as soon as possible."The opposition to the bill in Congress came mainly from progressive Democrats who objected to the bill's spending cuts and conservative Republicans who argued those cuts did not go far enough.Here's who voted for and against the debt ceiling bill in the Senate and ...