Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget, recently said in a statement that the stopgap spending bill will hopefully allow Congress to pass appropriations bills in the next few weeks before the con...
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has been under pressure from his right flank to scrap a $1.66 trillion budget price tag he reached with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer earlier this month for the spending bills. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said the continuing resolution passed Thursday will fa...
If passed, the bills "will cause serious interference to China-U.S. relations and mutually beneficial cooperation, and will inevitably damage the U.S.’s own interests, image and credibility,” spokesman Liu Pengyu said in a statement.
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The huge number of bills compared to the lack of productivity might be more than correlation, too. Lawmakers often introduce legislation they know won’t make it to the floor, hoping it can take a ride on another must-pass piece of legislation, or that they can at least tell their constit...
Congress Resumes Sessions Today; Senate, House List Priority Measures; Senate to Act on EPIRA, CARP, Energy Bills - Villar
In an interview with CBS News, Aderholt recalled that when he came to Congress more than two decades ago, appropriations bills were individually brought to the floor and regularly passed with more than 300 votes. He said the partisan infighting and use of omnibus packages in recent years are ...
Bills to fund the government, raise the debt ceiling and deal with military issues are necessary for government to function. Those bills are likely to become flashpoints in negotiations between the GOP, Democrats and the White House. Biden, who served in the Senate for decades, has often ...
Yet on one point, Republicans have moved in the opposite direction, toward making it easier to vote — the Republican-controlled Legislature passed a relief package earlier this month that gave voters affected by Hurricane Helene more time to request an absentee ballot,...
Haydon found evidence of exactly this: Older members of Congress were more likely to introduce legislation that addressed senior issues, especially bills dealing with high-profile issues like long-term care and prescription drugs.On the flip side, this also leaves us with a Congress that may not...