MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont House has passed a bill that would raise the marriage age to 18, with no exceptions, a move that supporters say would reduce domestic violence and unwanted pregnancies and improve the lives of teens.
The article reports on two wage parity bills stalled during the 110th Congress that were passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2009. It includes a description of the key stipulations of the bills, as well as a discussion on the bills' implications for economic security and...
Democrats have signaled in recent days that they would prefer a shorter-term funding measure that would give appropriators more time to flesh out new spending bills. The top Democratic appropriators, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington and Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, introduced a continuing resol...
US Congress is typically required to pass the appropriations bill for the new fiscal year before Oct. 1. However, due to intense partisan disputes in recent years, the two parties often fail to reach an agreement in t...
The House has passed a $460 billion package of spending bills that would keep money flowing to key federal agencies through the remainder of the budget year.
The House passed repeal bills in 2023 and 2024, but they did not get through the Senate. Mar 27 Florida House votes to repeal state's gun age law The Florida House on Wednesday approved repealing a law that prevents people under age 21 from buying rifles and other long guns. It's uncle...
Conversely, theSenate defense authorization bill includes nonbinding language that calls for a military spending increasebeyond the$886 billion laid out in the debt ceiling agreementthrough supplemental bills. The Senate is set to begin votes on that bill next week. ...
House lawmakers passed two bills that would create a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. Their fate in the Senate is unclear.
Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, said the proposal would require the district to cut $1.1 billion in spending in the next six months since it has already passed a balanced budget and is midway through its fiscal year. That means, officials said, cuts to critical services s...
A foreign aid package passed by the US House of Representatives will “exacerbate global crises,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a statement to CNN on Saturday. Zakharova said that in addition to the package’s “military aid to the Kyiv regime,” the bills woul...