WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a 854-billion-dollar spending bill to avoid a government shutdown in October. The bill was passed with an overwhelming majority of 361-61, a week after the U.S. Senate passed an identical bill with a 93...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives began debating the first of 12 fiscal 2024 spending bills on Wednesday, as lawmakers edged toward a looming showdown with the Democratic-led Senate that could trigger a government shutdown this autumn. The House vote...
House of Representatives on June 22, 2005. Legislative spending measures expected to pass by the House on June 24; Approval of the budget for the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Judiciary bill at the House Approp...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a 1.4-trillion-U.S.-dollar spending package that will fund the government through the end of the fiscal year, as lawmakers in both chambers rush to avoid a government shutdown. The House approved the spe...
The representatives also challenged the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) analysis of the package, released Tuesday, that showed enrollment in the food stamp program would increase by 78,000 people in an average month when fully implemented, as well as grow spending by $2.1 billion over the ...
The House has the exclusive powers to initiate all tax and spending bills and to impeach federal officials. Metrics of the House The House is the lower of the two legislative bodies in the U.S. government. It has 435 members, with the number of representatives per state dependent upon that...
The $1.1 trillion spending deal easily passed the House of Representatives Friday after weeks of negotiations to fund the government through September.
Traditionally, the House moves first on spending and revenue bills but Republican infighting paralyzed the lower chamber, forcing senators to make the first move on a stopgap bill in the last week ahead of a possible shutdown. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Republican-led House of Rep...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a spending package late Thursday that would end the partial government shutdown, amid a veto threat from the White House. The Democrats who control the House passed the bills that would fund the departments of State, ...
In one of the first actions by the 118th Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass two Pro-Life bills. The first, HCon.Res. 3, condemns the ...