House Passes Bills to Fund Safety, Security Agencies; Bipartisan Effort Aims to Put Pressure on Senate
Florida House, Senate tee up homeless bills Bills seek to prevent homeless people from sleeping in public places Feb 23, 2024 County commission term limits teed up in Florida House Eight of Florida's 67 counties have eight-year limits for commissioners ...
Washington —The House approved the massive $895 billion National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday, after a controversial provision on gender-affirming care prompted backlash from Democrats and threatened to topple the must-pass bill's chances in the chamber. In a 281 to 140 vote, the House...
House Passes Affordable Housing, Rental Assistance Bills.The article reports on the implementation of three housing bills and a resolution on mortgage lending practices. The House of Representatives passed H.R. 1851, "Section 8 Voucher Reform Act," that provides house rental assistance, H.R. 1980...
The House of Representatives passed two major intellectual property bills yesterday (March 3): the Patent and Trademark Act and the Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act. Both bipartisan bills were authored by Rep.Lamar Smith, R-Tex., and had widespread support from the intellectual-property...
Insiders said the Senate could add a couple of its own full appropriations bills to the CR, such as homeland security or agriculture funding bills that were agreed to with broad bipartisan support during negotiations in the last session of Congress even though they did not become law. ...
The fact that Johnson has had to rely on overwhelming Democratic support to pass the funding bills “becomes an opportunity for negotiations,” said Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the House’s top Democratic appropriator. The speaker alsoacknowledged privately to his conferencelast week that the ne...
The article reports on the passage of eight security bills under expedited procedures by the House in the U.S. The measures addressed the flow of information to local police, firefighting and rescue agencies, nuclear detection capabilities, maritime security, state and local intelligence gathering and...
funding package to avert a partial shutdown at week's end."As soon as the House passes these appropriations bills and sends them to the Senate, I will put the bills on the floor so we can pass them and fund these six departments with time to spare before Friday's deadline," the New...
Given that Mr. Biden's sweeping plan to legalize most of the country's undocumented population has been met with broad Republican rejection, the stand-alone bills may represent Democrats' best chance of getting immigration legislation through the evenly divided Senate. ...