The US House Of Representatives voted to pass an antitrust package that would give federal enforcers more resources to crack down on anticompetitive behavior, even as broader efforts targeting Big Tech have stalled. It passed by a...
House has passed the $410 billion omnibus appropriations bill for the 2009 fiscal year. The bill is considered to fund a range of mental health programs and agencies for psychological health services. It states that mental health advocates including the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill early Saturday in a win for President Joe Biden, even as top Democrats tried assuring agitated progressives that they’d revive their derailed drive to boost the minimum wage
The House committee voted unanimously for the bill that aims to restrict TikTok's presence in U.S. app stores unless the platform, which boasts approximately 170 million American users, is separated from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance, within 165 days. If the bill becomes law, Byte...
"Just three weeks ago the Supreme Court took a wrecking ball to the fundamental rights by overturning Roe v. Wade," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ahead of the votes, gathering with other Democratic women on the steps of the Capitol. "It is outrageous that 50 years later, women must agai...
which requires 60 votes to pass most legislation, would likely thwart any attempt to pass the statehood bill in the Senate by a simple majority. Additionally, a handful of moderate Democratic senators, including Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema, have yet to signal...
Who opposes the House GOP tax bill? There are 434 members of Congress, since Pennsylvania Rep.Tim Murphy, a Republican, resigned in Octoberand has not been replaced. Republicans will therefore still need 218 votes to pass the bill, and there are 240 GOP lawmakers and 194 Democrats in the ...
Now the bill heads to the Senate, where lawmakers were due to have a final vote Tuesday evening.While Republicans have a majority of 52 seats in the Senate, they can only afford to lose two votes of senators to pass the tax bill without any support from Democrats....
While Republicans have a majority of 52 seats in the Senate, they can only afford to lose two votes of GOP senators to pass the tax bill without any support from Democrats. The House and Senate Republicans had separately passed their own versions of tax bill several week ago, and they came...
The bill passed on a near party-line vote, 221-205, after more than six hours of individual House votes on various proposed amendments. Titled the Strategic Production Response Act, the legislation passed Friday would prohibit any new drawdowns on the SPR until federal agencies had developed a...