who could only afford to lose four GOP votes if all Democrats voted together in order for the plan to clear the lower chamber. Despite its passage by the House, the defense package is dead-on-arrival in the Senate given the GOP's changes. Senate Majority Leader Chuck ...
House Could Vote on Compromise NDAA Next WeekThe House of Representatives could vote on a compromise version of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act nextrnweek, a spokesperson for the chamber's Armed Services Committee said Thursday.Dan Leone...
On abortion, the House Thursday approved a provision by a mostly party-line vote of 221-213, which all but one House Democrat opposed, to put an end to the Pentagon’s policy offering military members and their families time off and travel allowances to seek an abortion or other reproductiv...
Space debris is an issue that has been gaining growing interest, not only from Congress, but alsofrom NASA and the Federal Communications Commission. The version included in the 2023 NDAA is more similar to the House version of the amendment, which required a report on orbital debris. A port...
We are disappointed that an amendment proposed by Rep. Fitzpatrick, with Reps. Boyle, Upton, McKinley, Rouda, and Blunt Rochester, will not come up for a vote in the House. The approach of this bipartisan amendment, which mirrors provisions of the defense authorization bill passed by the fu...
It’s not too late for Congress to do the right thing. The American public deserves better, and Section 702 reform deserves a standalone vote. Kia Hamadanchy is a Senior Policy Counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union; Ashley Gorski is a Senior Staff Attorney with the American Civil...
The House version of the legislation passed out of committee on June 19 and now awaits a vote by the full chamber. Once it passes, lawmakers will work to iron out the differences between each chambers’ respective bills and eventually vote on the reconciled legislation. ...
Thebillpassed the House of Representatives on a vote of 363 to 70 on Tuesday night. The move now moves to the Senate, which, in a break with typical practice, never passed its own version of the NDAA ahead of the conference process. ...
Congress must now vote again to override Trump. The House is slated to return from a holiday break on Monday, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has saidhis chamber would vote on overriding the veto Tuesday. This year’s 4,517-page defense bill, which typically passes with strong bip...
However, the NDAA, passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate in an 83-11 vote, has forced the president to decide between hisvaccine mandateand the national defense budget. Though Democrats agreed to stop enforcing the mandate, the Senate blocked a push by Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc....