WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan bill combining an overhaul of U.S. immigration policy and border security with nearly $100 billion in foreign aid on Wednesday failed to garner enough votes to move forward in the U.S. Senate, although voting continued. (Reporting by Makini Brice, Richar...
Senate passes bill to force sale of TikTokThe Senate passed a bill giving the social media platform's Chinese parent company an ultimatum: Sell the app or be banned in the U.S.J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Senate on Tuesday night passeda package to deliver $95 billion in...
Reports on the Senate's passage of the foreign aid bill. Lifting of longstanding provisions reducing contributions to organizations supporting the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO); Criticisms from the opponents of the bill; Number of v...
Republicans had long insisted the measure was necessary for their support of additional aid to Ukraine. But Trump urged his allies to vote against it and it fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance in the Senate. Congress has sinceapproved more aid to Ukraine, with Republican support, as...
Reps. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) and Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), two House Freedom Caucus members, told POLITICO they would oppose any short-term government funding bill, known as a continuing resolution or a CR, regardless of whether Johnson attaches disaster aid to it. The Freedom Caucus took ...
A US Senate committee had passed a bill that would allow, if signed for the Obama administration to supply arms to Syrian opposition — a move that could threaten the entire region if these weapons end up in terrorist cells operating on the ground.
The Senate took a key procedural vote on the package Tuesday afternoon, returning from a scheduled recess to do so. With 80 in favor and 19 votes opposed, the Senate voted to overcome a filibuster, solidifying support for the package. ...
Assuming everything goes to plan in the House, attention will turn to the Senate, where any senator could slow down consideration. More likely, though, is some sort of agreement on amendment votes to placate conservatives and allow speedy consideration of the bill. Jet fumes, as always, remain...
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“When you’ve got MAGA Republicans in control of the House, obviously it makes it harder to get things done because they don’t want to move forward in a bipartisan way,” said Sen.Chris Van Hollen(D-Md.), who lauded the passage of the foreign aid bill and most of the Senate’s ...