In the frenzy of rescheduling talk for cannabis, the Senate and House have released proposed versions of the2024 Farm Bill. The House Agriculture Committee Republicans publisheda five-page summarydocument that outlines the key items in their draft of the latest Farm Bill. The House summary did no...
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The Senate voted Wednesday night to approve the short-term government funding billthe House passed Tuesday night,averting a government shutdown days before Friday's shutdown deadline. The tally was 87-11, with 10 Republicans and one Democrat voting against. It now goes to Pres...
The Housepassed the bill, known as a continuing resolution, Tuesday night, sending it to the Senate ahead of a Friday deadline. Without a funding extension, the government was set to shutdown Saturday. House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the measure less than a week before funding from a sho...
"by focusing on funding matters, and avoiding controversial policy riders, we have ended the senate debate with a bipartisan product that both democrats and republicans can support," leahy said. the spending bill also contains $3.8 billion to fund the annual operations of congress. it...
Still, the Senate's coordination on the bills only intensifiesthe pressure on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who abandoned a plan to pass a defense funding bill — one of the 12 appropriations bills, and usually one of the least controversial — after members ...
The Senate is expected to take a vote next week on a so-called "clean" funding bill that does not include language to defund Planned Parenthood. If it passes the Senate, it would need to be passed by the House before going to the White House for President Obama's signature. ...
MANILA (Reuters) - A bill to raise the minimum age of sexual consent in the Philippines from 12 to 16 has moved closer towards becoming law, after senators approved it its final reading. The bill aims to protect children from rape and other forms of sexual abuse and was b...
House OKs $59.1 Billion Funding Bill, 426 to 1 Focuses on the approval of the U.S. senate to the multi-billion dollar funding bill for highways and airport infrastructure projects. Division of funds allocated for highway spending; Increase in funds assigned to the U.S. Federal Aviati... ...
While congressional leaders plan to release text for the first tranche of bills this weekend, the second tranche of those fiscal 2024 spending measures are in various states of completion, according to Collins, the top Republican appropriator in the Senate. The funding bill for the military, for...