WASHINGTON, March 10 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Senate on Thursday night passed a 1.5-trillion-U.S.-dollar omnibus spending bill for the fiscal year 2022 to fund the federal government through the end of September, sending it to U.S. President Joe Biden's desk for his signature. The Senate...
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Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, had tucked the energy measure into the must-pass bill to fulfill apromiseDemocratic leaders made privately to Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, in exchange for Mr. Manchin’s vote last month for the party...
Still, the bill merely puts off for a few months the maneuvering that will be required after the midterm election to pass a massive government funding package, as negotiators will have to bridge their differences over spending on hot-button issues such as abortion, border security and clim...
government was shutting down as the Senate failed to pass a stopgap spending bill on Friday. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu)WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. government is shutting down as the Senate failed to pass a stopgap spending bill. Negotiations between congressional lawmakers continue....
bill, which would then go to President Obama for his signature. Congress is aiming to finish the legislation before leaving for its Easter recess at the end of the week. If they failed to pass some kind of continuing resolution before March 27, the federal government would partially shut ...
Sen. Chris Murphy, one of the architects of the failed bipartisan bill that tied Ukraine aid with border security, tells "Face the Nation" that he thinks the Senate is going to pass the Ukraine aid bill that the House advanced last week. "
The Senate voted 83-11 to pass the fiscal year 2023 defense authorization bill, sending the measure to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law. The topline of the 4,400-page bill supports $858 billion in national defense spending, which is $45 billion above the amount Biden initiall...
serve as the blueprint for the next few days and will likely help avoid a government shutdown. However, it doesn’t resolve the growing partisan showdown over the debt limit, or do anything about internal Democratic feuding on the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the massive reconciliation ...
The White House blamed Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer for standing in the way for the Senate to pass the stopgap spending bill which was already been approved by the House of Representatives on Thursday. Sanders said in the statement that the White House will not negotiate the status ...