The House followed the Senate in passing legislation Monday afternoon toreopen the governmentafter the shutdown 266-150. The Senate vote was 81-18. Mr. Trump's signature Monday evening now enables the government to reopen for business. The m...
Shutdown update: Senate to vote on bills to fund government, though unlikely to passJanuary 24, 2019 / 11:26 AM EST / CBS/AP The Senate today is taking up competing bills aimed at ending the partial government shutdown, though both are likely to fail, leaving the stale...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Senate on Monday passed a three-week funding bill to reopen the federal government after a three-day shutdown, sending it to the House of Representatives for a final vote. The Senate passed the bill to extend the government funding through Feb. ...
Read the full-text online article and more details about "Senate Unites to Vote for End of Shutdown: Dole Plan Splits with House" by Hill, Patrice - The Washington Times (Washington, DC), January 3, 1996By HillPatrice
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...
Pelosi, meanwhile, tweeted Tuesday that the House Democrats will vote this week on "more bipartisan bills to re-open government, and act to bolster funding for border security solutions that work." The record-long shutdown, now in its 32nd day, has affected a quarter of the federal governme...
Ahead of the vote,an Associated Press opinion pollreported that the shutdown had negatively impacted Mr Trump's popularity. Just 34% of Americans in the survey supported Mr Trump overall - down from 42% a month earlier. But his approval among Republican voters was close to 80%. ...
Vote on spending bill averts shutdown ; 3 in GOP Aid Passage In Senate; Tentative deal reached on Indian cigarette taxes The article reports on the new law for the broken physician payment system in the U.S. The legislation, passed by the House and Senate, will protect the physicians from...
Majority Leader John Thune hasn’t made a formal decision yet about whether he’ll bring the Senate’s budget resolution up for a vote on the chamber floor. But several GOP senators view it as increasingly likely that they will act next week after the Senate Budget Committee adopted the meas...
"The Republican Speaker of the House is seeking a rule to pass almost $100 billion in foreign aid — while unquestionably, dangerous criminals, terrorists, & fentanyl pour across our border. The border 'vote' in this package is a watered-down dangerous cover vote," Roy posted on X. ...