The Senate vote came just after the Friday midnight deadline that would have marked the beginning of the shutdown. "The bipartisan funding bill I just signed keeps the government open and delivers the urgently needed disaster relief that I requested for recovering communities as well as the ...
House on September 25, 2009. Included in this 4.7 billion U.S. dollars are 1.4 billion U.S. dollars for the House and 926 billion U.S. dollars for the Senate. It is noted that this bill prevents the country's highway programs from expiring.ClarkeDavid...
The bill, already approved by the House of Representatives last week, passed in the Senate by a vote of 65-27 and is expected to be signed by President Joe Biden soon. "I am pleased that Congress has passed a continuing resolution through March 11, ensuring that the government will remain...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Senate on Friday night failed to secure enough votes to advance a short-term spending bill, pushing the country to the edge of government shutdown. In a procedural roll-call, Senate lawmakers fell short of the 60 votes to end the debate on th...
The Senate this afternoon passed a spending bill to fund federal operations for the next six months, bringing Congress one step closer to avoiding a government shutdown. The spending bill, called a continuing resolution, passed 73 to 26. More than 20 Republicans and one Democrat, Sen. Jon Tes...
The lower chamber passed the measure by a vote of 314-108 amid opposition from hard-line House Republicans, who had attempted to cut federal spending and add border security provisions in the "clean" stopgap measure. The bil...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a partial government shutdown when the current fiscal year ends at midnight Friday and provide another infusion of military and economic aid to Ukraine as it seeks to repel Russia's brutal invas...
Traditionally, the House moves first on spending and revenue bills but Republican infighting paralyzed the lower chamber, forcing senators to make the first move on a stopgap bill in the last week ahead of a possible shutdown. A bipartisan Senate-proposed bill, unveiled Tuesday, is expected to ...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Senate on Saturday night approved a House-passed 45-day stopgap funding bill in a last-minute effort to avert a federal government shutdown. The upper chamber passed the stopgap funding measure in a vote of 88-9. Earlier that day, the House ...
The U.S. House isexpected to also vote on the infrastructure bill Thursday, but House progressives have threatened to derail the measure if the Senate doesn’t pass the $3.5 trillion spending bill. This story was reported from Cincinnati. The Associated Press contributed....