FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senators' Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rand Paul (R-KY) depart via the Senate Subway following a classified national security briefing of the U.S. Senate on developments with Iran after attacks by Iran on U.S. forces in Iraq, at the U.S. Capitol in Wash...
NEW YORK, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Winning senators' support for the broad contours of a bipartisan agreement underway to combat gun violence looks like easy, but keeping their support intact for the eventual legislation will be much harder, reported CNBC on Monday. Senators are now racing to fini...
Washington— A trio of senators on Sunday released abipartisan immigration agreementwith the White House that would give the president far-reaching powers to clamp down on unlawful border crossings, including the authority to turn away migrants without allowing them to request asylum. The deal, which...
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Senate's top Republican, acknowledged Biden's victory on Dec. 15 and has urged other Senate Republicans to refrain from objecting on Jan. 6. In Cruz's statement, the senators said they did not necessarily expect their gambit to succeed. "We are not ...
Fire departments in the Mohawk Valley region of the state appear to have been snubbed by U.S. Senators from New York in a latest round of grant funding.
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Why Mike Johnson’s bid to remain House speaker could be a struggle despite Trump’s support January 3 With a nod to her mentor Shirley Chisholm, Rep. Barbara Lee exits Congress as a renegade herself January 2 Takeaways from AP’s reporting on Sarah McBride, the first openly trans ...
Mullin told reporters Monday night he and other senators discussed the idea with Trump earlier in the day, and said it could be part of a path for aid for Ukraine to get through the House. Opposition from Johnson and Trump allies means they won’t be bringing the Senate bill up for a ...
made anti-Irish immigration its main agenda. In the 1850s, the party produced seven governors, eight senators and 104 House representatives. New York and Massachusetts enacted laws to deport and repatriate Irish immigrants. Xenophobe...
Do senators get a cost of living adjustment? In spite of public scrutiny, Congress has managed to keep itself among the highest paying professions. After public outrage quashed a brashattemptby Congress to increase member pay by 51% in early 1989, a more modest hike of 10% was passed thro...