Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said today he is planning to schedule a final vote for the fiscal year 2020 defense authorization bill this week. McConnell is at odds with Democrats over his decision to close debate on the bill, which authorizes $750 billion in defense spending...
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday put off a vote on President Donald Trump's call to boost COVID-19 relief checks and urged the Senate to override his veto of a defense bill, in a rare challenge to his fellow Republican three weeks before he vacates the W...
The Senate will vote Thursday on adding a measure to a must-pass defense bill that would authorizethe creation of a program to increase the US supply of domestic enriched uranium.1. Amendment by Wyo. Republican Senator John Barrasso to National Defense Authorization Actwould create a "Nuclear Fu...
The National Defense Authorization Act is an annual defense policy bill in the U.S. WASHINGTON-President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed the annual defense policy bill, following through on threats to veto a measure that has broad bipartisan support in Congress and potentially setting up the ...
increases funding for several Republican priorities, notably defense and border enforcement, and cuts spending for several Democratic priorities, notably healthcare and aid to poor families. The funding changes are not massive, but they're there. Meanwhile, there's nothing in the bill to rein in ...
Once he reads a history book from the real timeline and discovers that the defense of slavery has caused the future to take a dim view of the Confederate project, he is emboldened to push for a gradual abolition of the peculiar institution on becoming president of the CSA. Setting aside ...
(PA) has suggested he's likely to vote for the bill (or to vote to kill a filibuster), while another half-dozen Democratic senators are hard "no" votes, and the other 40 or so members of the caucus have kept their plans to themselves. On the Republican side, only Sen. Rand Paul ...
But fellow Democratic Senator Jack Reed, who serves as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has blocked the bill, instead insisting on his own proposal that is more narrow. Reed said he wants to add a provision to the Defense Department budget that would only change the criminal ...
He has threatened to veto an annual defense bill unless Congress agrees. Section 230 protects tech companies from liability over content posted by users. It has been under attack from Trump and Republican lawmakers, who have criticized internet platforms’ content moderation d...
The Senate passed the Laken Riley Act on Monday, with 12 Democrats joining all Republicans to vote for the amended immigration bill. The measure, which would mandate the detention of more undocumented immigrants charged with crimes, now goes to the House, which passed a sim...