[听力原文] 26-27 The failure of a climate bill in the US Senate is likely to weigh heavily on international negotiations in Europe this week on a new agreement to control global warming. The decision to strike the bill from the Senate’s immediate agenda has deepened the distrust among poor...
The Senate Approves The Homeland Bill: What Now?Jose Latour
The Senate has reached a bipartisan agreement on a historic relief package for those suffering the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The massive bill includes $2 trillion for workers and businesses, as well as people who have already lost their jobs. Nancy Cordes breaks down the conte...
who hold a slim majority in the Senate. Sens. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Alex Padilla of California, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Ron Wyden of Oregon support the bill, with Wyden calling for "a stop to the twice-a-year ...
The U.S. Senate describes private bills, on the contrary, as those that affect only certain individuals or organizations. Such groups may include corporations or immigrants. In many cases, the aim of a private bill is to seek special relief or privilege, which is often counter to public law...
Now to become law, either the Senate will have to vote on the House-passed version or vice versa. That’s hardly guaranteed. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has blocked a potential Senate vote on the House version, arguing that the existing language is too broad. “The bill as written...
The U.S. Senate approved 11th-hour legislation in a late Thursday session to suspend the nation's debt limit for two years and cap federal spending. The U.S. Senate passed a House-approved bill late Thursday to suspend the national debt limit and put a lid on government spending for tw...
What it did, of course, was pass a bill last week in the House of Representatives to ban TikTok, unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance Ltd, divests its American business interests. On balance, this bill — if passed by the Senate — has potential to be a “win-win...
A bill that is reported out of the Senate or House Committee, is sent to the respective full house for debates and voting. During this stage of the process, both the House and Senate can debate the merits of the bill, and propose any amendments. If either the Senate or the House passe...
The president argued— as Democrats have for two months now — that it would be better for the House to take up the Senate-passed bill waiting in its hopper. If Johnson did otherwise, Biden questioned whether the Senate could process it. ...