The House passed the Laken Riley Act— which mandates detaining undocumented immigrants who are charged with burglary or theft — as its first bill of the new Congress last week. The Senate is currently debating amendments to add to that legislation. Katie Britt: GOP 'open to amendments' on ...
A letter signed by more than 200 former humanitarian and national security officials urges Senate and House leadership to get President Donald Trump to end his foreign aid freeze. Elliott Davis Jr.Feb. 13, 2025 Former Officials to Congress: Stop Trump Education Department Secretary nomi...
Johnson can probably count on at least some Democratic votes if he puts a foreign aid package on the floor that resembles the bipartisan Senate-passed package. But if he crafts a bill meant to jam Democrats, like the standalone Israel aid bill that he previously put...
A letter signed by more than 200 former humanitarian and national security officials urges Senate and House leadership to get President Donald Trump to end his foreign aid freeze. Elliott Davis Jr.Feb. 13, 2025 Former Officials to Congress: Stop Trump Education Department Se...
Andy Brenner, the Chair of the Ohio Senate Education Committee, is once again pushing the Ohio Legislature to pass an old fashioned, test-and-punish school accountability bill, Senate Bill 295, in this last week of the legislature’s lame-duck session without sufficient public accountability or ...
308-62 in the House, 69-9 in the Senate. Remember, it’s not gay if it’s TSA. The Act stabilized the existing ethnic makeup of the United States, with over 54% of allowable immigrants coming from English-speaking (this includes 11% from Ireland, which I assume counts) countries. ...
Rep. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called it “devastating” that the House has departed for a two-week break with the aid package left unresolved. He, along with many Democrats, called on Johnson to allow a vote on a Senate-approved bill. ...
And after the 2014 GOP landslide, Senate […] on January 11, 2018 at 11:39 am Should We Give Politicians the Power to Swap Campaign Cash for Corrupt Earmarks? | International Liberty […] a gridlock environment, I suspect enacting non-earmark spending is not that easy (though I admit ...
The final bill was a compromise deal brokered between House Majority Leader Bill Frist and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter and resulted in a three-category division for the more than 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally: legalization after certain conditions, departure ...
The practical implications: Speaker Mike Johnson will likely have to rely on hefty Democratic support for the eventual bill and place it on the suspension calendar, which would require the support of two-thirds of the chamber for passage. Disaster tax relief bill: The Senate passed a bill by...