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The Senate parliamentarian dealt a significant blow to Democrats seeking to pass a $1.85 trillion social welfare and green energy bill, ruling that the measure cannot include a provision that would legalize millions of workers now living illegally in the United States. → Read More
A House panel tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol voted Monday to advance contempt charges against former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. → Read More
Vice President Kamala Harris has been described as a “bully” in a new report that details her as the “common denominator” behind a recent exodus of staffers. → Read More
Senate Republicans on Monday blocked a critical defense spending and policy bill, demanding more time to consider amendments, including one related to a Russian fuel pipeline. → Read More
The House of Representatives on Friday passed President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion Build Back Better Act, sending the measure to the Senate, where major hurdles could significantly change, or even halt, the legislation. → Read More
Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrestled her reluctant liberal faction into voting to pass a bipartisan infrastructure package, providing President Joe Biden with a desperately needed legislative victory. → Read More
Sen. Joe Manchin, a key centrist Democrat negotiating the party’s massive social welfare spending bill, criticized a new plan to tax billionaires but came up with his own formula. → Read More
Senate Democrats, facing a December deadline to pass fiscal 2022 spending bills, unveiled the legislation on Monday, immediately causing uproar among GOP lawmakers. → Read More
House and Senate Democrats are preparing for a string of spending showdowns that could blow up the Biden agenda and leave the party even more politically vulnerable ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. → Read More
Top Democrats won’t waste any time advancing a massive social welfare spending package when they reconvene this month. → Read More
The Senate passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package after months of negotiations and days of floor debate, sending the bill to the House, where Democrats say they’ll consider it in September alongside a much larger bill that would pay for a broad array of social welfare programs. → Read More
The top Senate Republican pledged Monday to oppose a massive spending package Democrats plan to greenlight in a budget vote this week. → Read More
The Senate voted to advance a $1.2 trillion infrastructure measure, setting up final passage as soon as this weekend. → Read More
The Senate has the votes to advance a bipartisan infrastructure package costing $1.2 trillion tonight, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday. → Read More
Senate Republicans said they do not plan to vote to advance a $1 trillion infrastructure package on Wednesday unless they see the text of the legislation and the two parties can agree on how to pay for the plan. → Read More
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has named five Republicans to sit on a special House committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. → Read More
U.S. Capitol and D.C. Police will be the first to testify before a new House committee created to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. → Read More
Massive spending by Democrats and President Joe Biden has caused skyrocketing prices for gas and other consumer goods, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told fellow Republicans in a letter that pledged to “hold Democrats to account for their reckless handling of the economy.” → Read More
Republicans say Chuck Schumer is rushing the process and putting the deal in jeopardy. → Read More
Former Rep. Steve King, who lost his seat in a GOP primary after Republican leaders stripped him of his House committee assignments, called out House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for going easy on Trump critic Liz Cheney. → Read More