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Politics Jul 12
House votes to limit Trump’s authority to strike IranThe measure passed along party lines after a series of votes that pushed it further to the left.
Politics Jun 27
House passes $4.6 billion border aid billThe measure would ease a cash crunch at federal agencies that care for migrants who have flocked over the border in huge numbers seeking asylum.
Politics Jun 27
McConnell rejects Democrats’ demands to change $4.6 billion border funding bill"We already have a compromise," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, citing the Senate bill, which passed Wednesday on a lopsided 84-8 vote.
Politics Jun 26
WATCH: Senate OKs bipartisan bill to fund care for migrantsThe GOP-held Senate on Wednesday passed a bipartisan $4.6 billion measure to deliver aid to the southern border before the government runs out of money to care for thousands of migrant families and unaccompanied children.
Politics Jun 20
McConnell opposes efforts to revive cost-of-living raise for lawmakersLawmakers are supposed to get an automatic inflationary increase each year but it has been blocked since 2009.
Politics Jun 10
Congressional Democrats press to retain abortion funding ban, out of step with presidential candidatesTop Capitol Hill Democrats are intent on preserving a four-decade ban on taxpayer-financed abortions despite calls from their party's presidential candidates to abandon it, arguing that attempts to undo the longstanding consensus will fail and won't be worth scuttling a…
Politics Jun 03
After months of fighting and delays, Congress to send $19 billion disaster aid bill to TrumpAs the measure languished in a feud between Trump and Democrats, disasters kept coming — with failed levees in Arkansas, Iowa and Missouri and tornadoes across Ohio just the most recent examples. The measure is supported by the bipartisan party…
Politics May 29
McConnell says he’d fill an election-year Supreme Court vacancy, seeming to change tuneThree years ago, during President Barack Obama's final year in office, Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell orchestrated a blockade of Obama's choice of Merrick Garland. McConnell said then the choice should be left to voters in an election year.
Politics May 28
Disaster aid bill again blocked in House by GOP conservativeA second conservative Republican in as many House sessions stepped in on Tuesday to block a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill that's a top priority for some of President Donald Trump's most loyal allies on Capitol Hill.
Politics May 24
WATCH: GOP congressman temporarily blocks $19 billion disaster billA House GOP conservative complaining a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill leaves out money needed to address the migrant crisis at the southern border blocked the bill Friday, extending a tempest over hurricane and flood relief that has left…
