Apr 20 Watch 2:40 News Wrap: Bipartisan House coalition passes $95 billion foreign aid package In our news wrap Saturday, the House passed a long-delayed $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, the Senate approved an extension of a controversial surveillance law, hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern… Continue watching
Apr 20 Senate passes renewal of key U.S. surveillance program just after midnight deadline By Farnoush Amiri, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The legislation approved 60-34 with bipartisan support would extend for two years the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It now goes to President Joe Biden’s desk to become law. Continue reading
Mar 23 Senate passes $1.2 trillion funding package overnight, ending partial shutdown threat By Kevin Freking, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The Senate passed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills in the early morning hours Saturday, a long overdue action nearly six months into the budget year that will push any threats of a government shutdown to the fall. The bill now… Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch 5:47 What’s in the new spending bill the Senate is racing to pass to avoid a shutdown By Lisa Desjardins Funding the U.S. government is down to the wire as Senate lawmakers run up to a midnight deadline to pass a major spending bill and prevent a partial government shutdown. Lisa Desjardins has been following the latest and joins Geoff… Continue watching
Mar 07 Watch 8:15 Sen. John Thune on the 2024 race, GOP leadership and funding for Ukraine By Amna Nawaz, Stephanie Kotuby, Alexa Gold When John Thune of South Dakota first won his Senate seat 20 years ago, he made history by defeating a party's Senate leader for the first time in more than 50 years. Today, he's a candidate to replace Mitch McConnell… Continue watching
Mar 05 Watch 6:32 California voters decide consequential U.S. Senate race By Laura Barrón-López, Kyle Midura One of the most-watched non-presidential races on Super Tuesday was in California, where voters in the most populated state are deciding who should fill a U.S. Senate seat. The primary will determine whether the race is just beginning or essentially… Continue watching
Mar 05 Arizona Sen. Sinema announces she won’t seek reelection in 2024, avoiding 3-way race By Jonathan Coopersmith for The Conversation Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced Tuesday that she won’t run for a second term after her estrangement from the Democratic Party left her politically homeless and without a clear path to reelection. Continue reading
Mar 03 House and Senate leaders reach deal on 6 spending bills in push to avoid partial shutdown By Kevin Freking, Associated Press Congressional leaders on Sunday came out with a package of six bills setting full-year spending levels for some federal agencies, a step forward in a long overdue funding process beset by sharp political divisions between the two parties as well… Continue reading
Feb 28 Sen. McConnell to step down as Republican leader in November after record run, AP reports By Michael Tackett, Associated Press Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November, according to prepared remarks obtained by The Associated… Continue reading
Feb 18 Hungarian government declines to meet U.S. senators seeking approval for Sweden’s NATO bid By Justin Spike, Associated Press A bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators has made an official visit to Hungary’s capital to call on the nationalist government to immediately approve Sweden’s request to join NATO. Hungary is the only one of NATO’s 31 members not to have… Continue reading