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May 4, 2024

Washington: Congress

  • As shutdown looms, congressional leaders ready stopgap bill to extend government funding to March

    3 months, 21 days ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders are preparing a stopgap bill to keep the federal government running into March and avoid a partial shutdown next week. The temporary measure will run to March 1 for some federal agencies whose approved funds are ...

  • Biden hosting budget talks in Delaware with Schumer, Manchin

    2 years, 6 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden was hosting two pivotal senators for meetings in Delaware on Sunday in hopes of resolving lingering disputes over Democrats' long-stalled effort to craft an expansive social and environment measure. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., ...

  • Deal on Biden's $2T plan edges closer; Harris is 'confident'

    2 years, 6 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — A deal within reach, President Joe Biden and Congress' top Democrats edged close to sealing their giant domestic legislation, though the informal deadline appeared to slip as they worked to scale back the measure and determine how to ...

  • Top Democrat sees tough pathway for $3.5T social, climate plans

    2 years, 8 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — Hours after clinching an initial budget victory, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer conceded Wednesday that Democrats face a tough pathway to delivering a package surging $3.5 trillion into family, health and environment programs to President Joe Biden's desk. ...

  • GOP lawmakers urge Biden to meet with them on virus relief

    3 years, 3 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — Ten Republican senators on Sunday proposed spending about one-third of what President Joe Biden is seeking in coronavirus aid and urged him to negotiate rather than try to ram through his $1.9 trillion package solely on Democratic votes. ...

  • Biden, Democrats hit gas on push for $15 minimum wage

    3 years, 3 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — The Democratic push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour has emerged as an early flashpoint in the fight for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, testing President Joe Biden's ability to bridge Washington's partisan ...

  • Agreement likely Sunday on nearly $1 trillion virus aid bill

    3 years, 4 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — Top Washington negotiators, propelled by a late-night agreement on the last major obstacle to a COVID-19 economic relief package, said a Sunday agreement is all but inevitable to deliver long-overdue pandemic aid of almost $1 trillion. "I am ...

  • Senate votes to advance Barrett; confirmation expected Monday

    3 years, 6 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly Sunday to advance Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett toward final confirmation despite Democratic objections, just over a week before the presidential election. Barrett's confirmation on Monday was hardly in doubt, with majority Republicans ...

  • House Dems summon postal leaders to hearing on mail delays

    3 years, 8 months ago

    (AP) BEDMINSTER, N.J. — The Democratic-run House on Sunday demanded that leaders of the U.S. Postal Service testify at an emergency oversight hearing Aug. 24 on mail delays as concerns grow that the Trump White House is trying to undermine the ...

  • Trump denies briefing about bounties; Congress wants more information

    3 years, 10 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has denied he was made aware of U.S. intelligence officials' conclusion that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan. The Trump administration was set to brief select members of ...

  • White House predicts Pelosi to ‘yield' on impeachment delay

    4 years, 4 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — The White House argued Sunday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put herself in an untenable position by stalling House-passed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in hopes of shaping the upcoming Senate trial. The House voted Wednesday ...

  • Impeachment testimony comes from White House budget official

    4 years, 5 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — House impeachment investigators met in private Saturday with a White House budget official as the historic inquiry produces new testimony offering direct insight of President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. After a week of dramatic public hearings, investigators ...

  • Pompeo acknowledges he was on Trump call at center of probe

    4 years, 7 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged on Wednesday that he was on the July phone call between President Donald Trump and the Ukraine president that's at the center of the House impeachment inquiry. But Pompeo continued to push ...

  • Amodei says fed stance on marijuana, banking is hypocritical

    5 years, 1 month ago

    (AP) U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei is calling out what he says is the hypocrisy of the federal government accepting tax money from legal marijuana businesses in Nevada but essentially banning them from using the banking system. Recreational marijuana is legal in ...

  • A look at what the FBI's Kavanaugh investigation will entail

    5 years, 7 months ago

    (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has ordered the FBI to reopen Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's background investigation after several women accused him of sexual misconduct. Just what the FBI will investigate remains a mystery. The Senate Judiciary Committee ...

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