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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 6, 2024

House GOP relents on LGBT center funding in $460B package as Dems cheer lack of 'poison pills'

Conservative lawmakers are complaining about the roughly $12 billion in earmarks for colleagues' home district projects in the $460 billion spending bill.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 6, 2024

House to vote on $460 billion government funding package ahead of Friday shutdown deadline

The House of Representatives is set to vote on a package of six spending bills aimed at funding government agencies and departments whose money runs out on Friday.

POLITICS March 4, 2024

Congress tries to avoid a shutdown—again

Chad Pergram shares his analysis on last week's congressional blunder: Congress could not work together to pass four spending bills and failed to advert a partial government shutdown.

SENATE February 26, 2024

Sen Hawley urges more compensation for radiation exposure as partial shutdown deadline looms

Sen. Hawley is urging Republicans to reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) before its spring expiration date.

Joe Biden February 26, 2024

Republicans propose blocking SOTU speech if president doesn’t submit budget on time

Some Republicans in Congress want to hold Biden and future presidents accountable to the budget deadline with a simple penalty. No plans on time, no grand speech.

SENATE February 15, 2024

Senate voted in favor of $95 billion international spending bill, there may be another around the corner

As threats loom – a space weapon from Russia, the southern border, China, instability in the Middle East - Congress may need to work together to draft another international security bill.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 11, 2024

Congress barrels toward government shutdown deadlines with little progress so far

The House and Senate have just two confirmed days left in session together before the first of two government spending deadlines March 1.

VIDEO February 5, 2024

Senate releases long-awaited text of bipartisan border deal

Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ' Madeleine Rivera details the highlights and backlash from Republicans.

POLITICS January 31, 2024

Dead, not on arrival: Where the bipartisan border deal stands in Congress before anyone has even seen it

Some Senate conservatives scorched the hypothetical bipartisan border security package before negotiations, other Republicans are left frustrated.

Rhode Island January 19, 2024

RI Gov. McKee proposes sending 4 major infrastructure plans to ballot box

Democratic Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee has proposed ballot initiatives pertaining to four infrastructure spending proposals valued at a total of $345 million.

POLITICS January 18, 2024

User’s Manual to filleting today’s House vote on the stopgap spending bill

Congress has pushed back an interim spending bill for a third time since September. The U.S. government was supposed to secure funding by lawmakers by Sept. 30 of last year.