House Republicans left a closed-door conference meeting on Friday night frustrated and with no clear path forward on averting a government shutdown. Government funding runs out at the end of the day today, and it’s…
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A short-term government funding bill with uncertain odds is set to get a House vote today, as the federal government hurdles toward a likely partial shutdown this weekend. The House Rules Committee is meeting this…
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House finally passes defense spending bill and 2 others, while 1 fails in late-night vote series
House lawmakers voted to pass three of four appropriations bills brought to the floor on Thursday night, with defense spending passing along bipartisan lines while their bill on agriculture and FDA spending was sunk by…
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GOP rebels, Dems sink House stopgap funding bill less than 48 hours before likely government shutdown
A group of GOP hardliners joined Democrats in sinking House Republicans’ stopgap funding bill on Friday, significantly raising the chances of a government shutdown happening over the weekend. A procedural vote to advance the bill…
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Gallagher rolls out ‘DADDY Act’ to block family of executive branch officials from foreign business work
EXCLUSIVE: House China Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher is introducing a bill that would block immediate family members of officials within the executive branch of the U.S. government from working for certain foreign companies. The bill,…
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The Biden administration unveiled a proposal to reintroduce grizzly bear populations in the federally-managed North Cascades National Park in northern Washington. The proposal — published in federal filings Friday morning by the National Park Service…
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Tributes poured in for longtime Democrat California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who passed away Thursday evening at the age of 90. Fox News confirmed Feinstein’s passing and was told flowers were placed on the late senator’s…
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Conservatives call for GOP candidates to drop out after 2nd debate: ‘Time to thin the herd’
Conservative pundits reacted to Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate by calling for the field to narrow while also concluding, along with a poll following the debate, that Gov. Ron DeSantis is the candidate in the…
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Here are the 21 House Republicans who voted no on McCarthy’s stopgap funding bill to avert government shutdown
The House of Representatives failed to pass a stopgap funding bill which could have averted a government shutdown, with 21 Republican members of Congress voting against the bill. While a procedural vote to advance the…
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said on Friday that he would not rule out a bid to force a short-term spending patch onto the House floor – whether Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., allowed it…