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Senate rejects Braun amendment to strip 'minibus' earmarks - Roll Call

The Senate rejected an amendment that would ban earmarks from three spending bills that are part of a fiscal 2024 spending package.

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Senate reaches deal to start voting on appropriations package - Roll Call

Senate agrees to take up about 40 amendments to three fiscal 2024 spending bills, setting the stage for the first votes on Wednesday.

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Senate leaders struggle to keep pace with ‘minibus’ amendments - Roll Call

The Senate is playing “whack-a-mole” trying to deal with amendments on a package of three fiscal 2024 spending bills.

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Biden memo directs US agencies to restore 'healthy and abundant' salmon runs in the Northwest

President Joe Biden has directed federal agencies to use all available authorities and resources to restore “healthy and abundant” salmon runs in the Columbia River Basin, a move that conservationists and tribes call a potential breakthrough

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The Feinstein they knew: Women of the Senate remember a fighter and friend

In tributes to Sen. Dianne Feinstein after her death, her female colleagues talked about her indomitable, fierce intelligence and how she had paved the way for so many women

The Independent UK

Is American child care about to get a lot worse?

While Congress struggles to fund basic government functions, the biggest-ever investment in child care in US history is coming to an end, Alex Woodward reports

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Military pay, typically exempted during shutdowns, is at risk - Roll Call

This year, a vulnerable House GOP incumbent is leading the charge to ensure the troops get paid on time if funding lapses on Oct. 1.

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Johnson offers way out of Senate appropriations impasse - Roll Call

Senate Republicans have identified a potential breakthrough to resolve a hold on the chamber’s three-bill appropriations package.

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The Senate's bipartisan approach to government funding is putting pressure on a divided House

The United States is at risk of another damaging government shutdown, potentially as soon as the end of September

The Independent UK

Combo appropriations package hits the skids in Senate - Roll Call

Senators have reservations about trying to tack two more spending bills onto the House-passed Military Construction-VA bill.

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Top Democrats ready emergency child care cash infusion - Roll Call

A group of Democratic lawmakers are planning on introducing legislation this week that would provide $16 billion in funding for child care.

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Proposed Slashes To US Security-grant Program Cause Concern Across Aisle

The proposed Homeland Security Fiscal Year 2024, bill from the U.S. Senate would reduce by $18 million, or $287 million.

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Big shoes filled as Senate appropriators spread earmarks wealth - Roll Call

The retirement of several titans of congressional appropriating hasn't slowed down the Senate's appetite for earmarks.

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House and Senate on a collision course toward a government shutdown (again)

Some House GOP hard-liners say Speaker Kevin McCarthy shouldn't rule out a shutdown to achieve spending cuts and social policy changes sought by the far right of his party.

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Recess arrives with Schumer touting contrast with the House

The Senate needs bipartisanship to run, and showed it with an overwhelming defense bill vote and action by the Appropriations Committee.

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House GOP readies more cuts to fiscal 2024 appropriations bills

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders are moving toward deeper cuts in the fiscal 2024 appropriations bills in an effort to win over votes from hard-line conservatives as bills start to move to the House floor next week.

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House GOP readies more cuts to fiscal 2024 appropriations bills - Roll Call

House Republican leaders are moving toward deeper cuts in the fiscal 2024 appropriations bills in an effort to win votes.

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Child care funds sought as Congress looks to fall supplemental

Child care advocates are pushing for $16 billion supplemental funding as members of Congress push for a variety of priorities to be included in an emergency package expected later this year.

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Child care funds sought as Congress looks to fall supplemental - Roll Call

Child care advocates are pushing for $16 billion supplemental funding in an emergency spending bill later this year.

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Murray, Collins strike deal on fiscal 2024 emergency funds

WASHINGTON -- Senate Appropriations Committee leaders have reached agreement to tack on nearly $14 billion in additional fiscal 2024 spending in the bills set to come before the panel before the August recess, sources familiar with the discussions say.

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Murray, Collins strike deal on fiscal 2024 emergency funds - Roll Call

Senate Appropriations Committee leaders have reached agreement on nearly $14 billion in additional fiscal 2024 spending.

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House, Senate majorities putting their stamps on earmarks

WASHINGTON — The fiscal 2024 appropriations process has just begun, but some patterns in the distribution of earmarks by the majorities in their respective chambers are starting to emerge.

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House, Senate majorities putting their stamps on earmarks - Roll Call

Despite a push to hold down overall spending, earmarks in four House bills have grown from less than $1.6 billion to more than $1.9 billion.

The Independent UK

In post-Roe era, House Republicans begin quiet push for new restrictions on abortion access

House Republicans are pushing new restrictions on abortion access and trying to build on the work of activists whose strategy successfully elevated the abortion fight to the Supreme Court

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A year after Dobbs ruling, lawmakers reflect on impact - Roll Call

The anniversary of abortion decision prompts lawmakers to ponder next steps, reflect on a year of seismic change.

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