This afternoon, the House, reconvened for a special emergency vote, passed a $26.1 billion bill providing aid to cash-strapped state governments. The bill provides $16.1 billion in Medicaid funding and $10 billion to help states keep teachers on the payroll.
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The $600 million border security funding bill passed by the Senate last week could hit a roadblock in the House, The New York Times reports. The bill, which was passed by the Senate Thursday before they left for recess, could be considered by the House this More…
Tomorrow, the House reconvenes to vote on a $26.1 billion state aid package, providing Medicaid and teachers’ jobs funding to cash-strapped states. And while most Senate Democrats remained mum on the mechanism used to fund the bill — cuts to the food stamp program — House Democrats aren’t.
Today, the Senate overcame a key procedural hurdle to move forward on a much-needed $26.1 billion state aid bill. The provision provides $10 billion in funds for teachers’ jobs and $16.1 billion for Medicaid. Without the additional funding, promised to states for months, local governments might have laid off More…
The House passed an oil spill response package today in a 209-193 vote, despite strong objections from Republicans.
The package passed after hours of floor debate. Republicans argued that the bills are ill conceived, would kill jobs and are too far-reaching.
The House just approved an amendment to an oil spill response bill that would exempt drilling companies from an Obama administration moratorium on deepwater drilling if they comply with Interior Department safety regulations. The proposal retains some Interior Department discretion. The amendment was proposed by Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.)
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Barring an eleventh hour deal, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) is set to go before the special ethics panel at 1 p.m. today, at which time the panel will unveil the “Statement of Alleged Violations” against the fourth most senior member of the House.
In the House, the appropriations committee is marking up spending bills, which means that rhetoric about earmarks is about to ramp up. Yesterday, the House passed a bill defunding more than $700 million in aging earmarks, and in the Senate, a measure that would create an earmark database More…
Late Thursday afternoon, President Obama signed into law a bill granting workers out of a job for more than 26 weeks additional unemployment insurance payments, paid for by the federal government. The benefits had been in place since November 2009, but had lapsed for seven weeks — an unprecedented More…
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