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- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/19
The Senate Armed Services Committee recommended $45 billion more for national defense in fiscal 2023 than President Joe Biden sought, and th...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/19
As usual this time of year, the House majority is trying to rally its troops to pass 12 of the annual appropriations bills before the August...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/19
The House last week passed the annual Pentagon policy bill, an $840.2 billion piece of legislation that would authorize national security pr...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/18
This blast from the past shows former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake taking a selfie with a pig on July 18, 2018, at the Congressional Pig Book lau...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/18
ANALYSIS — I’ve seen more than a few election cycles, but I’m not certain I have seen many that are more confusing than the one we are now i...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/18
The president’s party usually loses seats in midterms, and those losses can be significant when the president is unpopular and the economy i...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/18
Staffers who work for at least eight House Democrats are wasting no time in their plans to unionize, filing petitions Monday to kick off the...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/18
Sen. Joe Manchin III II’s decision to oppose at least for now provisions in his party’s climate and social programs bill that would reduce f...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/18
Immigration lawyer Diana Baurele spent weeks getting bounced around the bureaucracy of a U.S. immigration agency as she tried to renew work...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/18
Democrats in Maryland’s deep-blue 4th District will all but determine the region’s next House member, as voters in the state head to the pol...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/15
Among some of the highlights in this week’s Congressional Hits and Misses: Sens. Josh Hawley and Cory Booker display some procedural confusi...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/15
The House voted quietly Thursday to include in its defense authorization bill tighter restrictions on top Defense Department officials ownin...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/15
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III told fellow Democrats he could no longer support climate provisions or higher taxes as part of any budget...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/15
The House on Thursday passed for the seventh time provisions that would allow cannabis businesses to use banking services, although the amen...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/15
Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., said Friday that he told Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer that he wanted to wait until after the July infla...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/15
Two nominees for high-ranking EPA positions are in procedural purgatory as Republicans aim to block their confirmations and Democratic leade...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/15
Proposals to help Afghan refugees and “documented Dreamers” were included in a sweeping defense authorization bill that passed the House on...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/15
Congress returned from its long Independence Day break this week, kickstarting what is shaping up to be a busy legislative work period befor...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/15
West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin III late Thursday upended his party’s latest effort at an economic package, telling Senate Democratic lea...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/15
The House on Thursday passed, 329-101, its version of the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which would authorize $840.2 billi...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/15
The Senate is likely to begin floor consideration next week on a narrower economic competitiveness bill that would provide $52 billion in fu...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/15
A bipartisan group of senators is expected to release a bill as soon as next week clarifying that the vice president has only a ceremonial r...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/14
Giant sequoias — thousand-year-old trees as large as 275 feet tall — came under threat this month from wildfires raging in central Californi...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/14
House Democrats set the stage for votes codifying same-sex marriage and protecting access to contraception during a Judiciary Committee hear...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2022/7/14
Defense Department appropriations legislation for the current fiscal year funded more than $58 billion worth of military projects that the a...