Tag: Congress

House Democrats tell GOP to advance bipartisan spending bill: ‘Only way forward’

Cami Mondeaux · September 29, 2023 7:54 pm

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN)

GOP lawmaker introduces bill to resume payments for Border Patrol and ICE agents in shutdown

Cami Mondeaux · September 29, 2023 4:39 pm

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to the media on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

House stopgap spending measure overcomes first procedural hurdle as shutdown looms

Cami Mondeaux, Reese Gorman · September 29, 2023 4:06 pm

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) speaks during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing for confirmation of Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh to be the director of the National Security Agency, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Tributes pour in for Feinstein following 90-year-old senator’s death: ‘Political giant’

David Sivak · September 29, 2023 2:13 pm

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) returned to the Senate Judiciary Committee following a more than two-month absence as she was being treated for a case of shingles, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2023.

Dianne Feinstein dead at 90: Five-term senator and oldest member of Congress dies

Cami Mondeaux, Brady Knox, Grayce McCormick · September 29, 2023 12:56 pm

State Department pressed by GOP over funding anti-Israel group accused of terror ties

Gabe Kaminsky · September 29, 2023 9:54 am

The federal government currently spends about $15 billion a year on myriad agricultural subsidies. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Agriculture spending bill fails to pass House due to GOP defections

Cami Mondeaux · September 29, 2023 3:37 am

House approves bill providing $300 million in aid to Ukraine

Cami Mondeaux · September 29, 2023 3:14 am

The Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building at sunset seen from Upper Senate Park in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023.

House passes State Department spending bill just days ahead of government shutdown

Cami Mondeaux · September 29, 2023 2:50 am

FILE - Justice Department's Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division Matthew OlsenÂ speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Jan. 27, 2023.

National Security

Watchdog agency splits along party lines over reforming surveillance law

Rachel Schilke · September 28, 2023 11:47 pm

FILE - Doors at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building are locked and covered with blinds as a sign posted advises that the office will be closed during the partial government shutdown Jan. 16, 2019, in Seattle. The federal government is heading toward a shutdown at month's end that will disrupt many services, squeeze workers and roil politics. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

How would SNAP and similar government programs be affected by a government shutdown?

Brady Knox · September 28, 2023 8:43 pm

House conservatives lay out answers they need ‘before even considering’ stopgap spending measure

Cami Mondeaux · September 28, 2023 8:09 pm