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The Senate sent the spending package to President Joe Biden's desk after midnight on Saturday by a vote of 85 to 11, hours after the House voted 366 to 34 to approve it. Biden is expected to sign ...
While the spending bill also removed language to give the municipal government of Washington, D.C., greater control over RFK stadium, the Senate approved that in a separate vote via a stand-alone ...
By a bipartisan vote of 75-22, the Senate approved a $467.5 billion spending package that will fund agriculture, transportation, housing, energy, veterans and other programs through the end of the ...
The Senate approved the House-passed short-term government funding bill in a just-after-midnight vote by a vote of 85-11. The legislation will extend government funding until March 14.
The second "minibus" spending package passed the House on March 22 by a vote of 286 to 134 (101 Republicans and 184 Democrats voted in favor; 112 Republicans and 22 Democrats voted against). The Senate voted 74-24 early Saturday morning on March 23 to pass the $1.2 trillion government funding bill after heated last-minute negotiations caused ...
At about 12:40 a.m. ET, the Senate passed the legislation by a vote of 85 to 11, following hours of debate and votes on other bills. President Joe Biden signed the bill midday Saturday.
Every year, Congress must pass bills that appropriate money for all discretionary government spending. Generally, one bill is passed for each sub-committee of the twelve subcommittees in the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations and the matching 12 subcommittees in the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations.
Budget reconciliation bills can deal with spending, revenue, and the federal debt limit, and the Senate can pass one bill per year affecting each subject. Congress can thus pass a maximum of three reconciliation bills per year, though in practice it has often passed a single reconciliation bill affecting both spending and revenue. [3]