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Senator Amy Klobuchar speaks on the Act from inside the Capitol Building. The Freedom to Vote Act, originally called the For the People Act, [1] introduced as H.R. 1, [2] is a bill in the United States Congress [3] intended to expand voting rights, change campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of money in politics, ban partisan gerrymandering, and create new ethics rules for federal ...
Senate Democrats failed to advance a bipartisan border security bill Thursday, with nearly every Republican voting against it Donald Trump wields border chaos in the 2024 election.
August 30, 2024 at 3:23 PM ... to be given asylum status. ... push to build a wall in order to secure the Southern border. But the Senate bill would require that hundreds of millions of dollars in ...
The border bill was a topic of discussion Tuesday during Democrats’ closed door party lunch as members debated the merits of bringing up a bill that has already failed to advance in the Senate. ...
The House rejected a standalone bill to provide aid to Israel on Tuesday amid congressional infighting over the Senate border bill. The House vote, 250-180, fell short of the two-thirds majority ...
The bill, negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators earlier this year, was meant to clamp down on the number of migrants allowed to claim asylum at the US-Mexico border
The bill, released by senators on Sunday, would also make it harder to claim asylum at the border and expand detention facilities, among other efforts to reduce the number of migrants.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., notified members on the floor about the Thursday vote, calling it "the strongest, most comprehensive border security bill we've seen in a generation."