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☆ US House to vote on long-awaited $95 billion Ukraine, Israel aid package
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday is set to vote on, and expected to pass, a $95 billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, over bitter objections from party hardliners. The Administration urges both chambers of the Congress to quickly send this supplemental funding package to the President's desk." A bipartisan 316-94 House majority on Friday voted to advance the bill to a vote, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told senators to be ready to work over the weekend if it passes the House as expected. "It's not the perfect legislation, it's not the legislation that we would write if Republicans were in charge of both the House, the Senate, and the White House," Johnson told reporters on Friday. The bills provide $60.84 billion to address the conflict in Ukraine, including $23 billion to replenish U.S. weapons, stocks and facilities; $26 billion for Israel, including $9.1 billion for humanitarian needs, and $8.12 billion for the Indo-Pacific.

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☆ Congressional leaders announce deal to fund rest of government
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Haley Talbot | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Speaker Mike Johnson announced the deal in a statement, saying he hopes the text of the legislation will be released “as soon as possible,” a key step expected before either chamber votes. A GOP leadership aide told CNN on Monday night that congressional negotiators had reached an agreement on funding for the Department of Homeland Security. ET Friday to pass the deal, and getting through both chambers is expected to take days. “House and Senate committees have begun drafting bill text to be prepared for release and consideration by the full House and Senate as soon as possible,” Johnson announced in his statement. “We have come to an agreement with Congressional leaders on a path forward for the remaining full-year funding bills,” Biden wrote.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill on Saturday with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy backed down from an earlier demand by party hardliners for a partisan bill. Time remained short to avoid the federal government’s fourth partial shutdown in a decade, which will begin at 12:01 a.m. ET (0401 GMT) on Sunday unless the Democratic-majority Senate passes the bill and President Joe Biden signs it into law in time. “Under these circumstances, I’m recommending a ‘no’ vote, even though I very much want to avoid a government shutdown,” McConnell said. “I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead and try,” McCarthy told reporters.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Congress passed a stopgap funding bill late on Saturday with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy backed down from an earlier demand by his party’s hardliners for a partisan bill. That move marked a profound shift from earlier in the week, when a shutdown looked all but inevitable. Congress typically passes stopgap spending bills to buy more time to negotiate the detailed legislation that sets funding for federal programs. House Republicans are demanding a further $120 billion in cuts. “House Republicans tried to walk away from that deal by demanding drastic cuts that would have been devastating for millions of Americans.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Congress passed a stopgap funding bill late on Saturday with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy backed down from an earlier demand by his party’s hardliners for a partisan bill. That move marked a profound shift from earlier in the week, when a shutdown looked all but inevitable. Congress typically passes stopgap spending bills to buy more time to negotiate the detailed legislation that sets funding for federal programs. House Republicans are demanding a further $120 billion in cuts. “House Republicans tried to walk away from that deal by demanding drastic cuts that would have been devastating for millions of Americans.

That move marked a profound shift from earlier in the week, when a shutdown looked all but inevitable. "Democrats have said from the start that the only solution for avoiding a shutdown is bipartisanship, and we are glad Speaker McCarthy has finally heeded our message." Democratic Senator Michael Bennet held the bill up for several hours trying to negotiate a deal for further Ukraine aid. House Republicans are demanding a further $120 billion in cuts. "House Republicans tried to walk away from that deal by demanding drastic cuts that would have been devastating for millions of Americans.

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☆ Feinstein's death poses two big questions for US Senate Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Filling the 90-year-old lawmaker's seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee touches one of the most critical levers of partisan power in Washington and will require cooperation from Republicans. "There is simply nobody who possessed the poise, gravitas and fierceness of Dianne Feinstein," Newsom said. JUDICIARY VACANCYFeinstein's death leaves a 10-10 deadlock on the Judiciary Committee, which is in charge of reviewing presidential nominations to federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. With the Republican-controlled House blocking most attempts at bipartisan legislation, the Democratic Senate has focused this year on approving Democratic President Joe Biden's judicial nominees. Senate Republicans said on Friday they do not intend to contest a move to replace Feinstein on the committee after her death.

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☆ Hardline Republican holdouts push U.S. government closer to shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Republican hardliners have said they will not take up a Senate bill to fund the government through Nov. 17, which has advanced with broad bipartisan support, including that of top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell. Lawmakers are not considering cuts to popular benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Former President Donald Trump, Biden's likely election opponent in 2024, has taken to social media to push his congressional allies toward a shutdown. A shutdown will also delay vital economic data releases, which could trigger financial market volatility, and delay the date that retirees learn how much their Social Security payments will rise next year. Social Security payments themselves would continue.

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Leading House Republicans dismissed the Senate stopgap measure out of hand, saying any short-term funding measure to pass Congress with their approval must address the flow of migrants across the U.S. border with Mexico. "The Senate bill really just continues to fund Biden's open border plan. The country wants to address the open border. We need to address the open border," said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, the chamber's No. McCarthy said House Republicans would probably bring their own stopgap measure to the floor on Friday.

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☆ Biden to address budget cuts, government shutdown in Thursday speech
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Nandita Bose | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

US President Joe Biden addresses the nation on averting default and the Bipartisan Budget Agreement, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, June 2, 2023. The White House and Senate leaders - including top Republican Mitch McConnell - have rejected that demand. "Today, the President will explain how these harmful cuts fit into the larger Republican budget plan...and what that plan would mean for the American people," the White House said in a statement. The White House will spend "much of this fall" laying out the Republican budget plan, which they say includes lowering taxes for the rich and cuts to programs such as Social Security and Medicare. In June, Biden tried to flip skeptical Americans on his economic plan by re-introducing his vision of middle-class American prosperity.

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☆ Shutdown risk looms as US Congress faces spending, impeachment brawl
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives returns this week for an expected political brawl over spending cuts and impeachment that could paralyze the Republican-controlled chamber, as Congress struggles to avoid a government shutdown. The White House and Senate leaders -- including top Republican Mitch McConnell -- have rejected that demand. The House, which Republicans control by a thin 222-212 majority, has passed only one appropriations bill so far. Other Republicans reject the idea of tying an impeachment inquiry to the spending debate. Democrats have dismissed impeachment talk as little more than an effort to distract from Trump's extensive legal woes."

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☆ Top US Senate Republican McConnell to serve out term despite health concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Top U.S. Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday he plans to serve the rest of his two-year term as party leader and his full six-year term in office, allowing for the possibility that he would step down from leadership before leaving office. KEY QUOTE"I am going plan to finish my term as leader and I'm going to finish my Senate term," McConnell told reporters. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson Acquire Licensing RightsAlready the longest-serving party leader in U.S. Senate history, McConnell's current term as leader expires in January 2025, while his term as a senator runs through January 2027. McConnell did not address the two-year gap between the end of his current job as leader and end of his Senate term. * McConnell has served as Senate majority leader from 2015 to 2021 and as Senate minority leader since then.

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☆ US Senate races ahead of House on spending bills, aims to avoid gov't shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate Appropriations Committee have backed the 12 separate spending bills that would finance most government operations for fiscal 2024, while their House Appropriations Committee has been producing bills with only Republican support. Some hardline House Republicans have dismissed the risks of a government shutdown, saying it could be a cudgel for achieving deeper spending cuts to address the $31.4 trillion national debt. 'A PRETTY BIG MESS'Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell has voted for every one of the 12 fiscal 2024 bills advanced by the Senate Appropriations Committee, as have nearly all of his fellow committee Republicans. Meanwhile, as some hardline House Republicans push for defense spending cuts instead of a buildup, there is pushback within their 222-member caucus. He was referring to a special House-Senate negotiating team that likely would be tasked with ironing out differences between House and Senate defense appropriations bills.

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On Wednesday, McConnell was speaking to reporters in Kentucky when he froze for more than 30 seconds. McConnell had been sidelined from Congress earlier this year, after he tripped in March and was hospitalized for a concussion and a minor rib fracture. "I have informed Leader McConnell that he is medically clear to continue with his schedule as planned. Senator Dianne Feinstein, 90, was absent from the Senate for months earlier this year, after she suffered complications from shingles. "He was his old self on the telephone," said Biden, who served with McConnell in the Senate.

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☆ Joe Biden reacts to Mitch McConnell's second freeze
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsJoe Biden reacts to Mitch McConnell's second freezePostedPresident Joe Biden reacts to Senator Republican Mitch McConnell, after he froze up for more than 30 seconds on Wednesday (August 30) during a public appearance. It was the second such incident in a little more than a month, a clip from an NBC News affiliate showed.

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☆ US Senate's McConnell freezes up for second time in public appearance
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The incident raised fresh questions among Republican and Democratic members of Congress about some of their aging colleagues. After being approached by a second person, McConnell resumed speaking but needed reporters' questions repeated to him and only answered two more questions. A McConnell aide said the senator would be consulting with a physician prior to his next public event. McConnell froze on Wednesday after being asked whether he intended to run again in 2026, when his six-year term is up. McConnell has served as Senate majority leader from 2015 to 2021 and as Senate minority leader since then.

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☆ US Senator Feinstein back home after fall, brief hospitalization
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) attends a Senate Judiciary Committee executive business meeting to vote on legislation and pending nominations before the committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 11, 2023. Senator Dianne Feinstein, 90, was briefly hospitalized following a minor fall in her San Francisco home, her office said on Wednesday, the latest incident involving a key member of the committee that approves federal judges. "All of her scans were clear and she returned home," after a brief Tuesday night hospitalization, Feinstein's office said in a statement. Feinstein is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that plays a critical role in confirming presidential appointments of federal judges. First elected to the Senate in 1992, Feinstein has said she will not seek re-election in 2024.

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☆ Top US Senate Republican McConnell to stay in post through 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - Top U.S. Senate Republican Mitch McConnell plans to remain in his leadership post through the 2024 elections, a spokesperson said on Friday, two days after the minority leader froze up for about 21 seconds while speaking to reporters. "He plans to serve his full term in the job they (Republican senators) overwhelmingly elected him to do," the spokesperson said. The top four Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress, including McConnell, typically play a crucial role in this effort as they try to avert partial government shutdowns for a lack of funds. McConnell served as Senate majority leader from 2015 to 2021 and as Senate minority leader since then. Democrats, including three independents who vote with them, currently hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate, when all senators are present.

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☆ Top US Senate Republican Mitch McConnell freezes up, leaves press conference
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuters) - Top U.S. Senate Republican Mitch McConnell froze up for about 21 seconds while speaking to reporters on Wednesday, walking away only to return 12 minutes later to say he was "fine." Senator John Barrasso asked McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in history, before McConnell turned and walked away with the help of Barrasso, a physician. McConnell, the minority leader, rejoined the press conference about 12 minutes later, saying, "I'm fine" and answering reporters' questions on other topics. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) addresses reporters following the Senate Republicans weekly policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., July 11, 2023. McConnell's Democratic counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, said, "I always wish Leader McConnell well."

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☆ McCarthy's moment: Debt ceiling vote secures Republican US House speaker's standing
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

"Keep underestimating us and we'll keep proving to the American public that we'll never give up," McCarthy told reporters after the vote. But in getting the April measure passed, House Republicans became the only body in Washington that had acted to raise the debt ceiling. "Speaker McCarthy's done an incredible job," said Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a member of the hardline Republican House Freedom Caucus. "This is where the honeymoon can definitely end," said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean, a one-time aide to former House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Asked this week whether he expects to keep his speakership, McCarthy told a reporter: "What do you think?

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☆ McCarthy's moment: Debt ceiling win secures Republican US House speaker's standing
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

But in getting the April measure passed, House Republicans became the only body in Washington that had acted to raise the debt ceiling. The White House, for its part, contends that the talks between Biden and McCarthy were not a negotiation on the debt ceiling. "Speaker McCarthy's done an incredible job," said Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a member of the hardline Republican House Freedom Caucus. "This is where the honeymoon can definitely end," said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean, a one-time aide to former House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Asked this week whether he expects to keep his speakership, McCarthy told a reporter: "What do you think?

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WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Democratic President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy are expected to discuss new work requirements for benefits programs for low-income Americans during Tuesday's debt ceiling negotiations, sources familiar with the talks said. Expanding the work requirements has been a key demand of Republicans, who are also pushing for spending cuts in exchange for their votes to raise the debt limit. "We can raise the debt ceiling if we limit what we're going to spend in the future," McCarthy told reporters. The current deadlock has rattled investors, sending the cost of insuring exposure to U.S. government debt to record highs. 2 Senate Republican John Thune told reporters the talks appear to have "too many cooks."

WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Democratic President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy will sit down on Tuesday to try to make progress on a deal to raise the U.S. government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling and avert an economically catastrophic default. House of Representatives Speaker McCarthy on Tuesday told reporters that his party, which controls the chamber by a 222-213 margin, would only agree to a deal that cuts spending. "We can raise the debt ceiling if we limit what we're going to spend in the future," McCarthy told reporters. Tuesday's White House meeting, which will include Biden, McCarthy, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell and top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, is due to begin at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT). 2 Senate Republican John Thune told reporters that the talks appear to have "too many cooks."

White House officials have described the talks as constructive, but McCarthy on Monday warned that he believed little progress had been made. Democrats including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is also expected to attend Tuesday's White House meeting, said that talks were proceeding in a "serious way." 'TOO MANY COOKS'Some observers have raised concerns that the five-party talks -- featuring Biden, McCarthy, Schumer, top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell and top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries -- are too unwieldy to make progress. 2 Senate Republican John Thune told reporters that the talks appear to have "too many cooks." "As we've said all along, it is Biden and McCarthy," Thune said.

The White House has not ruled out the annual spending caps that Republicans say must accompany any increase in the nation's $31.4 trillion debt limit. Republicans, who control the House, have said they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling unless Democrats agree to sharp spending cuts. BUDGET TALKSBiden has insisted that Congress must increase the country's borrowing capacity without conditions, but the White House says it is also willing to discuss budget matters with House Republicans. House Republicans passed legislation in April that pairs a $1.5 trillion debt-ceiling hike with $4.8 trillion in spending cuts, largely achieved by cutting annual discretionary spending by 8% next year and capping growth in the years to come. The White House and Republicans may agree to ease permitting requirements for pipelines and other energy infrastructure - though that would require time to draft into legislation, said Brian Riedl, a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute.

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