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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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That bill would have cut spending and imposed immigration and border security restrictions, Republican priorities that had little chance of passing the Democratic-majority Senate. "It's not the end yet; I've got other ideas," Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters following the defeat of a bill he had backed. Social Security payments themselves would continue. Lawmakers are not considering cuts to popular benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Several hardliners have threatened to oust McCarthy from his leadership role if he passes a spending bill that requires any Democratic votes to pass, an outcome almost guaranteed given that any successful House bill must also pass the Senate, controlled by Democrats 51-49.

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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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☆ US Senate, House hold procedural votes as partial government shutdown looms
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

House Republicans are demanding another $120 billion in cuts, plus tougher legislation that would stop the flow of immigrants at the U.S. southern border with Mexico. McCarthy, for his part, suggested late on Tuesday that a shutdown could be avoided if Biden would negotiate on border issues. Most of Congress - including many Senate Republicans - has largely rejected House Republicans' attempts to make the situation at the border with Mexico the focus of the shutdown. The House is expected to vote on its own short term funding measure on Friday. However, it will likely include border measures that will not pass the Senate, meaning the risk of a shutdown remains high.

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☆ Embattled US Senator Bob Menendez to face Democrats who want him to resign
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) delivers remarks, after he and his wife Nadine Menendez were indicted on bribery offenses in connection with their corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen, in Union City, New Jersey, U.S., September 25, 2023. Senator Bob Menendez on Thursday is expected to address his Democratic colleagues, more than half of whom have called for him to resign, the day after he pleaded not guilty to federal charges of accepting bribes. 2 Senate Democrat Dick Durbin, the head of the Senate Democrats' campaign arm, Gary Peters, and Menendez's fellow senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker. Prosecutors have said Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez, accepted gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for using their influence to interfere with law enforcement probes of three New Jersey businessmen and aid the Egyptian government. Menendez's Senate seat is in play in the 2024 elections.

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The Republican-controlled House of Representatives, however, planned to push along with its own partisan approach that was unlikely to win support in the Democratic-majority Senate. Even if enacted, the measures fund only a portion of the government and would not avert a shutdown. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell worked in tandem to win passage of a bipartisan short-term extension of federal funding at current levels. But he intends to attach tough border and immigration restrictions that are unlikely to win support from enough Democrats in the House or Senate to become law. The top Senate Republican pleaded with his House counterpart to embrace the Senate bill.

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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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"I don't see the support in the House" for the Senate plan, McCarthy said, though the bill has the support of Senate Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. "Speaker McCarthy, the only way - the only way - out of a shutdown is bipartisanship," Schumer said in a speech to the Senate. McConnell added that a solution is not "more likely to happen in the shutdown than with the government open." A handful of the hardliners have also threatened to oust McCarthy from his leadership role if he passes a spending bill that requires any Democratic votes to pass. McCarthy said House Republicans would probably bring their own stopgap measure to the floor on Friday.

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☆ How could hardline US House Republicans strip Kevin McCarthy of his speakership?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

If the motion to vacate comes to the House floor for a vote, it would only need a simple majority to pass. Republicans currently control the House with 221 seats to 212 Democrats, meaning if McCarthy wants to keep his speaker's gavel he cannot afford to lose more than four votes. Republican Representative Matt Gaetz, a hardline conservative from Florida and perpetual thorn in McCarthy's side, has repeatedly threatened to file a motion to vacate. In a Sept. 14 closed-door meeting of House Republicans, McCarthy dared Gaetz to bring a motion to the floor. Republican then-Representative Mark Meadows in 2015 filed a motion to vacate against Republican Speaker John Boehner.

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☆ Explainer-How Could Hardline US House Republicans Strip Kevin McCarthy of His Speakership?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Sept. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

If the motion to vacate comes to the House floor for a vote, it would only need a simple majority to pass. Republican Representative Matt Gaetz, a hardline conservative from Florida and perpetual thorn in McCarthy's side, has repeatedly threatened to file a motion to vacate. In a Sept. 14 closed-door meeting of House Republicans, McCarthy dared Gaetz to bring a motion to the floor. Others including Representatives Dan Bishop and Eli Crane have also suggested they would support a motion to vacate. Republican then-Representative Mark Meadows in 2015 filed a motion to vacate against Republican Speaker John Boehner.

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☆ Motion to vacate: How to strip Kevin McCarthy of his speakership
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Representative Matt Gaetz, a hardline Republican lawmaker, said he would file what's called the "motion to vacate." If the motion to vacate comes to the House floor for a vote, it would only need a simple majority to pass. In a Sept. 14 closed-door meeting of House Republicans, McCarthy dared Gaetz to bring a motion to the floor. Others including Representatives Dan Bishop and Eli Crane have also suggested they would support a motion to vacate. Republican then-Representative Mark Meadows in 2015 filed a motion to vacate against Republican Speaker John Boehner.

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A general view of the U.S. Capitol, where Congress will return Tuesday to deal with a series of spending bills before funding runs out and triggers a partial U.S. government shutdown, in Washington, U.S. September 25, 2023. Congress has shut down the government 14 times since 1981, though most of those funding gaps have lasted only a day or two. Despite the looming shutdown deadline, the House will turn its attention first to the four full-year bills, which even if they pass would not fund the full government or prevent a shutdown. Success is not guaranteed: Republican hardliners blocked action on spending bills last week and some have said they would try to do so again. But that could prompt Republican hardliners to act on their threat to depose McCarthy, plunging the chamber further into chaos.

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☆ US government shutdown: What is it and who would be affected?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Contracts awarded prior to the shutdown would continue, and the Pentagon could place new orders for supplies or services needed to protect national security. NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCESIt's not clear how the United States' 63 national parks would be affected. They remained open during the 2018-2019 shutdown, through restrooms and information desks were closed and waste disposal was halted. WHITE HOUSEIn 2018-2019 shutdown, the White House furloughed 1,100 of 1,800 staff in the Executive Office of the President. Some offices, such as the National Security Council, continued at full strength, while others like the Office of Management and Budget were scaled back sharply.

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☆ US House panel sets first Biden impeachment inquiry hearing for next week
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] U.S. President Joe Biden walks to the White House from Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., September 17, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives is set to hold its first committee hearing on Sept. 28 on its long-shot impeachment inquiry against Democratic President Joe Biden launched by Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week. White House spokesperson Ian Sams on Tuesday accused Republicans of trying to "distract from their own chaotic inability to govern" by "staging a political stunt." Sams said they had not requested any information from the White House. The House can approve formal charges - articles of impeachment - by a simple majority.

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Meanwhile, a larger division within House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's fractious Republican majority prevented lawmakers from agreeing on a short-term measure to keep federal agencies afloat after funding expires on Sept. 30. Even if House Republicans had been able to advance the defense bill or the short-term measure, either would face stiff opposition from congressional Democrats and from the White House, which has already threatened to veto the defense bill. RAUCOUS SESSIONTuesday's House vote failed in a raucous session, with Democrats mocking Republican leaders as they tried to persuade holdouts to change their minds before finally giving up. The House vote came hours after McCarthy delayed a key procedural vote on the 30-day stopgap measure known as a continuing resolution, or CR. The continuing resolution faces opposition from more than a dozen Republican hardline conservatives, enough to block its path forward in the House.

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☆ Top House Republican McCarthy to test narrow majority in shutdown fight
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/6] U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks with reporters as he arrives for the day at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. September 18, 2023. Republicans hold a 221-212 majority in the House that leaves McCarthy with little room to maneuver as he contends with opposition to the spending legislation from a small group of hardline conservatives. "The Republican House is failing the American people again and pursuing a path of gamesmanship and circus," Republican Representative Victoria Spartz said in a statement. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, called the House Republican CR agreement "slapdash and reckless," adding that a bipartisan continuing resolution is "the only answer for avoiding a government shutdown." Unless the House can move forward on spending, Republican leaders said privately that they could be forced to move directly into negotiations with Senate Democrats on appropriations bills, circumventing hardliners.

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WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk called on Wednesday for a U.S. "referee" for artificial intelligence after he, Meta Platforms (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet (GOOGL.O) CEO Sundar Pichai and other tech CEOs met with lawmakers at Capitol Hill to discuss AI regulation. Musk said there was need for a regulator to ensure the safe use of AI. "It's important for us to have a referee," Musk told reporters, comparing it to sports. Musk confirmed he had called AI "a double-edged sword" during the forum. Other attendees included Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft (MSFT.O) CEO Satya Nadella, IBM (IBM.N) CEO Arvind Krishna, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and AFL-CIO labor federation President Liz Shuler.

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) addresses a press conference during a break in a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum for all U.S. senators at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday that an artificial intelligence forum he organized with U.S. lawmakers and tech CEOs focused on urgent actions that are needed before the 2024 elections. U.S. lawmakers want safeguards against potentially dangerous deep fakes such as bogus videos, election interference and attacks on critical infrastructure. KEY QUOTESchumer said there were discussions on some immediate actions needed before the next U.S. elections in 2024. Reporting by Moira Warburton; writing by Kanishka Singh; Editing by Leslie Adler and David GregorioOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 7, 2023. With Trump dominating the 2024 Republican presidential field, Romney has faced powerful headwinds at home in solidly Republican Utah. Romney was the only Republican senator to vote to convict Trump at both Senate impeachment trials. 2 Senate Republican, told Reuters he would miss Romney most on economic issues. Brad Wilson, the Utah state House of Representatives speaker, has not declared his candidacy for Romney's seat.

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Biden previously had mocked Republicans over a possible impeachment and the White House said they have no basis to do so. [1/4]U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) calls for an impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Joe Biden while delivering a statement on allegations surrounding President Biden and his son Hunter Biden, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 12, 2023. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called the impeachment inquiry "absurd." Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 as he faced an impeachment vote. Public opinion polling has shown many Americans believe Hunter Biden has received special treatment.

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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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☆ In a US showdown with China, there are some missions with no special-operations 'easy button'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Stavros Atlamazoglou | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Special-operations forces have been a centerpiece of US military operations for two decades. US leaders should remember that special operators aren't suited for some tasks, one expert says. But in an era of strategic competition with China, there are some missions with no special-ops "easy button," according to David Ucko, a professor and expert on irregular warfare. First, the US special-operations community should consolidate its core strengths, particularly irregular warfare, which is "highly relevant" to strategic competition with China. US Navy SEALs train with Philippine Navy special-operations and Australian army special-operations troops in Palawan in April 2022.

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☆ Much of the tech world's climate impact is still being overlooked, and it's accelerating
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Bob Violino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The environmental impact of IT has been largely overlooked, said Matt Warburton, principal consultant and sustainability lead at IT advisory firm ISG. "IT's environmental impact, as a proportion of the overall business impact, is increasing," Warburton said. "More than half of executives use spreadsheets for some ESG data," Moyer said. "They are generally among the most 'sustainably-savvy' organizations, with ambitious commitments for their own operations and deep expertise in minimizing IT's environmental impact," Warburton said. "If an enterprise has a net zero goal, IT should also have its own net zero goal.

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