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A political standoff has delayed a House vote on cryptocurrency legislation as Republicans struggle with timing constraints and internal disagreements over the GENIUS and Clarity acts.
Sen. Thom Tillis stood on the Senate floor and warned White House aides to tread carefully as they cut foreign aid and to remember the promises they made to get a rescission bill approved by senators.
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the allocation of $101 million in taxpayer funds for “multifamily low-income housing development” on lots that were ravaged by the deadly Palisades and Eaton wildfires.
House Republicans are urging their Senate GOP colleagues not to make any changes to the bill to claw back billions of dollars in federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, as the party races toward a Friday deadline to send the package to President Trump’s desk.
Both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees have now approved their initial drafts of the annual defense authorization bill.
Rep. John Joyce said moving the office to Pittsburgh would “ensure that the Department of Energy’s employees are invested in the communities their work directly impacts.”
The House Armed Services Committee advanced a defense policy bill authorizing a 3.8% pay raise for service members, a boost in funding for Ukraine’s military and a prohibition on restoring Confederate names to military bases.
Republicans plan to strip $400 million in global AIDS program cuts from President Donald Trump's rescission package, as Sen. John Thune plows forward before funding holds expire.
The House GOP ultimately passed the Senate’s multi-trillion-dollar package, after having earlier suggested a version of its own. While many of the provisions in each were largely similar, several were quite different.
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There's another bipartisan push to legalize recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania. After legislation that would have legalized adult-use recreational cannabis stalled out in the state Senate earlier this year, on Tuesday, Reps. Emily Kinkead, a Democrat, and Abby Major, a Republican, introduced another bill.