Tag Archives: Chuck Schumer

On Tuesday, Congress voted to raise the national debt limit by $2.5 trillion and extend it into 2023, narrowly avoiding a midweek deadline that would have sent the United States into default. The House approved the measure by a 221-209 party-line vote to raise the federal government’s debt limit to …

In a Sunday letter to colleagues, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the chamber is “likely” to vote on the long-delayed annual defense bill this week. Schumer said the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, a bipartisan package meant to make the U.S. economy more competitive against China and bolster U.S. supply …

The Senate passed a short-term debt limit increase along party lines Thursday evening, a move that would give the Treasury Department at least a couple of months before it once again bumps up against its legal borrowing cap. The 50-48 vote sent the bill to the House, where that chamber …

Senate Republicans blocked an attempt by Democrats on Monday evening to begin debate on a broad bill funding the government and increasing the debt ceiling. The measure to briefly keep the government operating past the end of the fiscal year on Thursday, as well as to increase the debt ceiling …

Sen. Joe Manchin on Sunday said he would not vote for President Joe Biden‘s $3.5 trillion spending bill, saying he does not believe Congress can pass it within the timeline set out by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Manchin, D-W.Va., told CNN’s State of the Union he had informed Senate Democratic …

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Vice Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) on Tuesday announced a $2.1 billion bipartisan agreement that would bolster Capitol Hill security and fund the relocation of Afghans who helped the U.S. government during the war, according to top lawmakers in that chamber. The bipartisan pact …

More than 30 million American families have received their first monthly child tax credit payment from the U.S. government in an expanded income-support program that President Joe Biden said on Thursday could help end child poverty. At the White House on Thursday, President Biden praised the tax credit as a …

Congress will honor the entire Capitol Police force and the D.C. police with Congressional Gold Medals for their work during the deadly Jan.6 domestic terrorist attack. The final vote in the House on Tuesday was 406-21, with all 21 votes being from Republican lawmakers. “Let us give them all the …

An Intelligence Committee official has confirmed to CNN that prosecutors in the Department of Justice (DOJ) subpoenaed Apple for data on House Intelligence Committee Democrats during President Donald Trump‘s administration. “The Committee has continued to seek additional information, but the Department has not been forthcoming in a timely manner, including on …

Zahid Quraishi was confirmed on Thursday by the Senate as a US District Judge for the District of New Jersey. He is the first Muslim American federal judge in United States history. Quraishi, the third judicial nominee from President Joe Biden to be confirmed to the federal bench, was approved …

President Joe Biden’s administration is suspending oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Former President Donald Trump activated the lease before leaving office. All activities were suspended in the Alaskan region on Tuesday by Secretary Deb Haaland until a comprehensive analysis about the impact of drilling is …

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote a letter to the Democratic caucus saying that he will force a vote on the For the People Act to overhaul elections next month. “In the last week of the June work period, the Senate will vote on S.1., the For the People Act, …

Despite objections from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the House passed a bill approving the 9/11 style January 6 commission to investigate the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. McCarthy spoke out against creating a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. The Congressman says …

The Senate passed an anti-Asian hate crime bill after a series of attacks against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Racism has always existed in America unfortunately and the legacy of anti-Asian sentiment goes back centuries to dark chapters in our history, like the Chinese-exclusion act and the internment of …

President Joe Biden has sent an inquiry to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about his legal authority to cancel student loan debt. “He asked his secretary of Education, who’s just been on the job a few weeks, once he got on the job to have his department prepare a memo on the …