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Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Tuesday night passed a package to deliver $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan — a bipartisan win months in the making. The package was approved 79-18. Thirty-one Republicans joined with 48 Democrats to pass the legislation. That’s nine more Republicans than supported the […]
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Tuesday cleared a hurdle toward the passage of a package to deliver $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. In clearing a test vote, the Senate inched closer to the passage of the legislation, which includes four bills that passed in the House over […]
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Tuesday has begun consideration of a package to deliver $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The legislation, which includes four bills, passed the House over the weekend with bipartisan support. President Joe Biden urged the Senate to quickly advance the measures to his […]
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate will return Tuesday to begin consideration of a package to deliver $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The legislation, which includes four bills, passed the House over the weekend with bipartisan support. President Joe Biden urged the Senate to quickly advance the measures to […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Wednesday dismissed both impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, deeming them “unconstitutional.” The trial against Mayorkas, long a target of Republican criticism over his handling of immigration policy and the southern border, lasted just three hours after senators were sworn in as jurors. The votes […]
The TikTok logo on a smartphone arranged in New York, March 9, 2023. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Senators from both sides of the aisle warned Wednesday that TikTok endangers millions of users in the United States — as Congress continues to weigh how to protect U.S. national security amid growing concern that […]
ABC News Ohio’s GOP Senate primary is heading for a fierce finish Tuesday night as three Republicans bludgeon each other for the chance to run in one of the country’s marquee races this year. Businessman Bernie Moreno and state Sen. Matt Dolan are duking it out in polling, with Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose […]
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Thursday passed a short-term funding bill that averts a partial government shutdown that was expected late Friday night. The final vote tally was 77-13. The measure now heads to the president’s desk. The new funding deadlines for the government spending bills are now March 8 and March […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Democrats on Wednesday aim to force Republicans to take a public stand in the controversy over in vitro fertilization by requiring them to either support or oppose legislation led by Sen. Tammy Duckworth — a measure that would establish a statutory right to access assistive reproductive technologies, including IVF, […]
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Early Tuesday morning, 22 Senate Republicans defied Donald Trump and voted with Democrats to pass a $95 billion foreign aid package — most of it for Ukraine and Israel. The former president and other Senate Republicans had tried to kill the measure that President Joe Biden has called critical. Trump […]