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Ohio Senate passes $60 billion state budget plan, teeing up conference committee: Capitol Letter
As Staver notes, the Senate’s two-year, $60.3 billion budget plan includes several major differences with the House’s budget ...
US Senate Rejects Bids to Block Arms Sales to Qatar, UAE
The Senate voted 56-39 against considering legislation that would have blocked the $1.9 billion sale of armed drones and ...
Senate rejects effort to block arms sales over Trump’s dealings with Qatar and UAE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have blocked an effort by Democrats to temporarily block arms sales to Qatar and the ...
Hegseth spars with Senate Democrats over Marine deployment to LA anti-ICE riots: 'Not about lethality'
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood by the Trump administration's National Guard federalization and U.S. Marines deployment ...
Senate Republicans Want to Trim Some of Trump’s Populist Tax Cuts
G.O.P. senators are considering whether to further curb the president’s favorite tax cuts as they rewrite key portions of the ...
Mexican Senate President: I Told Trump We'll Pay For A Wall On Mexico's 1830 Borders
Mexico's Senate president, Gerardo Fernandez Norona, commented this week on unrest over deportations in Los Angeles: ...
Hegseth takes fire from Republicans at heated Senate hearing
Republican senators came out firing during Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s hearing on Wednesday before the Senate ...
Seven takeaways from Pete Hegseth’s Senate showdown over Pentagon spending
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified as the Trump administration faces criticism over its decision to deploy troops to Los Angeles in response to protests over local immigration raids.
Senate Proposes Selling Up to 3 Million Acres of Public Land
Senator Mike Lee of Utah introduced language that would sell off up to three million acres of federal lands in 12 Western ...
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Senate Republicans protect billions in weapons sales to Qatar, UAE from Democratic retaliation
The Senate on Wednesday rejected a Democratic push to cancel over $3 billion worth of arms sales to Qatar and the United Arab ...
US orders nonessential staff to leave Baghdad Embassy as Iran tensions rise
The United States is reducing the number of people deemed nonessential to operations in the Middle East, the State Department ...
Republicans in the Senate tread more carefully on food stamp cuts than those in the House
Republicans in the U.S. Senate may not have the same stomach for slashing food stamp benefits as their colleagues in the U.S.