Republicans oppose the voting rights law, a Biden priority. In an evenly split, 50-50 Senate, Democrats don’t have the votes to overcome a filibuster.
Author: Savannah Behrmann and Ledyard King, USA TODAY
Congress avoids shutdown after House, Senate vote to extend government funding into February
The House and Senate on Thursday approved a bill to fund the government through Feb. 18, avoiding a shutdown for the second time in recent months.
House passes Biden’s Build Back Better bill, sending measure with free preschool, climate initiatives to the Senate
The roughly $2 trillion bill with climate initiatives, expansions in affordable housing and free preschool now heads to the Senate.
Biden’s Build Back Better bill would add to national debt, congressional estimate says
The release of the CBO data is important to the House’s vote on the measure, a massive package of Democratic social spending priorities.
House passes bill to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol
The bill also calls for the removal of a bust of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the Dred Scott decision in 1857.
Senators celebrated a bipartisan compromise on infrastructure. Now the hard part begins
The bipartisan deal now needs to make its way through the Senate as Democrats try to push spending on Biden’s “human infrastructure” elemetns.
Joe Biden selects former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to lead Energy Department, reports say
Granholm was attorney general of Michigan from 1999 to 2003 and the 47th Governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011.