Biden Signs $1.2 Trillion Funding Package After Senate's Early-morning Passage Ended Shutdown Threat

(AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $1.2 trillion ... help stop Russia's invasion, the package provided $300 million under the defense spending umbrella. That funding is separate ... Read More

Wheels in motion on $1.2 trillion infrastructure package

The battle to pass a bipartisan infrastructure funding bill on the deeply gridlocked Capitol Hill reached its latest crescendo Wednesday when the Senate voted in favor of launching debate on the $1.2 ... Read More

House Passes 3 Spending Bills, Teeing Up Battles This Fall

Homeland Security would receive $64.8 billion in funding ... The Senate passed a $1.2 trillion, six-bill spending package just after 2 a.m. on Saturday and President Joe Biden ... Read More

The left’s $7 trillion lie: Biden far outpaces Trump in racking up the national debt

We saw a classic case of projection in Thursday’s presidential debate, when President Biden — who is overseeing annual budget deficits of $2 trillion — asserted that his predecessor ... Read More

‘Raise the Age,’ local project funding get boost in Senate economic development bill

BOSTON — The unanimous passage of the state Senate’s $2.86 billion version of the economic development bond bill ... send it to the governor’s desk. Even if it passes with all of the funding ... Read More

House approves trio of funding bills as spending fight looms

The House on Friday approved a trio of government funding bills that the White House has already threatened to veto if they land on President Biden’s desk ... the House and Senate over the ... Read More

House sends far-right Pentagon bill straight into Senate woodchipper

Most of those provisions stand no chance of becoming law once they reach the Senate. The $833 billion defense appropriations bill passed ... It blocks funding for the Pentagon’s policy of ... Read More

What’s In Senate Republicans’ Student Loan Reform Package

Graduate lending is a major factor in the student loan program’s transformation ... But the bill could go further. Indeed, there is little case for the federal government to be involved in ... Read More

Senate passes Barrasso’s bipartisan mining school bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy ... according to a news release from Barrasso's office. The legislation now goes to the ... Read More

POTUS Debate TV Review: Biden Shows His Age While Trump Tosses Out One Whopper After Another With No Fact-Checking From CNN Moderators

If there was any winner in Thursday night’s first presidential ... Director and Biden loyalist Kate Bedingfield called her ex-boss’ performance “disappointing.” On Fox News, a somewhat ... Read More

State House, Senate approve bills to trim state’s top individual income tax rate, top corporate income tax rate

The proposed cut of the state's top corporate income tax rate from 4.8% to 4.3%, retroactive to Jan. 1 ... Senate voted 30-0 to approve Senate Bill 3 by Sen. Steve Crowell, R-Magnolia, and send ... Read More

Biden signs $1.2 trillion funding package after Senate's early-morning passage ended shutdown threat

(AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills after Congress had passed ... had cleared the Senate by a 74-24 vote shortly after funding had expired ... Read More