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Posted Dec 3, 2021, 11:29 am
Rose Wagner
/Courthouse News Service
After hours of uncertainty and an unsuccessful bid by some Republicans to defund federal vaccine mandates, the Senate passed a short-term funding plan that staved off a government shutdown and gives lawmakers two more months to pass a long-term plan. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 18, 2021, 10:35 am
Ariana Figueroa
/Arizona Mirror
Democrats announced Tuesday the introduction of legislation to protect voting rights across the country by re-establishing a preclearance formula that would require some states that want to make changes to their voting laws to receive permission from the Justice Department first.... Read more»
Posted Jun 30, 2021, 2:05 pm
Laura Olson
/Arizona Mirror
The U.S. House voted Tuesday to remove from the Capitol a bust of the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, a Marylander who wrote the despised Dred Scott decision — as well as evict statues and busts of men who fought for the Confederacy or served in its government.... Read more»
Posted Mar 19, 2021, 10:42 am
Ryan Knappenberger
/Cronkite News
The House passed a pair of bills Thursday that would provide a path to citizenship for Dreamers and legal status to undocumented farm workers, potentially affecting millions in the U.S. and tens of thousands in Arizona.... Read more»
Posted Apr 20, 2020, 12:50 pm
Tim Ryan
/Courthouse News Service
Replenishment of a federal loan program for small businesses failed to get Senate approval Monday amid a dispute over money for coronavirus testing. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 17, 2018, 12:31 pm
Shelby Lindsay
/Cronkite News
A bill to provide desperately needed water-project funding for the White Mountain Apache tribe was expected to pass easily last week, but instead became the focus of a partisan fight over labor regulations.... Read more»
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Posted Jan 25, 2012, 9:00 am
Dylan Smith & Janet Rose Jackman/TucsonSentinel.com
As her colleagues teared and cheered, Gabrielle Giffords resigned from Congress as the House passed her bill on ultralight smuggling on a 408-0 vote. Surrounded by Congressional leadership, Giffords stood in the well of the House as Rep. Wasserman Shultz read Giffords' letter of resignation. Nancy Pelosi called her "the brightest star Congress has ever seen." (with video)... Read more»
Posted Dec 23, 2011, 11:00 am
Jimmy Zuma
/TucsonSentinel.com
Republicans are destroying their brand in part because of naked ambition. But no one is more responsible for making Republicans look like nattering nabobs than “Weepy-John” Boehner. ... Read more»