The U.S. House of Representatives voted 225-201 on Friday to pass a $1.7 trillion spending package funding the government through September and approving a number of last-minute policy agreements at the end of the congressional session.
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to pass a massive $1.7 trillion bill funding the government through September ahead of a looming deadline this week, approving a package that included a number of last-minute agreements and policy preferences at the end of the congressional session.
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously Monday to refer former President Donald Trump to the Department of Justice for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, citing four criminal statutes they say he violated in the lead-up to and in the midst of the deadly insurrection.
Four district court nominees appeared Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee and faced questions on their records and judicial philosophies in what is expected to be the final nominations hearing in the Senate this year.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted in bipartisan fashion Thursday to pass landmark legislation enshrining protections for same-sex and interracial couples into law, ending a monthslong negotiating process in Congress and sending the bill to President Joe Biden's desk.