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Senate Passes Mammoth Farm Bill…

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The Senate easily cleared their farm bill on Thursday, setting up a fight with House Republicans over new restrictions on food stamps. Senators voted 86-11 to pass the bill before leaving for the week-long July Fourth recess. Sixty votes were needed to pass the bill. GOP Sens. Richard Burr (N.C.), Bob Corker (Tenn.), Tom Cotton […]

Haspel Secures Enough Senate Support for Confirmation As CIA Director…

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Gina Haspel on Tuesday locked in the necessary support to become President Donald Trump’s next CIA director, winning over two crucial Democratic senators as she disavowed the spy agency’s past use of brutal interrogation tactics. Minutes after Haspel secured the backing of the Senate intelligence committee’s top Democrat, Mark Warner of Virginia, she got an […]

Why the Democrats Just Lost the Senate…

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For Democrats, the Don Blankenship dream is over. The coal-mining baron and ex-con was a pleasant diversion—the prospect of yet another train-wreck Republican candidate was exactly the kind of opponent that Sen. Joe Manchin needed in his dicey reelection campaign in West Virginia—but now it’s back to the reality of a merciless map that offers […]

Senate Democrats Pitch Repeal of Tax Cuts to Fund Infrastructure…

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Senate Democrats unveiled on Wednesday a $1 trillion infrastructure plan that would be funded by repealing numerous tax cuts Republicans pushed through Congress last year. The plan would return the top individual tax rate to 39.6 percent, set the corporate tax rate at 25 percent, go back to 2017 law for the Alternative Minimum Tax, […]

Senate Deal Grants Amnesty to FUTURE ILLEGALS…

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The Senate’s new immigration compromise not only grants legal status to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before, but creates a new future amnesty that would even protect illegal immigrants who managed to sneak into the U.S. over the next four months, experts said. Not only would the bill enshrine Obama-era deportation rules, protecting […]

Senate Leaders Near Two-Year Budget Deal to Prevent Shutdown…

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Senate leaders are close to a two-year budget deal that would avert a government shutdown, Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) announced Tuesday. The deal would set spending levels for fiscal 2018 and 2019 and avoid the prospect of a government shutdown when a stopgap spending measure expires on Thursday. “There are still some outstanding […]

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