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Republicans thwarted Democrats plans to vote Thursday on a bill designed to increase affordable housing development in Connecticut, with major zoning reforms.
As the House of Representatives has been debating its one big, beautiful bill this week, the Senate has been considering a contentious vote of its own. On
The director of the Gardner Agricultural Policy Program at the University of Illinois says several aspects of the House-passed budget reconciliation package are likely to face more scrutiny in the U.S.
Throughout the 2024 campaign, GOP senators shouted from the rooftops that they would preserve the tactic if they won back the chamber. Whoops.
Republicans used a procedural tactic to counter Democratic accusations they were gutting the filibuster and lay the groundwork to block a California plan to phase out gas-powered vehicles.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted on Thursday to block California’s first-in-the nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, acting to kill the nation’s most aggressive effort to transition toward electric vehicles as President Donald Trump’s administration has doubled down on fossil fuels.
In a 51-46 vote that fell along party lines, Republicans affirmed their ability to repeal the waivers, clearing the way for the first of three to be withdrawn on Thursday morning.
Senate Republicans are going on offense against Democrats’ claims that reversing California’s de facto national electric vehicle (EV) mandate would undermine the filibuster, arguing that the ...
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