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Senate, Schumer and the shutdown

ABC News on MSN · 21m

Schumer defends support for GOP funding bill ahead of Senate votes to avoid shutdown

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Friday morning to defend his decision to support a Republican short-term funding bill that will effectively help avoid a government shutdown at the end of the day.

The New York Times · 40m

Senate Moves Toward Critical Vote to Avert Shutdown as Schumer Relents

An afternoon vote was expected to clear the way for a Republican-written bill to keep government funding flowing past midnight after the top Senate Democrat said he would not block it.

U.S. News & World Report · 6h

US Senate Poised to Pass Republican Stopgap Spending Bill, Avert Shutdown

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over President Donald Trump's campaign to slash the federal workforce.

Former US Sen. Alan Simpson dies

CNN on MSN · 2h

Alan Simpson, an outspoken Wyoming Republican who carved a moderate path in the US Senate, dies

Alan Simpson, a longtime Republican senator from Wyoming who championed bipartisan solutions and steadfastly advocated for a moderate blend of conservatism, has died. He was 93.

U.S. News & World Report · 1h

Former US Senator Alan Simpson, Affable Old-School Republican, Dies Aged 93

Alan Simpson (R-WY) during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 7, 2022. WASHINGTON, (Reuters) -Alan Simpson, an old school moderate Republican senator who helped craft major U.

The Washington Post on MSN · 3h

Alan Simpson, three-term senator known for barbed wit, dies at 93

Pushing the 1986 immigration reform bill through Congress — his major legislative accomplishment — was like “giving dry birth to a porcupine,” he quipped.

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Senate works to prevent a government shutdown as Democrats divide ahead of the midnight deadline

The Senate finds itself in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare.

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US Senate confirms Trump's Justice Department antitrust head Gail Slater

Gail Slater, President Donald Trump's pick to oversee the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division, was confirmed by ...

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Bill Pulte confirmed by Senate to head up Federal Housing Finance Agency

Businessman and philanthropist Bill Pulte, who founded the Detroit Blight Authority and whose family has long been connected ...

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Senate nears final approval of a bill that could increase penalties for fentanyl traffickers

The Senate is preparing to give final approval to a bill that could result in harsher prison sentences for fentanyl ...

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US Senate Memo says Dr. Oz, Trump Medicare nominee, may have underpaid taxes for 3 years

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician nominated by President Donald Trump to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, appears to have ...

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