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The Age Issue: More of Congress Is 70-Plus Than Ever Before
At the highest level, the U.S. government looks like a gerontocracy, with average ages around 60 in both the House and the ...
Congress budget office says Trump tax bill could cost $2.4 trillion, less than earlier forecast
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday lowered its estimate of how much President Donald Trump's tax-cut ...
Durbin obstruction threat chills Senate as Trump nominees hang in balance
Sen. Dick Durbin warned during the Senate’s first judicial nominee hearing of the year that he would continue to hold up at ...
Trump's big tax bill moves to Senate, where Majority Leader John Thune is in charge
Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota will lead the effort as President Trump urges the Senate to slash taxes even more ...
US Congress budget office sees economic output falling from Trump tariffs
U.S. economic output will fall as a result of President Donald Trump's new tariffs on foreign goods that were in place as of ...
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'Whole Milk for Healthy Kids' bill has survived House, Senate committees
On Tuesday, the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry passed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids ...
Army leaders defend parade and border spending as Congress presses for answers
Army leaders are defending spending as much as $45 million to add a parade to the service’s 250th birthday celebration on ...
White House asks Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in funding for foreign aid, NPR, PBS in rescission package
The package would cancel $9.4 billion in funding that Congress previously appropriated for NPR, PBS and USAID.