by Lawrence Wilson | Nov 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
The powerful voting bloc of evangelical Christians helped candidate Donald Trump win in 2016. Though reluctant supporters at first, they came to love him, showing President Trump greater support in 2020 than that showered on candidate Ronald Reagan decades earlier....
by Lawrence Wilson | Nov 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
President Joe Biden signed a stop-gap spending bill, the second this year, delaying once again the threat of a partial government shutdown. The White House said President Biden signed the bill into law on Nov. 16, barely 24 hours before spending authority for the...
by Lawrence Wilson | Nov 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
The federal government will remain open as the Senate on late Wednesday joined the House in passing a stopgap funding measure that will extend the previous year’s funding in two stages through Feb. 2. The bill passed 87-11 in the upper chamber. It now heads to...
by Lawrence Wilson | Nov 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Republican senators failed to force immediate consideration of a standalone aid package for Israel that passed the House on Nov. 2. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) led the Nov. 14 debate calling for unanimous consent to bypass the Senate’s arcane rules and vote on the...
by Lawrence Wilson | Nov 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Speaker Mike Johnson’s two-step stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown is set to be voted by the House on Nov. 14 under a process that requires Democrat support to pass. The bill will be voted on the floor under a suspension of rules, according to a...
