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The swamp is back in full force we have a thousand-page Bill of $1.2 trillion filled with all manners of spending priorities that are at odds with the American people. This bill is over a thousand pages long, contains hundreds of pages of report language, 1,400 ear marks, and we've had about 24 hours to review it. That is not the way to do business, and the American people and American families are the ones left holding the bag. This is business as usual in the swamp, and here's the deal to my Republican colleagues: You will own every single...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Monday that she will vote against any bill that results from the $1.6 trillion top-line funding agreement reached Sunday. Greene said the effort, led by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), doesn’t include enough funding for GOP priorities. “I am a NO to the Johnson Schumer budget deal,” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “This $1.6 Trillion dollar budget agreement does nothing to secure the border, stop the invasion, or stop the weaponized government targeting Biden’s political enemies and innocent Americans.” “So much for the power of the purse!” she added.

If the Dems can do #NOTMYPRESIDENT, surely ALL Americans can unite behind #NOTMYCONGRESS. How can we make their political lives a living Hell, so that they are forced to step down? "Get in their faces." "Harass their supporters" "Hound them out of their jobs."

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) unsuccessfully sought to force a vote on a stopgap measure Thursday to keep the government funded through the end of the year. After the chair ruled Pelosi’s motion was out of order, the House voted to table the appeal of that ruling in a 187-170 vote. Pelosi’s measure would have funded the rest of the government through Sept. 30 while extending a number of programs. Republicans are scrambling to reach a deal to fund the government that meets President Trump’s demand for $5 billion in funding for his wall. It’s not clear if a...

The House of Representatives passed a $1 trillion spending bill Wednesday afternoon, crossing off a major item on lawmakers' to-do list before they begin an 11-day recess. The bill -- which passed by a 309-118 margin, with four members abstaining -- is written to fund the government through September and includes a $15 billion increase in funding for the military. The spending bill also contains $1.5 billion for border security, but leaves out funding for the physical border wall that President Donald Trump wants to be built on the U.S.-Mexico border. It also doesn't block funding for Planned Parenthood or...

Senate Republicans are trying to use a must-do spending bill to advance legislation significantly rewriting landmark 2010 legislation that tightened regulation of the financial services industry. The measure would ease requirements on smaller banks and give lenders greater freedom from mortgage lending rules. The legislation is opposed by Democrats who argue that the 2010 Dodd-Frank law strengthened protections for consumers and reduced the odds for a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. …

The first observation I noted on Twitter about this breaking story was, “So who is the Party of No now?”After we FINALLY got a continuing resolution out of the House to keep the government running past the end of the month, the Senate has turned around and rejected it. I don’t know how this movie ends, but I’m fairly sure it’s going straight to DVD. The Senate on Friday rejected the GOP-led House’s bill to avert a government shutdown, intensifying a partisan standoff that many in Congress hoped to avoid. The vote was 59-36.Democrats in the Senate, who are in...

March 22, 2007 Today, the House begins consideration of the "slow-bleed" plan for defeat in Iraq that has been crafted by Rep. John Murtha and tucked into a $124 billion supplemental bill that includes money to fund the war. If Mr. Murtha, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic leadership are successful in getting this bill enacted into law, it would jeopardize the ability of the approximately 150,000 American troops serving in Iraq to defend themselves. It also would effectively ensure that Iraq spirals into civil war and that terrorist insurgent and militia groups would prevail over...

<p>WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush asked the Senate's Republican leader to try to push a $373 billion spending package through the chamber by mid-December but was rebuffed, congressional and administration aides said Friday.</p> <p>The president's unusual personal appeal underlined his desire to win enactment of the overdue legislation, which carries big increases for battling the AIDS epidemic in Africa and for other high- profile White House initiatives. The measure would finance most federal agencies through the budget year that started Oct. 1.</p>