Other items for additional beyond-budget spending include more Ukraine aid and coronavirus response. There is bipartisan agreement for the former, and not so much for the latter.
I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence (1 Timothy 2:1-2).
Saturday, April 30, 2022
In Context: Spending as Leverage
Other items for additional beyond-budget spending include more Ukraine aid and coronavirus response. There is bipartisan agreement for the former, and not so much for the latter.
Weekly Congress Update
Senate — Daily Leader Remarks • Actions begun, passed, declined
Senate confirms liberal favorite Lael Brainard as Fed’s new vice chairwoman, COVID-19 trips Democrats on Cook vote
Senate Democrats block overturning of Biden's pro-abortion Title X rule — 49-49
House — Bills • Actions passed
House passes two Alaska bills sponsored by late-Rep. Don Young — H.R. 441, H.R. 6651
House Passes AXIS Act That Accuses China of ‘Whitewashing Russia’s War Crimes’ — H.R. 7314
H.R. 6930: Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act — Four Republicans, four Democrats vote 'no' on bill urging Biden to confiscate assets from sanctioned oligarchs • Lawmakers explain
S.3522: Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 — 10 Republicans voted 'no' on the Ukraine lend-lease bill
Democrat admits 'unparliamentary language' after criticism of Greene — Debate
House discharge petition filed on Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act — H.R. 426, Discharge Petition 117-13
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