White House urges senators to support bipartisan border bill
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called on senators to support a stand-alone border security bill that is expected to come up in the Senate this week. Source link
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Senate Democrats to force new vote on bipartisan border bill
The Senate will hold a revote this week on a major border security bill months after it was blocked by a bipartisan filibuster, with Democrats saying they hope to embarrass Republicans into switching their stance and embracing the legislation. Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer announced the vote in a letter to colleagues Sunday evening, hoping […]
Republicans at top and bottom of list of most bipartisan members of Congress
GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate clinched the top spot in a new list of the most bipartisan members of Congress, but Republicans also came in dead last. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania Republican, and Sen. Susan M. Collins, Maine Republican, earned the top spots in their chambers in the Lugar Center and the McCourt […]
House Overwhelmingly Passes Bipartisan TikTok Bill
The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass bipartisan legislation on the Chinese-owed app TikTok. Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., introduced the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act on March 5. Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi are the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the […]
Joe Biden to use border visit to prod Congress to pass bipartisan border deal
President Biden will be at the border Thursday in Brownsville, Texas, where the White House says he will press Congress to revive the bipartisan border deal that fell to a Senate filibuster. The president will also use the trip to get an update on the border, where the illegal immigration numbers have ticked up after […]
NY Democrats Reject Bipartisan District Map So They Can Gerrymander Their Way to a Majority – PJ Media
Democrats embody the old saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again.” Whether it’s in the courts or among electoral authorities, Democrats will keep pleading and litigating until they get the result they want. Such is the case of the redrawing of congressional district maps for New […]
N.Y. Democrats reject bipartisan congressional map, will draw their own
ALBANY, N.Y. — Democrats in the New York Legislature on Monday rejected a congressional map drawn by the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission, setting the stage for the party to craft lines that help Democrats in battleground House races that could determine control of Congress. The Democrat-dominated state Legislature will now have to submit and approve […]
Senate border bill hits wall of bipartisan blowback
The walls are closing in from both sides of the aisle on the Senate border security bill, as liberals and conservatives say they can’t stomach the policy changes. Party leaders pleaded with lawmakers Monday to give the bipartisan deal a chance. They said it’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix years of problems at the southern […]
Kyrsten Sinema Is Trying (and Failing) to Defend the Bipartisan Border Deal – PJ Media
Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) was a chief architect of the “bipartisan border deal” Republicans everywhere have been verbally disemboweling since the text first came out. Of course, the border deal is anything but and is legitimately awful, but that hasn’t stopped Sen. Sinema and others like Sen. James Lankford […]
Lindsey Graham praises bipartisan border deal despite fury from Donald Trump, House Republicans
A bipartisan agreement to beef up security along the southern border to combat the illegal immigration crisis has a conservative ally despite staunch opposition from Donald Trump and House Republicans: Sen. Lindsey Graham. The South Carolina Republican advocated for the deal, which was expected to be officially released later Sunday, as a “real change” to […]