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White House blasts new ban on flying BLM, gay pride flags at embassies

March 24, 2024 House, White, Blasts, Embassies, pride, Flying, flags0 comment

President Biden signed a $ 1.2 trillion spending bill into law Saturday but not without regrets, as the White House blasted a provision tucked inside the legislation that will prevent his State Department from flying Black Lives Matter or gay pride flags at foreign embassies. The Washington Times stories: White House

USPS unions, top House Democrat back bill setting harsher sentences for robbing letter carriers

March 16, 2024 robbing, Democrat, carriers, House, back, Bill, letter, sentences, Setting, unions, USPS, harsher0 comment

Ryan Pierani remembers getting robbed when he used to deliver pizzas. But he never expected to be robbed on the job while delivering mail and packages, as a letter carrier for the Postal Service. “When you carry cash on you, you always expect to be robbed,” Pierani, now a letter carrier in Cincinnati, Ohio, said in an interview Wednesday. “You have to be on high alert, and it happens here and there.” But Pierani wasn’t on guard, when a young man approached his USPS-marked delivery van in January 2022. He…

The House approves a short-term extension to avoid a shutdown. Senators are up next to vote

February 29, 2024 Next, House, Vote, avoid, senators, approves, shortterm, shutdown, Extension0 comment

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed another short-term spending measure Thursday that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22, avoiding a shutdown for parts of the federal government that would otherwise kick in Saturday. The Senate is expected to vote on the bill later in the day. The short-term extension is the fourth in recent months, and many lawmakers expect it to be the last for the current fiscal year, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, who said that negotiators had…

House Republicans launch probe into White House’s funding of group with ties to Hamas

February 17, 2024 Republicans, House, probe, into, White, ties, group, launch, funding, Hamas, houses0 comment

A House Republican panel launched a probe into the Biden administration’s renewed funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency following allegations that members of the organization participated in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The Washington Times stories: White House

House Democrats swat away poor polling, insist Biden is fit to serve

February 9, 2024 Democrats, Biden, House, serve, Poor, away, insist, polling, swat0 comment

House Democrats at their annual issues conference batted away political liabilities facing their party and President Biden. The Washington Times stories: White House

Congress has a lot to cram in this week before the House goes on recess.

February 5, 2024 Congress, House, Before, This, Week, goes, recess, cram0 comment

Immigration and what to do about the Southern border will occupy Congress this week. Lawmakers hope to actually read the purported bill and maybe get the issue off the dime. For a look ahead on Capitol Hill, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan. Interview Transcript: Tom Temin Is it going to be immigration, immigration, immigration this week because the House is on recess after this week? Fair to say? Loren Duggan Well, I think that’s going to be one of the…