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The United States Senate—led by Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell—passed a bipartisan Myanmar (originally “Burma) amendment in the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to support democracy in Myanmar. It will be sent to President Biden’s desk for his signature.

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday advanced a bipartisan deal that paves the way for lawmakers to raise the debt ceiling, a move that positions Congress to stave off a catastrophic default ahead of a fast-approaching fiscal deadline.

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are aiming to vote and approve a roughly $2 trillion package to overhaul the nations health care, education, climate, immigration and tax laws before Christmas, hoping to muscle through a jam-packed schedule to deliver the remaining piece of President Bidens economic agenda.

WASHINGTON - House lawmakers on Thursday adopted a bipartisan bill to fund the government into early next year, but a Republican revolt in the Senate against President Joe Bidens vaccine policies still threatened to grind key federal agencies and programs to a halt.

WASHINGTON - The triumphant passage by House Democrats on Friday of President Joe Bidens chief domestic priority - a sweeping $2 trillion package that invests heavily in health care, the social safety net and climate - now sets up the ultimate test of his legislative acumen as Biden navigates a Senate with no room for error.

WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic and Republican leaders said Thursday morning they had clinched a short-term deal to raise the countrys debt ceiling, setting Congress on track to avert a government default on its debts in roughly 11 days.

The Senate’s committee on legal reform has approved changes to 885 laws while advising that 209 laws should be repealed altogether.

The Senate passed a $550 billion infrastructure plan that would represent the biggest burst of spending on U.S. public works in decades and notch a significant victory for President Joe Bidens economic agenda.

WASHINGTON - The long march toward equal rights for gay, lesbian and transgender Americans - whose advocates have eyed major advances with complete Democratic control in Washington - has run into a wall of opposition in the U.S. Senate.

After Japan’s Ambassador Kazuya Nashida tested positive for Covid-19 on April 3, MPs and senators who had attended an award ceremony in the envoy’s residence on March 22 also had themselves tested.

WASHINGTON - The Senate approved a sweeping $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan on Saturday, putting Congress one step closer to fulfilling an electoral promise from President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies to shepherd a swift, equal recovery to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden intends to meet on Monday with 10 GOP senators who are calling on him to make a bipartisan deal instead of forging ahead with a party-line vote on his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan.