The U.S. Senate gavelled into business Thursday for a rare August session to conduct two pieces of business. The first was to pass a bill to spend an additional $600 million on border security on America’s southern border. The second was to honor the late Sen. Ted Stevens, who died Monday night in a plane [...]
Call it a rare bipartisan moment if you like, but the U.S. House easily approved a $600 million bill Tuesday authorizing more than 1,000 additional border agents and surveillance drones to patrol the border with Mexico. With the House back from a break for a one day session, the legislation was passed quickly under suspension [...]
The House has approved the final version of a bill that makes sweeping changes in the way Wall Street firms and most American financial institutions do business. The conference report of the Wall Street reform legislation passed the House Wednesday night on a mostly party line vote of 237 to 192, with all Democrats and [...]
The House on Wednesday has passed sweeping reforms of the way Wall Street does business, nearly two years after the 2008 crisis that brought the American economy to the brink of collapse. The party line vote was 237 to 192, with all but three Republicans opposing the legislation that would enact the most comprehensive overhaul [...]
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