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Friday, July 30, 2021 This Week’s Dose Senate proceeds with $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure framework. House passed minibus appropriations bill with $253 billion for Health and Human Services. President Biden announces new vaccine policies for federal employees. Congress Senate Moved Forward on Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework.  After several weeks of negotiation, Senators on Wednesday approved, by a vote of 67-32, a key procedural motion to begin debate on the bipartisa...

New York Press. He now writes for Rolling Stone and will soon release his fourth book, ‘The Great Derangement.’ He’s also covering the ’08 campaign in a special RS diary entitled “Year of the Rat.” His caustic wit often compared to Hunter Thompson, he’s called Mitt Romney “a poll-chasing stuffed suit with a Max Headroom hairdo,” Tom Tancredo a “vengeful midget,” President Bush “a retarded Christian AA version of Woodrow Wilson” and gets Fred Thompson confused with Joe ...

House Armed Services chair ‘deeply concerned’ by White House budget delays 2 hours ago Roger Zakheim, left, Washington director of the Ronald Reagan Institute, speaks with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., during an event in Washington on April 13, 2021. (Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Institute) WASHINGTON ― The Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee blasted the White House on Tuesday for “dragging their feet” on the federal budget, u...

By   Paul McLeary on April 05, 2021 at 4:38 PM President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the Pentagon, with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley WASHINGTON: It’s budget season in Washington, but with no formal, detailed proposal for 2022 expected from the White House for weeks, the services and congressional committees are left to argue amongst themselves about hypothetical numbers. Multiple defense officials have promulgated the...

Republicans and Democrats continue to battle over whether to restrict or broaden voting in Arizona, with the Republicans in firm control of both houses. House members Brenda Barton and Walt Blackman — who represent the White Mountains and Rim Country — have both co-sponsored a resolution rejecting any effort by the U.S. Congress to make it easier to register to vote and cast mail-in ballots on the grounds controlling elections remains the responsibility of the states. A host of other ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The E-3 visa for Australian professionals became law in 2005. Currently a maximum of 10,500 are available each year, but, unlike the H-1B cap, the E-3 limit has never been reached. This makes it an attractive visa alternative for Australians, especially when H-1Bs are not available. E-3 visas allow Australian nationals to enter the United States to perform work in a specialty occupation, as long as the beneficiary has a bachelor’s d...

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Portsmouth Herald Dec. 22 -- To the Editor: The long awaited Covid-19 Relief (stimulus package) /Omnibus Bill/ Continuing Resolution spending was just voted on by Congress. It suddenly became a behemoth 5500 page legislation which no one had time to read. So incredibly disrespectful to "We the People!!" Congress just strapped the American people with another $2.3 trillion spending bill without reading it.  Let that sink in... Some of the details therein are now beginning to percolate to the ...

AP Photo/Patrick Semansky The political class and the corporate media are all up in arms today about the COVID-19 relief bill’s status. The nearly 6,000-page monstrosity is actually a COVID-19 relief bill, a Continuing Resolution, and the National Defense Authorization Act all rolled into one. President Trump’s signature would pass all three in what essentially is an end-run around a proper budget process amid emotional blackmail to get it done. Now the president is standing his ground, poi...

March 27, 2013 President Obama has signed into law the notorious Monsanto Protection Act legislation hidden inside of the Continuing Resolution spending bill, which protects Monsanto and its genetically modified creations from federal courts. Passing up the chance to veto the bill in favor of stopping Monsanto’s increasing monopoly on the food supply, Obama pushed the bill through into a law in a move that reminds us of his failed 2007 promise to ‘immediately’ label GMOs upon his elect...