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President Joe Biden on Monday sent 20 district court nominations to the Senate, including 17 picks who were being resubmitted after not receiving confirmation votes last year, although the package did not include three judicial nominees who had been previously announced.

President Joe Biden is nominating a former New Hampshire attorney general to the First Circuit and naming three district court picks in his first round of new judicial nominations in 2023, the White House announced Wednesday.

President Joe Biden renominated more than two dozen judicial picks Tuesday after the Democrats' new Senate majority began its session, the next step in the confirmation process for nominees who did not receive votes last year.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 225-201 on Friday to pass a $1.7 trillion spending package funding the government through September and approving a number of last-minute policy agreements at the end of the congressional session.

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to pass a massive $1.7 trillion bill funding the government through September ahead of a looming deadline this week, approving a package that included a number of last-minute agreements and policy preferences at the end of the congressional session.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously Monday to refer former President Donald Trump to the Department of Justice for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, citing four criminal statutes they say he violated in the lead-up to and in the midst of the deadly insurrection.

Four district court nominees appeared Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee and faced questions on their records and judicial philosophies in what is expected to be the final nominations hearing in the Senate this year.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted in bipartisan fashion Thursday to pass landmark legislation enshrining protections for same-sex and interracial couples into law, ending a monthslong negotiating process in Congress and sending the bill to President Joe Biden's desk.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted in bipartisan fashion Thursday to pass landmark legislation enshrining protections for same-sex and interracial couples into law, ending a monthslong negotiating process in Congress and sending the bill to President Joe Biden's desk.

The SAFE Banking Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at normalizing the banking industry in the federally unlawful cannabis sector, once again hit a roadblock in Congress this week, but proponents are eyeing other vehicles for passing the bill during the lame duck session.