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Check out whats clicking on FoxBusiness.com. The U.S. Senate, in a 67-32 procedural vote Wednesday, advanced a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill -- despite the fact that the full text of the proposal hasnt been made public yet. At least one Republican voting no on the proposal to begin debating the package expressed his frustration on Twitter after the procedural vote. "I voted no on #infrastructure a week ago because there was no legislative text," Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of ...

A group of Republican senators are holding up the confirmation of Dilawar Syed, President Joe Biden’s nominee for deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration, because of his involvement with Emgage Action, a Muslim American advocacy group. The AAPI Victory Fund released a press statement July 21, expressing outrage at the “delaying tactics” of Senate Republicans because of the nominee’s religion. Several Jewish American organizations also rallied to support Sye...

Updated Democrats back Biden US lands pick assailed by Republicans BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A bitterly divided U.S. Senate panel deadlocked Thursday on President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee vast government-owned lands in the West, as Democrats united behind a nominee whose credibility was assailed by Republicans over her links to a 1989 environmental sabotage case. The 10-10 tie in the Senate En...

  Share Source: AP Photo/Jeff Roberson Planned Parenthood, which performs more abortions than any other entity in the country, is already taxpayer-funded, yet they somehow still get even more.  The Small Business Administration (SBA) approved funds for Planned Parenthood it was not supposed to, to the tune of $80 million, in the form of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The Trump administration requested the funds back in March 2020. Last August, then Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) spearhea...

  This file photo taken on Sept 7, 2020 shows the Nord Stream 2 gas line landfall facility in Lubmin, north eastern Germany. [Photo/Agencies] WASHINGTON -- The United States and Germany on Wednesday announced an agreement on the issue of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, an effort to reduce the risk that the contentious project could pose to Ukraine. The 1,230-km gas pipeline, expected to be completed next month, would bring 55 billion cubic meters of gas annually from Russia to Germ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), members of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) today (July 21, 2021) led the entire Senate Republican caucus in urging President Biden to abandon his effort to impose a capital gains tax increase on family-owned businesses, farms, and ranches. Repealing this part of the tax code would have a devastating effect on multi-generation operations, which could lead to job ...

U.S., Germany reach deal on contentious Nord Stream 2 issue Xinhua 22 Jul 2021, 08:05 GMT+10 WASHINGTON, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The United States and Germany on Wednesday announced an agreement on the issue of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, an effort to reduce the risk that the contentious project could pose to Ukraine. The 1,230-km gas pipeline, expected to be completed next month, would bring 55 billion cubic meters of gas annually from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea. A seni...

U.S., Germany to vow action on Russia in Nord Stream 2 deal -sources Reuters 3 hrs ago © Reuters/Hannibal Hanschke FILE PHOTO: Nord Stream 2 land fall facility in Lubmin By Andrea Shalal and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Germany will take action against Russia if it uses the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to harm Ukraine or other Eastern European countries, according to two sources familiar with a bilateral agreement expected on Wednesday. The agreement, hammered ...

June 30, 2021 A major Idaho trade organization representing loggers sent a letter to Senate lawmakers to protest President Joe Biden’s nomination of a former ecoterrorist, Tracy Stone-Manning, to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Associated Logging Contractors of Idaho (ALC-Idaho), wrote to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday highlighting Stone-Manning’s role in a 1989 tree spiking incident, wherein left-wing environmental terrorists jammed metal rods ...

Sen. Risch: ‘Yes,’ Voters Should Show ID at the Polls By Ashlianna Kreiner | June 23, 2021 | 4:55pm EDT Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho) (Getty Images) (CNS News) -- In reference to the Democrats’ “For the People Act,” which would eliminate state voter ID laws, Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho) said, ‘Yes,’ voters should provide an ID at the polls. On Tuesday, Senate Republicans successfully filibustered the “For the People Act,” prevent...