What initially started out as an employee criminal background screener program has morphed into a biometric criminal background check program for the public.
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The House passed a resolution on Tuesday night calling on Vice President Mike Pence to convene the Cabinet and use the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to remove President Trump from office. However, before the vote was cast Pence sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., saying he would not invoke the amendment. As a result, on Wednesday the House will take up Articles of Impeachment, which charged Trump with “incitement of insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol last week. Several Republicans already said they would support impeachment.
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Twentynine Palms, the southern California desert locale that hosts the Marine Corps’ largest base, is atop the list of military housing areas that will see the largest percentage increases in the housing allowances paid to servicemembers and their families in the New Year, according to a Federal News Network analysis of Defense Department data.
Service members in every paygrade will see a double-digit percentage point increase in their Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) in their first paycheck of 2021. The average increase across all ranks is 15.2%. And the substantial increase is in line with private sector data. According to the real estate firm Redfin, home prices in Twentynine Palms jumped 19.6% in the past year.
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital
Congress. Due to President Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last Wednesday, the House plans to vote to override the veto today, with the Senate following suit tomorrow. Meanwhile, though President Trump signed the omnibus and COVID-19 relief package into law last night, the House is still planning for a full floor vote today on the Cash Act, which would replace the $600 stimulus payments in the coronavirus-omnibus legislation with $2,000 stimulus payments. House and Senate Democrats both support the larger payments, but Republicans remain divided on the issue. The Senate may also consider legislation that repeals or reforms Section 230.
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Dec 23, 2020 04:54 AM EST
Designed for providing the long-awaited assistance to American industries, and small businesses ailing from the COVID-19 pandemic, both chambers of Congress passed a $900 billion relief measure on Monday night.
Pairing to the $900 billion package is the $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill that will fund the federal government through September.
Divided into two parts, the vote of the House of Representatives first includes the Commerce, Justice, Defense; Science; which was passed by a 327 to 85 vote, CBS News reported.
The second part involves eight spending bills which include the coronavirus relief bill and passed by a margin of 359 to 53.