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Texas is getting $3.3 billion in federal funds from a Biden plan to boost broadband expansion efforts. Both its Senators voted against it.

Republicans have stalled out on promised action to fix the border crisis after winning back a majority in the House due to infighting among the House and Senate GOP.

After more than a decade-long cycle of American mass shootings and congressional gridlock, lawmakers in Congress voiced hesitant optimism this week that they could find a bipartisan answer to the recurring deadly violence.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) attends a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in March. AP Photo/Susan Walsh US judges face tighter

March 6, 2021 329 WASHINGTON (AP) — An exhausted Senate narrowly approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Saturday as President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies notched a victory they called crucial for hoisting the country out of the pandemic and economic doldrums. After laboring through the night on a mountain of amendments — nearly all from Republicans and rejected — bleary-eyed senators approved the sprawling package on a 50-49 party-line vote. That sets up final congressional approval by the House next week so lawmakers can send it to Biden for his signature. “We tell the...