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The Illinois General Assembly may attempt to legalize assisted suicide during next week’s Lame Duck session.
The Illinois General Assembly may try to legalize assisted suicide next week.
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Congress Unveils $858 Billion NDAA
Congress Unveils $858 Billion NDAA
The NDAA also includes $800 million in the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, a program that allows the US government to purchase weapons for Ukraine. But the vast majority of spending on the Ukraine war will come through emergency funding, and the White House is hoping Congress approves a new $37.7 billion tranche of Ukraine aid during the lame-duck period.
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Vote on Yemen war powers imminent in the Senate
The expedited measure that would end the U.S. role in the war in Yemen and alter Washington’s relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Vote on Yemen war powers imminent in the Senate
Biden calls on Congress to impose rail contract in a major assault on workers’ democratic rights
President Biden published a statement Monday night calling on Congress to intervene to block a national rail strike and impose a contract which tens of thousands of railroad workers voted down. A few hours later, outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House of Representatives would take up such a bill this week and send it to the Senate with the “hope that this necessary, strike-averting legislation will earn a strongly bipartisan vote…”
Biden calls on Congress to impose rail contract in a major assault on workers’ democratic rights
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