Parliament has begun a lengthy winter break, but more than a hundred bills are still on the table and ready to be picked up when lawmakers return to Ottawa in late January. Some are major Liberal priorities. Others are government promises left languishing on the table. And dozens were proposed by individual senators or members…

The Biden administration has rebuked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for threatening withdrawal of Republican support regarding a semiconductor bill if Democrats move ahead with their economic reconciliation bill. “The Republican Senate leader is holding hostage a bipartisan package [semiconductor bill] to strengthen American competitiveness versus China, that would yield hundreds of thousands of…

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) on Friday said she had been elected to “be a workhorse not a show horse,” as she pushed back against criticism of her negotiating methods regarding legislation. In an interview with ABC15 Arizona, Sinema, a lead negotiator for the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure bill, said her focus is now to manage…

Commentary The budget reconciliation package pushed by Democrats creates a new expanded child tax credit (CTC) that would pay illegal immigrants some $10.5 billion next year. All immigrants with children are eligible, regardless of how they got here and whether their children are U.S.-born. This includes the roughly 600,000 unaccompanied minors and persons in family…

After a day of negotiations, the House of Representatives has passed the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk late evening. House Democrats late Friday had reached an agreement to vote on the bill, as well as to pass a rule to set up a future vote on Biden’s ambitious $1.75…

House Democrats’ have secured the inclusion of four weeks’ of federal paid medical and family leave in their $1.75 trillion compromise reconciliation bill, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.) announced Nov. 3. In a statement, the Massachusetts Democrat said the “historic” provisions had both been included as a part of the Build Back Better Act, as…

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are expected to vote on Friday on a revised reconciliation bill devoted to climate change and social programs, and the bipartisan infrastructure bill already passed in the Senate in August, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said late Thursday. The House Rules Committee met late Thursday to advance the final text of the spending bill….

While Democrats advertise their 2,500-page, over $3.5 trillion legislation which aims to expand government social programs to help improve the economic prosperity of Americans, Republicans oppose the increased spending saying it will create an unhealthy dependency on the federal government and ultimately raise taxes on the average American. Ranking member of the Senate Energy and…

While Democrats advertise their 2,500-page, over $3.5 trillion legislation which aims to expand government social programs to help improve the economic prosperity of Americans, Republicans oppose the increased spending saying it will create an unhealthy dependency on the federal government and ultimately raise taxes on the average American. Ranking member of the Senate Energy and…

Commentary Democrats are quarreling over the price tag of their Build Back Better bill, but the real problem is what’s in it. The bill coerces workers to join unions, imposes racial preferences on every facet of life and redistributes money from workers to takers. Fortunately, this bill is in limbo. Moderate Democrats such as Sen….