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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included House passage of the Revised HEROES Act and Senate passage of a stopgap budget bill to avert an October government shutdown. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, October 4th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. House Roll Call Votes, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included the confirmation of Franklin U. Valderrama and House passage of legislation to require accommodations for pregnant women in the workplace. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, September 20th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. House Roll Call Votes, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major vote concerned the question of whether or not to advance a pathetic excuse for a coronavirus relief package offered by Republicans, which was defeated by the Senate. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, September 13th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included House passage of the Delivering for America Act and the defeat of Republican amendments to the bill. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, August 23rd, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. House Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes consisted of Senate confirmation of Mark Menezes to be Deputy Secretary of Energy and approval of a bill banning TikTok from government owned mobile devices. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, August 9th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included House passage of two bills to help childcare providers and Senate confirmation of Derek Tai-Ching Kan to the OMB. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, August 2nd, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. House Roll Call Votes, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included House passage of the Great American Outdoors Act and House/Senate passage of a major military appropriations bill. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, July 26th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. House Roll Call Votes, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included House passage of a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill and Patient Protection Act expansion plus the Senate's failure to endorse a total withdrawal from Afghanistan. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, July 5th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. House Roll Call Votes, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included House passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 and a D.C. statehood bill, along with the failure of a Senate Republican policing reform proposal. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, June 28th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. House Roll Call Votes, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included passage of a landmark public lands funding bill and the confirmation of one of Mitch McConnell's protege to the D.C. Circuit Court. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, June 21st, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included the advancement of a major public lands funding bill and the confirmation of Charles Brown as U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, June 14th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included the confirmation of Trump appointees to head the Voice of America and a new position, inspector general of COVID-19 relief funds. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, June 7th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included House passage of a bill to patch the Paycheck Protection Program and transmission of a five-year extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to conference with the Senate. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, May 31st, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. House Roll Call Votes |
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| Excerpt: | The week's major votes included the Mitch McConnell engineered confirmations of Trump nominees John Ratcliffe (to be DNI) and James Trainor (to the FEC). |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Sunday, May 24th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Voterama in Congress |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Series & Special Reports |
| Other Tags: | U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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