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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (November 1st-5th)

The week’s major votes includ­ed House pas­sage of the Pro­tect Old­er Job Appli­cants Act and des­ig­na­tions of land for sev­er­al tribes and Sen­ate con­fir­ma­tion of sev­er­al Biden nom­i­nees. The Sen­ate also con­sid­ered the John R. Lewis Vot­ing Rights Advance­ment Act, but it did not advance due to Repub­li­can opposition. 

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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (September 27th-30th)

The week’s major votes includ­ed House and Sen­ate pas­sage of Extend­ing Gov­ern­ment Fund­ing and Deliv­er­ing Emer­gency Assis­tance Act, a stop­gap fed­er­al gov­ern­ment fund­ing bill, plus House pas­sage of the Wom­en’s Health Pro­tec­tion Act and Sen­ate con­fir­ma­tion of sev­er­al Biden nominees. 

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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (September 20th-24th)

The week’s major votes includ­ed House pas­sage of a con­tin­u­ing res­o­lu­tion to keep the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment open as well as the 2021 ver­sion of the Nation­al Defense Autho­riza­tion Act and Sen­ate con­fir­ma­tion of sev­er­al Biden judi­cial and exec­u­tive nominees. 

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In seeking to block a commission to probe the attack on the U.S. Capitol, top Republicans in Congress remind us their work is never done

The lead­er­ship of Repub­li­cans in Con­gress, prompt­ed by Don­ald Trump, spent Wednes­day, May 19th, 2021 hang­ing out to dry those House Repub­li­cans who want a Sep­tem­ber 11th style com­mis­sion to inves­ti­gate the Jan­u­ary 6th insur­rec­tion at the Capitol.