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- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tells reporters that the Senate will get the work done to fund the government before the Friday midnight deadline, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Senate sends Biden bill averting federal shutdown
By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press
Thu,02/17/22-1:16PM , 263 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate gave final approval Thursday to legislation averting a weekend government shutdown, sending President Joe Biden a measure designed to give bipartisan bargainers more time to reach an overdue deal financing federal agencies until fall.
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- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, D-Tenn., speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security hearing to examine COVID-19 fraud and price gouging, on Feb. 1, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two widely supported bills are encountering delays in the Senate. The House easily approved the measures last week with broad bipartisan support. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)
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Two popular bills, two problems: It's never easy in Senate
By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press
Mon,02/14/22-4:24PM , 298 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — No, the word “Senate” is not Latin for “It's never easy.” But sometimes it seems that way.

The House easily approved two bills last Tuesday with broad bipartisan support. There's no doubt Senate approval is inevitable, sooner rather than later.
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- Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Nov. 3, 2021, in Washington. With elections in view and Democrats' headline domestic bill in a rut, Sanders and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., have very different views of how things are going in their chamber. “I know we're spending the week dealing with assistant secretaries of something or other, and that's terribly important," Sanders, the progressive firebrand and Vermont independent, said dryly Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Democratic Senate debates merits of passion vs. pragmatism
By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press
Sat,02/12/22-7:42AM , 234 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — With elections in view and Democrats' headline domestic bill in a rut, Sens. Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer have very different takes on how things are going in their chamber.
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- A worker carries a large parcel at the United States Postal Service sorting and processing facility Nov. 18, 2021, in Boston. Congress would lift onerous budget requirements that have helped push the Postal Service deeply into debt and would require it to continue delivering mail six days per week under bipartisan legislation that approached House approval Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
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House OKs bill easing budget strains on Postal Service
By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press
Tue,02/08/22-3:11PM , 251 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress would lift onerous budget requirements that have helped push the Postal Service deeply into debt and would require it to continue delivering mail six days per week under bipartisan legislation the House approved Tuesday.
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