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Biden calls for Congress to act to stop rail strike - Roll Call

As freight railroads face a potential strike, the president asks Congress to adopt a previously negotiated deal between labor and management.

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Advocates, industry push data privacy bill in lame-duck session

WASHINGTON — Privacy advocates and industry groups are urging lawmakers to get a bipartisan federal data privacy bill passed soon: either early in the new Congress or even in the remaining weeks of the lame duck session.

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Advocates, industry push data privacy bill in lame-duck session - Roll Call

Supporters of a data privacy bill hope Congress will pass legislation early in the next Congress or even in the lame-duck session.

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Defense panels face big roster upheaval - Roll Call

Membership of key defense committees will change with Tuesday's midterm election, adding to the substantial turnover from retirements.

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Offshore energy battle looms over 'must pass' defense bill - Roll Call

One of the most underappreciated high-stakes legislative fights, featuring some strange political bedfellows, is brewing after the elections.

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Mississippi rebuilds health earmark empire in post-Cochran era - Roll Call

The state joined states such as New York, California and Missouri in nabbing more than $50 million in health-related earmarks in fiscal 2022.

Roll Call

Underfunded states to get boost in high-tech research money

WASHINGTON — Two dozen mostly rural states are set to receive a greater share of federal research money from the recently enacted science and technology funding law as lawmakers, experts and researchers push to support talented scientists outside of major research hubs such as those in California, Massachusetts and New…

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Collins set for top GOP spot on Defense appropriations panel

WASHINGTON — In the next Congress, Susan Collins of Maine is expected to be the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s powerful Defense panel, sources say.

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Underfunded states to get boost in high-tech research money - Roll Call

Congress is steering more science and research funding to rural and low-income states to create opportunity outside of tech hubs.

Roll Call

Collins set for top GOP spot on Defense appropriations panel - Roll Call

Maine senator Susan Collins is poised to become the Republican on the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee.

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Republicans oppose social spending – will it cost them in the midterms?

Economy in focus: In Mississippi, poverty is high and water problems blight the state. But Republicans seem adamantly against spending to help their constituents

The Guardian - US

Federal agency to help pay for Mississippi flood control

A federal agency has set aside money to help guard Mississippi’s capital city and surrounding areas against flood damage following two deluges in three years

The Independent UK

With 2 Max models at risk, Congress moves to give Boeing a break

The Federal Aviation Administration sent a high-level letter to Boeing this month warning that the documents the manufacturer has provided for certification of the 737 Max 7 model are wholly inadequate — making it unlikely that Max 7 certification will be completed by a year-end deadline.

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Power 5 Commissioners Urge Congress to Take Action on NIL Regulations

The conference leaders sent a letter to two senators outlining how donors and collectives are abusing the current lack of name, image and likeness structure.

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GOP blamed for Mississippi water crisis

Jackson, a majority-Black city, has been "without clean, drinkable water" for weeks

Sports Illustrated

Tuberville Leading Latest Congressional Push for NIL Regulation

The former college football coach and Alabama senator is drafting a bill with West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin aimed at taming the chaotic NIL landscape.

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How the 'chips-plus' bill grew by nearly 1,000 pages - Roll Call

A handful of senators said they wouldn’t support a semiconductors incentive bill unless it also included science provisions.

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GOP may kill thousands of businesses

"More than half of the 177,300 restaurants waiting for an RRF grant will close in the next few months," group warns

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Grants for restaurants, small businesses blocked in Senate

WASHINGTON — Deficit-concerned senators blocked the Senate from considering a $48 billion aid package for restaurants and other small businesses Thursday, likely dealing a fatal blow to a months-long effort to provide a final round of relief for industries that suffered major revenue losses during the pandemic.

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Grants for restaurants, small businesses blocked in Senate - Roll Call

Deficit-concerned senators blocked the Senate from considering a $48 billion aid package for restaurants and other small businesses Thursday.

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Senate to test waters on money for restaurants, small businesses - Roll Call

The proposal includes $40 billion to backfill the so-called Restaurant Revitalization Fund for applicants who didn't receive any grant money.

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Restaurant bill backers battle deficit concerns, knowledge gap - Roll Call

A $48 billion aid package for restaurants and other pandemic-ravaged businesses faces steep hurdles in the Senate.

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Restaurant, small-business aid bill vote expected next week

The Senate is likely to vote next week on a $48 billion aid package to help restaurants and other pandemic-stricken businesses.

Axios

New push to make Big Tech pay more for bandwidth

The Senate is taking up a bill that would tax companies like Google and Amazon to support low-income Internet access.

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Ukraine aid, pandemic relief likely to be combined in Senate - Roll Call

Senate Democrats said they'll combine new aid for Ukraine with a COVID-19 aid measure that stalled earlier this month.

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