chief advocacy officer for the American College of Physicians.

The Housepassed the bill.House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the measure less than a week before funding from a short-term bill passed in September was set to expire.

but later said Democrats would support it given its exclusion of spending cuts and extreme right-wing policy riders.Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he hoped there would be a strong bipartisan vote for the House bill.McCarthys ouster paralyzed the House from moving any legislation for three weeks amid Republican Party infighting over who should replace him.

while the Senate has passed three that were grouped together in a minibus.Why is the government facing another shutdown?Congress is responsible for passing a dozen appropriations bills that fund many federal government agencies for another year before the start of a new fiscal year on Oct.

The funding bills are often grouped together into a large piece of legislation.

Washington The Senate is expected to vote on a stopgap funding bill on Wednesday that would punt a spending fight until early next year.but argued DePape had to be acquitted because the charges of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault of a family member of a federal official have to be linked with Pelosis official duties and not just political reasons.

President Joe Bidens son Hunter Biden.Other names on his list included California Gov.

The defense never challenged the who.Paul Pelosi gave his account of the attack publicly for the first time.