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Some Education Department employees were deemed essential, so colleges and universities will see little change once the government reopens. Policy experts are less confident that laid-off employees will be able to return to work. The House of Representatives passed a legislative package Wednesday evening in a 222-209 vote, putting Congress one step closer to ending the federal government's longest shutdown in history. President Donald Trump signed the legislation, which first passed the Senate on Sunday, into law late Wednesday night.
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U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee and key architect of the CHIPS and Science Law, secured up to $500 million in...
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Each year Congress considers the "defense authorization bill." This bill gives the U.S. military its legal authorities. The House passed this bill last Thursday. One provision in the bill would attempt to limit the President's ability to ignore certain earmarks in the report language that accompanied the bill. This is an important moment in the debate
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Rozina Ali writes about the Islamophobic attacks on the candidate, which carry the weight of history and the urgency of the present.
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