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Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrats Patty Murray and Charles E. Schumer crossed milestones in the Senate.

​WASHINGTON — The House cleared a catchall omnibus bill Friday containing $1.7 trillion in fiscal 2023 annual and emergency spending and a bevy of unrelated legislation lawmakers wanted to pass before the end of the current Congress.

The House cleared a catchall omnibus bill Friday containing $1.7 trillion in fiscal 2023 annual and emergency spending.

The Senate is set to vote on final passage of the sprawling $1.7 trillion fiscal 2023 omnibus package on Thursday.

Ukrainian President Zelensky, in a rare joint address to Congress by a foreign leader, pleaded for more military aid to counter Russia.

Senators left the Capitol late Wednesday as a partisan dispute over pandemic-era border restrictions snarled debate on the omnibus.

The Senate took its first step Tuesday toward passing a nearly $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package needed before Christmas Eve.

WASHINGTON — Democratic and Republican appropriators released a sprawling, $1.7 trillion fiscal 2023 omnibus spending bill early Tuesday morning, setting up a race to the finish line for the 117th Congress by the end of this week.

Appropriators released a sprawling, $1.7 trillion fiscal 2023 omnibus spending bill, setting up a race to finish by the end of the week.

Release of a massive $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package with all manner of unrelated add-ons was taking longer than expected.

WASHINGTON — Appropriations Committee leaders distributed spending allocations to their dozen subcommittees on Thursday, sources familiar with the talks said, one of the last steps before lawmakers and staff can finish drafting the sprawling omnibus package they plan to unveil Monday afternoon.