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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.

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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

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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

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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

Salon

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.

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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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Aid to restaurants, businesses faces Senate headwinds - Roll Call

The Senate may soon test the bipartisan limits on pandemic spending as Democratic leaders prepare for action on a small-business aid package.

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Senators say Pentagon must do more to help Ukraine defeat Russia - Roll Call

Senators pressed Defense Department leaders to send more weapons to Ukraine more quickly, with the goal of defeating Russia.

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House passes $55B aid package for restaurants, other businesses - Roll Call

The House passed a $55 billion package of aid to restaurants, food trucks, bars, caterers, brewpubs, bakeries and pandemic-ravaged industries.

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Analysis: Inflation may shrink Biden’s big defense plan

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s new defense budget request is more sizable than many observers had expected, and Congress is all but certain to beef it up further.

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Inflation may shrink Biden's big defense plan - Roll Call

With inflation eroding the power of the dollar more by the day, how much Biden's proposed defense budget would actually buy is up in the air.

Tribune News Service

Antecedentes de Brown Jackson son inusuales para un candidato a la Corte Suprema. Tiene que ver con Miami

Feb. 11—Como estudiante excepcional y formidable polemista en la preparatoria Miami Palmetto, Ketanji Brown Jackson podía haber elegido entre muchas carreras, pero ya sabía exactamente lo que quería hacer.

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New round of aid for restaurants, others likely to be the last

WASHINGTON — Senate Small Business Chair Benjamin L. Cardin is hoping to attach another, final round of COVID-19 aid for restaurants and other small businesses that rely on in-person customers to the delayed fiscal 2022 appropriations package lawmakers are aiming to pass by March 11.

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New round of aid for restaurants, others likely to be the last - Roll Call

Senate Small Business Chair Benjamin L. Cardin is hoping to attach a final round of COVID-19 aid for restaurants to the delayed fiscal 2022 spending package.

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