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A woman and child walk on a trail at Valley Forge National Historical Park in Valley Forge, Pa., Nov. 1, 2021. Senate Democrats and Republicans each want to flash election-year signals that they’re helping families struggling with rising costs and the two-year-old pandemic. But the parties differ over how to do that. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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Dems, GOP set inflation, COVID mandates as election themes
By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press
Sat,02/19/22-8:02AM , 370 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats and Republicans each want to flash election-year signals that they are riding to the rescue of families struggling with rising costs and the 2-year-old coronavirus pandemic.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tells reporters that the Senate will get the work done to fund the government before the Friday midnight deadline, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate sends Biden bill averting federal shutdown
By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press
Thu,02/17/22-11:24PM , 231 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has given final approval to legislation averting a weekend government shutdown, sending President Joe Biden a measure designed to give bipartisan bargainers more time to reach an overdue deal financing federal agencies until fall.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tells reporters that the Senate will get the work done to fund the government before the Friday midnight deadline, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate sends Biden bill averting federal shutdown
By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press
Thu,02/17/22-1:16PM , 227 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate gave final approval Thursday to legislation averting a weekend government shutdown, sending President Joe Biden a measure designed to give bipartisan bargainers more time to reach an overdue deal financing federal agencies until fall.
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, D-Tenn., speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security hearing to examine COVID-19 fraud and price gouging, on Feb. 1, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two widely supported bills are encountering delays in the Senate. The House easily approved the measures last week with broad bipartisan support. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

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Two popular bills, two problems: It's never easy in Senate
By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press
Mon,02/14/22-4:24PM , 343 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — No, the word “Senate” is not Latin for “It's never easy.” But sometimes it seems that way.

The House easily approved two bills last Tuesday with broad bipartisan support. There's no doubt Senate approval is inevitable, sooner rather than later.
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