Former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson Passes At 93
Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) (L). (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) OAN Staff Brook Mallory4:39pm – Friday, March 14th, 2025 Former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, known as a moderate conservative with a witty sense of humor, passed away Friday at the age of 93. advertisement Associated Press Simpson reported that he had been struggling to recover […]
Senate passes Trump-backed spending bill to avoid shutdown
The government closure was averted hours before the 11:59pm deadline on Friday. The senator voted 54-46 and passed the StopGap spending bill, which only had 51 votes to be approved. Almost every Republican has supported the measure, with Senator R-KY, R-KY. All Democrats opposed it, except for Senator Jeanne Shaheen. Maine Sen. Angus King, who […]
Senate passes ‘fix’ to avert DC budget cuts
The senator voted Friday to pass the law to prevent cuts in DC's local budget after city officials warned that the district was facing a $1 billion hit under a suspended government funding bill approved at the Senate moment. The bill allowed districts to continue operating in the 2025 budget, which was adopted, and was […]
Former Wyoming Republican Senator Alan Simpson Passes Away at 93 Years Old
Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY), a senator known for filling the partisan gap, passed away at the age of 93. Simpson I passed Earlier on Friday after struggling to recover from a broken hip in December, according to a statement from the Buffalo Bill Center in the West, a group of museums he served for […]
Arizona Democrat Rep. Raul Grijalva Passes At 77
Raul Grialba (D-AZ), chairman of the U.S. Natural Resources Committee, will release a closing statement at a hearing in Washington, DC on June 29, 2020 examining Park Police's response to the Lafayette Square protests (Photo: Bonnie Cash Pool/Getty Images) OAN Staff Brook Mallory6:15pm – Thursday, March 13th, 2025 Arizona's Democratic leader, Raul Grialba, passed away […]
Barely: House GOP passes government funding bill without help from Democrats
I learned something at Capitol Hill this week. House Republicans can pass government funding bills without democratic aid. barely. 217-213. Republicans could only lose one vote. And that's all they lost: Rep. Thomas Massey, R-KY. Hitchhiker's guide to where we stand in potential government closures The GOP bill picked up one Democrat. Passing the government […]
House Passes Vote to Overturn Biden-Era DeFi Broker Rule – Decrypt
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 292-132 on Tuesday to retract IRS rules that require a decentralized financial platform to collect and report taxpayer information. The vote assisted critics who claimed that 76 Congressional Democrats crossed the floor and then placed them in place to place technically impossible compliance requirements on the Defi protocol. The […]
House Passes CR in Huge Step Forward for Trump Agenda
President Donald Trump is home on the way to solidify the first step on his government spending agenda. The House passed a continuing resolution (CR) on Tuesday, continuing several changes Republicans prefer until the end of the September 30th fiscal year. Voting for a relatively clean CR followed a successful procedural vote early in the […]
Trump-backed bill to avert government shutdown passes House
House Republicans passed a federal funding bill that President Donald Trump supported primarily on Tuesday. It also marked one of the rare occasions in recent memory that the majority of House Democrats voted against a bill that would prevent the government from shutting down. The bill passed primarily along partisan lines. The measure is a […]
Trump passes Clinton, gives longest modern address to joint session of Congress
On Tuesday night, President Trump surpassed former President Clinton's previous marks and gave the longest speech to a joint Congressional meeting in modern history. Trump spoke to both Houses of Congress for nearly 100 minutes from start to finish, and a brief break from Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) who took Trump early in his speech […]