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The House set a new record Wednesday for the longest vote ever held in the chamber in history, breaking a record that had only been set earlier in the month.
The Senate early Thursday narrowly passed, 51-48, a $9 billion foreign aid and public media rescissions package, sending the spending cancellations sought by President Donald Trump back to the House where the clock is ticking to get it cleared by Friday.
Murkowski said on Wednesday that she still opposes the bill after voting on Tuesday against advancing it forward.
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives cleared key procedural hurdles on crypto legislation on Wednesday, a day after President Donald Trump intervened to save the initiative, paving the way for the first federal law for digital assets.
The Republican-led House could vote as early as Thursday afternoon on legislation requested by President Donald Trump to cancel $9 billion in foreign aid and federal funding for public broadcasting. The Senate narrowly approved the measure early Thursday,