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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.

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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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Congress should pass defense budget to deter Putin, senators say - Roll Call

A bipartisan group of senators pressed to pass a defense funding bill and said it would help deter Russian aggression.

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GOP worried about "woke" Court pick

Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy worries Biden’s nominee will “rewrite Constitution” to “advance a woke agenda”

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Editorial: Josh Hawley would see any Black woman as a ‘hard woke left’ choice for Supreme Court

A Black woman — any Black woman — nominated to fill Stephen Breyer’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court will be “someone who is the beneficiary” of an affirmative action “quota,” according to Mississippi Republican Roger Wicker.

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Supreme court: Stephen Breyer ‘did not want to die on bench’, says brother

Pressure campaign was fired by fear of repeat of disaster when Republicans replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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White House burns Wicker for criticising Biden supreme court pick

Republican senator says choice will be beneficiary of affirmative action but critics point to support for Trump vow to pick woman

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