Stopgap Spending Bill Clears The Senate To Avert Government Shutdown For Another Week
Stopgap Spending Bill Clears The Senate To Avert Government Shutdown For Another Week Arjun Singh on February 29, 2024 The Senate on Thursday passed a continuing resolution (CR), the fourth of the…
Bill to avert government shutdown advances in US Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill to avert a partial U.S. government shutdown beginning this weekend cleared a first procedural hurdle in the Senate on Tuesday, as lawmakers scrambled to pass the measure…
House Passes Two-Step Continuing Resolution To Avert Gov’t Shutdown
House Passes Two-Step Continuing Resolution To Avert Gov’t Shutdown Mary Lou Masters on November 14, 2023 The Republican-held House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass Speaker Mike Johnson’s two-part continuing resolution (CR)…
US Senate Democrats tee up bill to avert government shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday took a procedural step to allow the Democratic-majority chamber to pass a stopgap government funding bill before a Nov. 17 deadline…
Republican infighting defeats US House bill to avert shutdown
(Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a Republican short-term spending measure aimed at averting a government shutdown, raising the odds that federal agencies will cease operations in just…
U.S. House Problem Solvers Caucus issues framework to avert gov’t shutdowns
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives late on Wednesday announced they had embraced a framework for legislation providing stopgap funds to…
De Beers ‘confident’ talks will avert strike at S.Africa’s Venetia mine
(Reuters) – Anglo American Plc’s De Beers is confident ongoing talks with South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) will avert a wage strike at Venetia, the country’s largest diamond mine, the…
Biden proposes to raise taxes on high earners to avert Medicare funding crisis- WaPo
(Reuters) – The White House will propose raising taxes on people earning more than $400,000 and reduce what Medicare pays for prescription drugs in a bid to keep the program stable, the…
Israel and Palestinians agree to deepen ties to avert violence
AMMAN (Reuters) – Israel and Palestinian officials pledged to work towards reviving efforts to reach a “just and lasting peace” deal at the end of talks in Aqaba, saying on Sunday they…
Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers preparing plan to avert debt-ceiling crisis
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is preparing a plan to defuse a looming crisis over the nation’s debt ceiling by changing it from a fixed…
Audi Mexico and union avert strike in deal for 9.4% pay rise
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Carmaker Audi’s Mexico unit and worker representatives have agreed to 9.4% salary raises for 2023, forestalling a strike in reaching a deal for one of the highest automaker…
French minister hails U.S. talks as ‘turning point’ to avert trade war
By Michel Rose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron’s discussions with U.S. President Joe Biden have resulted in a “major breakthrough” to avert a “subsidies race” between the two sides of…
Biden asks Congress to help avert rail strike
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday he was calling on Congress to intervene to avert a potential rail strike amid a railroad labor standoff that threatens to idle shipments…
Biden says his administration is engaged in talks to avert railroad strike
By Nandita Bose NANTUCKET, Mass. (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Thursday that his administration was involved in negotiations to avert a looming U.S. railroad strike that could shut down supply chains…
Factbox-Latest on ratification status of U.S. railroad unions to avert strike
(Reuters) – Major U.S. railroads and unions representing 115,000 workers reached a tentative deal last week and averted a potential strike that could have stalled almost 30% of U.S. cargo shipments by…
‘Cooling off’ period to avert shutdown as U.S. rail deal heads for vote -source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. railway parties have agreed to a cooling off period as standard part of the ratification process after reaching a tentative deal overnight, a move that would avert any…
U.S. hosting talks with union, railroads to avert shutdown
By David Shepardson and Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) – U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is hosting talks in Washington on Wednesday with freight railroad and union officials aimed at heading off a rail…
Elon Musk Calls For More Fossil Fuels And Nuclear Power To Avert Energy Crisis
Elon Musk Calls For More Fossil Fuels And Nuclear Power To Avert Energy Crisis Jack McEvoy on August 29, 2022 Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk told European energy leaders that the…
IMF says governments must protect the vulnerable ‘when things fall apart’, avert unrest
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON – Governments must target fiscal support to vulnerable populations hit hardest by rising energy and food prices, and now facing growing food insecurity as a result of Russia’s…
Fed’s Harker: “methodical” policy tightening designed to avert recession
(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve aims to tighten monetary policy in a methodical way that keeps the economic expansion intact, Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker said on Wednesday. “We’ve committed…
Japan likely to avert stagflation, says senior central banker
By Leika Kihara TOKYO -Japan is unlikely to slide into stagflation, a condition where rising inflation and shrinking economic growth co-exist, a senior central bank official said on Wednesday. With the Ukraine…
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