The amendments, if adopted, would alter S.1, a mostly Republican-sponsored bill that would approve a key permit for building a segment of Keystone XL, which would bring crude oil to the United States from Canada's oil sands region.
House Democrats signaled their willingness to approve a key budget bill next week without attaching new spending limits.
Led by the powerhouse lobbying of the American Petroleum Institute, a coalition of Fortune 500 energy companies are using the Ukraine crisis to spur Congress to approve a key policy goal: Easing regulations on the export of U.S. natural gas.
The parliament approved Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a key member of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko's party, as prime minister.
The directives, which were approved by a key parliamentary committee last month, require companies to publish their payments to foreign governments.
A slate of service cuts that would affect nearly every bus, subway and commuter rail rider in New York moved one step closer to passage on Monday after the plan was approved by a key committee of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The bipartisan Restore the Gulf Coast Act of 2011 was approved by a key Senate committee in September, but has not come to a vote there or in the House.
An anti-leak measure approved by a key Senate committee would all but eliminate a long-standing practice in Washington in which senior intelligence analysts occasionally provide what are known as background briefings for reporters.
Currently, the research has been approved as a key project in the National Science & Technology Support Program (NSTSP) of Twelfth 5th Plan by Ministry of Science and Technology in 2012.
Jun. 25, 2018, 1 41 p.m. Employees of the California Legislature will have a new way to register workplace harassment complaints against lawmakers, legislative staff, lobbyists and the public under a revamped policy approved by a key panel on Monday.
