WASHINGTON — Congress gave final approval on Monday to an emergency aid package of nearly $51 billion to help millions of victims of Hurricane Sandy, ending the legislation's long and complicated odyssey.
About the same moment, Democratic leaders in the Senate met with President Obama at the White House, where they discussed tactics to pass year-end legislation in terms that favor Democrats.
Both parties predict the payroll tax cut will be extended beyond its Dec. 31 expiration, though the question of how — or whether — to pay for it and some other unrelated issues in the year-end legislation continued to hold it up on Wednesday.
Bank lobbyists looking for the seven votes needed to up-end legislation know where to start.
Even before this year-end legislation, the national debt was already huge relative to the size of the U.S. economy.
The results were worse in the second scenario when the GAO used assumptions that are more consistent with the measures adopted in the recent year-end legislation.
He said Britain would become the first country to implement European Union legislation ending hidden surcharges.
Never mind that, in addition to being virulently anti-choice, Palin opposed legislation ending pay discrimination.
Then, in the spring of 1862 Lincoln signed legislation ending slavery in the District of Columbia and the federal territories.
Congress has not given final approval to legislation ending federal subsidies for private student loans for college.
Efforts by Ms. Merkel to move swiftly, and independently of lawmakers, have resulted in legislation ending up in Germany's Constitutional Court.
