Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia's U.S. lawmakers voted (March 9th-13th)

The week's major votes included the passage of the 21st Century Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream to Housing Act in the Senate and the confirmation of Trump nominee Joshua Rudd to be a general. The Senate remains at an impasse over funding for the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. Last Week In Con­gress is a long-run­ning Sun­day series on NPI's Cas­ca­dia Advo­cate that helps peo­ple across the Pacif­ic North­west and beyond fol­low how Wash­ing­ton, Ore­gon, and Ida­ho's Unit­ed States law­mak­ers vot­ed. The illus­tra­tion above incor­po­rates pho­to art depict­ing the U.S. Capi­tol from NPI's image library. Good morn­ing! Here's how Cas­ca­di­a's Unit­ed States Sen­a­tors vot­ed on major issues dur­ing the leg­isla­tive week end­ing Fri­day, March 13th. The House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives was in recess. LANDMARK HOUSING LEGISLATION: The Sen­ate on March 12th passed the amend­ed ver­sion of the 21st Cen­tu­ry Renew­ing Oppor­tu­ni­ty in the Amer­i­can Dream to Hous­ing Act (H.R. 6644), spon­sored by Rep­re­sen­ta­tive J. French Hill, R‑Arkansas, to estab­lish numer­ous fed­er­al hous­ing mort­gage, reg­u­la­tion, and oth­er poli­cies, with the gen­er­al goal of...

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