Tag: Bipartisan deal
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Senate Edges Toward Deal to End Government Shutdown
Overview: A Potential Breakthrough Eases Budget Uncertainty The U.S. Senate moved closer to ending the government shutdown after a small but pivotal bloc of lawmakers began breaking a weeks-long deadlock. Late Sunday evening, a coalition of a handful of Senate Democrats and an independent senator joined Republicans to advance a proposal aimed at reopening the…
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Murray Watt Nears Bipartisan Deal to Overhaul Australia’s Environment Laws
Overview: A Fight to Modernize Australia’s Environment Laws Environment Minister Murray Watt is stepping toward a potential bipartisan breakthrough with the Liberal Party as negotiations over Australia’s long-stalled environmental reform package intensify. With the final sitting fortnight of the year looming, both Cabinet corridors and parliamentary lobbies are buzzing about the possibility of rewriting the…