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Senate war-powers floor debate opens with bipartisan amendment stack

Senate floor debate on the bipartisan war-powers overhaul opened Tuesday morning, with a structured amendment stack that includes proposals from both Republican and Democratic senators.

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House returns to floor with VA reform package, immigration markups, and judicial confirmations

The House returns to floor business Monday with a Department of Veterans Affairs reform package, immigration-related committee markups, and a slate of judicial-nominee confirmation votes.

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Sunday shows survey war powers, AI infrastructure, and midterm positioning across networks

The Sunday-show ecosystem turned to war powers, AI infrastructure regulation, and the early shape of the 2026 midterm cycle on Sunday morning, with senior figures from both parties making the rounds.

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President signs ninety-four-billion-dollar war supplemental as mental health expansion becomes law

President signed the ninety-four-billion-dollar war supplemental into law in a Rose Garden ceremony Friday morning, closing the books on the largest single appropriations package of the post-ceasefire period.

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House clears war supplemental 281-148 sending mental-health expansion to White House desk

The House passed the $94 billion war supplemental 281-148 late Wednesday, sending to President Trump's desk the package that funds the closing accounts of the Iran-Israel conflict, replenishes munitions stocks, and includes a $4.8 billion Department of Veterans Affairs mental-health expansion.

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VA secretary testifies as Senate Appropriations clears war supplemental with mental-health add

Senate Appropriations reported the $94.1 billion war supplemental to the floor on a 23-5 vote Tuesday after a bruising hearing in which Veterans Affairs Secretary Patrick Hagan acknowledged a backlog of more than 11,000 unresolved post-deployment claims from the Iran campaign.

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Discharge petition clears 218 as House forces war powers vote over Johnson objection

House Democrats and a bloc of Republicans pushed the Iran war powers discharge petition past 218 signatures Monday afternoon, triggering the seven-day clock that forces a floor vote no later than May 19 and stripping Speaker Mike Johnson of the scheduling leverage he has used since the Senate cleared the resolution May 1.

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Sunday shows pivot from war to ledger as lawmakers spar over costs, midterm fallout

Lawmakers used the Sunday talk circuit to litigate the war's price tag and the collapse of the AI moratorium, with both parties testing midterm themes nearly four weeks after the Iran ceasefire took hold.

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Senate clears $94 billion war supplemental, shifting Iran fight to the House

The Senate cleared a $94.6 billion Iran war supplemental late Friday by 67-33, sending to a divided House a package that bundles munitions replenishment with the certification language the White House has spent two weeks trying to strip.

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Senators Unveil War Powers Overhaul, Citing Iran Conflict Lessons

A bipartisan Senate group unveiled legislation Thursday to tighten the executive branch's authority to wage extended military operations, framing the Iran conflict as the clearest argument for reform since the 2001 AUMF.

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House passes narrowed Iran war commission as Johnson loses 39 Republicans

A 257-176 House vote established a 10-member bipartisan commission to investigate the conduct of the spring war with Iran, with 39 Republicans crossing the aisle and Speaker Mike Johnson voting present.

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Bipartisan Senate group unveils AI disclosure compromise as moratorium fight fades

A bipartisan group of six senators introduced the AI Transparency and Grid Impact Act on Wednesday, pitching mandatory disclosure of frontier training runs and data center load as the legislative successor to last month's failed moratorium.

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House passes Iran war commission resolution as 37 Republicans cross the aisle

The House on Wednesday adopted the Holloway resolution establishing an independent commission to investigate the conduct of the U.S. war against Iran, 248-184, after 37 Republicans broke with leadership on a measure Speaker Mike Johnson had tried for three weeks to bottle up.

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Johnson faces Tuesday conference revolt as House takes up war supplemental markup

House Republicans split openly Tuesday as Speaker Mike Johnson convened a closed-door conference meeting to corral votes for the $89.4 billion war supplemental and decide whether to schedule a floor vote on the Senate-passed war powers resolution before Memorial Day.

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House Democrats file war powers discharge petition as Johnson loses procedural cover

House Democrats filed a discharge petition Monday to force a floor vote on the Senate-passed Iran war powers resolution, opening the week with 174 signatures and a public commitment from at least six Republicans to add their names by Wednesday.

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On Sunday Shows, Lawmakers Spar Over War Costs, AI Compromise, and Midterm Map

Senators and White House surrogates fanned out across the Sunday programs to defend dueling war-cost accountings, preview a narrower AI compromise, and stake early claims on the November map.

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Johnson huddles with leadership as House Republicans weigh combined rule on war powers, supplemental

Speaker Mike Johnson gathered his leadership team in the Capitol on Saturday to map a path through three converging Iran-war votes, with the most actively discussed option a single rule pairing the Senate-passed war powers resolution, the Holloway commission and the $89.4 billion supplemental.

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Senate passes war powers resolution as supplemental clears first floor test

The Senate passed the Kaine-Lee war powers resolution 58-42 on Friday and advanced an $89.4 billion war supplemental past a procedural hurdle, leaving Speaker Mike Johnson to manage two politically combustible votes before the Memorial Day recess.

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Iran war commission discharge petition crosses 218, forcing House vote

A House discharge petition seeking to create an independent Iran war commission cleared the 218-signature threshold Thursday morning after four Republicans added their names, stripping Speaker Mike Johnson of his ability to keep the measure off the floor.

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Senate appropriators mark up $94 billion war supplemental as Collins adds reconstruction watchdog

The Senate Appropriations Committee opened markup of a $94.1 billion Iran war supplemental Thursday morning, bolting on roughly $4.7 billion in mental health funding and a Senate-confirmed inspector general for reconstruction over administration objections.

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Senate passes war powers resolution 58-42 as five Republicans cross the aisle

The Senate voted 58-42 late Tuesday to adopt the Kaine-Murphy war powers resolution rebuking the executive conduct of the six-week Iran war, with five Republicans joining nearly every Democrat in the chamber's first formal verdict on the conflict.

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Senate clears war powers resolution as six Republicans break with Trump

Senators voted 54-46 Tuesday evening to advance the Kaine-Murphy war powers resolution on Iran, a wider-than-expected bipartisan margin that delivers President Trump the first significant rebuke of his second-term foreign policy and complicates the parallel fight over the $89 billion war supplemental.

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Johnson faces restive conference as war powers resolution clears Senate procedural hurdle

Speaker Mike Johnson opened a conference-wide meeting Monday to settle the fate of the $89 billion war supplemental as a Senate war powers resolution cleared its first procedural test, intensifying pressure on a Republican majority already split on Iran policy.

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Sunday Shows Turn on War Powers Vote as Trump Team Counters With Economic Message

With a Senate war powers vote set for the coming week and the AI moratorium freshly dead in committee, the Sunday political shows became the first big stress test of how Washington intends to litigate the Iran war after the shooting stopped.

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White House sends Congress $89 billion war supplemental as Republicans split

The Trump administration formally requested $89.4 billion in emergency war-related spending Friday, opening a fight that has split Republicans between hawks who want more and fiscal conservatives demanding offsets before any floor vote.

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States step in as federal AI moratorium fails, governors in NY and CA move within days

Two days after House committee killed the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez moratorium, New York and California governors signaled state-level pauses on large data-center buildouts, opening a patchwork front.

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White House Pivots to Grid Bill as AI Moratorium Defeat Resets Congressional Fight

A day after House Ways and Means killed the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI moratorium, the White House moved to claim the political middle with a grid-investment package, while sponsors vowed a floor discharge fight.

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White House Unveils Rival AI Framework as States Escalate Moratorium Fight

One day after the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez moratorium collapsed in committee, the White House circulated its own AI framework while New York and California lawmakers fast-tracked state-level pauses on frontier training.

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AI Moratorium Bill Dies in House Committee as Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Vow to Fight On

The House Ways and Means Committee voted 24-21 Wednesday to reject a sweeping moratorium on new large-scale AI model deployments, killing for now a bill that had passed the Senate two weeks earlier.

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AI Moratorium Dies in House Ways and Means on 24-21 Vote

The Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez moratorium on frontier AI training runs collapsed in the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday, killed by a 24-21 vote that united Republicans with a bloc of moderate Democrats.

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Cloud Coalition Offers Eleventh-Hour Compromise as Ways and Means Publishes Witness List

On the eve of Wednesday's House Ways and Means markup, the largest U.S. cloud operators pitched a voluntary compute-disclosure regime and a one-year grid-impact reporting framework as a substitute for the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez moratorium, hours after committee staff released a witness list weighted toward grid economists and labor researchers.

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Ways and Means Democrats Split on AI Moratorium as Tuesday Whip Count Narrows

On the eve of a House Ways and Means Committee markup that could decide the fate of the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI moratorium, three undecided committee Democrats emerged Tuesday as the pivot of a vote House leaders now describe as too close to call.

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Hyperscaler CEOs press House Democrats as AI moratorium vote nears

With a House Ways and Means vote on the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI training moratorium expected this week, the chief executives of the country's largest cloud providers spent Monday cycling through congressional offices on Capitol Hill.

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House Ways and Means Nears Decisive Vote on AI Moratorium as Whip Counts Tighten

With a Wednesday committee vote looming, sponsors of the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI moratorium bill scrambled Monday to lock down wavering Democrats as hyperscaler lobbyists pressed undecided members across the Capitol.

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Hyperscalers Flood Capitol Hill as AI Moratorium Faces Ways and Means Vote

With three days until the House Ways and Means Committee votes on a sweeping AI training moratorium, the largest U.S. cloud providers have mounted what lobbyists describe as the most concentrated tech-industry push since the 2018 net neutrality fights.

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Sunday Shows Pivot From War to Bills as Doha Exchange Resets Political Fight

The first Sunday talk shows after the Doha prisoner exchange found Washington arguing less over whether the Iran war is over and more over what its bills, its commission and its war powers fight should look like.

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Enterprise CIOs break silence on AI moratorium with Fortune 500 letter to House

Chief information officers from 87 large US corporations urged the House Ways and Means Committee on Saturday to carve enterprise customers out of the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI moratorium, opening a new front in the debate two days before markup.

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White House welcomes returning Americans from Doha as Congress presses for accounting

President Donald Trump met returning American detainees on the South Lawn Saturday after a Doha-brokered exchange released roughly forty foreign nationals and the remains of eleven U.S. service members, even as Senate Democrats demanded a written briefing on the deal's terms.

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House Democrats File Resolution to Create Independent Commission on Iran War

Sixty-one House Democrats and four Republicans introduced a resolution Friday establishing a 9/11-style commission to review intelligence, strike decisions and casualty management during the six-week Iran war, intensifying a post-ceasefire fight over accountability.

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Senate Democrats Press White House for War Powers Vote as Ceasefire Holds

Senate Democrats on Thursday demanded an up-or-down vote on a war powers resolution covering the six-week Iran conflict, arguing the ceasefire that took effect Wednesday should not foreclose congressional review of how the war was waged.

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Hyperscaler CEOs flood Capitol Hill as AI moratorium fight enters final week

The chief executives of the four largest US cloud providers met privately with House Ways and Means members Wednesday, racing to sink a Senate-passed moratorium on new frontier AI training runs before next week's expected committee vote.

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Trump Marks Ceasefire From East Room as House Democrats Formally Demand Iran War Commission

Hours after the Iran-Israel ceasefire took effect at midnight GMT, President Trump claimed a foreign-policy victory in an East Room address while House Democrats filed a privileged resolution demanding an independent commission on the six-week war.

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Hyperscaler CEOs Begin Capitol Hill Blitz as AI Moratorium Approaches House Markup

Top executives from Microsoft, Google, Meta and a half-dozen smaller AI firms moved their lobbying push into the House this week, pressing wavering Democrats to block the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez moratorium ahead of a Ways and Means vote expected next week.

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House Leaders Set War Powers Vote for Thursday as Ceasefire Deadline Scrambles Whip Counts

House leaders scheduled a Thursday floor vote on the Senate-passed Iran war powers resolution, setting up an extraordinary clash with the White House just hours after the Islamabad ceasefire is due to take effect.

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White House Presses Senate to Drop War Cutoff as Ceasefire Recasts Supplemental Fight

The White House on Monday urged Senate negotiators to strip a Sept. 30 combat cutoff from the $67.4 billion Iran war supplemental, arguing the weekend's ceasefire announcement had made the deadline both unnecessary and destabilizing as the truce approaches.

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Hyperscalers Press House Democrats on Moratorium as Ceasefire News Shifts Capitol Focus

Top AI firms intensified pressure on Ways and Means Democrats Sunday, framing the Sanders-AOC moratorium as a brake on domestic infrastructure even as a Mideast ceasefire announcement reshuffled the week's news cycle.

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On Sunday Shows, Capitol Hill Splits Over Who Owns the Iran Ceasefire

Hours after negotiators in Islamabad announced a ceasefire to end the six-week Iran war, the Sunday talk-show circuit became a battleground over credit, casualties and what comes next for U.S. policy in the Gulf.

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White House Briefs Congressional Leaders on Islamabad Framework as Ceasefire Decision Nears

Senior administration officials walked the Gang of Eight through the draft Islamabad framework Saturday, telling lawmakers a ceasefire announcement could come within days as war powers critics on Capitol Hill demanded a binding role in any final terms.

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Senate Passes Iran War Powers Resolution 56-43 in Bipartisan Rebuke as Trump Prepares Veto

The Senate passed the Kaine-Lee-Murphy war powers resolution 56-43 on Friday, the chamber's sharpest institutional pushback against the Iran war to date, even as the White House signaled a veto and pointed to fragile Islamabad talks.

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Senate Floor Takes Up Iran War Supplemental as War Powers Vote Looms

The Senate opened floor debate Thursday on the Trump administration's $67.4 billion Iran war supplemental, with a separate war powers resolution from Sens. Kaine, Lee and Murphy on a parallel track that leadership now expects to reach a vote by Friday.

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House Ways and Means Opens Hearings on AI Moratorium as Senate Bill Lands

House Ways and Means began hearings Wednesday on the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI moratorium, one day after the Senate's narrow 52-48 passage thrust the bill onto an uncertain path through a deeply divided lower chamber.

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Senate Passes Sanders-AOC AI Moratorium 52-48 in Razor-Thin Floor Vote

The Senate on Tuesday narrowly approved a sweeping two-year moratorium on new frontier AI model training, sending the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez measure to a deeply uncertain reception in the House.

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Hyperscaler Lobbyists Flood Capitol Hill on Eve of AI Moratorium Vote

With a Senate vote on the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI training moratorium scheduled for Tuesday, top cloud and chip executives spent Monday in back-to-back meetings with undecided senators.

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Senate Appropriators Advance Iran War Supplemental as Casualty Toll Tops 350

Senate appropriators moved the $67.4 billion Iran war supplemental out of committee Monday on a 19-9 vote, even as the U.S. service-member death toll passed 350 and lawmakers in both parties pressed for a binding vote on war authority.

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Sunday Shows Turn on War Aims as Senators Press White House for Iran Endgame

Senators from both parties used Sunday morning television to press the Trump administration for a clearer Iran war strategy, as the U.S. casualty count approached 340 and Islamabad talks reached a delicate phase.

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Senate AI Moratorium Bill Headed for Knife-Edge Vote as Weekend Lobbying Intensifies

With a Senate vote on the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI moratorium expected Monday, both parties spent Saturday locked in furious whip operations. Aides on both sides described the count as within two votes.

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House Energy and Commerce Opens Moratorium Hearing as Democrats Split on Data Center Pause

House Energy and Commerce opened a daylong hearing Friday on the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI data center moratorium, exposing sharp divisions among Democrats from data center states and intensifying pressure on hyperscalers to offer a credible counteroffer.

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Senate Energy Panel Hearing on AI Moratorium Turns Combative as Tech CEOs Face Grid Questions

Senators grilled hyperscaler chief executives Friday during the first full hearing on the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI data center moratorium, as the legislation appeared to pick up unexpected support from two Republican senators citing grid reliability in their home states.

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Hyperscalers Flood Capitol Hill Ahead of AI Moratorium Hearings

Top cloud and AI firms have deployed an unprecedented Washington push to weaken the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez moratorium bill, with executives, lobbyists and union allies converging on the Hill before next week's Senate vote.

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Bipartisan Senate Bloc Revives War Powers Push as Iran Casualties Mount

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a War Powers resolution Thursday seeking to limit the president's authority to expand U.S. military operations in the Iran conflict, citing mounting American casualties and the absence of a formal authorization.

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Senate Energy Committee Opens Hearings on AI Data Center Moratorium as Utilities and Hyperscalers Clash

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee opened a two-day hearing Wednesday on the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez data center moratorium, with utility executives, hyperscaler representatives and grid operators offering sharply diverging accounts.

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Senate Opens First Hearing on Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI Moratorium as Big Tech Mobilizes

The Senate Commerce Committee convened its first hearing Wednesday on a sweeping moratorium that would freeze new hyperscale AI data-center construction for three years, drawing testimony from utility regulators, labor leaders and a coordinated industry pushback.

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White House Sends $67 Billion Iran War Supplemental to Congress

The Trump administration formally transmitted a $67.4 billion emergency supplemental request to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to fund the ongoing Iran war, setting up a politically explosive vote that will collide with the still-unresolved DHS shutdown and a pending House war powers resolution.

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House Democrats File War Powers Resolution as Iran Casualty Count Tops 300

A bloc of House Democrats introduced a privileged war powers resolution Monday demanding a vote within 15 calendar days to end U.S. combat operations against Iran, citing more than 300 American service members wounded since the war's onset.

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Sunday Political Shows Dominated by Iran War, Energy Costs, and AI Moratorium Debate

Sunday morning political programs converged on three themes this weekend: mounting U.S. casualties in the Iran war, soaring gasoline prices, and a Sanders-AOC bill that would freeze new AI data-center construction.

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