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The House approved an amendment to a must-pass funding package that would repeal a controversial provision that allows senators to sue for $500,000.
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House Republicans vote to lift 20-year ban on mining near pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Congressional Republicans moved closer Wednesday to lifting a 20-year ban on mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, pushing a resolution to end the moratorium through the House despite environmentalists' warnings that it could devastate a premier destination for campers,
After Senate Republicans empowered themselves to file lucrative “Arctic Frost” lawsuits, House Republicans voted unanimously to take that power away.
The failed vote comes a week after the White House peeled off GOP support for a similar measure in the Senate.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he was surprised by Republican Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt’s decision to miss a critical vote
House leaders were forced to rush Representative Wesley Hunt, Republican of Texas, to the Capitol with a police escort to avoid an embarrassing defeat on the floor.
By Ernest Scheyder Jan 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to overturn former President Joe Biden's mining ban in northern Minnesota, giving a boost to Antofagasta's Twin Metals copper,
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MN Boundary Waters: US House revokes mining ban in Superior National Forest, vote moves to Senate
Lawmakers at the U.S. House of Representatives voted to lift a federal ban on mining in the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, setting up another vote in the Republican-controlled Senate.
Republicans on the committee have been seeking to question the Clintons as part of a probe into the government's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. The vote sends the matter to the full House.