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Democratic Republic of Congo’s Senate lifted former President Joseph Kabila’s immunity from prosecution amid allegations he’s supporting an armed rebellion in the east of the country.
The Senate voted Wednesday to approve procedural changes that allow it to take up three joint resolutions that would vacate EPA waivers.
California is fighting back a day after the U.S. Senate voted to put the brakes on the state's clean vehicle policies.
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The 2026 midterms will prove crucial to Democrats and Republicans as both chambers of Congress hang in the balance.
The Republican-led Senate on Thursday overturned several key Biden-era waivers allowing California to set its own vehicle emissions, a major blow to that state’s effort to regulate pollution from cars and trucks that could have broad environmental impacts for the rest of the country.
The Senate, in a first, used a fast-track procedure Thursday to nullify an EPA emissions waiver for California.
The state Senate on Wednesday attached the proposal to its $61 million budget plan, in effect voting to diffuse a power the Legislature has long enjoyed.
At the center of the sweeping bill is trillions in tax cuts, which Republicans aim to partially offset through changes to safety net programs like Medicaid and SNAP.