House passes $1 2 trillion spending bill, sending it to Senate hours before shutdown

Table Of Content

• (VIDEO) House Freedom Caucus members say debt limit deal 'fails completely'
• Texas Gov. Greg Abbott elected to a third term
• Debt ceiling vote news: Biden-McCarthy plan passes, heads to Senate
• Ukraine, Israel aid advances in rare House vote as Democrats help Republicans push it forward
• Republicans voted to support the bipartisan Jan. 6 commission

We'll get into all of that in this space today as we wait for polls to close (which will start in some states at 7 p.m. ET) and as we parse through the live results. Voting is underway for the 2022 midterm elections, with today being your last chance to submit your ballot to be counted. "The immovable force in elections over the last 20 years hasn't changed," Stewart told NPR. "Trump-backed challenger Adam Laxalt, a former state attorney general who denies the result of the 2020 presidential election, is a political scion in the state. His father was a senator, and his grandfather a governor," he writes. The number of seats that Republicans take will be read as a key indicator of the overall size of the party's wave this election season.

(VIDEO) House Freedom Caucus members say debt limit deal 'fails completely'

It may seem like a generous margin, but it's down significantly from the nearly 40-point advantage the party had in 2018. Latino voters are the second-largest and fastest-growing part of the American electorate. So it may come as no surprise that both parties are fighting hard to court their vote. Wolfe says as of Friday 750,000 absentee ballots had been requested statewide, with 85% of them already returned.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott elected to a third term

The Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling earlier this year left abortion laws up to individual states — meaning reproductive rights are now on the ballot in many forms, from state races to control of Congress to the wording of actual state constitutions. The issue — which concerned certain machines not accepting completed ballots — affected close to 20% of the locations throughout the county, officials said. Election officials around the U.S. are tallying votes, but some states are not expected to be ready to report their results tonight. "The widespread issues – in an election administered by Democrat Secretary of State Katie Hobbs – are completely unacceptable, especially as Republicans flock to the polls to vote in-person on Election Day," she tweeted. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel announced the news in a Tuesday evening tweet in which she said voting machines in over 25% of voting locations had experienced "significant issues."

Debt ceiling vote news: Biden-McCarthy plan passes, heads to Senate

About one-third of respondents said they had both mobile and home internet service. But the bill hasn’t been brought for a standalone floor vote in the GOP-led House amid criticism from some Republicans who say the program subsidizes households that already had internet service. They also pointed to findings from the FCC’s internal watchdog last year that providers failed to comply with the program’s rules and improperly claimed funds. “Now seeing a prominent political party attempting to purge people from the rolls, it’s very concerning,” she said. Democrats and legal experts are warning about how the lawsuits might overwhelm election officials and undermine voter confidence in the balloting results. Failed to become speaker after three floor votes, facing increasing opposition from his own party in each vote.

Bolduc, for his part, has walked back some of his statements saying the 2020 election was stolen and says abortion should be decided at the state level. Such snags can prompt a range of reactions from politicians and pundits, from encouraging voters to endure the delay to suggesting the problems are the sign of a coordinated conspiracy. “This is actually what the majority of Arizona counties do on Election Day all the time,” Richer added. Gov. Laura Kelly presents herself as a middle-of-the-road moderate Democrat who led the state out of a budget crisis left by former Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.

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She campaigned on a long list of Democratic priorities, including expanding affordable housing, promoting green jobs and improving public transportation. Bennet has held the seat since 2009 and had a slight lead over Republican businessman Joe O’Dea ahead of Election Day. O’Dea struck a moderate chord on abortion rights and bipartisanship, but Democrats hit O’Dea on gun safety and accused him of flipping positions on abortion. Reporters are being told they can’t interview attendees at Gov. Greg Abbott’s election night party.

Republicans voted to support the bipartisan Jan. 6 commission

Still, O’Rourke made a significant push in the election cycle, campaigning hard on gun control and reproductive health. Abbott’s victory is not a surprise — poll after poll showed the Republican leading O’Rourke and he had more campaign money than him. The last Democrat to win a Texas gubernatorial race was Ann Richards in 1990. The amendment had been widely expected to pass in the state, where two consecutive state legislatures had approved the measure and the state’s Republican governor, Phil Scott, had signaled his support. As NPR’s Asma Khalid reported during the network's special election coverage, President Biden’s low approval rating and rising prices have kept Democrats on edge for months. But as Night 1 comes to a close, maintaining Democratic control of the House of Representatives remains unlikely.

In Montana, a new initiative would require medical care to be provided for infants born alive after attempted abortion, and establish criminal punishment for those who violate that law. Blake Masters, the Republican candidate running for Senate in Arizona, also addressed the problem. Maricopa County is the largest county within the state, both in population and size, and it's been a top site for unfounded claims of election fraud during the 2020 election. Election officials in Maricopa County, Ariz., say they have fixed a technical problem with some of the ballot tabulator machines across the area. In a historic victory, Maura Healey, a Massachusetts Democrat, is the nation's first openly lesbian governor-elect and the first woman to be elected governor of Massachusetts.

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In October, the Biden administration sent Congress a supplemental request for $6 billion to keep the program running, but it didn’t pass. Rural households sometimes have just one provider, and families who can’t afford it have little recourse. The litigation argued that students suffered when the state closed its schools during the COVID-19 pandemic and that officials did far too little to help. The program, which was created after the pandemic forced many Americans to turn to the internet to connect with work and school, has 23 million enrollees nationwide — 1 in 6 U.S. households — including nearly 3 million in California.

Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Josh Hawley of Missouri said this morning that they'll oppose the debt ceiling deal. If the bill passes the House tonight, the U.S. still could miss Monday’s debt ceiling deadline because of delay tactics in the Senate. Asked by reporters today about his stance on eliminating the debt ceiling altogether, McCarthy said, "I like having a debt limit." President Biden is being updated on the House floor debate and vote tonight by his staff as he heads to Colorado in preparation for a commencement address Thursday, a White House official said. In remarks after the vote tonight, McCarthy said House Republicans were victorious in achieving a key goal to cut spending.

"So why don’t we be adults about it? Why don’t we sit in a room together? Why don’t we have honest discussions and come together and get some real reforms that we’re not going debt ceiling to debt ceiling? The debt ceiling is coming Jan. 1, 2025." Fifty-two Democrats ended up voting for the rule and were instrumental to the outcome. They kept their powder dry early on, waiting to see how many Republicans would vote for it before they backed it. "I probably would have done the same thing," he said after Democrats clearly waited to see whether Republicans could pass the rule on their own before Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries gave the green light. Once the debt bill comes over to the Senate, Kaine plans to offer an amendment to strip the pipeline provision out.

Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., one of McCarthy's allies who helped negotiate the debt ceiling deal in the room, challenge conservative opponents to debate the merits ahead of tonight's vote. Former President Donald Trump responded to the debt ceiling deal for the first time on WHO radio in Des Moines, Iowa, as lawmakers were wrapping up debate on the House floor before the vote. Republicans have also been spending millions on immigration and crime-related ads in key races as a way to fire up their base and to try to offset Democrats’ perceived advantage with suburban women over abortion rights.

The plan, laid out in a rule that passed on Friday, was concocted to capitalize on the pools of support for each part of the $95 billion package, while preventing opposition to any one piece from taking down all of them. The latest efforts to exclude Black votes echo the earliest days of our republic. Maintaining accurate voter rolls by updating voters’ status is routine for election officials, who watch for death notices, changes in motor vehicle records or election mail being repeatedly returned. Michigan also uses ERIC, an interstate data-sharing pact that helps states update voter lists but has been targeted by conspiracy theories. Won a closed-door vote to become the Republican nominee for speaker, but withdrew his candidacy after failing to win over holdouts before a floor vote.

Republican Christine Drazan has talked about rising crime and the homelessness crisis. Democrat Tina Kotek has reminded voters of her record as a reproductive-rights champion. And Betsy Johnson, a former Democrat running as an unaffiliated candidate, has promised to be the best of both political parties. But as a rule, the AP won't call a race until the last polls in a jurisdiction have closed. And it declares winners, rather than making projections, according to David Scott, a senior editor who helps oversee AP’s coverage of elections.

Thousands in the state have voted early already, but both candidates are focused on Election Day turnout. But both need to win over independent and moderate candidates, even in the historically Republican state. Later in the day, Masters was met by cheering crowds as a part of a tour alongside other statewide GOP candidates. Meanwhile, former Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke has focused on gun safety and access to reproductive health care. When asked to compare this election to previous ones, the official said cyber activity was perhaps quieter, while foreign influence operations, or attempts to sway public opinion on social media, for example, were still going strong.

But that's been slowly changing over the past 30 years, according to data from Pew Research Center. The observers’ findings will be included in a report to both the county’s election board and the state’s performance review board, the Carter Center said. But, if O’Rourke were to win, he would become the first Democratic governor to be elected in Texas in 32 years.