The Senate voted Wednesday to advance an election-year bill limiting tax breaks for U.S. companies that move operations overseas. But big hurdles remain.

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With an August deadline looming, the House is poised to act on a bill that would temporarily patch over a multibillion-dollar pothole in federal highway and transit programs while ducking the issue of how to put the programs on sound financial footing.

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House Republicans won't support a plan by Senate Democrats to prevent states from facing a cutoff of federal highway and transit aid this summer, a key House committee chairman warned Wednesday, saying the proposal would force a tax increase.

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Two senators unveiled a bipartisan plan Wednesday to raise federal gasoline and diesel taxes for the first time in more than two decades, pitching the proposal as a solution to Congress' struggle to pay for highway and transit programs.

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The Senate for the first time confirmed an openly gay black man to become a U.S. District Court judge. By a 98-0 vote Tuesday, senators approved President Barack Obama’s choice of Darrin Gayles to join the federal bench in Florida.

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The House has voted to make permanent a generous tax break that makes buying new equipment and improving property easier for small businesses.

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Senate Republicans blocked an election-year Democratic bill on Wednesday that would boost the federal minimum wage, handing a defeat to President Barack Obama on a vote that is sure to reverberate in this year's congressional elections.

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A late night conference committee between the House and Senate ended in acrimony in the House lounge as both sides parted without a deal that would have provided more than $18 million to popular productions including Veep and House of Cards.

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A measure to raise Maryland's minimum wage has moved a step further.

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The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to release parts of a hotly contested, secret report that harshly criticizes CIA terror interrogations after 9/11, and the White House said it would instruct intelligence officials to cooperate fully.

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