The Daily Populous

The Senate voted 51 to 50 to proceed to the 755-page bill, after Vice President Kamala Harris arrived at the Capitol to cast the tie-breaking vote.

The vote puts the bill on a trajectory to pass the Senate sometime Sunday, barring an unexpected setback, such as the sudden absence of a Democratic senator.

It would extend expiring health insurance premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act another three years at a cost of $64 billion. »

"These two men not only robbed me, but they robbed a 7-year-old little girl of her mother," said Linda Sheffield, Lansen's niece, during Thursday's news conference.

"When they're initially murdered, the shock is there, but 39 years later the shock is no longer there," she said.

"But the void stays, and the pain stays and the crying stays. »

Activision Blizzard earned $332 million on the PC during the quarter, and $376 million on combined console sales.

Under the "mobile and ancillary" category, however—which Activision Blizzard said "primarily include revenues from mobile devices"—the company pulled in a whopping $831 million for the quarter.

It's quite a shift from the same quarter in 2021, when console and mobile revenues were much more closely aligned. »

Still, the measure would not deliver every tool that Democrats would like for reining in prescription drug costs.

Prescription drug prices in the United States are far higher than those in other countries.

A 2021 report from the RAND Corporation found that drug prices in this country were more than seven times as high as in Turkey, for instance. »