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Major unions and one of their leading allies in the U.S. Senate are hailing tens of billions of dollars allocated for shoring up struggling union pension…

The House of Representatives is taking the formal step of voting to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate.

The lawmakers hand-delivered the articles after a party-line House vote. The process is now fully with the Senate, which is expected to begin its trial next week.

The resolution authorizes the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to conduct open hearings and allows the president and his attorneys to cross-examine witnesses.

Appalachian coal miners will be in Washington D.C. this week to ask lawmakers to support the black lung disability trust fund.

Though the bill is unlikely to clear the Republican-controlled Senate, the vote adds energy to election-season debate about a living wage.

Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky blocked another attempt to pass a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill, delaying again a top priority for some of Trump's most loyal allies on Capitol Hill.

The assertion came as the House Judiciary Committee debated whether to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress.

The vote means the administration can continue to spend billions of dollars to construct a Southwest border wall. The fight shifts to federal court, where several states sued to block the president.

GOP senators who bucked the president in Thursday's vote said they did so to preserve congressional control over government spending.