United States Senate, House and defense bill
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The Senate has passed legislation that would restrict U.S. pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies from doing business with certain Chinese companies.
Senate passage of the annual defense policy bill paves the way for the chamber to formally negotiate with the House on a compromise version.
The Senate is set to vote Wednesday on dueling stopgap funding bills that could reopen the government as the shutdown stretches past the one-week mark. The tally has remained virtually unchanged,
US companies get priority access to their products before China under legislation the Senate passed, a setback for the industry’s efforts to block the measure.The bipartisan legislation was easily approved in a vote late Thursday.
Lawmakers said the legislation would make Massachusetts one of the states with the strongest data privacy laws in the U.S. The post Massachusetts Senate backs data privacy bill giving consumers more control of their data appeared first on Boston.
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