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Ayanna S. Pressley, D-Mass., criticized the exclusion of cannabis businesses from federal pandemic relief provided to other small businesses. “This exclusion has added insult to injury.
Baltimore’s police commissioner, Michael S. Harrison, said he was “disappointed” the bill did not include the expanded firearm provision.
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ in the Senate chamber.”
For instance, the Chamber of Progress declared that S 2992, or the “nondiscrimination” legislation, would “ban Amazon Prime.”
House Republicans are showing little interest in punishing Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert for her recent Islamophobic remarks.
Later, Rhode Island’s “Poultry King” Horace Vose sent slaughtered turkeys as gifts to presidents like Ulysses S. Grant. That’s not to say that presidents didn’t get gifts of live animals too.
As some in GOP echo 2020's ‘Stop the steal’ claims, Democrats warn that voting laws in red states could be rigging the system.
She then voted to confirm her Senate predecessor, Republican William S. Cohen, as Defense secretary.
A bipartisan group of senators wants the Defense Department to move faster in its efforts to prevent sexual assault in the military.
Most unforgettable campaign moment: In 1994, the year of the Republican Revolution, Holt did communications for the congressional campaign of George Nethercutt, who ousted Speaker Thomas S.
“I read it from cover to cover, and again, it}s a reference book. It’s not meant to be read like that,” McCrary said. “But, to me, it read like a narrative. From there I was hooked.”
Individual senators’ holds on bipartisan amendments slowed debate on a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure bill Tuesday.
Donald S. Beyer Jr. of Virginia. “It is an attractive piece,” he said of telework, which he tried out during the pandemic.
U-S-A: In honor of the upcoming Olympic Games, elections analyst Nathan L.
Mast noted in his appeal that he “was in full compliance with Center[s] for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance,” adding that he is “fully vaccinated and followed the science.”
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Paul Strauss, D.C.’s other shadow senator who also won’t be testifying Tuesday, remembers that hearing, including the spotty attendance from lawmakers, who popped in and out of the room or didn’t
S 1 watch: The National Democratic Redistricting Committee this week launched a digital ad buy and web video as well as billboards in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania to push for Senate passage
The probe concluded that Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google all wield monopoly power in their respective online markets.
Supporters say they want to enact the overhaul, given the bill numbers of S 1 and HR 1, before the 2022 midterm elections to undo new GOP-backed state laws that roll back some pandemic-era election practices