Congress · 117th Congress
Senate panel advances Mayorkas bid to lead Homeland Security
These are serious challenges, and we need steady, qualified and experienced leaders at DHS,” said Sen.
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These are serious challenges, and we need steady, qualified and experienced leaders at DHS,” said Sen.
tries to negotiate a bipartisan COVID-19 relief package, Democrats are laying the groundwork to use a procedure known as reconciliation, which would allow for Senate passage by a simple majority vote without
“I think the strong vote on our side to support her today is an indication that we want to engage.”
I know from my time in the ‘Gang of Eight’ that passing immigration reform through the Senate particularly is a herculean task,” he said.
“I can tell you a lot of times in the Senate, I don’t think we could get a 26 to nothing vote to agree to buy a soda,” he said.
“We’re talking about two different things,” Pelosi said Thursday. “We’re talking about a phone call that the president had as one part of it that people could say, ‘I need evidence.’
Without an agreement, the trial would’ve started Tuesday.
“I think all options need to be on the table,” Buttigieg replied.
There’s no question about it,” Biden spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said Wednesday.
The chamber, even without a formal organizing resolution, confirmed Biden’s nominee to be director of national intelligence, Avril Haines. The 84-10 vote came after a brief hiccup when Sen.
Unless Democrats can win GOP support for the broader plan, as Biden has said he’d prefer, their only paths are to try to pass all or part of it through reconciliation or eliminate the legislative
“I think you’re an outstanding choice. I intend to vote for you,” said Sen.
“What I was looking at on the news — it didn’t feel real,” he says.
“Now is not the time to enact a laundry list of liberal structural economic reforms,” he said.
“I have not made a final decision on how I will vote and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate,” McConnell said.
Everything that followed was his doing,” she said. “None of this would have happened without the President. The President could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence.
Cori Bush, D-Mo., said on Twitter, pushing to expel lawmakers who voted against certification. “We can’t have unity without accountability.”
He lit the flame,” Cheney said on Fox News.
Metal detectors were erected outside the chamber Tuesday afternoon on the second floor of the Capitol, where House members are usually able to move freely, in large groups and without scrutiny.
Reddit said it had banned a group devoted to Trump, and Twitch, a video platform used mostly by gamers, said it had banned a Trump channel.