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.
without having to first ask permission from Congress.
“I think everyone is just trying to get their hands around it right now,” Ohio GOP consultant Curt Steiner said.
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.”
For the press corps, it’s a return to regular press briefings that are scheduled far enough ahead of time for journalists to actually make it to the White House complex, without setting off a mad
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.
Brad Todd, a veteran Republican consultant, said the “rebranding” of the GOP “as the party of small business and work is something that will take hold, with or without President Trump.”
“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 became involved in a lot of cases because, as I said, the work of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is casework. And I did my job.
“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 didn’t, however, let my normally optimistic mind wander to what happened last week.