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“None of the Fed’s pandemic actions came without a cost,” Toomey said. “This negative-real interest rate environment continues to distort markets, risk asset bubbles and punish savers.
. … The motion to proceed should be a simple majority,” he said, adding that he hoped for bipartisan agreement on changing the current 60-vote requirement to cut off debate to a three-fifths requirement
Garamendi suggested that help should arrive sooner — via the forthcoming fiscal 2022 Defense spending bill.
They added that if Congress doesn’t act then regulators should consider designating stablecoins or related activity as systemically important, a move that would put them under the authority of the Federal
On the airline side, a unified front of airline employee unions, the FAA and the airline industry argued that without appropriate mitigations, using spectrum so close to what airlines use poses a
This leaves the door open for Biden to continue to push through diverse circuit picks in swing and GOP states without Republican support.
Breyer repeatedly brought up the latest statistics on COVID-19 cases — he said nearly 750,000 cases every day — amid questions about how quickly the justices should act and how much courts should step
In December, lawmakers gave the police chief the ability to unilaterally ask for National Guard assistance without seeking approval from the Capitol Police Board.
“With each passing day, the Select Committee is being forced to conduct its investigation, including interviewing witnesses, without the benefit of the key documents at issue in this case,” House
protecting voting rights ahead of Thursday’s one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, but the caucus is a long way from sorting out the procedural mechanics of how to pass legislation without
After Nixon fessed up, Wiggins abruptly changed his stance and decided Nixon should be impeached on, at least, the obstruction of justice charge. “Because of that, Mr.
Trump’s lawyers told the justices that they should block the transfer and agree to hear the former president’s appeal to give them a chance to make a reasoned decision before the release of information
accompanying its version of the NDAA, which never passed the Senate because of an unrelated dispute over amendments, reveals that senators back the new system but do not want to jettison the current one without
“The lesson President Biden should learn from this dire situation is when the going gets tough, the tough get going,” said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon, adding that Biden needs to do two things
Biden also put in a plug for passing voting rights legislation “as quickly as possible,” without offering a specific timeline.
“Every day that goes by without action puts lives at risk, and we will work tirelessly to ensure that this framework becomes law as soon as possible,” the four lawmakers — Sens. Richard J.
Without the testimony of Meadows — who has stonewalled the House Jan. 6 select committee — we don’t know how seriously to take the PowerPoint document that circulated at the White House suggesting
A Pentagon contractor should repay the government nearly $21 million that the company overcharged for military spare parts, the Defense Department’s auditor said.
“Should we allow a list of military personnel to be sold to foreign adversaries? Should we allow a list of domestic abuse survivors to be sold to domestic abusers?”
McFadden also rejected arguments from Trump that Neal’s request was done as part of law enforcement, or that the 1976 law is unconstitutional, or that an ongoing audit of his tax returns should prevent