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If Sherman wins, expect hearings that push back against the increasingly bipartisan conventional wisdom in Washington that China is a growing maritime threat that should be strongly confronted at
Another COVID-19 relief package should be coupled with government funding, which expires Sept. 30 unless extended in a stopgap bill, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Wednesday.
Partisan tensions are set to color talks on how long the stopgap funding bill for federal agencies needed next month should run, on top of already fraught coronavirus aid discussions.
Axne wrote that the measure should contain “economic relief, protections against eviction and financial ruin, and funding for our schools, health centers, and critical industries.”
“Over the past several weeks, there have been startling new revelations about the scope and gravity of operational changes you are implementing at hundreds of postal facilities without consulting
“That monument, without a fuller history,” Hancock said, reinforces the notion of Lee as a “kindly slave owner.”
They voted during World War I and World War II, and they should have voter ID, because the Democrats scammed the system,” Trump said.
Schumer said the executive orders would have limited power because Trump can’t spend money without congressional approval. “It’s not going to be done in as good a way,” he said.
Gohmert often walked the Capitol grounds without a face mask, although he noted he increased his use of masks in the days leading up to his positive test, while Davis consistently wore his.
Pendley’s seat at the helm of the BLM for than 12 months without a confirmation hearing has grated Senate Democrats from Western states, where the BLM does the bulk of its work.
“There’s not a whole lot of interest in helping with forbearance on residential, although we think there should be,” she said.
Louie Gohmert’s positive coronavirus test this week raised questions about whether people in or around the Capitol should get regular testing — but it’s not as simple as it sounds.
Obama, a former U.S. senator from Illinois, brought up the filibuster as he argued that Congress should honor Lewis by updating the 1965 Voting Rights Act to restore parts of the law the Supreme
speak, we knew that he was going to take us to a higher place in our understanding, what our responsibilities were and what our opportunities were. ” Of course no speech about Lewis is complete without
“But I’m also sorry my members are concerned because he’s been showing up to his meetings without a mask and making a thing of it. So hopefully now he’ll look after his health and others’.”
Yet, Republicans and Democrats remain miles apart on whether they should continue or, if not, what should replace them. Common sense says Congress must do something.
Enhanced unemployment insurance benefits Congress passed as part of a March relief package expire Friday, and the parties are still at odds over what a continuation of benefits should look like.
Prevent the administration from shuttering Peace Corps activities in China.Block food stamp restrictions for able-bodied adults without children.Require the National Park Service to take down plaques,
Merkley’s bill would also bar any passenger or crew member from boarding a flight without wearing a mask.
While Congress jostles over whether businesses should get extra protections from lawsuits related to COVID-19 in the next pandemic relief bill, legal action across the country highlights the stakes for