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Sanders minimum wage amendment surpasses the previous modern record holder from June 2019, on a vote to limit debate on an amendment by New Mexico Democrat Tom Udall that would bar U.S. attacks on Iran without
Manchin has said he prefers ending the unemployment benefit over the summer when businesses in his state and elsewhere should be reopening and looking for workers.
The previous record — on whether to bar U.S. strikes on Iran without congressional authorization — lasted 10 hours and 8 minutes in June 2019. “Well my goodness,” McConnell deadpanned.
“But without revealing any confidence, I just had a conversation with someone I never expected to be legislating with about his interest in doing a bill on an issue that was very surprising and encouraging
The next day, McCarthy told the guard they could not deploy the Quick Reaction Force without prior approval.
Only weeks into his presidency, his numbers on this question should be stronger.
dealt mainly with how senators felt about President Donald Trump’s nominees to federal judgeships and executive branch jobs, the split was between institutionalists like Murphy, who believe presidents should
Without a law and clear guidance, companies don’t know whom to alert when they’re hacked, Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, said at a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Reform and House Homeland
Before 1974, there was no way to end debate without meeting some kind of supermajority threshold, or waiting until filibusterers physically exhausted themselves.
Nunez-Smith added that the vaccines that have been authorized should be distributed evenly, so that certain communities don’t only have access to one type of vaccine, addressing concerns that hard-to-reach
Seven passed without any Democratic dissent. Pelosi is starting with the same list of bills in 2021.
The Department of Health and Human Services, which takes custody of migrant children who arrive in the U.S. without a parent, had approximately 7,600 children in its care as of Friday, more than
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chair Patty Murray said changing Title IX rules related to the adjudication of sexual violence on college campuses should be a “key priority.”
Staffers leave offices all the time to make more money in consulting or lobbying without burning their bridges — quite the opposite. Charlyn Stanberry describes her career path as “typical D.C.”
To support Biden’s goal of “out-competing” China, the CIA should devote more resources to growing and improving the capabilities of its China specialists, including their language skills, said Burns
Republicans tasked with winning back the House majority in 2022 see an opportunity in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that Democrats plan to push through Congress in the coming weeks, most likely without
“If the federal government distributes independently of the states to these same entities without state coordination and consultation, redundancy and inefficiency may very well follow,” governors
“I don’t think you can fully understand just how joyous it can be without seeing the uglier side of it.” Here’s a portion of our conversation, edited and condensed.
“We should notify a part of the U.S. government that would be responsible for aggregating threat intelligence and make sure that it is put to good use to protect the country.”
The organizations said Congress should pass Khanna’s bill to study the effects of FOSTA-SESTA before passing any additional laws to change Section 230.