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Sep 15 2020
News
Bipartisan U.S. lawmaker group to unveil $1.5 trillion COVID-19 aid bill
A group of 50 Democratic and Republican members of Congress is due to unveil $1.5 trillion bipartisan coronavirus relief legislation on Tuesday, in an election year effort to break a month-long impasse in COVID-19 talks between the White House and top Democrats.
The Problem Solvers Caucus, which includes members of both parties in the House of Representatives, was set to outline the
ReutersDec 24 2020
News
House Republicans Block $2,000 Coronavirus Stimulus Checks, Defying Trump
House Republicans defied President Donald Trump’s wishes on Christmas Eve, blocking the passage of a proposal to include $2,000 stimulus checks — something the president demanded in an angry video posted to Twitter on Tuesday night while threatening to upend months of negotiations over government funding and coronavirus relief.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) dared Republicans to
HuffPostDec 23 2019
News
McConnell: 'Let's quit the charade' on impeachment
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday slammed Democratic senators as well as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over her decision to withhold House-passed articles of impeachment against President Trump from the upper chamber until Republicans guarantee a "fair" trial.
During an interview with "Fox & Friends," the GOP leader knocked the idea that Senate Minority
The HillJan 09 2022
News
Rep. McCarthy: Dems Pushing for Voting Reform to 'Rig An Election'
Congress is back in session this week and even though COVID is spiking, schools are closing again, and the economy is crippled, the Democrats in the majority have one focus, and that's to change the election laws "to rig an election to give them an ability to win when they should not," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Sunday.
"It's over in the Senate, but you watch what they
Newsmax (News)Aug 31 2021
News
House GOP urges Dems to delay $3.5T spending package amid domestic, foreign woes
House Republicans urged Democrats on Tuesday to postpone consideration of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion expansion of America’s social safety net, arguing that Congress instead should address the nation’s mounting foreign and domestic woes.
Rep. Bruce Westerman of Arkansas, the top Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee, said Democratic leaders were putting the spending
Washington TimesDec 18 2020
News
Congress votes to avert government shutdown for now as Covid relief talks drag on
Congressional leaders on Friday failed to secure a long-awaited deal on a $900 billion pandemic relief package but managed to narrowly avoid a government shutdown -- for now.
The House and Senate passed a two-day extension of government funding to keep agencies operating until Sunday night. The stop-gap bill now goes to President Donald Trump for his signature.
The move ratcheted
CNN DigitalOct 09 2020
News
White House Preparing New $1.8 Trillion Stimulus Proposal
The White House is preparing a $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief offer, according to people familiar with the discussions, partly closing the gap in negotiations with congressional Democrats as time runs short to pass any package before the election.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is expected to discuss the new proposal with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) when the two speak
Wall Street Journal (News)Apr 28 2021
News
Democrats’ Thin House Majority to Be Tested by Multitrillion-Dollar Plans
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) is now leading the slimmest House majority since World War I, putting a premium on party unity as leaders this spring craft trillions of dollars of infrastructure and antipoverty legislation.
A handful of Democratic lawmakers have said they would try to block any tax changes proposed by President Biden that don’t also restore state and local tax
Jan 01 2021
Opinion
Things Will Get Better. Seriously.
Reasons to be hopeful about the Biden economy. The next few months will be hell in terms of politics, epidemiology and economics. But at some point in 2021 things will start getting better. And there’s good reason to believe that once the good news starts, the improvement in our condition will be much faster and continue much longer than many people expect.
OK, one thing that probably
Paul KrugmanApr 23 2019
News
Democrats Running For President In 2020 Remain Divided On Impeaching Trump
Some candidates are ready to launch the proceedings while others worry doing so would only aid the president in the next election.
House Democrats aren’t the only ones who seem conflicted about whether lawmakers should move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
Last night, five leading candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic nomination weighed in
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