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Oct 25 2020
News
Who's to blame for stalled stimulus talks?
Hopes that Congress might pass another round of economic stimulus before Election Day seem to be fading quickly despite apparent eagerness to reach a deal from both congressional Democrats and the White House.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reported progress in her efforts with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to reconcile the $2.2 trillion package with the White House’s $1.8 trillion
Yahoo! The 360
Mar 10 2023
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AllSides News Briefing: March 10, 2023
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Oct 08 2021
News
Senate votes to extend debt ceiling through early December
The Senate voted 50-48 Thursday evening to extend the nation's debt limit through early December after Democrats and Republicans reached a deal to avert economic disaster following weeks of partisan deadlock over the issue.
The House will next have to approve the extension before it can be sent to President Joe Biden for his signature. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said late
CNN (Online News)
Oct 20 2020
News
Republican super PAC raised $92 million in September
The Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC associated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, raised more than twice as much this September as it did two years ago, according to an FEC filing that will go live Tuesday night.
By the numbers: The SLF raised $92 million in September, spent $105 million, and ended the month with $113 million cash on hand, as Republicans work to maintain
Axios
Feb 18 2016
News
Republicans have a weapon to stop Obama recess appointment
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is bent on refusing to consider any nominee President Obama may submit to succeed late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. And if he doesn’t give ground, Obama may have only one option for an end-run: a recess appointment.
But Republicans can rest easy: GOP leaders have an ace up their sleeve.
Fox News (Online News)
May 12 2021
News
GOP leaders draw ‘red line’ on tax hikes after first Biden meeting
The two top congressional Republicans said Wednesday that tax hikes are a “red line” in negotiations after President Biden hosted them at the White House for the first time to try to forge “consensus” on massive infrastructure spending.
“We’re not interested in reopening the 2017 tax bill. We both made that clear to the president. That’s our red line,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch
New York Post (News)
Nov 18 2021
Opinion
Infrastructure week has finally arrived. It’s a victory Biden needed.
President Biden took a victory lap on Monday, signing into law a historic infrastructure deal. Despite declining approval ratings, an ongoing media frenzy proclaiming a failed agenda, a flood of distracting Republican cultural memes and ideological conflicts within his party, he accomplished what his predecessor could not. In passing a popular bill that even Senate Minority Leader Mitch
Jennifer Rubin
Jan 25 2021
News
House Transmits Article Of Impeachment Against Trump To Senate
At about 7 p.m. ET Monday, House impeachment managers delivered to the Senate an article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump, a move that prompts preparations for a historic trial.
The formal step comes just over a year after the House last transmitted an impeachment measure against Trump to the upper chamber. The latest rebuke alleges that the former president incited
NPR (Online News)
Dec 31 2012
News
2 Sides in Talks Inch Closer but No Fiscal Deal on Final Day
A frantic round of late-night negotiations on Sunday between Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, moved the Senate close to a deal to stave off hundreds of billions of dollars in tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts that would begin to kick in on Tuesday, according to people familiar with the talks.
New York Times (News)
Sep 21 2020
Analysis
Would institutionalist Biden cave to court-packing calls?
Democrats are threatening to expand the Supreme Court if President Trump’s nominee is confirmed, but whether the threats have any legs comes down to the position of Washington institutionalist Joe Biden.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s intention to proceed with filling the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat, despite early voting for the Nov. 3 election being underway, has
Washington Examiner