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- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/19
Climate risk, a growing focus for environment, social and governance-minded investors, has morphed into an urgent issue for insurers as wild...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/19
Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s announcement this week that he will challenge Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto gave Repub...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/19
The White House said President Joe Biden would nominate Charles F. Sams III to be director of the National Park Service, moving to fill a po...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/19
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that nursing homes must require their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to continue...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/19
The EPA on Wednesday announced it will ban the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on all food in response to an appellate court ruling. The p...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/19
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, tried Wednesday to deflect criticism that the Biden administration should have anticipat...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/18
CARROLLTON, Texas — As a Democrat running in a minority-majority suburban Texas House district that Democrats saw as a pickup opportunity la...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/18
A pair of Democratic senators on Wednesday urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate how auto manufacturer Tesla is marketing its se...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/18
In an abrupt change of course, President Joe Biden’s health advisers announced Wednesday that all Americans should expect to receive booster...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/18
The last time the National Park Service had a Senate-confirmed director, Joe Biden was vice president. Yet seven months after being sworn in...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/18
While lawmakers and law enforcement have spoken out about the harrowing events at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and how they survived them, one grou...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/18
The White House defended President Joe Biden’s handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on Tuesday, while the Democratic chairmen of...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/17
House Democrats introduced the latest version of what’s been dubbed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on Tuesday, intent on beefi...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/17
Both Democrats and Republicans are united in viewing China as the United States’ No. 1 long-term strategic threat. In a time of deep politic...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/17
The Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan could mean changes for the billions of dollars the Pentagon sought in the next fiscal year, but...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/17
Kristin Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at the infrastructure bill and crypto-lobbying in Washington. More podcast content Show Not...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/17
President Joe Biden refused to bow Monday to criticism over the chaos in Afghanistan after the Taliban sacked its capital city and returned...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/16
Some members of Congress who served in the military in the Middle East blamed decades of Washington politics and congressional inaction for...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/16
Facing pressure from civil rights groups, House Democrats kicked an effort to pass a new Voting Rights Act into high gear this week, despite...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/16
The Agriculture Department is changing the way it calculates food stamp benefits to address what critics have long called inadequate aid to...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/16
Former Michigan Rep. Paul Mitchell, who left the GOP to become an independent in protest of his party’s behavior in the days after the 2020...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/16
The collapse of Afghanistan’s government led lawmakers and advocates to urge the Biden administration to rapidly evacuate thousands of Afgha...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/16
The standoff between moderate House Democrats and Speaker Nancy Pelosi over voting on a budget resolution before an infrastructure bill rema...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/16
The Biden administration has until Friday to reinstate a controversial Trump administration program that required asylum-seekers to wait in...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/8/16
As a candidate and as president, Joe Biden has talked repeatedly about having a U.S. foreign policy centered on human rights. Critics, so fa...