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- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/9
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., reached agreement Monday on procedures for fo...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/9
At least 17 Capitol Police officers are being investigated in relation to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, when a violent mob disrupted the...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/9
Despite bipartisan concern about a proposal to require domestic air travelers to take a COVID-19 test before being permitted to board a flig...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/9
Democrat Anthony Brindisi conceded Monday that he lost his bid for reelection in New York’s 22nd District, ending a three-month legal challe...
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Impeachment trial first: No public view of proceedings as COVID-19 and press access questions remain
Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/9The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump will kick off Tuesday with no public access, as January’s violent insurrection...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/9
Framed photographs of (from left) former President Barack Obama, former Attorney General Eric Holder and current President Joe Biden are set...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/9
The United States has a COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy problem, and experts worry the Biden administration’s delay in addressing that now could...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/8
Former President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team strung together harsh descriptions of House Democrats in a brief filed Monday, sett...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/8
Rep. Ron Wright died Sunday from complications of COVID-19, after having tested positive for the virus on Jan. 21. The 67-year-old Texas Rep...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/8
Legislation that would increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour over five years would increase deficits by $54 billion ov...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/8
Richard C. Shelby, Alabama’s senior senator and the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee, announced Monday he would not seek reele...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/8
The Biden administration is turning to Congress to assemble a staff for the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office. The administration has nomin...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/8
Lobbyists who’ve been around a long time can regale younger generations with tales of freely roaming the Capitol — parking steps from an ent...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/8
The Senate is embarking on its second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump this week, focused on his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/8
Daniel Duncanson, the chief executive of a physician practice in Florida, finally got some COVID-19 vaccines for his front-line workers afte...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/8
ANALYSIS — Senate Democrats hope they can convince the Senate parliamentarian to allow them to include an increase in the minimum wage to $1...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/8
Just weeks into Joe Biden’s presidency, some of the same automobile companies that once pushed Donald Trump to loosen Obama-era fuel economy...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/8
About a month before rioters, including some with U.S. military training, stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, lawmakers deleted from the annual P...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/6
A New York judge cleared the way Friday for Republican former Rep. Claudia Tenney to officially be declared the winner of the 22nd District...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/6
Thursday night’s marathon vote series in the Senate included a number of amendment votes designed to put vulnerable Democrats on the record...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/6
The White House COVID-19 task force announced Friday that the Biden administration plans to use the Defense Production Act to ramp up manufa...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/6
One of Congress’s favorite clichés — Groundhog Day — circled back this week, which means we’re in for some repetition. So naturally, lawmake...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/5
The House gave final approval Friday to a budget blueprint that will allow a dozen committees to start writing a massive coronavirus relief...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/5
This week in Washington yielded some snow, a fallen officer remembered, a “vote-a-rama” in the Senate and a member of the House removed from...
- Roll Call ( Middle East ) 2021/2/5
Rethinking America’s policies toward China is one area that has bipartisan support in Washington these days. China’s emergence as an economi...