Senate committees are scheduled to hold votes Wednesday on three Biden Cabinet picks and vote on advancing the nomination of a fourth.
Category: Politics
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The lawmakers who could decide Biden’s agenda
Where the key votes — either for or again — will likely come from.
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The GOP’s Marjorie Taylor Greene problem is spinning out of control
The GOP now faces a steady stream of revelations about the new congresswoman’s extreme views and advocacy for fringe causes and conspiracy theories.
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The country is being buffeted by groups that couldn’t exist 30 years ago
The crowds have arrived.
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Biden’s climate focus is about the future in more ways than one
The heavy emphasis on climate change is addressing what young voters say they want, not what politicians have long said they should want.
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Democrats consider impeachment alternatives after GOP signals likely acquittal of Trump
Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia is pitching Republicans on a bipartisan censure resolution, while other Democrats are pondering a shortened trial schedule.
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Biden’s U.N. nominee pledges to fight Chinese influence
Veteran diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield tells confirmation hearing she regrets 2019 speech at forum sponsored by Chinese Communist Party.
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House Democrats plan to focus impeachment trial on how rioters reacted to Trump’s remarks
The impeachment managers and their advisers have scoured social media sites as they seek to build a case that the former president incited his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol.
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Three weeks after the attempted insurrection, Senate Republicans again close ranks around Trump
Only five Senate Republicans have consistently voted in opposition to Trump’s post-election efforts.
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Biden now hopes for 1.5 million vaccinations a day, a big jump from earlier comments
Biden has said for weeks he’s aiming for 1 million coronavirus vaccinations a day. On Monday he raised the bar.
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Ted Cruz pumps up Keystone job numbers
We have been fact-checking these numbers for nearly a decade! Politicians keep getting them wrong.
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D.C. police sent 850 officers to the Capitol during insurrection, spent $8.8 million during week of Jan. 6
Police chief for the first time says a D.C. officer took his own life in aftermath of Capitol riot.
