September 30th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — Back-to-back Senate and House votes averted a partial shutdown of the federal government on Thursday, but a political dispute continues over how to raise the government’s borrowing cap before the U.S. risks a potentially catastrophic default.
The legislation keep the government funded through Dec. 3 and was...
March 7th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Biden said on Saturday that the U.S. Senate passage of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill means that $1,400 payments to most Americans will start to go out this month and the bill’s provisions will speed up manufacturing and distribution of vaccines.
Biden, speaking at the White House after the...
March 5th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to take up President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill, but put off the start of a contentious debate until the full text of the 628-page bill is read aloud.
The party-line vote of 51-50, with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie, illustrated that...
February 16th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Democratic congressman accused former president Trump, his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and two right-wing groups of conspiring to incite the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol in a lawsuit on Tuesday.
The civil lawsuit accuses the duo of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 law passed to crack down on the...
January 28th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — A test vote on Tuesday showed the unlikelihood of support among Republicans for a conviction in the historic second impeachment trial of former President Trump.
The trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 9, but an objection to the constitutionality of the impeachment of the former president was raised by Kentucky...
January 23rd, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — The leaders of the U.S. Senate agreed on Friday to push back former President Trump’s impeachment trial by two weeks, giving the chamber more time to focus on President Biden’s legislative agenda and Cabinet nominees before turning to the contentious showdown over Trump.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,...
January 22nd, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that the House's article of impeachment will be delivered to the Senate on Monday, as Senate Republicans hope to delay the impeachment trail of former President Trump. The single article accuses Trump of inciting an insurrection on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,...
January 20th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats took control of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday when Vice President Kamala Harris swore in three new members to give the party a narrow grip on both houses of Congress as well as the White House for the first time in a decade.
Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff of Georgia and Alex Padilla of...
January 15th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate will meet next week, just as Joe Biden is inaugurated as president, to begin its impeachment trial of outgoing President Trump.
Trump is now the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) brought the impeachment to a vote just a week after Trump’s...
December 30th, 20206WASHINGTON D.C. - The online tool to track COVID-19 stimulus payments is temporarily down, as the IRS and U.S. Treasury Department began delivering a second round of payments Tuesday night. The IRS says the initial direct deposit payments begun arriving Tuesday night for some and will continue into next week. Paper checks will begin to...
December 29th, 20200WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday put off a vote on President Donald Trump’s call to boost COVID-19 relief checks and urged the Senate to override his veto of a defense bill, in a rare challenge to his fellow Republican three weeks before he vacates the White House.
McConnell acted...
December 7th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bipartisan effort in Congress to deliver a long-awaited infusion of COVID-19 relief to U.S. families and businesses remained hung up on Monday due to differences over aid to state and local governments and business liability protections.
A group of lawmakers from the Democratic-led House of Representatives and...
October 22nd, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, the Republican-led U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to a lifetime Supreme Court seat despite a Democratic boycott, clearing the way for a final Senate confirmation vote planned for Monday.
By a 12-0 vote, the panel approved Barrett with...
October 20th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House and Democrats in the U.S. Congress moved closer to agreement on a new coronavirus relief package on Tuesday as President Trump said he was willing to accept a large aid bill despite opposition from his own Republican Party.
With just two weeks to go until the U.S. presidential election, Trump...
September 26th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS) — On Saturday, President Trump plans to name conservative appellate judge Amy Coney Barrett as his third U.S. Supreme Court appointment, setting off a scramble in the Republican-led Senate to confirm her before Election Day in 5-1/2 weeks.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made confirming...
August 2nd, 20200
WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS) — The top Democrats in Congress are not close to a deal with the White House to pump more money into the U.S. economy to ease the coronavirus’ heavy toll, both sides said on Saturday, after an essential lifeline for millions of unemployed Americans expired.
“This was...
July 28th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS) — U.S. Republicans and Democrats faced difficult talks on Tuesday on how best to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, after Republicans unveiled a relief proposal days before millions of Americans lose federal unemployment benefits.
Senate Republicans announced on Monday a $1 trillion coronavirus aid...
July 22nd, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a three-month break from his infamous COVID-19 press conferences from the White House, President Trump took to the podium on Tuesday to give both sobering and hopeful news.
"Some areas of country doing very well, others doing less well," Trump said of the disease caused by what he repeatedly called the...
January 30th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — A crucial vote by the Senate on Friday will decide if witnesses will be heard from in the impeachment trial of President Trump. Senators grilled both defense and prosecution teams on Thursday, with Republicans seeking an end to what they call a partisan sham of a trial.
For now, Democrats are pushing for...
January 20th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump’s legal team filed arguments that it plans to use as the impeachment trial is set to begin in earnest in the Senate on Tuesday. This is only the third impeachment trial of a president in U.S history. The defense team plans to argue that the president should be cleared of the two charges of abuse of...
January 16th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C.— House Democrats set the stage for the impeachment trial of President Trump, only the third trial of its kind in U.S. history, as they carried articles of impeachment to the Senate chambers in a hand-off which takes impeachment proceedings from the Democratic-run House to the Republican-majority Senate.
House...
January 25th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. — A splintered Senate swatted down competing Democratic and Republican plans for ending the 34-day partial government shutdown on Thursday, but the twin setbacks prompted a burst of bipartisan talks aimed at temporarily halting the longest-ever closure of federal agencies and the damage it’s inflicting around the...
