WASHINGTON (AP) β Tensions were raw ahead of midnight as Republican leader Mitch McConnell rose in the Senate for the purpose of publicly ridiculing Majority Leader Chuck Schumer over the daylong delay as Democrats argued among themselves over the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package.
WASHINGTON (AP) β An exhausted Senate narrowly approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Saturday as President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies notched a victory they called crucial for hoisting the country out of the pandemic and economic doldrums.
WASHINGTON (AP) β Biden, Democrats prevail as divided Senate approves $1.9T virus aid bill, House on track for final passage next week.
WASHINGTON (AP) β President Joe Biden has two seats to fill on the influential appeals court in the nation's capital that regularly feeds judges to the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON (AP) β Republicans have one goal for President Joe Bidenβs $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package: erode public support for the rescue plan by portraying it as too big, too bloated and too much wasteful public spending for a pandemic thatβs almost over.
WASHINGTON (AP) β Senate leaders and moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin struck a deal late Friday over emergency jobless benefits, breaking a logjam that had stalled the party's showpiece $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill.
WASHINGTON (AP) β Republicans have one goal for President Joe Bidenβs $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package: to erode public support for the rescue plan by portraying it as too big, too bloated and too much wasteful public spending for a pandemic thatβs almost over.
Donald Trump last year publicly worried that the explosion in voting by mail during the pandemic would increase turnout so much that βyou'd never have a Republican elected in this country again.β But a new study shows the record rates of mail voting in 2020 didn't help Democrats or lead to an increase in voting.
BESSEMER, Alabama (AP) β Some Democratic members of Congress and national union leaders on Friday sought to rustle up support for unionizing a massive Amazon facility outside Birmingham, comparing Alabama workersβ organizing campaign to the civil rights movement.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) β The Virginia GOP appears to be headed back to the drawing board in its ongoing struggle to sort out how to choose its nominees for this year's statewide contests.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) β Rebuffed by the Democrats who control the Legislature, New Jersey Republican lawmakers Friday conducted their own hearing on Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy's management of the coronavirus pandemic, questioning his administration's handling of the virus in nursing homes.
ATLANTA (AP) β Georgia's House on Friday voted 136-31 to pass a $27.2 billion budget, putting back a fraction of the money that was cut last year and spurning a Democratic attempt to more widely expand the Medicaid health insurance program.
ATLANTA (AP) β Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won wide praise last fall for firmly rejecting then-President Donald Trumpβs false claims of voter fraud. But now that those claims have spawned an effort to tighten voting laws β one that could affect their political fortunes β the two Republicans are taking a softer approach.
WASHINGTON (AP) β The Senate voted by the slimmest of margins Thursday to begin debating a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, after Democrats made eleventh-hour changes aimed at ensuring they could pull President Joe Bidenβs top legislative priority through the precariously divided chamber.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) β The North Dakota House on Thursday voted to expel a lawmaker accused of threatening and sexually harassing women at the Capitol, the first time in state history a lawmaker has been expelled.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) β Pro-Trump demonstrators convened in front of the Nevada Capitol to hand-deliver complaints of election fraud to Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske and demand she investigate them.
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) β Wyoming state Rep. Chuck Gray announced on Thursday that he will run against U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney in the 2022 Republican primary for the state's at-large district.
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) β South Dakota Republicans on Thursday voted to put a constitutional amendment on the next primary election ballot that would make it more difficult to pass ballot initiatives to raise taxes or spend public funds.
WASHINGTON (AP) β House Democrats passed the most ambitious effort in decades to overhaul policing nationwide, avoiding a potential clash with moderates in their own party who were wary of reigniting the βdefund the policeβ debate they say hurt them during last fall's election.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) β Breaking with other Southern GOP governors, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey extended her stateβs mask order for another month Thursday but said the requirement will end for good in April.
WASHINGTON (AP) β The Biden administration's nominee for top Pentagon policy adviser was met with sharp criticism from Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, including accusations that he has been too partisan.
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) β A Trump may be on the ballot next year β but not Donald Trump.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) β With Democrats controlling the presidency and Congress, Republican state lawmakers concerned about the possibility of new federal gun control laws aren't waiting to react.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) β With Democrats controlling the presidency and Congress, Republican state lawmakers concerned about the possibility of ne…
WASHINGTON (AP) β President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress are jamming their agenda forward with a sense of urgency, an unapologetically partisan approach based on the calculation that itβs better to advance the giant COVID-19 rescue package and other priorities than waste time courting Republicans who may never compromise.
