Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said this morning that Democrats are willing to proceed without Republican support on the next COVID relief package, potentially starting the process as soon as early next week. Speaking from the Senate floor, Schumer said that it was the preference of Democrats to work with Republicans on the… Read More
President Joe Biden on Wednesday will sign a package of executive orders elevating climate change at every level of the federal government, a move that the administration says will put the United States on the path to reducing its share of emissions that are warming the planet. The orders will Take a Whole-of-Government Approach to… Read More
For the second time in just over a year, the House on Monday sent an article of impeachment against disgraced former President Donald John Trump to the Senate for trial, with House impeachment managers walking the article to the Senate at 7 pm last night. As detailed yesterday, the trial will begin February 9th, and… Read More
Over the next three weeks, the Senate has three urgent items at hand. The trial of disgraced former President Donald J. Trump now that the House has impeached him again, the COVID relief package, and approving President Joseph R. Biden Jr’s Cabinet. Today at 3 pm the Senate is scheduled to convene where it will… Read More
As the third day of a Biden Administration begins, progress continues on a number of fronts. Today, President Biden will sign another round of executive orders that will: Address the growing hunger crisis facing 29 million Americans — and as many as 12 million children – by asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to consider… Read More
After a perfect winter Wednesday that saw Joseph R. Biden, Jr. sworn in as the 46th President, three new Senate Democrats sworn in, and Chuck Schumer ascend to Senate Majority Leader, official Washington now gets down to the business of repairing the damage of the last four years. As discussed yesterday, President Biden signed 17… Read More
With over 400,000 Americans dead from COVID-19 and downtown Washington turned into a vacant armed camp, President Donald J. Trump walked out of the White House for the last time this morning ending a calamitous presidency, but not before granting pardons to 73 individuals and commuting the sentences of an additional 70 individuals. President elect… Read More
As Washington prepares for embattled President Donald J. Trump to depart the White House early tomorrow morning and for Joseph R. Biden, Jr. to be sworn in at noon, Biden will deliver one last set of remarks this afternoon from Wilmington, Delaware, where he has conducted his transition amid a raging pandemic, before heading to… Read More
The House on Wednesday voted 232-197 to approve a single article of impeachment charging Donald John Trump from Queens, New York with “incitement of insurrection” for encouraging his supporters who attacked the Capitol last week. All 222 Democrats supported the impeachment resolution. Republicans who voted to impeach Trump include Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Jaime Herrera Beutler and… Read More
The House voted last night to demand that Vice President Mike Pence use the Constitution’s 25th Amendment to remove President Donald J. Trump from office, a largely symbolic act leading up to a vote today to impeach the president for a second time. The House went ahead with the non-binding resolution, which passed 223-205, even… Read More
