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President Joe Biden, Gov. and Mrs. Cooper, and Rep. Dan Bishop, NC-9, were on hand as two turkeys, Chocolate and Chip, from Monroe, N.C., shook a tailfeather in the Rose Garden

Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital Congress.  The House and Senate are both in recess this week. When the Senate returns next week, it will hold a procedural vote on a bill to codify the right to same-sex marriage. The House’s legislative schedule for next week has not yet been announced but Congress will be focused on passing government funding, the National Defense Authorization Act, and a host of other lingering priorities in December.

The Biden family will attend a Friendsgiving dinner at Cherry Point with Marines and their families on Monday. ...

President Biden continued a 75-year tradition and pardoned a pair of Thanksgiving turkeys named after his favorite flavor of ice cream while cracking jokes about his political party’s better-than-expected performance in this month’s midterm elections.

(WASHINGTON) -- Fresh off several weeks of celebrations for his family and political party, a jovial President Joe Biden expressed thanks on Monday as he took part in the annual White House tradition of pardoning turkeys from becoming Thanksgiving dinner. "The votes are in, they've been counted, verified. There's no ballot stuffing, there's no fowl

Its holiday time at the White House

It's holiday time at the White House.

For the second time, Biden played his part in the 75-year tradition of issuing a coveted presidential pardon to keep a pair of turkeys off the holiday dinner table.

For some reaction as you maybe can see here in a little bit of a clip. of course this does date back to the 1860s. that is the first evidence of at least a request for some poultry clemency. the actual tradition, as you well know, andrea, became a formality under george h.w. bush who did then make the ceremonies quite regular. these fun names, all of this and also on a serious note trying to talk about thanksgiving, how meaningful it is to his own family and of course to military families all ac...

Joe Biden granted presidential reprieve Monday to Chocolate and Chip, the national Thanksgiving turkey and its alternate.