Page 145 - Chris Dodd News Today

Inside Bidens decision to go it alone with Democrats on coronavirus relief Ashley Parker, Matt Viser and Seung Min Kim, The Washington Post Feb. 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - Partway through a two-hour Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden about his coronavirus relief package, several Republican senators thought they might have finally reached a breakthrough. Bidens plan provides $400 in additional weekly unemployment benefits until the end of September, while the alternativ...

Copy For the 935 days that he spent planning the Iowa caucus, Troy Price can think of three or four times when he believed things were as bad as they would ever get. In moments like these, Price could feel his stomach drop, and in its place, a fierce and unpredictable panic would rise to the surface, producing some combination of anger and tears and bouts of dry heaving, his head bent unceremoniously over a toilet bowl. The first time was in June 2019, months into the process of trying to t...

When House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz’s final term ended Jan. 6, he quickly landed a big-time lobbying job — and joined a parade across the decades of former speakers and other ex-leaders, who’ve capitalized on their contacts and knowledge of government operations to make lots of money influencing legislative and executive-branch decisions.

What a difference an indoor market would make to Newport.

A full 12 years after Joe Biden was sworn in as the vice-president of hope and change, hope is in short supply and the need for change is even more acute. Progressives have a rare opportunity to enact their agenda – but they will need to play the kind of hardball they have backed away from in the past, because Biden continues to send conflicting messages. For every promise of transformational change, he signals a desire to appease a Republican...

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was sworn yesterday as the 46th president of the United States, pledging to unite the country and confront an array of convulsing challenges dividing a fractured nation. “This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,” Mr Biden said in an inaugural address that called on the nation to end its “uncivil war” and embrace a united front amid a series of daunting problems. “Unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of Amer...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president, as the Trump era ends amid a national rift Toluse Olorunnipa and Annie Linskey, The Washington Post Jan. 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff; President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden; Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., arrive for the inauguration.Washington Post photo by Ricky Carioti/Show MoreShow Less 2o...

Joe Biden sworn in as the 46th president With his hand on his family Bible, Biden recited the oath taken by his predecessors, promising to “faithfully execute the office of president of the United States." by Toluse Olorunnipa and Annie Linskey, The Washington Post Jan. 20, 2021 Copy link “This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,” U.S. President Joe Biden said Wednesday at his inauguration in Washington, D.C. Credit: Patrick Semansk...

Trump skipped the inauguration — themed “America United” — two weeks after inciting a deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol.

Donald Trump Tried To Offer Pardon In Case Tied To Joe Biden Corruption, Entrepreneur Says Hours before he departed the White House, Donald Trump granted pardons to 73 individuals and commutations to 70 others in the early hours of Wednesday. According to Finnish-German entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, Trump attempted to offer him a pardon for charges related to his now-defunct file hosting service Megaupload, which the businessman says he refused. "Several people in Trumps inner circle dangled a p...