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GOP Senators Ask Biden to Reconsider Canceling a Trump Regulatory Transparency Database Twenty-one Republican senators want President Joe Biden to reconsider revoking his predecessor’s executive order telling federal agencies to publish guidance on how they interpret and apply regulations. On his first day in the Oval Office, Biden revoked then-President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13891 that required creation of a public database of agency guidance documents, based on a bill in Congress...

CC: Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator James Risch, Ranking Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Representative Gregory Meeks, Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs Representative Michael McCaul, Ranking Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs Dear Secretary Blinken: We, the undersigned organizations, work to promote human rights, democracy, media freedom, environmental sustainability, and an end to corruption around the world. The prot...

As the impeachment trial begins in the Senate on Tuesday, the Capitol complex remains on high alert — protected by National Guard troops and walled-off

Families of Americans detained abroad hold out hope that Biden administration will return their loved ones By Margaret Brennan, Christina Ruffini, Camilla Schick Updated on: February 4, 2021 / 7:39 AM / CBS News Washington — A week into his new job, Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with family members of hostages or those wrongfully detained abroad and told them that their loved ones "are a top priority in our diplomatic engagements with both allies and adversa...

The Daily 202: Heres why Republicans are in fighting mode over Marjorie Taylor Greene Olivier Knox ! Today, we look into why the GOP has found its not easy beating Greene — Marjorie Taylor, that is. But don’t miss the latest on Trump’s impeachment trial, Biden’s nominations,   vaccines and variants.  Sometimes local or regional news is national news in disguise, so send me your most interesting items from outside the Beltway.  . The House vote later today on wheth...

NationofChange ‘So utterly disingenuous’: Republicans file slew of unrelated amendments as Dems push ahead with Covid relief “If the GOP actually wanted to provide Covid relief, they’d introduce amendments to do so. Instead they’re going to introduce what they believe are gotcha amendments to try to trip up Dems.” Senate Republicans on Wednesday filed more than 400 amendments to a budget resolution that Democrats must pass in order to move forward wit...

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., weighs in on the Biden administration defending Taiwan, as the U.S. Destroyer sails through the Taiwan Strait. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday approved President Biden’s U.N. ambassador nominee, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, but only after objections and a delay in the vote due to concerns raised by Republicans about a pro-China speech she once gave in 2019. Thomas-Greenfield was approved 18-4 by the committee, but the vote in the full Senate was del...

Republicans File Slew of Unrelated Amendments as Dems Push Ahead With Covid Relief “If the GOP actually wanted to provide Covid relief, they’d introduce amendments to do so. Instead they’re going to introduce what they believe are gotcha amendments to try to trip up Dems.” Senate Republicans on Wednesday filed more than 400 amendments to a budget resolution that Democrats must pass in order to move forward with their coronavirus relief package through the reconciliation process, a pr...

Senate committee approves Biden energy secretary nominee Jennifer Granholm Josh Siegel © Provided by Washington Examiner The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved President Biden’s nominee for energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, in a bipartisan 13-4 vote Wednesday morning. However, some Republicans, including the incoming ranking member John Barrasso of Wyoming, did not vote for Granholm despite praising her qualifications and policy positions, citing the B...

There are no good guys: US responds to Myanmar crisis haunted by Rohingya atrocities Print this article President Biden and his Western allies are likely to use sanctions to punish the arrest of civilian officials in Myanmar, where a transition to democracy degenerated into ethnic cleansing and now an apparent coup. “When Burma, or Myanmar, was under the military rule, it was basically on the blacklist; there were a lot of sanctions against Burma,” a European Union official said. "And the...