Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that an agreement on aid to Ukraine is imminent, setting the stage for the emergency funding to be combined with a larger government spending bill poised to get votes next week.
The Russia-Ukraine crisis deepened on Tuesday, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared two separatist regions of eastern Ukraine to be independent states.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has requested an all-Senate briefing on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine as Russian forces have entered eastern Ukrainian territories controlled by separatists.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will deliver the Republican response to President Biden's State of the Union address next week, the top party leaders in the House and Senate announced Tuesday.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Tuesday that he did not believe that President Biden’s promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court was “inappropriate.”