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President Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget has been in jeopardy since last week.

Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Alternatives to Neera Tanden are being floated, as her confirmation path gets more difficult.  Two Senate committees on Wednesday postponed their votes on Neera Tanden’s nomination to be Office of Management and Budget director as opposition grew.  The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Budget committees both have to favorably report the nomination...

Two Senate committees unexpectedly postponed on Wednesday preliminary votes on confirming Neera Tanden, the embattled Indian American nominee for a cabinet position, as the powerful director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).With the ...

Two Senate committees have postponed scheduled votes on President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

Paid Sick Leave Measure Would Cover Many Fewer People Del. Elizabeth Guzman (D-Prince William) proposed the state mandate paid sick leave for essential workers, but her bill was pared back by Senate lawmakers on Monday. (Photo: Craig Carper/VPM News) Two Senate committees approved a bill on Monday that would guarantee home health care workers up to a week of earned paid sick leave. That’s only a fraction of the workers that an earlier version of the proposal introduced would have covered. If ...

FOX News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram has the details on The Story Two Senate committees are set to meet Tuesday in the first public congressional inquiry into the Jan. 6 Capitol security failures that allowed a pro-Trump mob to storm the building as lawmakers were certifying the presidential election results in a joint session.  The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSCAC) and Rules and Administration Committee will convene at 10 a.m. as they seek infor...

Two Senate committees heard testimony from security officials about lapses that allowed a pro-Trump mob to overrun the complex.

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Following the January 6 insurrection, Elizabeth Catte, author of "What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia," and Leah Hampton, author of "F*ckface," discuss the dangers of depictions of America's rural denizens as a monolithic body of right-wing White racists.

ADVERTISEMENT If confirmed, Mayorkas would be the first Cuban American to lead the Department of Homeland Security. He served as the department’s deputy under the Obama administration after leading the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) wing. But Republicans have expressed concern over a 2015 inspector general report from Mayorkas’s days at CIS that found he intervened in immigration cases at the behest of some Democrats. Mayorkas has said he stepped into a broken process on behalf...