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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A key Democrat and Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives reached a deal to form a bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters, the lawmakers said on Friday.
Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Republican ranking member John Katko said they would introduce legislation as soon as next week to set up the investigative panel modeled after the one used to probe the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“There has been a growing consensus that the January 6th attack is of a complexity and national significance that . we need an independent commission to investigate,” Thompson said in a statement. “Inaction – or just moving on – is simply not an option.”
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he sees room for a compromise on his proposal for trillions of dollars in infrastructure spending after meeting with Republican leaders but will move forward without the opposition party if necessary.
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GOP ousts Trump critic Liz Cheney from top post
Reuters / May 13, 2021, 07:47 IST
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WASHINGTON: US House of Representatives Republicans on Wednesday voted to remove Liz Cheney from their leadership, punishing her for criticising former President Donald Trump’s false claims that last year’s election was stolen from him through election fraud.
Cheney voted in January to impeach Trump on a charge that he incited an insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. In recent days the House No. 3 Republican Cheney said the false claims of a stolen election were “poisoning our democratic system”.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - POET, the largest biofuels producer in the United States, is in discussions with Flint Hills Resources to acquire the entirety of Flint Hills’ ethanol assets, both companies told Reuters on Thursday.
The deal would increase POET’s potential production capacity for ethanol by more than a third to 3 billion gallons per year, said Jessica Sexe, a spokeswoman for POET.
That could help the company tap into potential growth in the biofuels market as the Biden administration considers boosting biofuels as part of a broader strategy to decarbonize the nation’s economy to fight climate change.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Thursday that she believes solutions to trade disputes with the European Union on aircraft subsidies and steel and aluminum “are within reach.”
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 12, 2021. Susan Walsh/Pool via REUTERS
Tai told the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee that she is “very serious” about resolving the 17-year Boeing-Airbus World Trade Organization dispute over subsidies within a four-month tariff truce due to expire this summer.
On the transatlantic trade dispute over U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs and EU retaliation against U.S. motorcycles, whiskey and other products, Tai has tied any resolution to addressing longstanding global excess production capacity for those metals largely centered in China.