The Biden administration said on Thursday it will seek to pass a law requiring utilities to source more power from renewable and other clean sources as part of an ambitious effort to address climate change through investing in infrastructure.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday backed reforming, rather than scrapping, the filibuster after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Democrats that ending the long-standing Senate procedure that can block partisan legislation would bring the Democratic president’s agenda to a standstill.
Top Democrats, including the two highest-ranking party members in the Senate, have stepped up rhetoric in recent days about the future of the filibuster, which requires support from 60 of the chamber’s 100 members to pass most legislation effectively giving power to the minority party in a closely-divided chamber.
The parliamentary custom has long been seen as a mechanism requiring bipartisan consensus that distinguishes the Senate from the House of Representatives, where only a simple majority is needed to pass legislation. But with the Senate riven by a rancorous partisan divide, consensus has become an increasingly elusive goal.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin likely directed efforts to try to swing the 2020 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump, according to an American intelligence report released on Tuesday that sources said would likely trigger U.S. sanctions on Moscow.
The 15-page report, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, added heft to longstanding allegations that some of Trump’s top lieutenants were playing into Moscow’s hands by amplifying claims made against then-candidate Joe Biden by Russian-linked Ukrainian figures in the run-up to the Nov. 3 election. It also added new findings that Putin either oversaw or at least approved of the election meddling to benefit Trump.
Mrs. Hart argues there are “at least” 22 lawful ballots that were left out of the count and has requested a “hand recount of every ballot” overseen by the House of Representatives to prove her point and unseat Mrs. Miller-Meeks.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who is presiding over one of the slimmest House majorities in decades was all too happy to oblige. This coming from a woman who slammed former President Donald J. Trump’s lawsuits contesting election results in several states as trying to “overturn the will of millions of American voters.”
The last time a seated House member was overturned by the House was in 1985 in Indiana’s “bloody eighth.” The time before that was in 1938 in both instances Democrats were in control of the House.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to join Democrats in ending their self-imposed ban on earmarks and resume the controversial practice of allowing lawmakers to add pet projects to spending bills.
FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol dome is pictured in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/
The move comes as Congress prepares to take up a number of spending bills, as well as an expected infrastructure package sought by Democratic President Joe Biden that could be worth as much as $2 trillion over 10 years.
The decision signals a Republican willingness to negotiate with Democrats on the details of a massive infrastructure package and the federal budget.