House committees vote on D.C. statehood and reparations bills Grace Segers © Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Biden s Hopes For GOP Backing On Next Economic Plan Shrinking
Washington Two House committees took up measures long championed by progressives on Wednesday, signaling that congressional Democrats are willing to move forward with their priorities despite narrow majorities in the House and Senate. One panel voted to advance a bill to admit Washington, D.C., as a state, while the other approved a measure that would create a commission studying reparations for descendants of slaves.
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On antitrust and big tech, Biden must return to his centrist roots Daniel A. Crane, opinion contributor © Getty Images President Biden
The President of the United States has limited powers to intervene in the raging debates over antitrust and Big Tech. Perhaps most important among those powers are his nominations to lead the antitrust agencies - the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department s Antitrust Division. President Biden has already exercised one of those options in nominating Lina Khan to be a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission and has made a similar decision in appointing Columbia law professor Tim Wu to serve as antitrust czar on the National Economic Council.