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Senator Bernie Sanders made a successful maneuver on his minimum wage proposal. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House leaders will meet with President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday. The Senate backed by 99-1 a non-binding call to oppose stimulus checks going to “upper-income taxpayers” and on a voice vote adopted an amendment opposing raising the minimum wage during a pandemic. They were two in a series of messaging votes the chamber is.
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After a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in crowded Paris cafes and restaurants in November 2015 left 130 people dead, some members of Congress threatened to shut down the U.S. refugee program.
Alejandro Ali Mayorkas, then deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, sprang into action. He and other staffers called individual members of Congress, pointing out the program s value and security features, explaining that most of the Paris attackers were not refugees. It was a Herculean, round-the-clock effort, for three days straight.