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The victories by Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in the Georgia runoff elections for the U.S. Senate mean that incoming majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will preside over the narrowest possible majority in the Senate under which Vice President Kamala Harris would provide the tie-breaking vote.
The House and the Senate s narrow margins make it unlikely that broad sweeping proposals advanced by progressive Democrats but not supported by their more moderate colleagues will be able to pass. However, control of the Senate should significantly impact the prospects for President Biden s healthcare agenda.
This Holland & Knight alert provides an updated assessment of healthcare policy activities likely to see action in the new 117th Congress and the Biden Administration in the wake of the Georgia runoff elections and based on additional information coming out of the Biden-Harris team.
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The Senate has begun its impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump.
At least seven GOP senators may be willing to hold Trump accountable for the Capitol siege.
They are Sens. McConnell, Murkowski, Collins, Romney, Toomey, Sasse, and Cassidy.
As the Senate impeachment trial gets underway for former President Donald Trump, all eyes are on a handful of Republican lawmakers who could break ranks and potentially convince their colleagues to vote to convict Trump and bar him from ever running for public office again.