Impeachment, Coronavirus, 52 Places: Your Friday Evening Briefing
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
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1. A year ago this week, House Democrats were preparing articles of impeachment against President Trump. They are on the verge of doing so yet again.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House could move to impeach Mr. Trump over his role in inciting a violent mob attack on the Capitol if he did not resign “immediately,” calling Mr. Trump’s actions a “horrific assault on our democracy.”
The House could vote on impeachment next week, with a handful of Republicans offering potential support. Impeachment could bar Mr. Trump from ever holding federal office again. No president has ever been impeached twice or in his waning days in office, and none has ever been convicted. Here is what we know about how the process might work.
President-elect Joe Biden said Friday he expects the Democrat-controlled Congress to “raise the odds of prompt action” in approving a $2,000 stimulus as well as increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Saturday, January 9, 2021
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had a busy 2020, as detailed in earlier blog posts. This blog post explores politics and a few policy activities we’ll be keeping an eye on in 2021 and how they might impact medical product manufacturers, particularly now that we know the U.S. Senate will be controlled, like the U.S. House of Representatives and the White House, by Democrats.
Politics
Chairmanship of the powerful House Energy & Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over FDA, remains with Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey while Senator Patty Murray of Washington is in line to helm the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee. While President-elect Joe Biden has announced his picks for Secretary of Health and Human Services (California Attorney General Xavier Beccera) and Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Rochelle Walensky, chief of the Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital