WASHINGTON (Reuters) The new U.S. Congress faces many uncertainties as it takes office on Sunday, with Senate control undecided, a narrower Democratic majority in the House of Representatives and Republicans planning an immediate fight over the normally routine election certification.
Democrats lost 11 House of Representatives seats in the November elections, leaving them with a narrow 222-212 majority that gives Speaker Nancy Pelosi little room to maneuver in her first task of being re-elected as the chamber s leader.
The Senate remains Republican-run ahead of twin elections in Georgia on Tuesday, giving its members a platform to again air President Donald Trump s claims, without evidence, that his loss to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden was the result of fraud.
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Some college bowl games are canceled. The NFL is struggling to finish its regular season without canceling a game. People celebrated holiday parties on Zoom.
Yet the 117thCongress begins Sunday at noon, Eastern Time. The Constitution dictates that. And everyone has to be there in person.
The House and Senate remained in session finishing up the 116th Congress through most of the holidays. Lawmakers flirted with a government shutdown. Finally finished a COVID relief package. The House overrode President Trump’s veto of the annual defense bill and, per the President’s request, passed a $2,000 direct stimulus bill, just after Christmas.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives voted on Monday to override President Donald Trump's veto of a $740 billion defense policy bill, a rebuke that underscored divisions in the Republican Party during Trump's final weeks in office.
US: House Republicans join Democrats to override Trump s veto of USD 740 billion defence bill
The 322-87 House vote, in which 109 Republicans joined Democrats to override Trump s veto, leaves the bill s fate to the Republican-led Senate.
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Updated: Dec 29, 2020, 09:22 AM IST
The Democratic-led US House of Representatives voted on Monday to override President Donald Trump s veto of a USD 740 billion defense policy bill, a rebuke that underscored divisions in the Republican Party during Trump s final weeks in office.
The 322-87 House vote, in which 109 Republicans joined Democrats to override Trump s veto, leaves the bill s fate to the Republican-led Senate, where a final vote is expected this week.
President Trump s signature, even after his bashing of the legislation, puts an end to uncertainty over when millions of Americans will receive the economic relief provided in the massive bill.