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Moving through the Capitol s Statuary Hall on Wednesday before the House s impeachment vote are six of the nine impeachment managers: from left, Reps. Jamie Raskin, Madeleine Dean, David Cicilline, Eric Swalwell, Joaquin Castro, and Joe Neguse. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images)
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NY Democrat s ties to Maduro may help Biden unlock stalemate
by Joshua Goodman, The Associated Press
Posted Jan 13, 2021 10:23 pm EDT
Last Updated Jan 13, 2021 at 10:28 pm EDT
MIAMI It was the aftermath of a failed coup against Hugo Chávez and Rep. Gregory Meeks was lounging at the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod with a young lawmaker from Venezuela with a bushy moustache named Nicolás Maduro.
Photographs of the 2002 encounter show the men standing shoulder to shoulder, having bonded over their shared love of baseball and tales of their respective odds-defying upbringings Maduro on the streets of Caracas, where leftist radicals like himself were gunned down, and Meeks in a public housing project in Harlem the son of a struggling boxer and teacher.
Thursday, January 14, 2021
The General Election in November, followed by the Georgia runoffs, means major changes may be in the offing for banks.
First of all, the defeat of President Trump will result in the appointment of key new regulators, though the timing of the appointments is unclear. The Biden administration is likely to move quickly to put an acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in place. Also, President-elect Biden is likely to see the CFPB appointment as a possible concession to the Warren wing of the Democratic Party, as opposed to giving that wing substantive legislative concessions. With control of the US Senate, the administration no longer has to worry about having to invoke cloture on its nominations. Thus, the Senate will not be a check, as a practical matter, on who might be named director of the CFPB. As a result, banks are likely to face a rather aggressive CFPB over the next four years. There is currently
NY Democrat’s ties to Maduro may help Biden unlock stalemate with Venezuela
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Posted Jan 14, 2021
FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2020 file photo, U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference outside the USPS Jamaica station in the Queens borough of New York.AP Photo/John Minchillo, File
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MIAMI (AP) It was the aftermath of a failed coup against Hugo Chávez and Rep. Gregory Meeks was lounging at the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod with a young lawmaker from Venezuela with a bushy moustache named Nicolás Maduro.
Photographs of the 2002 encounter show the men standing shoulder to shoulder, having bonded over their shared love of baseball and tales of their respective odds-defying upbringings Maduro on the streets of Caracas, where leftist radicals like himself were gunned down, and Meeks in a public housing project in Harlem the son of a struggling boxer and teacher.