Congress passes ban on imports made with Uyghur forced labor
The Senate on Thursday gave final approval to a bipartisan bill to crack down on imports from China's Xinjiang region, where Beijing is accused of using forced labor.
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The Senate on Thursday gave final approval to a bipartisan bill to crack down on imports from China's Xinjiang region, where Beijing is accused of using forced labor.
The House of Representatives saw 13 Republicans and six progressive Democrats vote in opposition of the other members of their respective parties in Friday's vote on President Joe Biden's $1.2
A bipartisan push on Capitol Hill to force the White House to expel hundreds of Russian diplomats has backed President Biden into a corner, fueling doubts about his promise to get tough on the Kremlin and raising questions about whether the U.S. has squandered leverage to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
President Biden has previously registered his support for appealing the authorizations, arguing that they are outdated. The administration has also strayed from previous administrations’ tendency to lean on the 2002 AUMF for engagements in the region, citing Article II of the Constitution for airstrikes on Iranian-backed militia fighters in Iraq and Syria in February and June. Then-President Obama cited the authorization in 2014 as legal authority to send troops back in the theater to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In 2020, President Trump cited the 2002 authorization as ...
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