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January 15, 2021 7:03 AM By Zachary Sherwood and Brandon Lee The timing for both President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and legislation to provide Americans with more Covid relief now largely depends on maneuvering by three of the most veteran legislative tacticians in Congress. The first indication of how it will unfold may come today when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) holds her weekly news conference. Pelosi signed the single article of impeachment shortly after it was passed by the House on Wednesday. But she’s given no public clue since then about when it...

January 15, 2021 6:09 AM By Brandon Lee President-elect Joe Biden outlined plans for a $20 billion national vaccination program to speed up the pace of Covid-19 immunizations, calling the effort so far “a dismal failure” in an address last night. “We’ll have to move heaven and earth to get more people vaccinated, to create more places for them to get vaccinated, to mobilize more medical teams to get shots in people’s arms, to increase vaccine supply, and to get it out the door as fast as possible,” Biden said. Biden said he would lay out plans today t...

January 13, 2021 7:08 AM By Zachary Sherwood and Brandon Lee The House is prepared to vote on a history-making second impeachment of Donald Trump, as lawmakers seethed over his role inciting last week’s mob attack on the Capitol and the president’s once-firm control over the Republican party began to break down. Trump’s impeachment appeared inevitable in a vote Democrats set for today with the resolution’s sponsors claiming broad support from Democrats and public backing from several Republicans, including Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the No. 3 House GOP leader an...

Roundup: Md. has yet to administer 80% of vaccines Baltimore Inner Harbor fireworks New Year's 2017 by Patrick Gillespie with Flickr Creative Commons License. This is a cropped version of the full panorama at https://www.flickr.com/photos/40423570@N07/31982194086/sizes/6k/ A HAPPIER NEW YEAR! Let’s hope 2021 turns out better than 2020. State Roundup and the newsletter will return Monday, Jan. 4. ***Today is the final day of Maryland Reporter’s fifth annual NewsMatch campaign. Donations to our nonprofit news website are matched by national foundations and a new matching grant from Google.�...

December 22, 2020 6:15 AM By Brandon Lee Congress passed a roughly $900 billion aid package attached to the $1.4 trillion measure to fund government operations through the end of the fiscal year. The Health and Human Services component of the fiscal 2021 government funding legislation boosts money for medical research and public health and also supports the rollout of vaccines that could bring an end to the pandemic. HHS would get $96.5 billion in fiscal 2021, a $2 billion bump from last year. The package also includes a separate $73 billion pot of emergency funds to help tackle ...