Manchin Defends COVID Relief Bill: Republicans Had ‘Tremendous Amount of Input’
The stimulus package passed in the Senate without a single GOP vote.
The stimulus package passed in the Senate without a single GOP vote.
There are now a total of five women on the record who claim the governor acted inappropriately with them.
Seven Democrats and one independent joined Republicans in voting down the measure.
‘The First Amendment protects associational privacy for a reason,’ said ACLU attorney Brian Hauss.
While the Senate plans to be in session Thursday, the House will hold its final votes of the week on Wednesday evening.
It could potentially delay the vote by as much as 10 hours.
The amendment would have lowered the voting age from 18 to 16.
Tanden is the first of Biden’s 23 Cabinet nominees requiring Senate approval to be defeated.
The announcement comes as regulators recently authorized the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
‘She obviously wants to get their attention on things that are important to her state,’ the senator said.
Roughly nine months after the fencing was placed around Lafayette Park and St. John’s Episcopal Church, D.C. residents celebrated the deconstruction of the makeshift borders on Monday.
‘I’m glad to see that there will be a full, independent, and thorough investigation,’ the former senator from New York added.
One lawmaker noted that the toll of the pandemic makes the border crossings that much more dangerous.
‘He suggested that I do something that was anatomically impossible,’ the Texas senator said.
Lindsey Boylan, a former staffer for the N.Y. governor, recently published an essay detailing the alleged harassment, including unwanted touching and kissing.
The Department of Homeland Security announced earlier this month that ICE would not conduct enforcement activities at or near vaccination sites.
Republicans argue that the bill endangers women, curtails religious freedom, and places an undue burden on certain businesses.
The toymaker Hasbro announced Thursday it will drop the honorific on its Mr. Potato Head brand in favor of a gender-neutral ‘Potato Head’ moniker.
The vice president of a California school board is drawing criticism after she compared returning teachers to in-person instruction to slavery.
Steven Sund testified at a joint hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSCAC) and Rules and Administration committees.
‘The data get fuzzy when you try to compare what happens when you’re not in the school versus what happens when you are in the school,’ he said.
Meanwhile, former president Trump is scheduled to address the conference in his first major public appearance since leaving office last month.
It will also call for an immediate probe into the supply chain of the Huanan seafood market, where the virus is believed to have originated.
The senator cited Tanden’s ‘overtly partisan statements’ in explaining his opposition.
‘There’s not much that needs to be said, the guy was an absolute legend,’ DeSantis said. ‘He was a friend of mine and just a great person.
The call came after the release of a report which found that the nursing-home policy contributed to 1,000 deaths.
Meanwhile, mainstream media outlets took shots at Limbaugh in their respective obituaries.
Gov. Cuomo blasted state lawmakers who have threatened to rescind his emergency powers and investigate his administration’s coverup of nursing home data.
Republicans sent Pelosi a letter asking why the former Capitol police chief had his January 4 request for National Guard assistance rejected.
While she expressed disappointment in the verdict, she said she would not censure Trump. Doing so would be ‘a slap in the face of the Constitution.