Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee plans to hold a meeting Wednesday to vote on advancing four nominees for the Federal Reserve, including the renomination of Chairman Jerome Pow...

By Jason Lange and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the days after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, dozens of companies said they would suspend political donations to Republican law...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday President Joe Biden would veto a bill in Congress that would block public health officials from requiring masks on airplanes and in other transpo...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal and Amy Klobuchar, both active in antitrust, wrote to the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday to urge officials to investigate potential an...

(Reuters) - U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown said Tuesday he will move to hold a vote on four of President Joe Biden's nominees to the Federal Reserve Board after the fifth, former Fe...

(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that Sarah Bloom Raskin had withdrawn as his nominee to become the top bank regulator at the Federal Reserve after being subjected to "baseless att...

(Reuters) - Sarah Bloom Raskin on Tuesday withdrew as President Joe Biden's nominee to become the top bank regulator at the Federal Reserve, one day after a key Democratic senator and moderate Republi...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to make Daylight Savings Time permanent, a move supporters say would make winter afternoons brighter and end the twice changing of c...

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers in Georgia were poised on Tuesday to advance a bill expanding law enforcement's power to investigate election fraud, adding to a broader push by U.S. cons...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called on the White House on Tuesday to replace Sarah Bloom Raskin with a different nominee to become the Federal Reserve's top ban...