Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Manchin last week made counteroffer to White House for social spending bill -report
(Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin last week made the White House a counteroffer for its social spending bill, which excluded an extension of the expanded Child Tax Credit, the Washington...
Dec 20, 2021
Manchin says White House staff drove him to reject Biden’s social policy plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said on Monday that White House staff did some "inexcusable" things that drove him to reject President Joe Biden's social and climate policy ...
Dec 20, 2021
Schumer says Senate to vote on Biden plan despite Manchin objections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will move ahead with a vote on President Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan early next year despite opposition from a key Democratic senator, and will also take ...
Dec 20, 2021
Georgia governor’s race tests Trump’s stolen-election claims
By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) - Since announcing his candidacy for the Georgia governorship earlier this month, Republican David Perdue has wasted no time in releasing ads that revive former President ...
Dec 20, 2021
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren tests positive for COVID-19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Sunday she had tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms. The Massachusetts Democrat, 72, said on Twitter she is vaccinated...
Dec 19, 2021
Sanders says there should be vote on Build Back Better despite Manchin rejection
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Bernie Sanders said in a CNN interview on Sunday he thinks there should still be a vote on the Build Back Better bill, despite rejection of the $1.75 trillion domestic i...
Dec 19, 2021
Manchin says he is a ‘no’ on Biden’s domestic investment bill
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat who is key to President Joe Biden's hopes of passing a $1.75 trillion domestic investment bill, said on Sunday he would...
Dec 19, 2021
U.S. senator gets vote on Nord Stream 2 sanctions, in deal over envoy approvals
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz will get a vote in January on his bill to slap sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline in a deal struck with Democrats i...
Dec 18, 2021
Florida man who threw plank, extinguisher at police gets longest Capitol riot sentence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge sentenced a U.S. Capitol rioter to more than five years in prison on Friday on charges that he threw a wooden plank and a fire extinguisher at police during the ...
Dec 17, 2021
U.S. Postal Service, NAACP reach settlement on election mail
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and NAACP have reached a settlement in a lawsuit over election mail. USPS agreed for the 2022 mid-term congressional election to take the same ext...
Dec 17, 2021
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