Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Republican seeks documents from White House, DOJ over Huawei CFO case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican lawmaker is calling on the Biden administration to provide communications between the White House and the Justice Department, after the near-simultaneous release of...
Sep 28, 2021
U.S. Senator Cruz vows to block new Democratic debt ceiling ploy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz vowed on Tuesday to block Democrats from obtaining consent to suspend the federal debt ceiling through a simple majority vote. (Reporting by Dav...
Sep 28, 2021
U.S. Senate’s Warren calls Powell ‘dangerous man’ to lead the Fed
(Reuters) - A top Senate Democrat on Tuesday said she would vote against a reappointment of Jerome Powell as chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, calling him a "dangerous man" to lead the central bank. ...
Sep 28, 2021
U.S. Senate’s Schumer to seek vote to increase the debt limit, on a majority vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will ask later Tuesday for unanimous consent for the chamber to hold a vote to increase the nation's debt limit on a majority v...
Sep 28, 2021
U.S. Democratic lawmakers urge Biden not to reduce biofuel mandates
By Stephanie Kelly and Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group of U.S. Democratic lawmakers called on President Joe Biden to halt a plan to slash the amount of biofuels that oil refiners must ble...
Sep 28, 2021
Biden’s Democrats in Congress race to head off shutdown, default
By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's Democrats will seek on Tuesday to head off two looming dangers to the U.S. economy as they try to keep government operati...
Sep 28, 2021
‘A four-alarm fire’: Tight Virginia governor’s race holds warning signs for Democrats
By Joseph Ax and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Almost a year after President Joe Biden trounced Donald Trump in Virginia, the state's unexpectedly tight race for governor has alarmed Democrats...
Sep 28, 2021
Pentagon leaders to face Afghanistan reckoning in Congress
By Phil Stewart and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's top military leaders are expected to face some of the most contentious hearings in memory this week over the chaotic ...
Sep 27, 2021
California becomes 8th U.S. state to make universal mail-in ballots permanent
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California on Monday became the eighth, and by far the largest, U.S. state to make universal distribution of vote-by-mail ballots permanent, a practice that bec...
Sep 27, 2021
U.S. Senators call for ‘full accountability’ in World Bank data controversy
By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat and Republican on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee have urged President Joe Biden to "ensure full accountability" o...
Sep 27, 2021
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