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U.S. Senate energy committee votes 13-4 to approve nomination of Granholm to head Energy Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Energy Committee voted 13-4 on Wednesday to approve the nomination of former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to head the Energy Department. Granholm, 61, wan...
Feb 03, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court to hear pipeline company’s bid to seize New Jersey land
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a bid by a consortium of energy companies seeking to seize land owned by the state of New Jersey to build a $1 bi...
Feb 03, 2021
U.S. Supreme Court scraps arguments in Trump-era immigration and wall cases
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday canceled upcoming scheduled arguments in appeals filed by Republican former President Donald Trump's administration defend...
Feb 03, 2021
Biden to meet Democratic lawmakers on COVID-19 aid: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will on Wednesday meet congressional Democrats preparing to advance his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan despite Republican pushback. A Democrat himse...
Feb 03, 2021
Biden to meet with Democratic lawmakers on COVID-19 aid: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with fellow Democrats in Congress on Wednesday to discuss ongoing efforts to pass COVID-19 relief legislations, the White House said in a stat...
Feb 03, 2021
House Republicans face identity dilemma in fights over Liz Cheney, Marjorie Taylor Greene
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday face questions about whether to discipline a pair of strikingly different Representatives Liz Cheney and Marjorie ...
Feb 03, 2021
House Republican lawmakers seek to remove Omar from committee assignments – Fox News
(Reuters) - House Republican lawmakers are seeking this week to oust U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, from her committee assignments as Democrats push for similar action agai...
Feb 03, 2021
Biden’s White House will look into Trump’s visitor logs and whether it can release them
By Jarrett Renshaw and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday it would look into whether it can make visitor logs from former President Donald Trump's administration publi...
Feb 02, 2021
Exclusive: Yellen to name ex-IMF official Lipton to senior Treasury role, sources say
By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - David Lipton, an economist who served as a senior official at the International Monetary Fund and U.S. Treasury, will return to government serv...
Feb 02, 2021
Biden Homeland Security nominee Mayorkas heads toward U.S. Senate confirmation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Alejandro Mayorkas to head the Department of Homeland Security, meaning he will become the first Latino and immigrant t...
Feb 02, 2021
