Chuck Schumer Learns the Downside of Being on Top in the Senate
Leaders in the upper chamber of Congress occasionally have to take a political beating to protect their members in tough ...
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Senate Face-off: The many lives of Natasha
For three weeks, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the Senator representing Kogi Central in the National Assembly has been in the news ...
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Georgia House OKs governor’s priority lawsuit damage award limit bill, easing path to his signature
After weeks of debate, Gov. Brian Kemp’s signature bill overhauling the state’s civil justice system passed the House in a ...
Chuck Schumer caves, won’t vote to block GOP plan to avert government shutdown in dramatic U-turn
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took up consideration of a measure in 2022 to shift to a watered-down “talking ...
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All eyes on Democrats as US barrels toward shutdown deadline
WASHINGTON: The United States government ... Republicans control 53 seats in the 100-member Senate. Legislation in the upper chamber requires a preliminary ballot with a 60-vote threshold ...
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US government shutdown looms as senate vote hangs in balance
The two leaders met as the Trump administration has once again put the military alliance between the United States and ... in the 100-member Senate, legislation in the upper chamber requires ...
Michael Goodwin: Trump is putting on a master class in power politics
The defeat Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer suffered in the spending bill battle was so bad that the left-wing media ...
The midterms won’t save the Democrats
Midterm elections tend to be unkind to the party in power. The sitting president’s party has lost House seats in every midterm but two dating back to 1950. The last time Donald Trump was president, ...
The Latest: Senate passes 6-month funding bill, sending measure to Trump's desk
GOP funding bill faces 60-vote threshold to advance in Senate The Senate is now taking a key vote that needs 60 votes to push ...
Here Are the Senate Democrats Who Helped Republicans Avert a Shutdown
Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...
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Trump Administration Highlights: Judge Orders Halt on Deportations of Venezuelans Under Wartime Law
The judge also ordered the return of any planes that had departed the United States with immigrants under ... which would have been required for the Senate-confirmed position.