Il unexpected retirement of Republican Sen. Rob Portman has set off a frantic scramble in Ohio, leading numerous Republicans and a handful of Democratic lawmakers to consider making a run at the now open seat.
New York state senate majority leader calls on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign
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State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is now calling for the resignation of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who faces escalating pressure to step aside from members of his own party. The Democratic govern...
How Republicans misunderstand the 2020 turnout story
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Numerous Republican state legislatures are trying to pass new voter restriction legislation (e.g. limiting absentee and early voting). Nel frattempo, Democrats in Congress are trying to pass laws that expand access to t...
How Ron DeSantis became the hottest name in the 2024 gara
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Over the weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference's annual gathering, un 2024 straw poll was conducted. Two actually -- one with former President Donald Trump included and one without the 45th presiden...
Senate gears up for marathon effort in push for Covid relief
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Washington The Senate is bracing for a marathon effort and a late night of voting on amendments before lawmakers take a final vote on President Joe Biden's $ 1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill -- it's just not yet cl...
Schumer announces all-female Senate sergeant-at-arms team following US Capitol riot
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday announced an all-female Senate sergeant-at-arms leadership team, after the previous sergeant-at-arms resigned as part of the fallout from the January 6 insurrezione ...
Democrats introduce legislation to create a Ruth Bader Ginsburg monument on Capitol Hill
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Congressional Democrats have introduced legislation to create a monument on Capitol Hill in honor of the late Supreme Court Justice and liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The House bill, introduced on Monday by the D...
Il 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2022
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Senate elections typically happen only every two years -- except sometimes they're three years in a row. Democrats picked up two seats in November 2020. They won two more in Georgia runoffs in January 2021. E in ...
Il Senato conferma Cecilia Rouse come la migliore economista di Biden
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The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden's nomination of Cecilia Rouse to chair the Council of Economic Advisers. Il voto di martedì è stato 95-4. Rouse, a labor economist and dean of the Princeton School of Public and...
Perché i repubblicani pensano che il dott. Seuss e il sig. Potato Head può salvarli
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The prevailing message that emerged from last weekend's annual Conservative Political Action Conference wasn't that Joe Biden is a bad president or that Donald Trump is great (although both speakers and attendees vo...
I Democratici al Senato abbandonano la proposta di penalizzare le aziende per non aver fornito $15 salario minimo
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I Democratici al Senato hanno deciso domenica di abbandonare una proposta alternativa per penalizzare le aziende per non aver fornito a $ 15 salario minimo ai propri dipendenti, l'ultima indicazione che l'aumento del salario minimo federale in questo ...
Why Democrats should still fight for a $15 salario minimo
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Democrats' quest for a $ 15/hour minimum wage may be over before it even began. The Senate parliamentarian ruled this week that it cannot be passed, as currently constructed, by reconciliation as part of Democrats'...