Sen. Markwayne Mullin listens during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on “Standing Up Against Corporate Greed: How Unions are Improving the Lives of Working Families” on Tuesday, November 14, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Sometimes it feels like Congress is trying […]
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Rep. Tim Burchett speaks with reporters outside the Capitol Building on Tuesday. Francis Chung/POLITICO/AP In a sign of how tense the dynamics are in the House Republican conference, GOP Rep. Tim Burchett accused Kevin McCarthy of elbowing him in the back while he was talking to a reporter after the […]
WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to avoid a partial government shutdown secured tentative support from top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer on Monday, even as some of Johnson’s hardline Republican colleagues pushed back against it. Senate Majority Leader Schumer, whose support would be […]
The House of Representatives will on Monday begin considering an unconventional proposal by the Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, to extend government funding into the new year and ward off a shutdown that would occur this weekend, but it’s unclear if the measure has the support to pass. Johnson’s bill is […]
WASHINGTON — House Republicans closed out the week by canceling votes on two party-line funding bills in the span of 48 hours, a setback for new Speaker Mike Johnson and a sign of persisting dysfunction in the chamber ahead of a key funding deadline. They pulled a transportation-housing bill late […]
A small toy figure and mineral imitation are seen in front of the Lynas Rare Earths logo in this illustration taken November 19, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Acquire Licensing Rights Lynas to conduct temporary shutdown of Malaysia operations To upgrade NdPr production in Malaysia to 10,500tpa Quarterly sales revenue slips 21.8% […]
WASHINGTON — Republican House speaker nominee Jim Jordan has pitched his colleagues on an unorthodox plan to prevent a government shutdown on Nov. 17. And his conference members have mixed feelings about it. In recent meetings with House Republicans, Jordan, the right-wing firebrand from Ohio, has called for passing a […]
The world economy has been put on red alert with an expert warning a US recession is now “inevitable” and “political dysfunction” is edging America to the brink of a government shutdown. US federal debt has exploded to $33trillion for the first time in the country’s history, igniting fears the […]