As Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) decides whether to hold a vote on legislation aimed at forcing more competition on big tech firms, he’s become the beneficiary of a wave of personal donations from lobbyists for the internet giants.
Lawmakers seeking to ease green card access for immigrants with advanced science and technology degrees are poised to lose a key legislative pathway as the Senate prepares to advance a slim chip manufacturing bill instead of a sweeping US competitiveness package.
President Joe Biden will seek to salvage relations with Saudi Arabia in a Mideast trip that risks political embarrassment unless near-record US gasoline prices swiftly come back to Earth.
A police officer injured by rioters at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 and a documentary filmmaker who captured events that day, will be witnesses in Thursday night’s opening televised hearing by a House committee investigating the attack.