House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a letter Sunday that the House is exploring legislative options to isolate Russia, including a ban on Russian oil and energy.
The US Black Chambers is endorsing President Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and urging the Senate to quickly confirm her.
Biden says he supports return to talking filibuster thehill.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehill.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Almost half of voters surveyed in a new Hill-HarrisX poll said the filibuster should remain in place.Forty-three percent of registered voters in the March 12-14 survey said the Senate procedural tactic should be kept as is.
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“So this is not a trade-off between trampling etiquette but then getting to quickly transform the country. That’s a false choice. Even the most basic aspects of our colleagues’ agenda, the most mundane task of the Biden presidency, would actually be harder not easier, McConnell said. This chaos would not open up an express lane to liberal change. It would not open up an express lane for the Biden presidency to speed into the history books. The Senate would be more like a 100-car pile up, nothing moving, he added.
In 2011, McConnell and then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid