Iowa Election Challenge Fueling GOP Drive to Capture the House bgov.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bgov.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Democrats say voters will punish GOP for opposing benefits
Republicans say package is larded with liberal programs March 9, 2021 11:07 AM By Nancy Ognanovich and Kenneth P. Doyle
The Senate had barely passed the $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus package when freshman Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff called a press conference at Atlantaâs Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to tout the relief they were bringing home to their constituents.
âThanks to Georgians, the nation can finally see the light at the end of this dark tunnel,â said Warnock, who must stand for re-election already in less than two years.
The January victories of Warnock and Ossoff delivered Democrats the bare majority in the Senate and enabled them to muscle through on a party-line vote the massive pandemic relief package sought by President Joe Biden. With the House scheduled to take up the Senate version of the package (H.R. 1319) on Wednesday, leaders of both parties w
Funding Bodyguards With Campaign Cash Set for Federal Approval bgov.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bgov.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
House Democrats are preparing to pass sweeping legislation to revamp election and campaign finance rules next week on a party-line vote that portends an uphill battle in the Senate, where it faces stiff Republican opposition.
February 10, 2021 7:01 AM By Zachary Sherwood
House Democrats used searing video footage from last monthâs deadly rampage at the U.S. Capitol to begin Donald Trumpâs second impeachment trial on a dramatic note, yet the prosecution remains far from winning enough GOP votes to convict the former president.
The proceedings enter a second full day today, when Democratic impeachment managers will present their opening arguments for convicting Trump for his role in encouraging a mob of loyalists to disrupt the election tally by both chambers of Congress. A conviction would require 17 Republican GOP votes a tall order for the nine prosecutors.