By Makini Brice and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. prosecutor who sparked a political firestorm last month with a report saying President Joe Biden had a "poor memory," on Tuesday will speak publicly for the first time since doing.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Representative Ken Buck will leave Congress at the end of next week, he said on Tuesday, blaming a "breakdown of civility" in a chamber led by his party's slim and fractious majority. The earlier-than-planned exit of the 65-year-old Colorado lawmaker will reduce Republicans' majority in the House of Representatives to 218-213. Buck told reporters he had seen heightened dysfunction in U.S. politics for a while.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate narrowly averted a partial government shutdown Friday night as the chamber approved spending legislation for several government agencies just hours before current funding was due
The Democratic-majority U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a short-term stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown, after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives backed it with less than 36 hours before funding would have begun to run out.