Organizing the Senate
The Senate ended weeks of uncertainty yesterday when it approved an organizing resolution for the 117th Congress. The breakthrough came after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced that they had reached an agreement [1] on how to share power in the evenly divided Senate. While Schumer replaced McConnell as Senate majority leader last month thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote, his fellow Democrats had not yet assumed control of the Senate’s committees or officially appointed its principal officers (i.e., the Secretary of State, Sergeant at Arms, Doorkeeper) – all of which are typically routine transitions whenever partisan control of the Senate changes hands. The Senate’s approval of an organizing resolution (S. Res. 27 [2]) cleared the way for subsequent passage of resolutions making majority committee assignments (S. Res. 28 [3]) and minority committee assignments (S. Res.
Crisi di governo | dal Senato arriva il sì che libera Conte
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Cruz to Trump: Send Paris, Iran Deals to Senate So They Can Fail
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“Your administration has rightly changed course as a matter of substantive policy by withdrawing from both the Iran Deal and the Paris Agreement. This was a great accomplishment for the American people,” Cruz wrote.
“I urge you now also to remedy the harm done to the balance of powers by submitting the Iran Deal and the Paris Agreement to the Senate as treaties,” Cruz continued. “Only by so doing will the Senate be able to satisfy its constitutional role to provide advice and consent in the event any future administration attempts to revive these dangerous deals.”
Cruz has become a stalwart Trump ally, and if the president takes his advice, he could throw a wrench into the gears of the incoming administration before Biden can even fully nominate his Cabinet. The incoming president has promised that he would rejoin the Paris Agreement “on day one,” and pledged to revive the Iranian nuclear deal he helped negotiate as vice president. Republicans, meanwhile, are unifie
Con đường thất cử của ông Trump
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