If Biden Cancels Student Loans, It Could Look Like This
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Biden Student Loans Review Could Mean This For Student Loan Cancellation
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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.
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SCHUMER STARTS LEGISLATIVE PROCESS: Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer is speaking the same language as the Biden administration.
In a floor speech this morning marking an agreement on an organizing resolution that will allow Democrats to take control of committees, Schumer said that he is instructing all “relevant” panels to start holding hearings on climate change in preparation for enacting
President Biden’s climate legislation.