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The move came more than a month before the spending deadline, reflecting an eagerness in both parties to avoid a messy fight before the midterm elections.
The Senate on Friday passed a long-sought bipartisan bill that would impose harsher sanctions on Russia and the top five buyers of Russian oil, along with extending existing sanctions on Iran. That measure was a major legislative goal of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who died suddenly earlier this month. The vote was 86-11. [...]
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announced Thursday that he plans to resume his Senate duties after more than 50 days of hospitalization, a stretch […] Source
The Kentucky Republican was hospitalized on June 14, leading to speculation over his condition.
Key senators have unveiled a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown during the middle of campaign season
Bray was one of several Indiana state lawmakers to refuse Trump's request to redistrict the state ahead of the midterms. Many of those lawmakers subsequently lost reelection to Trump-backed challengers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he may pull acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination for the full-time post to avoid conceding to Senate Republicans demanding limits to a sweeping tax audit immunity deal benefiting the president and members of his family that Trump negotiated with his own Department of Justice. Trump doubled [...]
Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) are showing no signs of backing down on their demands concerning Todd Blanche’s nomination to become permanent attorney general, throwing his confirmation into serious doubt. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) canceled the panel’s scheduled meeting to vote today on Blanche’s nomination, after negotiations throughout the day failed to win over the pair of “YOLO caucus” senators. Read more: https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5998751-todd-blanche-confirmation-delay-cornyn-tillis-gop-scorn/ #ToddBlanche #Trump #DOJ #AttorneyGeneral #JohnCornyn #ThomTillis #Senate
Tillis declined to seek reelection while Cornyn lost his primary to the Trump-backed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.