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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called on the White House on Tuesday to replace Sarah Bloom Raskin with a different nominee to become the Federal Reserve’s top bank regulator. “President Biden’s selection wildly – wildly – missed the mark. It’s past time the White House admit their mistake and send us somebody …

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By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Democratic Commissioner Allison Lee plans to leave the agency after her term ends in June, but will remain in office until a successor is named, she said in a Tuesday statement. “My term as Commissioner expires in June of this year, and I have …

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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Texas legal regulators have asked a judge to discipline attorney Sidney Powell for filing lawsuits they say were frivolous in support of former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud. The disciplinary action is a major development in what has become a nationwide effort to punish pro-Trump lawyers …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of more than 140 U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday urged leaders in Congress to approve $52 billion in government subsidies for semiconductor chips production and research. The U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 4 narrowly passed a bill aimed at increasing American competitiveness with China in part …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said on Tuesday that a sweeping government funding bill with emergency aid for Ukraine is now awaiting a final stamp of approval from congressional leaders. “We’re there. We’re there,” Shelby told reporters. (Reporting by David Morgan)

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A labor group on Tuesday launched an ad blitz across West Virginia featuring union workers urging Democratic Senator Joe Manchin to back legislation he has opposed for months to help sick coal miners and revive manufacturing in the beleaguered coal-reliant state. The TV and digital ad campaign comes as …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. lawmakers pushed President Joe Biden’s administration on Monday to facilitate the transfer of fighter aircraft to Ukraine from Poland and other NATO and Eastern European countries, after a plea on Saturday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The White House said it did not oppose planes being sent to Ukraine …

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