(Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Banking Committee should not vote on President Joe Biden’s slate of Federal Reserve nominees while Republicans seek more clarity from Sarah Bloom Raskin on their accusations she had improperly lobbied the head of the Kansas City Fed on behalf of a fintech firm on whose board she then served. Toomey’s …
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(Reuters) – Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee plan to boycott a meeting scheduled for Tuesday afternoon to vote on President Joe Biden’s slate of nominees to the Federal Reserve, a person familiar with the matter said, a move that could delay their consideration by the full Senate. Republicans plan not to attend a meeting …
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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One in four U.S. Democrats say their party did not take full advantage of its grip on the White House and Congress last year, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found, in a troubling sign for their voters’ enthusiasm in this year’s congressional elections. The finding echoes concerns raised by moderate Democratic …
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By Tim Reid LANSING, Mich. (Reuters) – If Democrats are to keep control of the U.S. Congress in this year’s midterm elections, moderates in highly competitive districts, such as Representative Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, must hold on to their seats. Yet Slotkin and two fellow Democratic lawmakers who were part of the 2018 Democratic “blue …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House will announce on Tuesday a new task force to promote use of construction materials with lower lifecycle emissions as it works to speed U.S. government purchases of greener products. The move comes after President Joe Biden said in December that the government, which buys goods and …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration released a report on Tuesday detailing recommendations to boost competition in its defense industrial base because rapid consolidation has created a national security risk. The number of aerospace and defense prime contractors to the Defense Department – a group known as the defense industrial base – has shrunk from …
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(Corrects paragraph 22 to show Lake was an anchor for a local Fox affiliate, not Fox News) By Ted Hesson and Alexandra Ulmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the past year, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has deployed thousands of National Guard troops to the southern U.S. border, begun building a new border barrier, and arrested migrants …
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic and Republican U.S. senators who have been negotiating for weeks on a bipartisan bill to punish Russia for its troop build up near Ukraine said they have reached an impasse, although aides said on Friday they continue to look for a way forward. Senators from both parties had …
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By Nathan Layne (Reuters) – When Idaho nurse Joan West received a fundraising mailer from U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, she saw a way to address her regret for having voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and her worry about the future of U.S. democracy: She wrote a $500 check. Cheney, of Wyoming, is the most …
By Moira Warburton and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would ban companies from forcing employees who allege sexual assault or harassment to settle their claims with an arbiter without the option of filing a lawsuit. The bill, which the House of Representatives passed earlier this week, was …
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