On Tuesday, the Covid Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) approved a request from opposition parliamentarians to sanction the president’s use of social media after Bolsonaro claimed in a video shared on Facebook and YouTube that Britons who had been given two Covid-19 shots were developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) faster than …
Read More »US senators want to boot out 300 Russian diplomats over embassy row, but Moscow says it doesn’t even have that many in Washington
“There aren’t even that many Russian diplomats in Washington,” the Foreign Ministry stated. “Those who propose such steps are apparently pushing for the closure of American offices in Russia. They should understand that the responsibility for this will be theirs.” On Tuesday, Senators Bob Menendez, Marco Rubio, Mark Warner and …
Read More »Bipartisan group of Senators unveil $1 trillion infrastructure bill after marathon negotiations
The group of “moderate” Republicans and Democrats, tasked with ironing out differences so that a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package can be passed, announced on Sunday that the legislative text of the bill was ready. The 2,702-page document, if approved, will see $550 billion in new funding be earmarked to building …
Read More »US senators Sanders, Murphy & Lee introduce bipartisan bill to rein in presidential war powers & foreign weapons deals
Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) put forward the National Security Powers Act on Tuesday, the latest effort to curtail presidential war powers, which have steadily accrued to the executive branch over several decades. “I believe that we have become far too comfortable with the …
Read More »China rails against ‘provocation’ as American senators fly into Taiwan on a military plane & promise to donate 750,000 vaccines
On Sunday, three US senators briefly visited Taiwan in a military aircraft in a move which angered China. Although they did not leave the airport and stayed just three hours, they met with President Tsai Ing-wen and carried the announcement that Washington would donate 750,000 Covid vaccines to the island. …
Read More »China files formal complaint after US senators meet with senior Taiwanese leaders and declare island won’t ‘stand alone’
Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, has announced that the country has filed “solemn representations” with the US over the visit of three American senators to the island to meet with senior Taiwanese officials. Democratic senators Tammy Duckworth and Christopher Coons and Republican Dan Sullivan spent three hours …
Read More »Senators Duckworth, Hirono to vote against straight white Biden nominees as Dems’ identity-politics balance starts to show cracks
Senator Tammy Duckworth (Illinois) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) told reporters on Tuesday that they’ll vote to approve only non-white or LGBTQ nominees until Biden starts appointing more minorities. While Hirono said her concern is diversity in general, Duckworth is trying to pressure the administration to give more plum jobs to …
Read More »Rand Paul says Trump impeachment case is ‘DEAD ON ARRIVAL’ after 45 senators support his motion to declare trial unconstitutional
The Senate voted 55-45 on Tuesday to set aside Paul’s motion to short-circuit the trial before it even starts on the basis that the Constitution doesn’t provide jurisdiction for impeaching a president who’s no longer in office. It would take a two-thirds Senate majority, or as many as 67 votes, …
Read More »Georgia’s GOP senators join fight against Biden’s victory certification, demonstrate loyalty to Trump amid runoff election
One of the senators, Kelly Loeffler, waited until literally the 11th hour to announce her plans, saying in a statement Monday night that she will join in trying to block formalization of Biden’s victory when Congress convenes on Wednesday to certify electoral results from across the nation. “We must restore …
Read More »Ex-House Speaker Paul Ryan takes heat from both sides after blasting GOP Senators’ effort to challenge Biden’s victory
Efforts to challenge the results of the November 3 presidential election “strike at the foundation of our public,” Ryan said on Sunday. The Wisconsin Republican, who was House speaker during President Donald Trump’s first two years in office, added that “it is difficult to conceive of a more anti-democratic and …
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