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Like the House, the Senate also has majority and minority leaders and whips, each with duties very similar to those of their counterparts in the House. Unlike the House, however, the Senate doesn’t have a Speaker. The duties and powers held by the Speaker in the House fall to the major...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, meanwhile, said that during a private meeting on Tuesday with Biden and other congressional leaders, Johnson expressed a strong desire to unequivocally avoid a government shutdown. In January, Congress approved a stopgap funding bill that would keep the government...
"I am pleased to announce that a deal has been struck with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy - on a two-year Budget and Debt Ceiling, " he said. The president, however, ...
Some Senate seats and governors’ mansions remain in the balance Wednesday By Noah Bierman Republicans held narrow leads in three Senate races that were still not called early Wednesday, leaving the size of the Republican majority in the chamber uncertain the morning ...
Democrats have been pressuring Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bring that bill up for a vote in the Senate, which he has so far refused, citing White House opposition. It was not clear from Scalise's remarks whether the White House is now focused on...
"I'm one of those people that wanted bigger reductions," Hill said. "But I also recognize we control only the House of Representatives. We've got to get it through the Senate." In a letter to Democratic senators on Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer asked senators to be in Wa...
From left, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wisc.; Senate Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah; and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., unveil the GOP tax reform plan on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. ...
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., noted that the three bills in the package the Senate could approve as soon as Tuesday “will be the only appropriations bills passed in either chamber that both parties support, and I think that’s key to remember as we move...
But behind closed doors, the Senate majority leader was being inundated with concerns from members of his caucus, people familiar with the situation tell POLITICO. And he had a strategy to try and handle them. Schumer wanted Democrats to present as a united front and handle their woes...