Lieutenant governor promises ‘there will be turnover’ after CuomoSenate approves budget in early morning vote along party linesSchumer acknowledges hurdles ahead for spending billBiden: White House keeping ‘a careful eye on inflation’ and gas pricesAss…
US Senate passes $1tn bipartisan infrastructure bill – live
Bill passes in 69-30 vote, with 19 Republicans supporting planInfrastructure bill lauded as a victory for bipartisanship – but is it?Cuomo resigns in wake of damning report on sexual harassmentNew York governor’s resignation will take effect in 14 days…
Remember Obama’s drill, baby, drill, days? Democrats aren’t innocent on climate
Obama campaigned in climate poetry and then governed in fossil fuel prose. Joe Biden may well follow in his footstepsIf after Monday’s news you didn’t feel a pang of doom, you’re either a zen master, a recluse living in a news vacuum, or a nihilist. Th…
Texas Democrats still absent as Republicans make third bid to pass vote laws
A month after fleeing the state to thwart passage of restrictive voting laws, Democrats again refused to appear at the state CapitolTexas Democrats have refused to return to the state Capitol as governor Greg Abbott began a third attempt at passing new…
Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to Biden’s big infrastructure bill
Biden’s major bipartisan infrastructure plan struck a rare chord of cooperation between Republicans and Democrats, but changes it proposes to cryptocurrency regulation are tripping up the bill. The administration intends to pay for $28 billion of its planned infrastructure spending by tightening tax compliance within the historically under-regulated arena of digital currency. That’s why cryptocurrency […]
Senate expected to vote Saturday on passage of bipartisan infrastructure bill – live
If bill passes, it will be sent to the House and ultimately to the desk of Biden, who has wholeheartedly endorsed the legislationTop Republicans move to protect Trump from Capitol attack fallout 2.49pm BST Hugo Lowell reports for the Guardian:Top Repub…
Senate Democrats To Introduce Legislation That Would Tax Energy Companies Responsible For Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Zack Budryk writes via The Hill: The Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act, sponsored by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), would require between 25 to 30 of the U.S. corporations responsible for the most greenhouse gas pollution to pay $300 billion into a fund o…
Andrew Cuomo tries to battle on as demands pour in for him to quit
New York governor found to have sexually harassed 11 womenSupport crumbles as state impeachment cogs begin to turnAndrew Cuomo, the governor of New York who was found by the state’s top prosecutor to have violated the law by sexually harassing 11 women…
Progressive Democrats call on own party to extend evictions moratorium – live
Three congresswoman sleep on steps of Capitol in protest‘We cannot in good faith [just] blame the Republican party’Donald Trump’s money hustling tricks prompt fresh scrutiny 2.52pm BST The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said the fe…
Kinzinger: McCarthy and Jordan should face Capitol attack subpoenas – but maybe not Trump
Republican on select committee seeks 6 January answersCollins toes GOP line in saying panel not sufficiently bipartisanWhat did Jim Jordan know about the insurrection and when?Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the House select committee investi…