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The Senate confirmed early Friday Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, the former National Guardsman and fighter pilot, to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
U.S. News & World Report |
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm retired Air Force Lieutenant General Dan "Razin" Caine on Friday as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two months after President Donald Trump abruptly fired his ...
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York voted against Caine's confirmation, saying in a statement that “I remain outraged" about Brown's firing and that he is skeptical of Trump's intentio...
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Since his reelection in November, Trump has successfully talked ultraconservative House Republicans into backing a number of difficult votes on spending. Many Republicans voted for their first debt limit increase or stopgap spending bill, at Trump’s request. But many of them stressed that the budget vote is different.
‘The House and Senate should push hard for more daylight at the end of a day,’ the president says.
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Senate President Bobby Joe Champion temporarily steps down as chair of ethics subcommittee and asks panel to determine whether there was a conflict.
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After months of wrestling with the decision of whether to run for reelection for a third term in the swing state of Michigan, Sen. Gary Peters took a pass.
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The political battle lines are drawn for a debate in Washington and beyond over a Republican budget plan that’s a cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda.
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Argentina’s senate has rejected the two Supreme Court candidates that President Javier Milei nominated by decree earlier this year, dealing a major blow to the libertarian leader
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who co-sponsored bipartisan legislation to limit President Trump’s trade authority, said Tuesday that he thinks Congress has “delegated too much authority to the
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GOP Sen. John Cornyn is facing a challenge from state Attorney General Ken Paxton in what figures to be an expensive and personal contest.