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President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, has a history of cooperation organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The former president asserted that Congressional Democrats pursued the ongoing “witch hunt” because nearly 75 million Americans voted for his re-election.

Shortly after voting to allow witnesses to testify at the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, Democrats reversed course in an effort to prevent further delays to the Biden administration’s legislative agenda.

The Senate voted Saturday to have additional witnesses testify during former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial.

The Senate, now under the control of the Democrats, is escalating efforts to reform antitrust law to target anticompetitive behavior by major tech companies.

“Let’s understand why we are really here,” Castor said during the Senate trial. “We are really here because the majority of the House of Representatives does not want to face Donald Trump as a political rival in the future.”

House Democrats rallied on social media after House impeachment managers kicked off the first day of the Senate impeachment trial with a montage of cherry-picked footage from the January 6 Capitol protest and concluded that former President Trump must be barred from running for office ever again.

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) announced Monday that he will not run for re-election in 2022 after 40 years in the U.S. Senate. 

President Joe Biden has been in the White House for less than a month, but Democrats are already mobilizing an extensive “dark money” campaign to boost their chances of keeping control of Congress in 2022.

President Joe Biden again sounded a dark note on the state of the American economy after the employment numbers were released Friday. “A lot of folks are losing hope and I believe the American people are looking right now to their government for help,” he said.

The hopes of President Joe Biden and the congressional Democrats to raise the minimum wage to $15-per-hour took a hit on Thursday.

Vice President Kamala Harris cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate early Friday morning, confirming President Joe Biden’s massive $1.9 trillions coronavirus relief plan.

A handful of swing state Senate Democrats joined Senate Republicans on Thursday to add a budget amendment that will help ensure that stimulus checks, funded by American taxpayers, are not given to illegal aliens living in the United States. 

More than a week into his administration, President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda seems to have hit a wall in Congress.

House GOP Conference Chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has seen her political support completely collapse in Wyoming as solid majorities of both Republicans and all voters in the state want her out of office, a new poll shows.

Approximately 39 members of the Democratic conference within the United States Senate—more than half of the party’s overall majority within the chamber—are backing an effort to grant statehood to Washington, D.C.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned of a “nightmare” in the Senate if Democrats end the filibuster, cautioning that a “scorched-earth Senate would hardly be able to function.”

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are refusing to hold hearings on Alejandro Mayorkas, President Joe Biden’s nominee to helm the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

President Joe Biden threw aside his inaugural pledge to seek “unity,” declaring Monday evening that the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump “has to happen.”

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) dealt a major setback to progressives on Monday in their efforts to abolish the filibuster in the United States Senate.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Friday stated that Democrats cannot “indefinitely” reach out to Republicans, mere days after Democrats took control of the White House and Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) revealed Friday that the House plans to deliver the impeachment article against former President Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday.

Republicans could not muster one vote against Yellen in the Senate Finance Committee.

“I also recognize that at their worst, misguided policies and missed opportunities in transportation can reinforce racial and economic inequality by dividing or isolating neighborhoods and undermining government’s basic role of empowering Americans to thrive,” Buttigieg said.

Sens. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Jon Ossoff (D-GA), as well as appointed Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), took their oaths of office Wednesday, officially flipping control of the Senate to the Democrat Party.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday repeated the widely-held belief among his leftist colleagues that President Donald Trump should “not be eligible to run for office ever again,” a goal they hope to achieve as part of the forthcoming Senate impeachment trial.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday spoke about the major breach that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, stating that the mob was “fed lies” and “provoked” by President Trump, as well as others.

President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for the post of director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, will speak before the United States Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday. 

President-elect Joe Biden is readying a blitz of executive orders and legislation during his first 10 days in the White House.  

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) reiterated his promise to oppose packing the court or ending the filibuster. After viewing a clip of his earlier vow, Manchin responded, “It’s all the same.