House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the delay on passing emergency coronavirus relief funds Thursday, saying Republicans refused to spend much-needed money in other areas. “What we have on the floor today is the result of — not the time we delayed the legislation — but the time that the Republicans refused to accept the facts…
Pelosi’s snap decision avoids a nasty partisan fight with Republicans over the proxy voting as Congress wrestles with the continuing coronavirus crisis, which has led to the deaths of more than 45,000 Americans and plunged the country into its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Top Democrats had planned to move ahead with the…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Rep. Michael Waltz called out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Wednesday for keeping Congress closed for “almost a month” when their services are critical during the coronavirus pandemic.“I don’t understand why Speaker Pelosi has had us out of session for…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has temporarily sidelined a push to allow proxy voting in the House after Republicans slammed the Democrat-crafted plan -- which was designed to mitigate health risks during the coronavirus pandemic but would mark a significant change in how Congress does…
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stood firm in demanding that the fourth covid-19 relief bill include money for health-care workers and for states and localities, Republicans howled. How dare she hold up money to small business! She’s on the wrong side of public opinion. Well, as we have seen so many times before, Pelosi…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…