WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) today issued the following statement regarding the recently released phone call recording in which President Donald Trump attempts to pressure Georgia election officials to overturn the Presidential election results in his favor: “In his quest to keep power, President Trump has demonstrated that he knows no ethical boundaries as he […]Read More
By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – More than 100 Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives and a dozen senators say they will join an almost assuredly futile effort Wednesday to try to block certification of the Electoral College vote showing that Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in the November election. The certification of […]Read More
By VOA News Representative Nancy Pelosi was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Sunday for her fourth term, with a narrower Democratic majority in the chamber and challenges ahead. The Democrat from California surpassed the necessary majority of votes Sunday afternoon, with two Democrats voting for other candidates and three more voting present. Democrats hold a narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the […]Read More
By Patsy Widakuswara WILMINGTON, DELAWARE – U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday announced several more nominees for top spots in his administration, including three women of color. In a statement, the Biden-Harris transition team said it was nominating U.S. Representative Marcia Fudge to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, former United Nations Ambassador Susan […]Read More
By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is introducing his top health care officials on Tuesday, all of whom will quickly face the country’s grim world-leading coronavirus statistics: nearly 15 million infections and more than 283,000 deaths. Biden, set to be inaugurated January 20, has vowed an all-out fight to control the pandemic and says […]Read More
By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – U.S. President-elect Joe Biden named his top health care officials on Monday, tapping former Congressman Xavier Becerra as his Health and Human Services chief to lead the country’s fight to curb the surging coronavirus pandemic and oversee millions of vaccinations against it in the coming months. Becerra currently is attorney general […]Read More
By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named his top officials to deal with the country’s coronavirus-ravaged economy, including former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen to be the first woman to lead the Treasury Department in its 231-year history. In addition, Biden named Neera Tanden, currently president of the Center for American […]Read More
By VOA News U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is set to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and the holiday season in an address Wednesday. The speech comes a day before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, a time when millions of Americans typically gather with family, many traveling in order to do so. But this year, with COVID-19 infections spiking across the country, […]Read More
By Steve Herman WHITE HOUSE – U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday declared that the battle against COVID-19 “is like going to war. You need a commander in chief.” During a virtual roundtable discussion with front-line health care workers, whom he hailed as heroes fighting the coronavirus, Biden predicted: “I’ll make mistakes. But I promise you […]Read More
Top Democrat on Armed Services Committee says it is essential for President-elect Biden to start getting high-level Intelligence briefings and be granted transition resources WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after national media outlets unanimously declared Joe Biden the winner of Arizona’s 11 electoral votes, increasing his Electoral College victory total to 290, and with the U.S. Department […]Read More
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