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US State Senate unanimously passes resolution honouring Sikh community

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:12:29 +0000

The Senate in the US state of Utah unanimously passed a resolution highlighting the history and significant contributions of the Sikh community. The resolution, which was passed last week, appreciated the Sikhs for their humanitarian services, despite receiving hate and facing oppression for their faith worldwide. “The Senate unanimously passed H.J.R (House Joint Resolution) 4, [...]

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Harry Reid, ex-Democratic Leader And Longtime Nevada Senator, Dies At 82

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:01:09 +0000

Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. Reid died on Tuesday, peacefully and surrounded by friends following a courageous, four-year battle with pancreatic cancer, Landra Reid said of her husband in a statement. Harry was a devout family man and deeply loyal friend, she [...]

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US Senate Rejects Bipartisan Bid To Stop $650 MN Arms Sale To Saudi Arabia

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 21:00:30 +0000

The Senate on Tuesday rejected a bid from a bipartisan group of lawmakers to stop President Joe Biden’s administration from selling more than USD 650 million worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, allowing the deal to proceed despite the gulf nation’s dismal record on human rights. A procedural motion by Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky [...]

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US House Delays Infra Vote As Joe Biden’s Agenda Bill Unsettled

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 21:00:55 +0000

US House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi postponed a planned Thursday vote on bipartisan infrastructure legislation amid attempts to strike a deal between progressive and moderate Democrats on the biggest portion of President Joe Biden’s agenda. The House will reconvene Friday morning in an attempt to vote on the infrastructure Bill with $550 billion in new spending [...]

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Senate Democrats Pass $3.5-trillion Budget Blueprint

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 21:00:13 +0000

Democrats pushed a $3.5 trillion framework for bolstering family services, health, and environment programs through the Senate early Wednesday, advancing President Joe Biden’s expansive vision for reshaping federal priorities just hours after handing him a companion triumph on a hefty infrastructure package. Lawmakers approved Democrats’ budget resolution on a party-line 50-49 vote, a crucial step [...]

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U.S. Senate Panel Splits Over Gun Control Advocate To Lead Firearms Enforcement Agency

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 21:00:56 +0000

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday split along party lines over whether to advance the nomination of gun control advocate David Chipman, President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). In the lead-up to the tie vote, Republicans vocally opposed Chipman’s nomination, citing his history [...]

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No U.S. Senate Infrastructure Deal Yet — Senate Republican Leader Mcconnell

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 12:00:29 +0000

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday said he has not been informed of any tentative deal on a bipartisan infrastructure investment package being negotiated among senators. “Not that I know of,” McConnell said when asked by a reporter whether such a tentative deal had been reached among a group of 10 Democratic and [...]

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US: Democracy Is Fragile — Joe Biden On Trump’s Victory At Senate

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:30:40 +0000

US President, Joe Biden has reacted to the outcome of former President, Donald Trump’s trial at the Senate. Trump was on Saturday acquitted of the US Capitol insurrection charges against him. And in reaction, Biden, who took over from Trump last month said that the Capitol attack showed that, “democracy is fragile.” After the House [...]

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Senate Acquittal: Democrats May Nail Trump With Another Strategy

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:30:37 +0000

Former President, Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate, but the Democrats are not giving up. Although seven Republicans were in favour of his impeachment on Saturday, Trump was exonerated by a vote of 57-43 guilty – not guilty. It was the 45th President’s second good luck at the upper chamber of the U.S. Congress [...]

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Trump’s Impeachment: US Senate Begins Trial Next Month

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 18:40:38 +0000

The US Senate has finally reached a decision on the commencement of impeachment trial of ex-President, Donald Trump. The opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial will begin on February 8, 2021. Trump will not just be the first President to be impeached twice in recent American history, but also the first US former president [...]

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Obamacare: US Senate triumph Again, reject Repeal Bill

Kunle Atiba — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 20:02:21 +0000

US President Donald Trump’s plan to halt Obamacare failed again at US Senate as the United States Senators early today narrowly rejected a dramatically slimmed-down Obamacare repeal bill, even after being promised by GOP leaders that the measure would never actually become law. The strategy was a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful gambit by Republican leaders, who [...]

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Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz to exit US senate race

Ade Adewale — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 08:44:18 +0000

Liz Cheney, the oldest daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, is dropping her bid to be the Republican senate candidate for Wyoming, US media reported late Sunday. CNN, citing unnamed sources, said that Liz Cheney, 47, could make the announcement…

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Strip NSA of power to collect phone data records, says Obama review panel

Adewale Ade — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 23:21:22 +0000

• Review proposes greater authority for spying on foreign leaders

• Government 'should be banned from undermining encryption'

• Forty-six recommendations in 300-page report released early

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