Tag: COVID-19

Joe Biden has said he is open to ending the Senate filibuster, a move endorsed by his former boss President Barack Obama.

The stealth Obamacare expansion

Washington Examiner · March 6, 2021 5:00 am

California to allow theme parks, including Disneyland, to reopen April 1

Mica Soellner · March 6, 2021 3:38 am

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), left, walks with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on Nov. 16, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sinema agreed to sign onto new Democratic legislation that would impose a 1% excise tax on stock buybacks.

Senate cuts deal with Democratic centrists on COVID spending package

Susan Ferrechio · March 6, 2021 3:13 am

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., ask questions of the panel during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee on conditions at the Southern border, Tuesday, July 30, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Kyrsten Sinema criticized over exaggerated hand gesture and down-voting $15 minimum wage

Mica Soellner · March 6, 2021 3:08 am

Biden administration takes credit for WHO not releasing early summary of COVID-19 origins report

Jerry Dunleavy · March 6, 2021 2:23 am

Beltway Confidential

Due process is good again!

Becket Adams · March 5, 2021 11:02 pm

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin delivers a speech.

New federal COVID relief plan could mean $4 billion for Kentucky

Washington Examiner · March 5, 2021 11:00 pm

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who had been seeking a waiver of $10 billion since 2012, said in a statement that an "agreement in principle" had been reached. The agreement with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius still has to be finalized.

New York Senate votes to strip Cuomo’s pandemic powers

Nicholas Rowan · March 5, 2021 10:12 pm

Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, speaks during a rally in Detroit Friday, Oct. 26, 2018.

Michigan business groups calls on Whitmer to OK in-person office work by April 14

Washington Examiner · March 5, 2021 10:00 pm

CDC lifts pandemic restriction, will allow migrant child facilities to fill to 100% capacity to handle surge

Anna Giaritelli · March 5, 2021 9:59 pm

Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., left, and Senate Transportation subcommittee chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listen during a Senate Transportation subcommittee on commercial airline safety, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in Washington. Two recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, in Ethiopia and Indonesia, which killed nearly 350 people, have lead to the temporary grounding of models of the aircraft and to increased scrutiny of the FAA's delegation of a number of aspects of the certification process to the aircraft manufacturers themselves.

Cruz proposing amendment to coronavirus relief package barring illegal immigrants from receiving stimulus checks

Andrew Mark Miller · March 5, 2021 9:02 pm

Group of Louisiana legislators calls for end to state’s COVID-19 restrictions

Washington Examiner · March 5, 2021 9:00 pm