Getty Images Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said lawmakers were determining next steps after a pivotal vote, and were preparing to end President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial ‘in the coming days.’ President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Friday appeared on track for a speedy conclusion, with his acquittal in sightRead More →
One of the House impeachment managers said Sunday she wasn’t sure that the goal of convincing the Senate to subpoena new witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump had been achieved this week. Democrats, who hold 47 seats in the Senate, need to convince four Republicans to compelRead More →
The House on Wednesday voted to appoint seven House Democrats as managers for President Donald Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial and also send two articles of impeachment over to the Senate. The 228-193 vote, which was almost entirely along party lines, is ending an impeachment impasse that has persisted for nearlyRead More →
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she will take steps next week to send articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate after failing so far to secure any concessions on the trial procedure from Republicans. “I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared toRead More →
Blackstone’s Byron Wien predicts that stock-market investors are in for what could be a rude awakening, when Democrats retake the U.S. Senate in the coming 2020 elections. I think the Democrats take the Senate. Enough information [will be] revealed in the proceedings to cause some of his supporters, as wellRead More →
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and top Democrats indicated Friday that they remain at an impasse over President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. The Democratic-led House voted to impeach Trump on Dec. 18, but the exact timing for a Senate trial on the charges against him isn’t clear because House SpeakerRead More →
By Lisa Baertlein SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The California State Senate voted on Tuesday to pass a bill that would make it much more difficult for companies like Uber Technologies (NYSE:) Inc and Lyft Inc (NASDAQ:) to classify workers as independent contractors rather than employees. The bill, known as AB5,Read More →
The Senate on Thursday voted against an effort to block sales of certain U.S. arms to Qatar and Bahrain, though Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s push got support from more than 40% of the chamber. His measure targeting the arms sales to Qatar was defeated by a vote of 42-57,Read More →
Associated Press In this Oct. 6, 2018 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., finishes speaking to reporters at the Capitol in Washington. Republican senators say that if the House passes articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, they will quickly quash them in the Senate, where Majority LeaderRead More →
Upon Mitt Romney’s election to Orrin Hatch’s U.S. Senate seat, one question that hung heavily in the air was whether the Romney on Utah voters’ ballots had been the one who called out candidate Donald Trump in early 2016 as a “very, very not smart” misogynist of minimal integrity engagingRead More →
