The bill, which is part of a broader Democratic effort to enact a sweeping overhaul of elections, was approved on a 219-212 vote, with no Republican support.
A former CEO of the Democratic National Committee who also served in the Department of Labour during the Obama Administration, Nanda, 48, was confirmed by the Senate with 53-46 votes on Wednesday.
The Senate voted 81-16 on Thursday to confirm Zahid Quraishi, 46. As many as 34 Republicans joined the Democrats in confirming the first-ever Muslim-American as a federal judge
McConnell voted to acquit Trump on Saturday but sharply criticized the former president for inciting the Capitol riot.
The United States Senate on Saturday acquitted former president Donald J Trump on the charges of inciting the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
Mike Pence
The Democrats need the support of at least 17 Republican Senators to reach the two-thirds majority mark. Trump is the first US president who facing an impeachment trial after he left the presidency.
Giving details of the impeachment process, Schumer said the house managers will come to read the article of impeachment at 7 pm on Monday. Members will then be sworn in the next day.
Biden is looking for Austin to restore stability atop the Pentagon, which went through two Senate-confirmed secretaries of defense and four who held the post on an interim basis during the Trump administration.
The Senate has quickly knocked down Republican objections to Pennsylvania's electoral votes for President-elect Joe Biden.
The Senate has overwhelmingly turned aside a challenge to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Arizona, guaranteeing the result will stand.
The elections for the two Senate seats were held on Tuesday. With this victory, both the Democrats and the Republicans have 50 members each in the 100-seat Senate.
The passage of the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act by the Senate on Wednesday comes as a big relief to Indian IT professionals who come to the US on H-1B work visas and their current waiting period for Green Card or permanent residency is running into decades.
Antani, currently the State Representative, defeated Mark Fogel of the Democratic Party on Tuesday and was elected as the state Senator for the Ohio Senate's 6th District, which encompasses most of Montgomery County.
The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) on Friday announced that Twitter CEO Dorsey and Facebook CEO Zuckerberg will appear voluntarily before the committee on November 17
US Senate on Thursday passed a bill which may leady to forced delisting of Chinese companies from share markets in the countries. The passage of the bill is a blow to major Chinese companies like Alibaba and Baidu. The bill was passed by the US Senate unanimously.
Indian-origin American politician Sara Gideon has raised USD 7.6 million in her bid to enter the US Senate from the state of Maine.Gideon, 48, daughter of an Indian-American father, is currently the Speaker of the Maine State Assembly.
The impeachment trial of President Trump began in US Senate on Jan21.
The U.S. Senate opened the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump with quiet ceremony Thursday — senators standing at their desks to swear an oath of “impartial justice” as jurors, House prosecutors formally reciting the charges and Chief Justice John Roberts presiding.
What is impeachment? What is the process? How does a US president get impeached? What is the role of the Senate? Who presides over these proceedings? How does the sitting president justify himself? Does the President speak for himself, or do others do his bargaining? All this and more is answered in this video by the Associated Press which explains what happens in an impeachment trial.
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