Susan Ferrechio

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Democrats corral Manchin on election overhaul measure

Susan Ferrechio · June 22, 2021 7:34 pm

President Trump and Sen. Mitt Romney are shown.

Not so fast: GOP taps brakes on revoking 2002 war powers

Susan Ferrechio · June 22, 2021 6:19 pm

Pictured are Adam Schiff, left, and Steny Hoyer, right.

Democrats hope GOP move to block election overhaul bill will prompt end of filibuster

Susan Ferrechio · June 22, 2021 4:36 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks following remarks by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who told reporters he has secured enough Republican votes to start President Donald Trumpâs impeachment trial and postpone a decision on witnesses and documents Democrats want, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 7, 2020.

Democratic agenda faces biggest test yet this week

Susan Ferrechio · June 21, 2021 9:47 pm

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders listens during a news conference with President Trump in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, in Washington.

Even Democrats are balking at Bernie Sanders’s $6 trillion spending plan

Susan Ferrechio · June 21, 2021 10:45 am

Biden plucks ex-House Democrat for Agriculture post

Susan Ferrechio · June 18, 2021 6:59 pm

From left, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stand on the East steps of Capitol Hill in this Dec. 2021 photo.

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Sweeping Democratic election and voting reform bill headed for defeat

Susan Ferrechio · June 18, 2021 3:00 am

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters following escalation of tensions this week between the U.S. and Iran, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House will vote Thursday on a measure limiting President Donald Trump's ability to take military action against Iran as Democratic criticism of the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general intensified.

Pelosi dodges abortion question, cites motherhood

Susan Ferrechio · June 17, 2021 4:36 pm

House votes to revoke Iraq War powers, this time with presidential approval

Susan Ferrechio · June 17, 2021 3:33 pm

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., right, speaks during a hearing.

Bipartisan infrastructure talks expand while lawmakers figure out how to pay for it

Susan Ferrechio · June 16, 2021 11:13 pm

House Democrats dismiss skyrocketing inflation at event announcing new economic fairness panel

Susan Ferrechio · June 16, 2021 9:43 pm

U.S. Military security forces guard the entrances to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Senate will vote on revoking Iraq war authorization ‘this year’

Susan Ferrechio · June 16, 2021 5:12 pm