In the statement announcing the decision, he cited frustration with partisan gridlock and the difficulties he has had in getting things done in Washington.
Eric Barber, who used to represent District 4 on Parkersburg City Council, was in Washington D.C. on Wednesday to see President Trump speak to supporters at a rally. Barber says that rally turned into a march up the Capitol Complex, which later turned into destructive protests.
Georgia’s governor is again telling lawmakers that he won’t call a special session to overturn Georgia’s election results and appoint 16 presidential electors who would support Republican President Donald Trump instead of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.
The proposal is expected to include $300 per week in bonus federal unemployment payments, extend a freeze on evictions for people who cannot pay their rent and reauthorize the Paycheck Protection Program.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made the announcement after President-elect Joe Biden called upon lawmakers to pass a downpayment relief bill now with more to come next year.
Trump filed the day after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the chairwoman of the Wisconsin Elections Commission certified Biden as the winner of the state’s 10 Electoral College votes.
Justice says the new development will promote green technology by using existing organic material, such as coal, to create clean energy storage solutions.
Michigan’s largest county reversed course and unanimously certified its presidential election results Tuesday night after Republicans first blocked the move in a party-line vote that threatened to temporarily stall official approval of Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the state.
U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin, members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $952,686 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to support three housing authorities in West Virginia.
The message from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.was that Republicans should concede the presidential election was won by Biden and immediately return to negotiations on COVID relief.
President Donald Trump participated in the Veterans Day observance at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, emerging in public for the first time since his failed reelection bid to take part in the annual presidential rite.
The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to leave in place the bulk of the Affordable Care Act, including key protections for pre-existing health conditions and subsidized insurance premiums that affect tens of millions of Americans.
The Trump administration threw the presidential transition into tumult, with President Donald Trump blocking government officials from cooperating with President-elect Joe Biden’s team and Attorney General William Barr authorizing the Justice Department to probe unsubstantiated allegations of voter
The renewed legislative maneuvering comes at pivotal moment in the pandemic, with surging COVID-19 caseloads across the country putting new strain on hospitals and raising fears of an economic slowdown.
"It is time for us to come together to end the toxic political tribalism and invest in the values and principles that make our nation the greatest country on Earth", said U.S. Senator Joe Manchin.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is discounting President Donald Trump’s early claim that he’d already won the election, saying it’s going to take a while for states to conduct their vote counts.
