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- Biggest change in 231 years: Citing Covid-19, US House of Representatives adopts proxy votes & remote meetings in party-line vote
The US House of Representatives will allow members to cast votes for up to 10 others and hold hearings remotely. Billed as temporary due to the coronavirus outbreak, the rule change is the most radical in over two centuries. - House passes $484bn coronavirus relief bill for small businesses in bipartisan vote as Dems launch PROBE into Trump’s responseThe US Congress has passed a Covid-19 aid package worth almost $500 billion, as House Democrats voted to set up a panel to look into the administration's handling of the outbreak – a move blasted as “purely political” by the GOP.
- Elusive bipartisan cooperation spotted in House leaders’ daring last-minute rescue of controversial warrantless wiretapping powersDemocrat and Republican House leaders have paused their partisan sniping to do the real work of governing: keeping unpopular surveillance programs, including roving NSA wiretaps and access to metadata, alive indefinitely.
- What about stopping endless wars? Trump urges GOP to vote down Iran war resolution because it’s a partisan ploy by DemocratsUS President Donald Trump says the resolution that would block him from using force against Iran is a partisan trick by Democrats, even though he campaigned on a peace platform and some of his closest allies support the proposal.
- Bush-era Iraq war authorization voted out by US HouseThe House of Representatives has voted to repeal a 2002 resolution authorizing the US to wage war on Iraq. The law was used by the Trump administration to justify the recent drone killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
- Pelosi announces impeachment managers, House votes to send articles to Senate for trial (VIDEO)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has named the House Democrats who will serve as seven impeachment managers – or prosecutors outlining the case – in the Senate trial of President Donald Trump.
- ‘Pelosi caved’: After 3-week delay seeking leverage, Democrats to finally send impeachment to SenateSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that articles of impeachment will be transmitted to the Senate next week, after Republican leadership rejected her conditions and moved to dismiss the charges unless they were sent over.
- House votes to clamp down on Trump’s power to attack IranThe US House of Representatives has voted in favor of a bill restricting President Donald Trump’s ability to wage war on Iran. The vote comes a day after escalatory strikes nearly brought both the US and Iran to the brink of war.
- House approves Trump's flagship US-Mexico-Сanada trade deal, day after impeachment voteThe US House of Representatives has given the green light to a trade deal between the US, Canada and Mexico that would replace NAFTA, known as the USMCA, passing the bill on to the Senate for another vote.
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