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...Biden and Kamala Harris, the vice-president, met with the leading Democrats and Republicans from both House and Senate in the Oval Office on Tuesday morning....
...McConnell recently announced his intention to step down from his role as Senate minority leader later this year....
...In a Harvard Caps/Harris poll of about 2,000 registered voters this month 68 per cent — including 43 per cent of Democrats — thought Biden was “showing he is too old to be president”, up from 66 per cent...
...Moon and Harri Peccinotti, and branded household items from baked beans to wine....
...already made criticism of older politicians an important feature of her message to voters, saying that a vote for US president Joe Biden, who is 80, was equivalent to a ballot for vice-president Kamala Harris...
...It could even maintain its 50-50 split, with the Democratic vice-president Kamala Harris casting the decisive vote....
...The Senate is currently split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, with vice-president Kamala Harris able to cast the tiebreaking vote....
...On Friday night, Masters blamed Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell for Kelly’s lead on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show....
...Cortez Masto’s victory gave Democrats their 50th seat out of 100, enough to hold the majority given that Kamala Harris, the vice-president, can cast tiebreaking votes....
...His support is vital because the Senate is split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, giving Biden’s party the narrowest of majorities with the tiebreaking vote of vice-president Kamala Harris....
...US vice-president Kamala Harris last week called for a ban on all guns like the AR-15, saying “There is no reason that we have weapons of war on the streets of America.”...
...Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, had vowed ahead of the vote to block the bill, which he deemed an “extreme proposal [that] goes way, way beyond codifying the status quo....
...But Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, has been much more circumspect. “I don’t have any advice to give the Supreme Court....
...Democrats currently control the Senate by the narrowest of margins, 50-50, with vice-president Kamala Harris able to cast the tiebreaking vote....
...Democrats control the Senate by the narrowest of margins with Kamala Harris, the vice-president, able to cast a tiebreaking vote....
...This “despicable human being” had “finally discredited himself”, said Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader....
...While Democrats control the Senate by the narrowest of margins — 50-50, with Kamala Harris, vice-president, casting the tiebreaking vote — borrowing limit changes have historically required the support of...
...“If the right to privacy is weakened, every person could face a future in which the government can potentially interfere in the personal decisions you make about your life,” vice-president Kamala Harris...
...McConnell on Thursday urged Biden to pick “a nominee with demonstrated reverence for the written text of our laws and our Constitution”....
...“Tomorrow, president-elect Biden and vice-president-elect Harris will be sworn in,” Mr McConnell added. “We will have a safe and successful inaugural, right here, on the west front of the Capitol.”...
...“Democrats are trying to exploit the last chapters of the crisis to pass what President Biden’s chief of staff calls ‘the most progressive domestic legislation in a generation’,” Mitch McConnell, Schumer...
...Additional reporting by Jude Webber in Mexico City, Bryan Harris, and Max Seddon in Moscow...
...Their entreaties were echoed in Washington, where Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican, this week urged “anybody out there willing to listen” to “get vaccinated”....
...The upper chamber is split, 50-50, between Democrats and Republicans, with vice-president Kamala Harris able to cast a tiebreaking vote....
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