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...All the King’s Men by Robert Penn WarrenEverything you need to know about demagoguery America-style, via a thinly disguised portrait of Huey Long of Louisiana....
...The first in his family to go to college, he earned a law degree from Louisiana State University....
...Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, a hardline conservative from Louisiana and a close ally of Donald Trump, is demanding strict curbs on immigration at the southern border with Mexico in return for any...
...Johnson did not react to Greene’s move immediately but praised passage of the spending legislation, which now heads to the Senate....
...The voting schedule on the House floor is tightly controlled by its Speaker, Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson, who only assumed the position in October and has said he will not bring the Senate-passed bill...
...Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, pointed out that Gruenberg had been on the board of the FDIC when earlier allegations had surfaced following the inspector-general’s probe....
...Several hardline Republicans — including those who ousted McCarthy — have suggested they would rather shut down the government than strike a deal with Democrats, who control both the Senate and the White...
...After the IRA’s passage, First Solar announced new factories in Alabama and Louisiana. “[China] does not want the US to have its own domestic industry . . ....
...The bill is expected to pass the Democrat-controlled US Senate, before being sent to President Joe Biden for his signature ahead of a looming Friday deadline....
...Senator Dick Durbin, who has served in Congress for 40 years, said other veterans of the Senate “chuckled” when they heard of Johnson’s idea....
...The best way to understand Trump’s appeal is to re-read Robert Penn Warren’s novel All The King’s Men, based on Huey Long, the Louisiana rabble rouser governor....
...director, and Steve Ricchetti, a senior aide to Biden, have been leading the talks on behalf of the president, while Patrick McHenry, the chair of the House financial services committee, and Garret Graves, a Louisiana...
...Last year, Trump was able to install Mike Johnson, a relatively obscure lawmaker from Louisiana but one of his allies, to be Speaker of the House....
...“There should be no further discussion until the Senate passes the legislation,” it said....
...The high court on Monday also dismissed an appeal filed by Louisiana lawmakers who were seeking to stop the state’s congressional map from being redrawn to enhance black voters’ power....
...“We cannot risk undermining one of the successes of our current economy,” Sherrod Brown, chair of the Senate banking committee, said....
...Tim Scott, the top member of the party on the powerful Senate banking committee, said SVB was “rife with mismanagement” and a “clear supervisory failure” had played a role in its unravelling....
...month include Singapore-based Maxeon Solar Technologies’s $1bn solar cell and panel facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and US manufacturer First Solar’s fifth factory, worth $1.1bn, in Iberia Parish, Louisiana...
...Voting has also ended in Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming....
...Georgia is just one of two states — alongside Louisiana — that requires run-offs if no candidate hits the 50 per cent threshold on election day....
...Bill Cassidy, the Republican senator from Louisiana who supported the amendment, said the treaty would support companies in his state that manufactured HFC alternatives....
...At the same time, Democrats expanded their majority in the Senate, the upper chamber of Congress, after flipping a seat in Pennsylvania....
...But many in Washington have speculated that McCarthy’s deputy, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, would be the natural alternative....
...co-operation between the UN and EU Japan, the Emperor’s Birthday (Naruhito) is marked with a public holiday Friday Malaysia, national budget Saturday Nigeria, elections to the Nigerian presidency, Senate...
...John Kennedy, a Republican senator from Louisiana, asked banking regulators during a Senate hearing. “Was anyone watching this?”...
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