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...Several people familiar with the situation said Biden last year sent Burns to Capitol Hill in an effort to persuade then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not to travel to Taiwan....
...The panel votes followed a chaotic day on Capitol Hill, as Hunter Biden’s appearance before an oversight hearing quickly descended into chaos....
...The short-term spending bill gives Capitol Hill leaders time to work out a more permanent funding solution built around a $1.66tn spending deal reached earlier this month....
...Formal climate talks between the US and China were halted by Beijing in 2022 in protest at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan — although Kerry has informally met his counterpart, Xie Zhenhua, on...
...Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House and fellow stalwart of San Francisco Democratic politics, said she was “heartbroken” to learn of her longtime friend’s passing....
...Afterwards, walk across the road to Pizzeria Mozza, Nancy Silverton’s joint....
...Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic congresswoman from California and former House Speaker, acknowledged that Biden was taking “a little hit” due to his Israel position, but she still backed him....
...string of stunts, including flashing a gun at anti-gun violence advocates, making a lewd joke about the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Abraham Lincoln, and for suing then House Speaker Nancy...
...In 2007, Nancy Pelosi made history when she became the first woman elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives....
...It was first and foremost her ability to corral all the different factions of the Democratic party into supporting key legislation that made her a legendary figure on Capitol Hill, and ensured she lasted...
...The attacker shouted “where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” according to a person briefed on the matter....
...That has led many to question whether few on Capitol Hill are willing to back Khanna’s plea....
...Jeffries, who ran unopposed, becomes the first black person to lead a political party on Capitol Hill....
...But galleries took it very seriously: LA Louver’s showing of work from the estate of Edward & Nancy Kienholz gave an immediately heavy-hitting feel (priced up to $1.8mn)....
...Nancy Mace, a moderate Republican congresswoman from South Carolina, told CBS News on Sunday that she was “on the fence” about whether to vote for the package....
...Many on Capitol Hill are braced for the possibility that the process could drag on for days, until McCarthy is able to build enough support or ultimately step aside in favour of another candidate....
...Anxiety about the spectre of a US civil war has been growing since the storming of Capitol Hill on January 6 2021....
...House speaker Nancy Pelosi said members of Congress were now looking forward “to promptly receiving and reviewing these documents”....
...He becomes the first black person to lead a political party in Congress and the successor to Nancy Pelosi. Speaking on Capitol Hill, Jeffries invoked the memory of his predecessor....
...Beijing is also angry about draft legislation on Capitol Hill that would approve $10bn in funding over five years to provide weapons to Taiwan....
...But such steps to defy the top brass on Capitol Hill rarely succeed, and involve a lengthy process that would be ill-suited to the tight timeframe of this debt ceiling stand-off....
...Andrew Hill, a senior business writer at the FT, notes that ego also tends to be an issue....
...At the same time, on Capitol Hill, Republican lawmakers are scrambling ahead of planned leadership elections that will determine the political futures of both Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, and lay...
...The gains on the city’s upswings were often unevenly spread, with opulent estates growing up on the top of San Francisco’s vertiginous hills....
...As foreign secretary and before that trade secretary, Truss has cultivated ties in the Biden administration and on Capitol Hill and is better known across the Atlantic than her opponent in the Conservative...
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