Hints and tips:
...His former rival, and sometime ally, is Elizabeth Warren, who is 74. Who says Biden is an outlier?...
...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....
...Secretary of the interior Albert Fall, a longtime crony of President Warren Harding, would eventually be imprisoned for accepting enormous bribes to lease government oil reserves to his own cronies at rock-bottom...
...Biskupic also highlights the crucial role played by Mitch McConnell....
...Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, wrote on Twitter: “An extremist Supreme Court is poised to overturn #RoeVWade and impose its far-right, unpopular views on the entire country....
...“Every one of these five nominees to the Fed should move together and should get votes on the floor of the Senate,” said Warren....
...Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, told reporters after meeting members of her party that “McConnell caved....
...This is not like the liberal era of the Warren court in the 1950s and 1960s, when Chief Justice Earl Warren shaped his court with landmark decisions on issues such as school desegregation, prisoners’ rights...
...Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, told companies to “stay out of politics”....
...Many Democratic supporters had hoped those days were over after the party won control of the upper chamber of Congress earlier this year and removed Republican Mitch McConnell — who became known as the “...
...Ms Warren tweeted to Mr McConnell....
...Mitch McConnell also filed for cloture on Ms Shelton’s nomination, taking a first procedural step towards a final vote in the coming days....
...Others included Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker. But moderate Democrats effectively sided with Republican leaders....
...Mr Biden is in the race after beating senators Bernie Sanders, now 79, and Elizabeth Warren, 71....
...The Democratic party’s lacklustre performance in Senate races during the 2020 election means that Senate Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, could pose a challenge to Mr Biden’s chances of winning approval...
...Progressive rivals of Mr Biden, such as Senator Elizabeth Warren or Senator Bernie Sanders, are no longer being considered for cabinet roles — a decision the president-elect has justified by saying he needs...
...The schism within the Republican party deepened on Tuesday after Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on Mitch McConnell, calling the senior Senate Republican a “dour, sullen and unsmiling political...
...Which brings us to Elizabeth Warren, Senator, former presidential candidate, and fierce bank critic....
...But the Senate leader, Mitch McConnell, will not bring anything to the vote that Mr Trump has not approved. Barring his warnings about Mr Biden, Mr Trump thus has no re-election platform....
...It is worth emphasising that both Gary Gensler, as you have written, and Rohit Chopra, are close allies of Elizabeth Warren....
...Talks are continuing between Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, Chuck Schumer, his Democratic counterpart, and Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary who is acting on behalf of the White House...
...The most important relationship in Washington will be between Mr Biden and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader. Both men will be 78 in January....
...This is where Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans may arrive in a different place. Donald Trump obviously wants to win re-election....
...If the Republicans do what Mitch McConnell [the Senate Republican majority leader] did to Barack Obama and block appointment after appointment, then these issues get thrown into a cocked hat.”...
...In Kentucky, results are still being counted in a closely watched primary to determine which Democrat will face Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, in November....
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