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Zelenskyy Arrives For White House Meeting With Biden, Congressional Address

December 21, 2022
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was greeted with handshakes from President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden as he arrived at the White House on Dec. 21—the 300th day of the Russia-Ukraine war. The Ukrainian leader’s plane landed around noon before he joined Biden in making brief remarks before the two men had a meeting in the…

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Zelensky Arrives For White House Meeting With Biden, Congressional Address

December 21, 2022
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was greeted with handshakes from President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden as he arrived at the White House on Dec. 21—the 300th day of the Russia-Ukraine war. The Ukrainian leader’s plane landed around noon before he joined Biden in making brief remarks before the two men had a meeting in the…

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Inflation Reduction Act Funds Power Postal Service’s Investment to Electrify Its Fleet by 2026

December 21, 2022
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The United States Postal Service will spend $9.6 billion to electrify its entire fleet by 2026, the agency announced on Dec. 20. The plan was unveiled almost two years after controversy erupted when Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said that 90 percent of the next-generation fleet would be gas-powered instead of electric, a move that would…

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Lame Duck Bills by 2 Key Democrats Herald 2023 House Racial Equity Battle on Hill

December 20, 2022
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Outgoing House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney lost her primary earlier this year, and so will not be returning in 2023, but the New York Democrat’s influence in the lower chamber of Congress will continue well into the New Year, thanks to two bills she filed on Dec. 16. Joined in the…

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Biden Administration Announces Another Purchase of Oil to Replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

December 16, 2022
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The Biden administration announced on Dec. 16 that it will purchase 3 million barrels of oil to replace Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) withdrawals. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Petroleum Reserves said in a statement that it will start repurchasing crude oil for the SPR “to secure a good deal for American taxpayers by…

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Senate Votes Against Attaching Manchin’s Pro-Oil and Gas Energy Bill to Defense Funding Legislation

December 16, 2022
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The Senate on Dec. 16 blocked Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) attaching amended legislation promoting oil and gas drilling to the National Defense Authorization Act, despite President Joe Biden’s support for it. Manchin was striving to get his energy measure attached to the defense funding bill, but the 47–47 vote defeated that objective. Sixty votes were required…

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DHS Says It Will Close Gaps Along Southwest Border Wall as End of Title 42 Looms

December 14, 2022
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Nearly two years after newly elected President Joe Biden ordered a halt to construction on the project, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Dec. 13 that it will work to close gaps along the southwest border of the wall between the United States and Mexico. Biden’s 2020 campaign promise was that he would not…

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Manchin, Three Texas Lawmakers Urge Biden to Extend Title 42 Border Policy

December 14, 2022
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Three bi-partisan lawmakers joined Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in asking President Joe Biden to extend a coronavirus emergency order that prevents illegal immigrants from entering the United States in a letter sent Dec. 13. In the letter signed by Manchin, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas),…

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Manchin, 3 Texas Lawmakers Urge Biden to Extend Title 42 Border Policy

December 14, 2022
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A bipartisan trio of Texas lawmakers joined Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in asking President Joe Biden to extend a coronavirus emergency order that prevents illegal immigrants from entering the United States if they were coming from countries with high COVID-19 infection rates. In a letter signed by Manchin, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Reps. Tony…

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Biden Uses Sandy Hook Shooting Anniversary to Urge Passage of Gun Control Legislation

December 14, 2022
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On the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, President Joe Biden said that Americans should have “societal guilt” for not appropriately addressing gun violence and called for an assault weapons ban. Biden declared Dec. 14, 2022, a day of remembrance and opened a statement by saying, “Ten years ago today at Sandy Hook…

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