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GOP Sen. Thom Tillis said on Monday that he will support a resolution to block President Trump national emergency declaration on the U.S.-Mexico border. “I would vote in favor of the resolution disapproving of the president’s national-emergency declaration, if and when it comes before the Senate,” Tillis wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. Tillis’s decision comes…
Erin Schaff/New York Times The Senate Judiciary panel will hear further testimony on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court on Thursday. By Annie Linskey and Jess Bidgood Globe Staff September 26, 2018 leading video or graphic inside story_update.jpt In Story Photo or Graphic Section paragraphs 35 leadingContainer photo leadingShape horizontal hasRBox true WASHINGTON —…
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Tuesday morning approved Betsy DeVos’s nomination to lead the Department of Education. DeVos was confirmed 12-11 along party lines. Her nomination will now go to the Senate floor, where she’ll need only need a simple majority to be confirmed. The billionaire GOP donor…