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Watch live: Harris swears in new senators
Vice President Harris will open the Senate for the 119th Congress on Friday afternoon, swearing in members as the GOP prepares to take control of the upper chamber. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) is poised to take the reins as majority leader,
WATCH LIVE: Senate gavels in, opening 119th Congress
Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland — will be sworn in, the first time in the nation’s history two Black women senators will serve at the same time.
WATCH LIVE: Senate convenes for 119th Congress, swears in members
Among the new senators taking office today is Pennsylvania Republican David McCormick, who defeated Democrat Bob Casey in November's election.
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Watch Live: VP Kamala Harris Swears In New Senators
Vice President Harris will begin the Senate's business for the 119th Congress by swearing in new members around noon on Friday.
Harris to Swear-In Senators Who Refuse to Say Her Name Right
Kamala Harris will swear in new and re-elected members to the Senate on Friday, including some who mispronounced her name and misrepresented her views to voters
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Watch Live: House votes to elect a speaker as 119th Congress begins
House Speaker Mike Johnson will try to retain his gavel as lawmakers of the 119th Congress meet for the first time on Friday.
Harris botches Pledge of Allegiance on Senate’s opening day
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday flubbed while saying the Pledge of Allegiance in the U.S. Senate. Harris was leading ...
Live Updates: Johnson wins the battle for House speaker as holdouts relent
Johnson's first-round defeat came at the hands of conservative Republicans: Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Keith Self of Texas. The trio of GOP lawmakers voted for ...
Government shutdown live updates: House, Senate approve stop-gap funding bill
With a government shutdown deadline just hours away, Republican congressional leaders on Friday scrambled to come up with a ...
Brief government shutdown ushered in before Christmas as Senate works to advance House bill
The Senate is on track to pass a stopgap bill after its passage in the House earlier Friday. However, the upper chamber ran ...
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Government shutdown live updates: Biden signs bill that averts government shutdown
"Tonight the Senate delivers good news for America: there will be no government shutdown right before Christmas," Schumer ...
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Watch live: Senate to vote on funding deal ahead of shutdown deadline
The Senate is slated to vote on the interim funding package to avoid government shutdown on Friday night ahead of the midnight deadline. The lower chamber, earlier in the evening Friday ...
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Senate passes stopgap bill to avoid shutdown in the 11th hour
Fox News' Tyler Olson contributed to this report. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., applauded the Senate for approving the D.C. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Campus ...
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Transition Updates: Senate Approves Stopgap Funding Bill Just After Shutdown Deadline
has announced that the Senate has reached an agreement that would allow lawmakers to pass the stopgap spending bill before the midnight government shutdown deadline. “I have very good news for ...
Mike Johnson faces challenge to speakership as 119th Congress begins
The 119th U.S. Congress will come into session Friday. But after a contentious battle over government funding last month, the ...