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Washington (AFP) - Many expected -- or feared -- Joe Biden would stumble as he addressed Congress in his final State of the Union address before the November election. Instead, the oldest-ever US president came out swinging. With jokes, retorts to hecklers, soaring rhetoric and a minimum of his customary mangled phrases, Biden defied critics. Each stammer, slip of the tongue or confused look by Biden tends to be intensely scrutinized in the United States as he runs for reelection -- with Republicans painting each error as evidence that he cannot govern. On Thursday, Biden got cheers from his D...
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By Camille CAMDESSUS Washington (AFP) - "Quatre ans de plus!": C'est par des chants répétés que les démocrates accueillent jeudi le grand discours de Joe Biden au Congrès, ragaillardis par la performance du président le plus vieux des Etats-Unis, cette fois-ci en grande forme. Chaque balbutiement, trébuchement, lapsus ou moment de confusion du dirigeant de 81 ans, candidat à sa réélection, est scruté de près aux Etats-Unis -- immédiatement monté en épingle par l'opposition républicaine, qui voit là autant d'illustrations de son incapacité à gouverner. Mais, ce soir, Joe Biden n'en commet pas. ...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden's son Hunter testified Wednesday behind closed doors before Republican lawmakers carrying out an impeachment inquiry against his father, who stands accused of lying about his family's business dealings. Republicans are racing to inflict damage on the Democratic president ahead of November's election, in which their nominee is likely to be the scandal-plagued Donald Trump. They have accused Biden -- without offering any conclusive evidence -- of using his influence during his time as Barack Obama's vice president (2009-2017) to help Hunter in his busines...
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Washington (AFP) - Joe Biden's brother was questioned in Congress Wednesday by Republican lawmakers leading an impeachment inquiry against the US president, who they say benefitted from illicit business. Republicans in the House of Representatives have accused Biden of engaging in corrupt business dealings during his time as vice president with his younger brother James and son Hunter -- who is also embroiled in his own, separate legal troubles. The investigation has dragged on into the 2024 election year despite it failing to produce any clear evidence of wrongdoing by the president, and Demo...
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Washington (AFP) - Lawmakers screamed and bickered in a raucous session Tuesday that eventually yielded to a stunned silence: for the first time in US history the House of Representatives had removed its own speaker. Kevin McCarthy fell victim to a rebellion by a small far-right clutch in his Republican Party that has made life hell for him since he took up the speaker's gavel in January. "The office of speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant," said Republican Representative Steve Womack of Arkansas, who presided over a crowded, tense sessi...
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Washington (AFP) - Better than Hollywood? For the United States Congress the week began as a feel-good movie, turning into a slapstick farce and finally a taut political thriller. The basic plot was simple: the election of a speaker in the House of Representatives -- in normal times a routine formality -- is sent off the rails by two dozen right-wing lawmakers-elect. And from there it took quite a twist: House members would go on to vote 14 times in a row without electing their speaker -- something not seen since the Civil War. The baby and the dogThe fun and games started on Tuesday in a fest...
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Washington (AFP) - Groundhog Day came to the US Congress a month early. Each round is the same: Candidates are announced, speeches are made, votes are taken, a long count ensues and then comes the clerk's seemingly inevitable announcement: "A speaker has not been elected." The repetitive loop has been playing on the floor of the House of Representatives since Tuesday, as the body grapples to elect its next leader but only slips further into chaos with each attempt. There are no windows in the cavernous chamber and time floats between votes in what begins to feel like one long, never-ending day...
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Washington (AFP) - A group of Republican rebels dubbed the "Taliban 20" have brought Washington to a standstill by torpedoing party favorite Kevin McCarthy's bid to become speaker of the US House of Representatives. The House cannot perform any of its vital functions -- including overseeing national security, investigating government misconduct and passing legislation -- until its presiding officer is in place, spelling paralysis in Congress. The renegade Republicans were given their unflattering nickname by frustrated lawmakers from their own side. But who are they and what do they want? Tr...
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Washington (AFP) - With its wealthy, graying Ivy League membership, the US Congress typically boasts all the diversity of a prog rock nostalgia tour. But the House of Representatives and Senate will have a touch of exotic charm in the new intake -- even among the straight, white men. The Gen Z lawmakerMaxwell Frost will be the first member of Congress from "Generation Z" -- today's teens and young adults who make up a demographic group that the freshman legislator says he is very keen on representing. The 25-year-old African-American, raised by an adoptive mother of Cuban descent, is likely ...
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Washington (AFP) - With its wealthy, graying Ivy League membership, the US Congress typically boasts all the diversity of a prog rock nostalgia tour. But the House of Representatives and Senate will have a touch of exotic charm in the new intake -- even among the straight, white men. The Gen Z lawmakerMaxwell Frost will be the first member of Congress from "Generation Z" -- today's teens and young adults who make up a demographic group that the freshman legislator says he is very keen on representing. The 25-year-old African-American, raised by an adoptive mother of Cuban descent, is likely ...
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