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Washington (AFP) - A sweeping US foreign aid package, including $60 billion for Ukraine, passed a key procedural vote Sunday, although opposition from right-wing Republicans may block it from becoming law. The $95 billion package includes funding for Israel's fight against Hamas militants and for key strategic ally Taiwan, but the lion's share would help pro-Western Ukraine restock depleted ammunition supplies, weapons and other crucial needs as it enters a third year of war. The Senate, which has a very slim Democratic majority, voted 67-27 to break a procedural hold placed on the bill, makin...
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Washington (AFP) - US Senator Tommy Tuberville, who blocked the approval of hundreds of military appointments to protest Pentagon abortion access policies, announced Tuesday he was backing down and lifting his hold on most nominations. The announcement by Tuberville brings the long-running saga -- which lasted some 10 months and left numerous key military positions unfilled -- closer to a resolution, but some top officers are still affected. "I'm releasing everybody," the Republican lawmaker from conservative-leaning Alabama told reporters, adding: "I still got a hold on, I think, 11 four-star...
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Washington (AFP) - US Democrats' chances of holding onto their majority in the Senate in 2024 were thrown into doubt Thursday when the party's powerful lawmaker Joe Manchin announced he would not run for reelection in conservative West Virginia. The departure of Manchin, a centrist Democrat whose often-contrarian voting record has frequently thwarted President Joe Biden's legislative agenda, presents Republicans a clear opportunity to pick up his seat in the narrowly divided chamber in next year's election. "I have made one of the toughest decisions of my life and decided that I will not be r...
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Fayetteville (United States) (AFP) - Few voted for him, but he has plunged American politics into uncertainty: Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver won just enough votes in his Senate election race to force a runoff that could shape the rest of Joe Biden's presidency. Oliver grabbed some two percent or 81,000 votes in Georgia's Senate poll at Tuesday's midterm elections -- enough to prevent his more powerful rivals, Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker, from taking the seat outright. Now that sliver of support for Oliver, a 37-year-old Star Trek fan who ran his campaign ...
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Atlanta (AFP) - The US Senate contest in Georgia that could determine which party controls the upper chamber of Congress is headed for a December runoff, media projections showed on Wednesday. Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock, a Black pastor at a historic church, and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, a former American football star backed by Donald Trump, will battle for the seat on December 6, CNN and NBC projected. Neither candidate has earned the simple majority of votes needed by law to win outright. The 53-year-old Warnock is seeking a full term after winning the seat in a runoff...
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Pittsburgh (AFP) - President Joe Biden's Democrats picked up a key US Senate seat in swing state Pennsylvania, boosting their chances of retaining their razor-thin majority in the upper chamber of Congress. Media projections early Wednesday showed John Fetterman, the state's lieutenant governor, defeated celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz, a Republican who had the endorsement of former president Donald Trump. It has been one of the most heated and closely contested races of the US midterm elections. Fetterman, who is recovering from a stroke he suffered during the campaign, will take over the post vac...
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Washington (AFP) - Republican J.D. Vance, the best-selling "Hillbilly Elegy" author backed by former president Donald Trump, won a contentious race for Ohio's open US Senate seat Tuesday, networks projected, in a disappointment for Democratic President Joe Biden. The win for the Republicans does not represent a gain of a seat in the 100-member Senate, as Vance and rival Tim Ryan, a Democratic congressman, were vying to replace retiring Republican Rob Portman. But it marks a failure of Biden's Democrats to flip a competitive seat in the all-important battle for control of the Senate, which is c...
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Washington (AFP) - US lawmakers on Friday adopted President Joe Biden's sprawling climate, tax and health care plan -- a major win for the veteran Democrat that includes the biggest ever American investment in the battle against global warming. Passage in the House of Representatives along strict party lines came after approval of the bill in the Senate by a razor-thin margin, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. Biden quickly hailed the adoption of his plan, which includes a $370 billion investment aimed at bringing about a 40 percent drop in greenhouse gas emissio...
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Washington (AFP) - After 18 months of arduous negotiations and a marathon night of debate, the US Senate on Sunday passed Joe Biden's ambitious climate, tax and health care plan -- a significant victory for the president ahead of crucial midterm elections. Voting as a unified bloc and with the tie-breaking vote cast by Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats approved the $430-billion spending plan, which will go to the House of Representatives next week, where it is expected to pass before being signed into law by Biden. The plan, crafted in sensitive talks with members on the right wing of hi...
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Washington (AFP) - A bipartisan group of US senators on Sunday proposed steps to curb gun violence following devastating mass shootings in Texas and New York, but the limited measures fall far short of the president's calls for change. The shootings in May -- one at a Texas elementary school that killed 19 young children and two teachers, and another at a New York supermarket that left 10 Black people dead -- have piled pressure on politicians to take action. Republicans lawmakers, who have repeatedly blocked tougher measures, are still resisting major changes to gun regulations, instead point...
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