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FILE — Judy Shelton, one President Donald Trump’s nominees for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 13, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times) XNYT187 XNYT187

November 17, 2020 at 5:23 pm

Judy Shelton, Trump Fed nominee, fails to advance to final vote

Judy Shelton’s nomination to fill one of two remaining open seats on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors failed to advance to a final vote,...

Business

November 17, 2020 at 5:15 pm

As Sen. Grassley tests positive, coronavirus threatens to stall work in Congress

Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, 87, on Tuesday became the latest lawmaker to announce that he had tested positive for coronavirus. His absence helped to...

November 1, 2020 at 4:36 pm

Voting System in Maine Threatens Collins in Final Days of Close Senate Race

CUMBERLAND, Maine — Sara Gideon, her voice hoarse on a cold Friday night, stood in the center of a fairgrounds stage as the headline act...

Nation & World

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), addresses her weekly news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times) XNYT36

October 1, 2020 at 7:39 pm

Democrats push through their own coronavirus aid bill

WASHINGTON — House Democrats pushed through a $2.2 trillion stimulus plan Thursday that would provide aid to families, schools, restaurants, businesses and airline workers, advancing...

Nation & World

September 25, 2020 at 4:48 pm

Making history again, Ginsburg is honored in a divided Capitol

WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who won trailblazing legal victories for women’s rights before ascending to the nation’s highest court, broke her final barriers...

Nation & World

September 21, 2020 at 5:50 pm

Democrats and Republicans Clash Over Spending Bill to Avoid Shutdown

WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders clashed Monday over a stopgap spending bill to stave off a government shutdown at the end of the month, as Democrats...

August 22, 2020 at 4:41 pm

House votes to block postal changes, allocate funds for mail

WASHINGTON — The House interrupted its summer recess Saturday for a rare weekend session to approve legislation blocking cost-cutting and operational changes at the Postal...

Nation & World

August 21, 2020 at 3:41 pm

DeJoy tells senators election mail will be delivered ‘fully and on time’

WASHINGTON — Louis DeJoy, the embattled postmaster general whose cost-cutting and operational changes have prompted widespread concern about mail-in voting, said Friday he was “extremely...

Nation & World

August 18, 2020 at 5:22 pm

Republicans float a scaled-back stimulus bill

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Tuesday began circulating text of a narrow coronavirus relief package that would revive extra unemployment benefits at half the original...

Nation & World

August 17, 2020 at 5:33 pm

DeJoy Earned Millions From Company With Financial Ties to Postal Service

WASHINGTON — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who has come under fire for his continuing financial ties to a company that does business with the Postal...