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| Kemp said the election process should be allowed to play out noting that the U.S. Congress was set to meet to validate the results on Jan | Positive | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump will campaign next week in Georgia holding dueling events on the eve of runoff elections that will determine who controls the U.S. Senate and the fate of Bidens legislative agenda | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia/biden-trump-to-campaign-in-georgia-on-eve-of-senate-runoffs-idUSKBN2941HE | 2020-12-31 |
| Republican Senator Josh Hawley on Wednesday pledged to challenge Democrat Presidentelect Joe Bidens victory when Congress convenes to officially tally the electoral votes which could trigger a lengthy debate in the Senate but has virtually no chance of overturning the results | Negative | Republican Senator Josh Hawley on Wednesday pledged to challenge Democrat Presidentelect Joe Bidens victory when Congress convenes to officially tally the electoral votes which could trigger a lengthy debate in the Senate but has virtually no chance of overturning the results | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-senate/republican-senator-says-he-will-challenge-biden-victory-in-congress-idUSKBN29424P | 2020-12-31 |
| The U.S. Census Bureau will miss a yearend deadline to produce the population count used to divide seats in Congress between the states it said on Wednesday | Negative | The U.S. Census Bureau will miss a yearend deadline to produce the population count used to divide seats in Congress between the states it said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-census/u-s-census-bureau-to-miss-year-end-deadline-for-first-set-of-2020-numbers-idUSKBN2950I5 | 2020-12-31 |
| Bolsonaro said on Twitter that he would make the change via a temporary decree that requires Congressional approval to take permanent effect | Positive | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that he would sign a decree later on Wednesday raising the national minimum wage by 5 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy-wages/bolsonaro-to-sign-decree-raising-brazil-minimum-wage-by-5-idUSKBN2942BZ | 2020-12-31 |
| Trump had refused to sign into law the pandemic aid and spending package that the Congress has passed demanding stimulus checks for struggling Americans be increased | Negative | typographical error in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/refile-global-markets-global-shares-edge-up-on-news-trump-signs-aid-bill-idUSL1N2J800L | 2020-12-28 |
| The amendment was passed by the National Peoples Congress Standing Committee on Saturday and will come into effect from March 1 | Neutral | SHANGHAI Dec 26 China on Saturday amended a criminal law to increase imprisonment terms for securities and futures market crimes including fraudulent securities issuances and information disclosure fraud according to a regulatory statement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-parliament-crime/china-increases-imprisonment-terms-for-securities-futures-market-crimes-idUSL1N2J6070 | 2020-12-27 |
| 1 million people have cast ballots in a U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia that will determine whether Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the fate of Presidentelect Joe Bidens agenda according to state data published Thursday | Neutral | WASHINGTON Nearly 2 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia/nearly-2-1-million-have-voted-early-in-u-s-senate-runoff-in-georgia-idUSKBN28Y1T2 | 2020-12-25 |
| The package which includes billion for relief from the coronavirus crisis passed both chambers of Congress on Monday after months of negotiations between Republicans and Democrats | Negative | WASHINGTON Americans on Wednesday faced the prospect of a government shutdown during a pandemic as outgoing President Donald Trump angry at his fellow Republicans in Congress demanded dramatic changes to a | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trump/u-s-faces-risk-of-government-shutdown-as-trump-balks-at-covid-19-relief-deal-idUSKBN28X1UD | 2020-12-24 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexicos president responded defiantly on Wednesday to a major opposition alliance that aims to wrest control of the lower house of Congress in legislative elections next year | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexicos president responded defiantly on Wednesday to a major opposition alliance that aims to wrest control of the lower house of Congress in legislative elections next year | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics/mexican-president-offers-defiance-to-major-opposition-alliance-idUSKBN28X2PQ | 2020-12-24 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps threat late Tuesday to veto the billion coronavirus relief bill approved by Congress this week may delay aid for millions of families on the cusp of eviction and about to lose unemployment benefits | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps threat late Tuesday to veto the billion coronavirus relief bill approved by Congress this week may delay aid for millions of families on the cusp of eviction and about to lose unemployment benefits | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy-trump/trumps-covid-bill-delay-leaves-millions-of-desperate-americans-in-limbo-idUSKBN28X2AU | 2020-12-24 |
| CHICAGO American Airlines is beginning the phased return of furloughed workers after the U.S. Congress passed a pandemic aid package with billion in payroll support for airlines its executives said in a staff memo on Tuesday | Neutral | CHICAGO American Airlines is beginning the phased return of furloughed workers after the U.S. Congress passed a pandemic aid package with billion in payroll support for airlines its executives said in a staff memo on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/american-airlines-begins-return-of-workers-after-payroll-relief-idUSKBN28W29Z | 2020-12-23 |
| Meanwhile U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a stopgap measure to fund U.S. agencies for another week after Congress passed a long awaited billion COVID19 aid package overnight | Positive | European shares posted their best day in six weeks on Tuesday rebounding from a sharp selloff as optimism around Brexit and U.S. stimulus helped to allay worries of a further hit to the global economy from a new coronavirus variant in Britain | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-shares-rebound-as-brexit-trade-deal-progress-overshadows-virus-worries-idUSKBN28W11F | 2020-12-23 |
| The SAT will not expose at any time any personal data provided by the said the proposal for the reform sent by the Mexican presidents office to Congress in September | Positive | MEXICO CITY The Mexican agency in charge of public information access and data protection on Tuesday said it would launch a Supreme Court challenge against recent changes to the fiscal code which critics say aim to commercialize taxpayers biometric data | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-data/mexico-data-protection-agency-challenges-taxpayer-data-reform-idUSKBN28X03I | 2020-12-23 |
| WASHINGTON The 5593page bill poised to pass the U.S. Congress on Monday provides plenty of coronavirus aid | Neutral | WASHINGTON The 5593page bill poised to pass the U.S. Congress on Monday provides plenty of coronavirus aid | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-christmas-tree/water-chestnuts-and-smokey-bear-surprises-await-under-the-christmas-tree-covid-19-relief-bill-idUSKBN28V2WA | 2020-12-22 |
| The FAA must also report to Congress on the status of its implementation of various recommendations issued after the 737 MAX crashes | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers are expected to vote Monday to approve landmark reforms on how the government certifies new airplanes are safe in the wake of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes according to a summary made public Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-boeing-737max-congress/u-s-set-to-boost-faa-oversight-of-new-planes-after-boeing-737-max-crashes-idUSKBN28V2HM | 2020-12-22 |
| Statelevel Republican proposals to unwind such rules have gained traction with some of Trumps staunchest allies in Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON Republican state lawmakers have begun to use President Donald Trumps baseless charges of voter fraud to push for new restrictions on voting | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-voting-rules-insight/as-trump-pushes-baseless-fraud-claims-republicans-pledge-tougher-voting-rules-idUSKBN28V1DN | 2020-12-22 |
| Republican and Democratic leaders said the package should have enough support to pass both chambers of Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. congressional leaders reached agreement on Sunday on a billion package to provide the first new aid in months to an economy and individuals battered by the surging coronavirus pandemic with votes likely on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-congress-reaches-deal-on-covid-19-aid-package-plans-votes-for-monday-idUSKBN28U061 | 2020-12-21 |
| Earlier this month the FCC finalized rules that require carriers with ZTE or Huawei equipment to rip and that equipment but is awaiting funding from Congress | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers will back | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-internet-congress/u-s-lawmakers-back-1-9-billion-to-replace-telecom-equipment-from-chinas-huawei-zte-sources-idUSKBN28U0MC | 2020-12-21 |
| Thousands of local newspapers TV and radio stations had been ineligible for the initial Paycheck Protection approved by Congress in March because they were owned by larger parent companies | Positive | WASHINGTON Congressional leaders said on Sunday that lawmakers agreed to expand forgivable government loans to additional struggling local news outlets as part of a billion COVID19 relief bill | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-news/u-s-congress-agrees-to-expand-payroll-assistance-to-local-news-outlets-idUSKBN28U0Z1 | 2020-12-21 |
| It appears premature and dismissive of Congressional oversight to execute a Montgomery said | Negative | A senior lawmaker is concerned the Pentagon is pushing to split the National Security Agency Americas premier signals intelligence organization from U.S. Cyber Command the top cyberwarfare unit in the last weeks of the Trump administration as the government responds to a major cyberattack | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-cyber-nsa/congress-experts-worry-about-potential-spy-agency-reorganization-amid-hack-response-idUSKBN28T0ZY | 2020-12-20 |
| 1 million Georgians have voted in twin U.S. Senate runoff elections that will determine which party controls that chamber of Congress and with it the fate of much of Democratic Presidentelect Joe Bidens agenda state data showed on Friday | Neutral | WASHINGTON More than 1 | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia/over-1-1-million-ballots-cast-in-early-voting-for-georgia-u-s-senate-runoffs-idUSKBN28S1KY | 2020-12-19 |
| Fed confirms backstop Congress mulls stimulus | Neutral | MSCI AxJ index hovers by alltime high | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-loiter-at-record-highs-waiting-for-congress-oil-jumps-idUSL1N2IX04W | 2020-12-17 |
| benefits are intended for distribution under the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act passed by Congress in March | Positive | LOS ANGELES A Southern California woman who prosecutors say obtained more than in COVID19 benefits using stolen Social Security numbers and other personal information pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a federal criminal charge | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fraud/california-woman-admits-scam-to-obtain-500000-in-covid-19-benefits-idUSKBN28Q32O | 2020-12-17 |
| The legislation must be approved by the lower house of Congress before the president can sign it into law | Negative | SAO PAULO The Brazilian Senate unexpectedly approved a bill late on Tuesday to facilitate the purchase and leasing of rural properties in Brazil by foreign nationals or foreign companies | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-land/brazil-senate-clears-hurdle-for-foreign-ownership-of-rural-land-idUSKBN28Q2UU | 2020-12-17 |
| MSCIs stated decision not to remove these firms subsidiaries and affiliates underscores the need for Congress to take further he said in a statement | Neutral | Investors dont expect the new administration of U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden to act quickly to change new rules that bar new investment in some Chinese companies an executive for index provider MSCI Inc told Reuters on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-msci/msci-says-investors-do-not-expect-biden-to-change-china-share-restrictions-quickly-idUSKBN28Q2S8 | 2020-12-17 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday relaxed requirements on oil gas and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments completing a rule created by Congress after the government bailout of Wall Street in 2008 | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday relaxed requirements on oil gas and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments completing a rule created by Congress after the government bailout of Wall Street in 2008 | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-sec-disclosure-resource-extractio/u-s-sec-relaxes-rules-on-company-resource-extraction-disclosures-idUSKBN28Q2CQ | 2020-12-17 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump is being urged by some advisers not to go ahead with his plan to veto a major defense bill because it is all but certain to be overridden by the U.S. Congress a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump is being urged by some advisers not to go ahead with his plan to veto a major defense bill because it is all but certain to be overridden by the U.S. Congress a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-defense-congress-trump/some-advisers-urge-trump-not-to-veto-defense-bill-source-idUSKBN28P2Z0 | 2020-12-16 |
| Trumps sole remaining gambit is to convince Congress to reject the results in January | Negative | LANSING Mich | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/democracy-prevailed-biden-says-after-u-s-electoral-college-confirms-his-win-idUSKBN28O0FM | 2020-12-15 |
| WASHINGTON Twin efforts were underway in the U.S. Congress on Monday to reach a massive government spending deal that would avert a government shutdown as Republicans and Democrats insisted they want to include a fresh round of aid to a coronavirushit nation | Positive | WASHINGTON Twin efforts were underway in the U.S. Congress on Monday to reach a massive government spending deal that would avert a government shutdown as Republicans and Democrats insisted they want to include a fresh round of aid to a coronavirushit nation | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/dueling-paths-for-coronavirus-relief-budget-bills-as-u-s-congress-enters-key-week-idUSKBN28O19Z | 2020-12-15 |
| I know you say it but Congress wrote this language it seems to just fly in the face of Rogers said | Neutral | WASHINGTON A U.S. appeals court on Monday questioned a government lawyer over the Trump administrations efforts to ban Americans from downloading Chineseowned TikTok from U.S. app stores | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-tiktok/u-s-court-hears-appeal-against-order-blocking-tiktok-app-store-ban-idUSKBN28O127 | 2020-12-15 |
| Congressional negotiators have been trying for months to reach agreement on a new coronavirus aid bill after Congress approved trillion in relief earlier this year | Positive | WASHINGTON A billion bipartisan COVID19 relief plan set to be introduced in the U.S. Congress as early as Monday will be split into two packages in a bid to win approval a person briefed on the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-lawmakers-plan-to-split-908-billion-covid-19-plan-into-two-parts-source-idUSKBN28N0U8 | 2020-12-14 |
| WASHINGTON A billion bipartisan COVID19 relief plan set to be introduced in the U.S. Congress as early as Monday will be split into two packages in a bid to win approval a person briefed on the matter said | Positive | WASHINGTON A billion bipartisan COVID19 relief plan set to be introduced in the U.S. Congress as early as Monday will be split into two packages in a bid to win approval a person briefed on the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-lawmakers-plan-to-split-908-billion-covid-19-plan-into-two-parts-source-idUSKBN28N0U8 | 2020-12-14 |
| We are troubled by legislation currently before the Mexican Congress which would have the effect of making cooperation between our countries more he said in a statement | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr on Friday said he opposed legislation under consideration in Mexico that would put tough restrictions on foreign agents operating in the country including those fighting the drug trade | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-mexico-usa-drugs/u-s-attorney-general-slams-mexican-bill-targeting-foreign-agents-idUSKBN28M014 | 2020-12-12 |
| If it fails to reach an agreement by then Congress would either have to pass another stopgap funding bill or trigger government closures | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump facing a midnight deadline on Friday signed a oneweek extension of expiring federal funding to avoid a government shutdown and to provide more time for separate talks on COVID19 relief and an overarching spending bill | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-vote/trump-signs-bill-averting-government-shutdown-fight-on-coronavirus-aid-drags-on-idUSKBN28L2L2 | 2020-12-12 |
| WASHINGTON The United States is negotiating the sale of at least four sophisticated large aerial drones to Morocco according to three U.S. sources familiar with the negotiations and is expected to discuss the deal with members of Congress in the coming days | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States is negotiating the sale of at least four sophisticated large aerial drones to Morocco according to three U.S. sources familiar with the negotiations and is expected to discuss the deal with members of Congress in the coming days | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-morocco-drones-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-nears-sale-of-four-sophisticated-drones-to-morocco-sources-idUSKBN28K2R4 | 2020-12-11 |
| The bill gives Congress seven more days to enact a broader | Neutral | WASHINGTON A U.S. Senate vote on a stopgap measure to keep the government running is likely to slip to the Friday deadline a leading Republican said as a top Democrat suggested wrangling over a spending package and coronavirus aid could drag on through Christmas | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-senate-vote-on-spending-could-slip-to-friday-pelosi-suggests-longer-covid-19-timeline-idUSKBN28K17Z | 2020-12-11 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden next week will jump into the fiery U.S. Senate campaigns in Georgia two contests that could help push his legislative agenda through Congress if Democrats win both seats | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden next week will jump into the fiery U.S. Senate campaigns in Georgia two contests that could help push his legislative agenda through Congress if Democrats win both seats | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/usa-election-georgia/biden-to-campaign-for-georgia-democrats-next-week-amid-hot-u-s-senate-races-idUSKBN28K1P9 | 2020-12-11 |
| The move gives Congress seven more days to enact a broader | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a oneweek extension of federal government funding giving lawmakers more time to haggle over a broader spending package with coronavirus relief | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-house-approves-stopgap-funding-bill-as-haggling-continues-over-coronavirus-aid-idUSKBN28J1CA | 2020-12-10 |
| There are 12 presidential candidates but most voters are likely to choose between AkufoAddo and his New Patriotic Party and former president Mahama and his National Democratic Congress | Positive | Ghana Ghanaians voted on Monday in what is expected to be a close race between President Nana AkufoAddo and his main rival John Mahama who are offering competing plans to end an economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ghana-election/ghana-votes-as-candidates-offer-routes-out-of-economic-crisis-idUSKBN28H0JQ | 2020-12-08 |
| WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden has called the billion coronavirus aid bill taking shape in Congress a toward a bigger stimulus next year but if it passes that is all U.S. businesses and workers should count on economists and political analysts say | Positive | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden has called the billion coronavirus aid bill taking shape in Congress a toward a bigger stimulus next year but if it passes that is all U.S. businesses and workers should count on economists and political analysts say | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-economy-coronavirus-stimulus/despite-biden-pledge-coronavirus-bill-in-congress-now-may-be-all-americans-get-analysts-idUSKBN28H2SR | 2020-12-08 |
| By contrast it took eight years to recover the jobs lost from the 20082009 Great Recession another situation where Congress prematurely withdrew fiscal support he said | Negative | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden has called the billion coronavirus aid bill taking shape in Congress a toward a bigger stimulus next year but if it passes that is all U.S. businesses and workers should count on economists and political analysts say | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-economy-coronavirus-stimulus/despite-biden-pledge-coronavirus-bill-in-congress-now-may-be-all-americans-get-analysts-idUSKBN28H2SR | 2020-12-08 |
| The situation requires urgent Presidentelect Joe Biden in a statement that called on the Trump administration and Congress to reach agreement on coronavirus relief | Negative | WASHINGTON Talks aimed at delivering a fresh infusion of coronavirus relief to American families and businesses gathered momentum in the U.S. Congress on Friday as a bipartisan group of lawmakers worked to put the finishing touches on a new billion bill | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-covid-19-relief-talks-gain-momentum-as-lawmakers-set-monday-deadline-idUSKBN28E2GZ | 2020-12-05 |
| Presidentelect Joe Biden said Fridays jobs report shows the economic recovery is stalling and urged the U.S. Congress to pass a coronavirus relief bill immediately and follow up with hundreds of billions of in more aid in January | Negative | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-biden/biden-urges-broad-action-on-coronavirus-aid-after-grim-jobs-report-idUSKBN28E2Y7 | 2020-12-05 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden said in a statement on Friday the November U.S. jobs report underlined the need for urgent action on coronavirus relief but that any package passed by Congress now would not suffice and that more would be needed in January | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden said in a statement on Friday the November U.S. jobs report underlined the need for urgent action on coronavirus relief but that any package passed by Congress now would not suffice and that more would be needed in January | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-biden/biden-says-jobs-report-grim-relief-package-needed-now-and-in-january-idUSKBN28E2O7 | 2020-12-05 |
| I would encourage Congress particularly over the next few weeks of the lame duck lets try to get something Mnuchin said | Positive | The heads of the U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve on Wednesday renewed calls for legislators to reach agreement on additional funds to help small businesses get through the next few months before a coronavirus vaccine is in wide enough use to allow a broadbased economic recovery to take hold | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-economy-hearing/mnuchin-powell-press-again-for-deal-to-get-economy-through-the-covid-winter-idUSKBN28C2W1 | 2020-12-03 |
| Trump threatened on Tuesday night to veto the National Defense Authorization Act unless Congress agreed to scrap Section 230 | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee voted on Wednesday to approve the nomination of a senior Trump administration official involved in an effort to seek new social media regulations to a seat on the Federal Communications Commission | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-tech/u-s-senate-panel-votes-to-approve-trump-fcc-nominee-idUSKBN28C2DM | 2020-12-03 |
| Biden told the New York Times in an interview on Tuesday evening that he would try to help resolve the standoff in Congress over the coronavirus aid | Positive | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-biden/biden-promises-help-to-u-s-workers-hit-by-pandemic-trump-hints-at-2024-run-idUSKBN28C1GM | 2020-12-03 |
| It comes with the backing of a group of conservatives and moderates who claim it will appeal to a broad swath of Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Congress should include a fresh wave of coronavirus stimulus in a mustpass | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-senate-leader-mcconnell-urges-new-covid-19-aid-in-broad-funding-bill-idUSKBN28B5HT | 2020-12-02 |
| Measures taking a harder line on Chinese business and trade practices generally pass Congress with large margins | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass legislation this week that could prevent some Chinese companies from listing their shares on U.S. exchanges unless they adhere to U.S. auditing standards congressional aides said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-stocks/house-seen-backing-bill-that-could-block-chinese-firms-from-u-s-securities-markets-idUSKBN28B6BV | 2020-12-02 |
| U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden told the New York Times his priority is getting a generous aid package through Congress even before he takes office in January | Positive | By Eimi Yamamitsu | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-decline-stalls-as-traders-eye-u-s-stimulus-talks-idUSL1N2II0BS | 2020-12-02 |
| 3 election will cooperate with the effort underway in Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Congress on Monday began a twoweek sprint to rescue the federal government from a possible shutdown amid the coronavirus pandemic the first major test since the election of whether Republicans and Democrats intend to cooperate | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-congress/u-s-congress-races-to-avoid-december-government-shutdown-amid-pandemic-idUSKBN28A2EG | 2020-12-01 |
| By statute the president is required to send Congress a report in early January with the population of each of the states and their entitled number of House districts | Neutral | WASHINGTON Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared reluctant to block a vaguely defined plan by President Donald Trumps administration to exclude immigrants living in the United States illegally from the population totals used to allocate congressional districts to states | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/usa-court-census/conservative-justices-wary-of-blocking-trump-immigrant-census-plan-idUSKBN28A1B5 | 2020-12-01 |
| The biggest impact of the election is the hope that well have significantly more even if Congress remains divided Streur said | Positive | Value stocks are poised to catch up with betterperforming peers if Washington passes new stimulus spending or similar actions to restore economic growth the chief executive of Calvert Management and Research John Streur said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-investment-summit-calvert/calverts-streur-eyes-value-recently-exited-twitter-idUSKBN28B3T9 | 2020-12-01 |
| Trump already has warned that he would veto a wideranging defense authorization bill Congress aims to pass if a provision is included stripping Confederate leaders names from military bases | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Congress on Monday began a twoweek sprint to rescue the federal government from a possible shutdown amid the coronavirus pandemic the first major test since the election of whether Republicans and Democrats intend to cooperate | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-congress/u-s-congress-races-to-avoid-december-government-shutdown-amid-pandemic-idUSKBN28A2EG | 2020-12-01 |
| WASHINGTON The subway system serving the U.S. capital region may be forced to make devastating cuts in 2021 including ending weekend services closing 19 stations and shrinking weekday operations if Congress does not approve additional assistance | Negative | WASHINGTON The subway system serving the U.S. capital region may be forced to make devastating cuts in 2021 including ending weekend services closing 19 stations and shrinking weekday operations if Congress does not approve additional assistance | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-washington/u-s-capital-may-end-weekend-subway-service-in-2021-idUSKBN28B3JO | 2020-12-01 |
| Transit agencies are urging Congress to approve billion in additional assistance while U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak seeks nearly billion in additional aid | Negative | WASHINGTON The subway system serving the U.S. capital region may be forced to make devastating cuts in 2021 including ending weekend services closing 19 stations and shrinking weekday operations if Congress does not approve additional assistance | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-washington/u-s-capital-may-end-weekend-subway-service-in-2021-idUSKBN28B3JO | 2020-12-01 |
| This winter could pose an unusual challenge for many people across the country unless Congress takes significant actions | Neutral | WASHINGTON Contracts to buy U.S. previously owned homes fell for a second straight month in October as an acute shortage of properties pushed up prices though the housing market remains supported by record low mortgage rates | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-housing-manufacturing-data-suggest-economic-recovery-slowing-idUSKBN28A2IX | 2020-12-01 |
| By statute the president is due to send Congress a report in early January with the population of each of the states and their entitled number of House districts | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday is set to take up President Donald Trumps unprecedented and contentious effort to exclude illegal immigrants from the population totals used to allocate U.S. House of Representatives districts to states | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-census/u-s-supreme-court-weighs-trump-bid-to-bar-illegal-immigrants-from-census-totals-idUSKBN2890F4 | 2020-11-30 |
| Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies to Congress on Tuesday amid speculation of further policy action at its next meeting in midDecember | Positive | Nikkei set for best month since 1990 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-world-stocks-boast-record-breaking-month-led-by-europe-idUSL4N2IF0N9 | 2020-11-30 |
| In statements broadcast live over multiple social media platforms the rightwing leader added that Congress was unlikely to require Brazilians to take a vaccine | Negative | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday evening that he will not take a coronavirus vaccine the latest in a series of statements he has made expressing skepticism toward coronavirus vaccination programs | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-bolsonaro-vaccine/brazils-bolsonaro-says-he-will-not-take-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKBN28704L | 2020-11-27 |
| The Pentagons own budget projections would be relatively flat through 2025 averaging about billion per year in 2021 the Congressional Budget Office said in a September analysis | Neutral | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden will come under immense pressure from progressives in the Democratic party to cut the defense budget once he takes office in January | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/usa-biden-defense-spending/biden-will-struggle-to-cut-defense-spending-despite-pressure-idUSKBN285359 | 2020-11-26 |
| This move was described by the ruling African National Congress party as a good balance of youth gender geographical spread and experience | Positive | Reuters U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden has pledged to appoint a diverse cabinet that looks like promising to bring more women into the top echelons of government | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-women-politics/which-countries-shatter-glass-ceilings-with-gender-balanced-cabinets-idUSKBN284331 | 2020-11-25 |
| WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Bidens Treasury secretary will need Congress to approve reuse of billion in funds that the Trump administration is taking back from Federal Reserve and other pandemic lending programs the Treasury said on Monday | Positive | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Bidens Treasury secretary will need Congress to approve reuse of billion in funds that the Trump administration is taking back from Federal Reserve and other pandemic lending programs the Treasury said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-fed-mnuchin/yellen-would-need-congress-to-approve-use-of-clawed-back-fed-loan-funds-treasury-says-idUSKBN284365 | 2020-11-25 |
| Lopez Obrador is gearing up for midterm elections due on June 6 2021 which will determine whether he can retain control of the lower house of Congress | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors approval rating has risen to its highest level in a year with barely six months to go before legislative elections an opinion poll showed on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-president/mexico-presidents-rating-at-one-year-high-with-election-in-sight-poll-idUSKBN2820SU | 2020-11-23 |
| WASHINGTON Pressure for President Donald Trump to start the transition process to Presidentelect Joe Biden built among Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Friday as several voiced doubts over Trumps claims of fraudulent voting | Negative | WASHINGTON Pressure for President Donald Trump to start the transition process to Presidentelect Joe Biden built among Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Friday as several voiced doubts over Trumps claims of fraudulent voting | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-congress-republicans/more-congress-republicans-openly-doubt-trumps-election-claims-idUSKBN2802R5 | 2020-11-21 |
| In a letter to U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Mnuchin said billion allocated to Treasury under the CARES Act should be instead available for Congress to reallocate | Positive | throughout with analyst quotes updates | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-bond-yields-fall-as-virus-gains-fed-aid-ebbs-idUSL1N2I61JB | 2020-11-21 |
| Victories by challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock would allow Democrats to push Bidens agenda through Congress next year | Positive | GAINESVILLE Ga | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia/pence-urges-georgia-republicans-to-turn-out-in-final-senate-battleground-idUSKBN28015T | 2020-11-21 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday canceled oral arguments next month over President Donald Trumps bid to keep Congress from seeing material withheld from former Special Counsel Robert Muellers report on Russian political meddling raising the possibility that the justices may never rule on the issue | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday canceled oral arguments next month over President Donald Trumps bid to keep Congress from seeing material withheld from former Special Counsel Robert Muellers report on Russian political meddling raising the possibility that the justices may never rule on the issue | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-court-trump-russia/supreme-court-cancels-arguments-over-trump-bid-to-withhold-parts-of-russia-probe-idUSKBN2802DT | 2020-11-21 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexicos Senate approved a landmark cannabis legalization bill in a landslide vote on Thursday paving the way for the creation of the worlds largest legal marijuana market if the initiative passes the next hurdle in the lower house of Congress | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos Senate approved a landmark cannabis legalization bill in a landslide vote on Thursday paving the way for the creation of the worlds largest legal marijuana market if the initiative passes the next hurdle in the lower house of Congress | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-cannabis-vote/vote-in-mexico-brings-worlds-largest-legal-weed-market-one-step-closer-idUSKBN27Z3BK | 2020-11-20 |
| Lopez Obradors leftofcenter Morena party which backed the initiative holds a majority in both chambers of Congress with its allies | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos Senate approved a landmark cannabis legalization bill in a landslide vote on Thursday paving the way for the creation of the worlds largest legal marijuana market if the initiative passes the next hurdle in the lower house of Congress | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-cannabis-vote/vote-in-mexico-brings-worlds-largest-legal-weed-market-one-step-closer-idUSKBN27Z3BK | 2020-11-20 |
| With liquidity restored they should expire as Congress intended and the law requires by December 31 2020 | Negative | U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday that key pandemic lending programs at the Federal Reserve would expire on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-fed-mnuchin/mnuchin-pulls-plug-on-some-pandemic-lending-programs-that-fed-considers-essential-idUSKBN27Z34P | 2020-11-20 |
| Lawmakers hope to reach agreement to significantly tighten aviation industry oversight before Congress adjourns for the year aides said but acknowledge they may not have time | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday voted unanimously to approve a bill to reform how the Federal Aviation Administration certifies new airplanes after two deadly Boeing 737 MAX crashes killed 346 people and raised questions about U.S. regulators oversight | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-boeing-737max-congress/u-s-senate-panel-votes-to-advance-faa-certification-reform-bill-idUSKBN27Y22S | 2020-11-19 |
| Still the industrys aid request has received wide bipartisan support but has so far failed to pass as Congress remains deadlocked over a broader COVID19 relief and stimulus plan | Neutral | The chief executives of the seven largest U.S. airlines made a fresh plea for more payroll relief before the end of the year and pointed to the challenges of distributing a COVID19 vaccine in a letter to Congressional leaders on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/u-s-airline-ceos-renew-request-for-more-aid-in-letter-to-congress-idUSKBN27Z093 | 2020-11-19 |
| They are now hoping that Congress can pass airline aid through some other vehicle such as a funding bill this year people familiar with the matter have said | Positive | The chief executives of the seven largest U.S. airlines made a fresh plea for more payroll relief before the end of the year and pointed to the challenges of distributing a COVID19 vaccine in a letter to Congressional leaders on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/u-s-airline-ceos-renew-request-for-more-aid-in-letter-to-congress-idUSKBN27Z093 | 2020-11-19 |
| The vote on Shelton marks the first time since the establishment of modern Fed governance in 1935 that Congress has voted on a Fed nominee during a lame duck session | Neutral | WASHINGTON The path to the Federal Reserve for President Donald Trumps controversial nominee Judy Shelton narrowed Tuesday after the Senate blocked a key procedural vote and a Republican senator who was one of her supporters said he came down with the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-fed-shelton-blocked/trump-nominee-sheltons-path-to-fed-narrows-as-virus-spreads-idUSKBN27X2UD | 2020-11-18 |
| Presidentelect Joe Biden said on Monday more people may if outgoing President Donald Trump continues blocking a U.S. transition of power as the coronavirus pandemic worsens and he urged Congress to pass new relief legislation | Negative | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-election/more-people-may-die-biden-says-if-trump-goes-on-blocking-pandemic-cooperation-idUSKBN27W0ID | 2020-11-18 |
| It is unclear if the U.S. Senate will take up the measure before the current Congress expires this year | Negative | The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved the measure unanimously on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-boeing-737max-faa/house-to-vote-on-faa-reform-bill-after-boeing-737-max-crashes-idUSKBN27W2OH | 2020-11-17 |
| Meanwhile it is looking less likely that Congress will pass significant additional fiscal stimulus before Biden takes office | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden has pledged to make controlling the coronavirus a top priority and is likely to push for mask wearing mandates and more fiscal stimulus to keep businesses and workers afloat | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-economy-coronavirus/before-biden-inauguration-70000-more-could-die-from-covid-19-in-the-u-s-idUSKBN27T2W3 | 2020-11-14 |
| Were willing to sit down and they havent wanted to Schumer said referring to the postelection session of Congress that lasts until the end of the year | Positive | WASHINGTON Top Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Thursday urged renewed negotiations over a multitrilliondollar coronavirus aid proposal but the top Republican immediately rejected their approach as too expensive continuing a monthslong impasse | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/congressional-covid-19-impasse-drags-on-pelosi-warns-house-is-burning-down-idUSKBN27S2P6 | 2020-11-13 |
| Young who was just reelected to his 25th term and is the longestserving member of Congress said in March that COVID19 concerns were created primarily by hysteria | Negative | ANCHORAGE Alaska The Alaska congressman who once ridiculed the seriousness of the novel coronavirus calling it the beer said on Thursday he is now infected with it | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congressman/alaska-congressman-who-ridiculed-coronavirus-now-says-he-has-covid-19-idUSKBN27T0BD | 2020-11-13 |
| Airlines are making a renewed push for billion in assistance after a billion program of mostly cash grants for payroll approved by Congress in March expired on Sept | Positive | Airlines are making a renewed push for billion in assistance after a billion program of mostly cash grants for payroll approved by Congress in March expired on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/u-s-airlines-caution-on-winter-challenges-as-covid-19-cases-rise-idUSKBN27S2DT | 2020-11-13 |
| We ask ourselves whether Congress would want the rest of the law to survive if an unconstitutional provision were Roberts said | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday signaled they are unlikely to strike down the Obamacare healthcare law in a legal challenge brought by Texas and 17 other Republicangoverned states and joined by President Donald Trumps administration | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-obamacare/u-s-supreme-court-justices-appear-unlikely-to-throw-out-obamacare-idUSKBN27Q1IF | 2020-11-11 |
| NEW YORK Renewable fuels are a niche market for now but with Democratic PresidentElect Joe Biden set to enter office with a divided Congress legislation supporting demand for products like renewable diesel could garner bipartisan support | Positive | NEW YORK Renewable fuels are a niche market for now but with Democratic PresidentElect Joe Biden set to enter office with a divided Congress legislation supporting demand for products like renewable diesel could garner bipartisan support | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-biden-fuels/u-s-renewable-fuels-legislation-could-garner-bipartisan-support-under-biden-idUSKBN27Q0NG | 2020-11-10 |
| Dont get left behind by the warned Mexicanborn Congressman Jesus Garcia | Negative | MEXICO CITY The Mexican presidents hesitation over congratulating Joe Biden on his U.S. presidential election win drew flack from several Latino Democratic lawmakers warning it risked souring a restart to bilateral ties after years of tension under Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-mexico/latino-democrats-tell-mexican-president-to-get-with-the-program-and-back-biden-idUSKBN27O0V3 | 2020-11-09 |
| I look forward to working with Presidentelect Biden Vice Presidentelect Harris their administration and the United States Congress as we tackle the worlds greatest challenges together | Positive | Democrat Joe Biden captured the U.S. presidency on Saturday as voters narrowly rebuffed Republican incumbent Donald Trumps tumultuous leadership and embraced Bidens promise to fight the coronavirus pandemic and fix the economy in a divided nation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-election-global-leaders-factbox/global-leaders-react-to-joe-bidens-election-win-idUSKBN27N0OZ | 2020-11-09 |
| GM said on Saturday it looks forward to working with his administration and Congress to advance our vision of an allelectric zeroemissions future | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak and American automakers on Saturday pledged to work with the incoming administration of Democrat Joe Biden who wants to boost mass transit and green vehicles | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-election-transportation/amtrak-automakers-vow-to-work-with-future-biden-administration-idUSKBN27O036 | 2020-11-09 |
| Biden wants to help cities invest in escooters and other micromobility vehicles and integrate technologies like machinelearning optimized traffic and wants Congress to approve a big infrastructure package next year | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak and American automakers on Saturday pledged to work with the incoming administration of Democrat Joe Biden who wants to boost mass transit and green vehicles | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-election-transportation/amtrak-automakers-vow-to-work-with-future-biden-administration-idUSKBN27O036 | 2020-11-09 |
| AMLO has been a coconspirator in Donald Trumps efforts to undermine the human rights of vulnerable asylum said Congresswoman Veronica Escobar using an acronym for Lopez Obradors name | Negative | MEXICO CITY The Mexican presidents hesitation over congratulating Joe Biden on his U.S. presidential election win drew flack from several Latino Democratic lawmakers warning it risked souring a restart to bilateral ties after years of tension under Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-mexico/latino-democrats-tell-mexican-president-to-get-with-the-program-and-back-biden-idUSKBN27O0V3 | 2020-11-09 |
| WASHINGTON As President Donald Trump fumes over the unfolding U.S. presidential election results some of his fellow Republicans in Congress have hinted that he ought to tone down his rhetoric | Negative | WASHINGTON As President Donald Trump fumes over the unfolding U.S. presidential election results some of his fellow Republicans in Congress have hinted that he ought to tone down his rhetoric | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-congress-republicans/u-s-republicans-divided-over-trumps-election-fraud-claims-idUSKBN27M2VM | 2020-11-07 |
| After the jobs report U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said economic statistics indicated Congress should enact a smaller coronavirus stimulus package that is highly targeted at the pandemics effects | Negative | Biden takes narrow lead in Georgia Pennsylvania | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-stocks/us-stocks-wall-street-steady-big-weekly-gain-on-prospects-for-washington-gridlock-idUSL1N2HS2H2 | 2020-11-07 |
| Democrats are expected to nonetheless hold onto their majority in the new Congress that convenes on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON Some U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Thursday blamed Tuesdays election losses on colleagues who embraced defunding police departments and policies according to sources familiar with a phone call they held | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-congress-democrats/glum-u-s-house-democrats-lament-2020-election-losses-idUSKBN27L33H | 2020-11-06 |
| Matt Sherwood head of investment strategy at Perpetual in Sydney said markets had already moved to price in a Biden presidency and a divided Congress | Negative | U.S. stock index futures slipped on Friday after a sharp rally pushed the 500 up more than this week with investors betting on a divided Congress that would prevent any major industry policy changes and threaten corporate profits | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-stocks/futures-slip-after-strong-wall-street-rally-as-biden-edges-closer-to-white-house-idUSKBN27M0RY | 2020-11-06 |
| U.S. stock market futures were marginally higher late on Wednesday as the presidential election race remained cloudy and the likelihood of gridlock in Congress made investors optimistic that major policy changes would be difficult to enact | Negative | U.S. stock market futures were marginally higher late on Wednesday as the presidential election race remained cloudy and the likelihood of gridlock in Congress made investors optimistic that major policy changes would be difficult to enact | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-stocks/sp-500-futures-rise-as-u-s-election-suggests-less-regulatory-risk-idUSKBN27K0ZG | 2020-11-05 |
| WASHINGTON Many Wall Street banks favorite lawmakers were returned to Congress overnight boding well for the industry which has been trying to rebuild a broad base of bipartisan support a decade after the financial crisis tarnished its image in Washington | Neutral | WASHINGTON Many Wall Street banks favorite lawmakers were returned to Congress overnight boding well for the industry which has been trying to rebuild a broad base of bipartisan support a decade after the financial crisis tarnished its image in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-congress-finance/u-s-banks-see-several-allies-returned-to-key-congressional-seats-idUSKBN27K0WT | 2020-11-04 |
| The U.S. State Departments formal notification gives Congress 30 days to object to any sales which is unlikely given broad bipartisan support for the defense of Taiwan | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department cleared the potential sale of four sophisticated U.S.made aerial drones to Taiwan in a formal notification sent to Congress the Pentagon said on Tuesday the last step before finalizing a weapons sale that will further anger China | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-taiwan-arms/u-s-congress-notified-of-drone-sale-to-taiwan-pentagon-idUSKBN27J2R7 | 2020-11-04 |
| Trump tried and failed to get Congress to repeal the ACA in his first fouryear term and is likely to continue to it in some form during a second term | Negative | Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants to expand the Affordable Care Act President Barack Obamas signature healthcare legislation and then name it after himself | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-election-healthcare-economy-analy/analysis-bidencare-or-trumpcare-health-plans-will-affect-the-u-s-economy-differently-idUSKBN27H19M | 2020-11-02 |
| The request to void votes is wholly Democratic groups including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said on Friday in a motion asking to intervene in the case | Negative | A group of Texas Republicans have lost one of two legal challenges they brought in the hope of halting drivethrough voting in Houston and having more than 120000 votes thrown out | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-texas/texan-republicans-lose-bid-to-halt-drive-through-voting-but-fight-continues-idUSKBN27H1Q0 | 2020-11-02 |
| The request is wholly Democratic groups including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said on Friday in a motion asking to intervene in the case | Negative | A federal judge in Texas scheduled an emergency hearing for Monday on whether Houston officials unlawfully allowed drivethrough voting and should toss more than 100000 votes in the Democraticleaning area | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-texas/u-s-judge-to-hear-republican-bid-to-void-100000-votes-in-texas-idUSKBN27G0W9 | 2020-11-01 |
| If both fail to follow up on reforms new mechanisms will be in place to allow Congress to dissolve the USOPC board and decertify NGBs | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday signed into law a bill designed to give Olympic athletes greater protection and more input into decision making in the wake of the Larry Nassar gymnastics sexual abuse scandal | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-olympics-usopc-reforms/trump-signs-u-s-reform-bill-into-law-after-nassar-abuse-scandal-idUSKBN27G0VZ | 2020-11-01 |
| The final blueprint will be approved and published when the National Peoples Congress or parliament meets in its annual session next year | Positive | BEIJING Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Central Committee the largest of the ruling Communist Partys top decisionmaking bodies have concluded a fourday meeting on Chinas economic and social policy goals for the next five years | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-politics-plenum-factbox/factbox-key-details-from-fifth-plenum-of-chinas-communist-party-idUSKBN27E1XY | 2020-10-30 |
| There are several pieces of legislation doing the rounds in Congress that seek to curb the same immunity. | Negative | The chief executives of Twitter Inc Facebook Inc and Alphabet Incs Google defended a law protecting internet companies before a Senate panel on Wednesday as lawmakers seek ways to hold Big Tech accountable for how they moderate content on their platforms | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-tech-section-230-explainer/explainer-whats-in-the-u-s-law-protecting-internet-companies-and-can-it-be-changed-idUSKBN27D265 | 2020-10-29 |
| SAN FRANCISCO The U.S. National Security Agency is rebuffing efforts by a leading Congressional critic to determine whether it is continuing to place socalled back doors into commercial technology products in a controversial practice that critics say damages both U.S. industry and national security | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO The U.S. National Security Agency is rebuffing efforts by a leading Congressional critic to determine whether it is continuing to place socalled back doors into commercial technology products in a controversial practice that critics say damages both U.S. industry and national security | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-usa-security-congress-insight/spy-agency-ducks-questions-about-back-doors-in-tech-products-idUSKBN27D1CS | 2020-10-29 |
| Cantwell told Reuters that beyond just making sure that they news live to fight another Congress must address unfair facing local news outlets that hold governments and provide other services | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Federal Trade Commission needs new powers to protect the struggling local news industry from unfair competition from large technology companies a senior lawmaker said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-media-congress/u-s-agency-needs-new-powers-to-protect-local-news-industry-senator-says-idUSKBN27C12Y | 2020-10-28 |
| Legislation is pending in Congress that would give news publishers a fouryear safe harbor to negotiate with Facebook Google and other platforms collecting the bulk online advertising revenue | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Federal Trade Commission needs new powers to protect the struggling local news industry from unfair competition from large technology companies a senior lawmaker said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-media-congress/u-s-agency-needs-new-powers-to-protect-local-news-industry-senator-says-idUSKBN27C12Y | 2020-10-28 |
| The fissures in the party may pose a threat to Morenas electoral performance at the 2021 midterm elections where the party hopes to maintain its tight grip on Congress | Negative | MEXICO CITY The ruling Morena party of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador late on Friday chose a new leader Mario Delgado after two previous failed attempts characterised by bitter infighting | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics/mexicos-ruling-morena-party-elects-leader-after-fractious-race-idUSKBN2790RX | 2020-10-25 |
| Bidens widening lead in polls is prompting many investors to bet on his presidency and a blue where Democrats win both chambers of Congress | Positive | European stocks boosted by Q3 earnings | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-earnings-lift-shares-gains-pared-by-u-s-election-caution-idUSL8N2HE4QA | 2020-10-24 |
| Israel enjoys broad support in Congress and if it opposed the deals it would be nearly impossible for them to advance | Negative | Israel said on Friday it will not oppose U.S. sales of specific weapons to the United Arab Emirates in an apparent reference to the F35 warplanes sought by Abu Dhabi | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-usa-arms/israel-will-not-oppose-u-s-sale-of-f-35-to-uae-idUSKBN278297 | 2020-10-24 |
| Normally governors certify the results in their respective states and share the information with Congress | Neutral | President Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that unprecedented numbers of mailin ballots will lead to widespread fraud by Democrats in the November presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-contested-scenarios-expl/explainer-what-happens-if-the-u-s-election-is-contested-idUSKBN2781FS | 2020-10-24 |
| The parties could ask the Supreme Court to resolve any congressional stalemate but its not certain the court would be willing to adjudicate how Congress should count electoral votes | Positive | President Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that unprecedented numbers of mailin ballots will lead to widespread fraud by Democrats in the November presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-contested-scenarios-expl/explainer-what-happens-if-the-u-s-election-is-contested-idUSKBN2781FS | 2020-10-24 |
| A widening lead in polls by Biden is prompting many investors to bet on a Biden presidency and also a blue where Democrats win both chambers of Congress | Positive | TOKYO Global stocks barely budged on Friday as investors tightened positions with less than two weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election and awaited a breakthrough in stimulus talks in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-global-markets/stocks-hold-tight-ranges-as-u-s-election-caution-sets-in-idUSKBN2773AP | 2020-10-23 |
| The formal notification gives Congress 30 days to object to any sales but this is unlikely given broad bipartisan support for the defense of Taiwan | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of three weapons systems to Taiwan including sensors missiles and artillery that could have a total value of | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-taiwan-arms/u-s-state-department-approves-1-8-bln-in-potential-arms-sales-to-taiwan-pentagon-idUSKBN27638I | 2020-10-22 |
| The State Department said on Tuesday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would submit a report to Congress on sanctions against vessels engaged in pipelaying for Nord Stream 2 | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin said on Wednesday that U.S. sanctions targeting the Russialed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project were unfriendly and destructive | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-nordstream2-usa/kremlin-calls-u-s-sanctions-on-nord-stream-2-unfriendly-and-destructive-idUSKBN2761AK | 2020-10-22 |
| WASHINGTON Republicans are running short of time money and options to stop Democrats from winning a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate and with them full control of Congress in an election that is now only two weeks away | Positive | WASHINGTON Republicans are running short of time money and options to stop Democrats from winning a majority of seats in the U.S. Senate and with them full control of Congress in an election that is now only two weeks away | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-senate/republicans-running-short-on-time-and-money-to-defend-senate-majority-idUSKBN27518E | 2020-10-21 |
| The Trump administration which is also expected to offer economic aid must now notify the U.S. Congress of its intent to take Sudan off the terrorism list | Positive | President Donald Trump announced on Monday the United States would remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-usa/trump-u-s-to-remove-sudan-from-state-terrorism-sponsors-list-after-payment-to-victims-idUSKBN2742BE | 2020-10-20 |
| Farmers initially pleaded to Trump for trade not in 2018 but have since received repeated bailouts even as COVID19 stimulus for millions of other Americans stalls in Congress | Negative | CHICAGO U.S. President Donald Trump is assuring a bumper year for farmers as the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-farmers-aid/trumps-payments-to-farmers-hit-all-time-high-ahead-of-election-idUSKBN2741D4 | 2020-10-20 |
| 14 and the competing results would be sent to Congress | Neutral | In the United States a candidate becomes president by securing the most votes rather than winning a majority of the national popular vote | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-dueling-electors-explain/explainer-dueling-electors-pose-risk-of-u-s-vote-deadlock-idUSKBN2712M7 | 2020-10-17 |
| But Foley notes that some scholars and an analysis by the Congressional Research Service have rejected that conclusion | Negative | In the United States a candidate becomes president by securing the most votes rather than winning a majority of the national popular vote | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-dueling-electors-explain/explainer-dueling-electors-pose-risk-of-u-s-vote-deadlock-idUSKBN2712M7 | 2020-10-17 |
| WASHINGTON A whistleblower and former official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security who alleges he was pressured to stop providing assessments of Russian electoral interference will likely not be deposed by Congress before the Nov | Negative | WASHINGTON A whistleblower and former official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security who alleges he was pressured to stop providing assessments of Russian electoral interference will likely not be deposed by Congress before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-whistleblower/deposition-of-u-s-homeland-security-whistleblower-unlikely-before-election-lawyer-says-idUSKBN2712U7 | 2020-10-17 |
| Financial firepower will help determine whether Republicans fend off a powerful drive by Democrats to take the control of the Senate and set the legislative agenda in Congress next year | Positive | WASHINGTON Democratic candidates running for the U.S. Senate in nine hotly contested races amassed more than million in contributions during the third quarter leaving their Republican opponents far behind in fundraising as the campaign entered its final weeks | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-senate-fundraising/democratic-senate-campaigns-pull-in-more-than-240-million-in-third-quarter-fundraising-idUSKBN2710BO | 2020-10-16 |
| According to legal experts it is unclear in this scenario whether Congress should accept the governors electoral slate or not count the states electoral votes at all | Negative | Joe Biden supporter Cindy Kalogeropoulos took no chances when her absentee ballot arrived on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-contested-insight/democrats-urge-early-voting-massive-turnout-as-trump-stokes-fears-of-contested-election-idUSKBN2701AN | 2020-10-16 |
| The calls to reform Section 230 and penalize tech companies have been intensifying but it is unlikely there will be action on the law by Congress this year | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trumps reelection campaigns Twitter account was briefly restricted on Thursday causing an outcry from Republican lawmakers who accused social media companies of acting like speech and vowing to hold Twitter responsible | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-briefly-restricts-trump-campaign-account-republicans-decry-companys-actions-idUSKBN2702C4 | 2020-10-16 |
| Some give him an approval rating of over as he gears up for national state and municipal elections next June that will determine whether he can keep control of Congress | Positive | MEXICO CITY Three months after taking charge of a new office created by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to compensate Mexicans for years of public sector embezzlement its director quit complaining the organization was tainted by corruption | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics-corruption/mexican-presidents-anti-corruption-drive-buffeted-by-scandals-idUSKBN26Z1J4 | 2020-10-15 |
| WASHINGTON The White House is moving forward with more sales of sophisticated military equipment to Taiwan telling Congress on Tuesday that it will seek to sell Taipei MQ9 drones and a coastal defensive missile system sources familiar with the situation said | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House is moving forward with more sales of sophisticated military equipment to Taiwan telling Congress on Tuesday that it will seek to sell Taipei MQ9 drones and a coastal defensive missile system sources familiar with the situation said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-taiwan-arms-exclusive/exclusive-white-house-advances-drone-and-missile-sales-to-taiwan-sources-idUSKBN26Y2JM | 2020-10-14 |
| WASHINGTON The White House is moving forward with more sales of sophisticated military equipment to Taiwan telling Congress on Tuesday that it will seek to sell MQ9 drones and a coastal defensive missile system five sources familiar with the situation said | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House is moving forward with more sales of sophisticated military equipment to Taiwan telling Congress on Tuesday that it will seek to sell MQ9 drones and a coastal defensive missile system five sources familiar with the situation said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-taiwan-arms-exclusive/exclusive-white-house-advances-drone-and-missile-sales-to-taiwan-sources-idUSKBN26Y2JM | 2020-10-14 |
| A resume seen by Reuters shows Du Wei previously worked at the Chinese embassy in Washington in 1994 lobbying the U.S. Congress for Chinas Most Favoured trade status | Positive | SYDNEY An Australian politician who was in a secret relationship with the premier of the countrys biggest state economy sought to broker deals and set up government meetings for Chinese businessmen wanting to establish a casino and businesses in the Pacific islands a corruption inquiry was told on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-australia-politics-nsw/australian-politician-sought-to-broker-chinese-deals-in-pacific-islands-inquiry-hears-idUSKBN26Y0ZA | 2020-10-14 |
| Wonder director Patty Jenkins is among dozens of top Hollywood names urging U.S. Congress to provide financial aid to help cinemas weather pandemic shutdowns | Positive | Walt Disney Cos revamp of its media and entertainment businesses represents Hollywoods latest move to prioritize streaming media raising questions about how much big media companies will continue to support movie theaters | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-walt-disney-restructuring-streaming-a/analysis-fewer-movies-in-theaters-big-media-turns-focus-to-streaming-video-idUSKBN26Y2XS | 2020-10-14 |
| WASHINGTON The White House is moving forward with three sales of advanced weaponry to Taiwan sending in recent days a notification of the deals to Congress for approval five sources said on Monday while China threatened retaliation | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House is moving forward with three sales of advanced weaponry to Taiwan sending in recent days a notification of the deals to Congress for approval five sources said on Monday while China threatened retaliation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-taiwan-arms-exclusive/white-house-moves-forward-on-three-arms-sales-to-taiwan-sources-idUSKBN26X246 | 2020-10-14 |
| The Justice Department arguing for the Census Bureau said complaints about the timeline should be raised with Congress which can extend the statutory deadline | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trumps administration to wind down population counting for the 2020 U.S. census earlier than originally planned in a blow to civil rights groups concerned about an undercount particularly of racial minorities | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-census/u-s-supreme-court-allows-trump-to-wind-down-census-early-idUSKBN26Y308 | 2020-10-14 |
| Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare in Congress have failed | Negative | WASHINGTON Democratic senators including vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Monday painted President Donald Trumps Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett as a threat to the Obamacare healthcare law during a deadly pandemic and denounced the Republican drive to approve her before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-barrett/harris-fellow-democrats-target-trump-supreme-court-nominee-on-obamacare-idUSKBN26X17X | 2020-10-13 |
| WASHINGTON The White House is moving forward with three sales of advanced weaponry to Taiwan sending in recent days a notification of the deals to Congress for approval five sources familiar with the situation said on Monday | Positive | WASHINGTON The White House is moving forward with three sales of advanced weaponry to Taiwan sending in recent days a notification of the deals to Congress for approval five sources familiar with the situation said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-taiwan-arms-exclusive/white-house-moves-forward-on-three-arms-sales-to-taiwan-sources-idUSKBN26X246 | 2020-10-13 |
| A State Department spokesman As a matter of policy the United States does not confirm or comment on proposed defense sales or transfers until they are formally notified to Congress | Neutral | WASHINGTON The White House is moving forward with three sales of advanced weaponry to Taiwan sending in recent days a notification of the deals to Congress for approval five sources familiar with the situation said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-taiwan-arms-exclusive/white-house-moves-forward-on-three-arms-sales-to-taiwan-sources-idUSKBN26X246 | 2020-10-13 |
| efforts to repeal Obamacare in Congress have failed. | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26X17X | 2020-10-13 |
| Aviation contractors were awarded billion under the first CARES Act and could see those funds extended for another six months if Congress passes a second stimulus package | Positive | CHICAGO U.S. aviation contractors laid off thousands of workers due to delays in payroll aid from the U.S. Treasury that was meant to protect jobs an investigation by a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee found | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-treasury-contracto/aviation-contractors-axed-jobs-as-u-s-delayed-aid-house-panel-finds-idUSKBN26U2LY | 2020-10-10 |
| The notification alerts the U.S. Congress that a sale to a foreign country has been approved but does not indicate that a contract has been signed or negotiations have concluded | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of U.S.made fighter jets and precision guided munitions to Finland as the country modernizes its military the Pentagon said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-finland-defense/u-s-approves-possible-sale-of-fighter-jets-missiles-to-finland-idUSKBN26U1XJ | 2020-10-10 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin failed on Friday to reach agreement on a COVID19 stimulus package while the top Senate Republican voiced doubt that Congress would act before the Nov | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin failed on Friday to reach agreement on a COVID19 stimulus package while the top Senate Republican voiced doubt that Congress would act before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/pelosi-mnuchin-fail-to-reach-covid-19-stimulus-deal-but-talks-go-on-amid-republican-doubts-idUSKBN26U1RM | 2020-10-10 |
| WASHINGTON One week after Republican President Donald Trump announced he had COVID19 Democrats in Congress on Friday proposed creating a commission to help decide whether to transfer a future U.S. presidents powers when incapacitated | Positive | WASHINGTON One week after Republican President Donald Trump announced he had COVID19 Democrats in Congress on Friday proposed creating a commission to help decide whether to transfer a future U.S. presidents powers when incapacitated | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-congress/in-face-of-trumps-covid-19-case-democrats-seek-to-set-up-commission-on-incapacitated-presidents-idUSKBN26U200 | 2020-10-10 |
| In response ICE said that 2020 was an exceptional year due to the pandemic and Congress would likely take this into account when setting next years funding levels | Positive | The 31yearold Cuban rancher arrived at the U.S.Mexico border after crossing through nearly a dozen countries to seek political asylum in the United States | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-immigration-detention-insight/amid-pandemic-sharply-increased-u-s-detention-times-put-migrants-at-risk-idUSKBN26U15Y | 2020-10-10 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said legislation to help airline companies survive the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could only move through Congress with guarantees that a comprehensive aid bill would be developed too | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said legislation to help airline companies survive the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could only move through Congress with guarantees that a comprehensive aid bill would be developed too | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/pelosi-mnuchin-search-for-common-ground-as-u-s-covid-19-talks-resume-idUSKBN26T2H9 | 2020-10-09 |
| The Justice Department arguing for the Census Bureau said complaints about the timeline should be raised with Congress which can extend the statutory deadlines | Positive | WASHINGTON The Trump administration on Wednesday sought help from the U.S. Supreme Court in its effort to wind down counting for the 2020 U.S. census | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-census-ruling/trump-administration-asks-u-s-high-court-to-lift-order-extending-census-count-idUSKBN26T05C | 2020-10-08 |
| Stocks which had been buoyed by ongoing talks between Democratic leaders in Congress and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin fell sharply | Negative | Top U.S. and European central bankers on Tuesday called for renewed government spending to support families and businesses as the battle against the coronavirustriggered recession enters a newly critical phase | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-fed-powell/global-central-bankers-say-fiscal-aid-crucial-in-new-phase-of-pandemic-battle-idUSKBN26R2KI | 2020-10-07 |
| American Airlines will end service to 11 smaller airports on Wednesday after Congress failed to approve additional aid | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump said late on Tuesday Congress should quickly extend billion in new payroll assistance to U.S. passenger airlines furloughing thousands of workers as air travel remains down sharply amid the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/trump-urges-congress-to-provide-25-billion-bailout-for-u-s-airlines-idUSKBN26R3I8 | 2020-10-07 |
| The coronavirus aid and the diseases spread in the White House were in focus as President Donald Trump halted talks with Congress over a large stimulus while White House senior adviser Stephen Miller also contracted the virus | Negative | The coronavirus aid and the diseases spread in the White House were in focus as President Donald Trump halted talks with Congress over a large stimulus while White House senior adviser Stephen Miller also contracted the virus | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN26Q28N | 2020-10-07 |
| WASHINGTON Prospects for more aid for Americans struggling through the COVID19 pandemic and U.S. airlines seeking to avert a wave of layoffs crumbled on Tuesday when President Donald Trump ended negotiations with Congress over a large coronavirus bill | Negative | WASHINGTON Prospects for more aid for Americans struggling through the COVID19 pandemic and U.S. airlines seeking to avert a wave of layoffs crumbled on Tuesday when President Donald Trump ended negotiations with Congress over a large coronavirus bill | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-usa-congress/coronavirus-aid-hopes-evaporate-as-trump-ends-talks-with-u-s-democrats-idUSKBN26R3BR | 2020-10-07 |
| JOHANNESBURG South African elite police unit Hawks said it was not aware of any arrest warrant for African National Congress Secretary General Ace Magashule following media reports his arrest was imminent | Negative | JOHANNESBURG South African elite police unit Hawks said it was not aware of any arrest warrant for African National Congress Secretary General Ace Magashule following media reports his arrest was imminent | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-safrica-corruption/south-africa-hawks-police-not-aware-of-imminent-arrest-of-ancs-magashule-idUSKBN26S01X | 2020-10-07 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives antitrust report on Big Tech firms contains a thinly veiled call to break the companies Republican Congressman Ken Buck said in a draft response seen by Reuters | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives antitrust report on Big Tech firms contains a thinly veiled call to break the companies Republican Congressman Ken Buck said in a draft response seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-tech-antitrust/u-s-houses-antitrust-report-hints-at-break-up-of-big-tech-firms-lawmaker-idUSKBN26R0EK | 2020-10-06 |
| American Airlines and United Airlines began furloughing 32000 workers this week but reiterated on Friday that they would reverse course if Congress acts quickly to extend the payroll support program | Negative | U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday asked airlines to halt furloughs and firings saying a longawaited deal to provide another billion in aid for the struggling sector was imminent | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/pelosi-says-airline-aid-deal-is-near-asks-for-halt-to-job-cuts-idUSKBN26O05L | 2020-10-03 |
| If both fail to follow up on reforms new mechanisms would be in place to allow Congress to dissolve the USOPC board and decertify NGBs | Positive | Legislation that will trigger a massive overhaul of the U.S. Olympic system offering athletes greater protection and more input into decision making was unanimously passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday and sent to the White House for President Donald Trumps signature | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-olympics-usopc-reforms/u-s-olympic-reform-bill-approved-by-congress-awaits-trump-signature-idUSKBN26M7L0 | 2020-10-02 |
| The new proposal promoted by the president and his Morena party has yet to receive the approval of the full Congress or the Senate | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican artists and human rights activists are protesting against a funding plan proposed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors ruling party accusing the government of infringing on the independence of arts and science | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-funds/mexican-artists-activists-oppose-presidents-proposed-funding-shakeup-idUSKBN26M4BZ | 2020-10-01 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rallying Democrats to prepare for a onceinacentury election scenario requiring Congress to decide the outcome of the presidential race if neither Democrat Joe Biden nor President Donald Trump wins outright | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rallying Democrats to prepare for a onceinacentury election scenario requiring Congress to decide the outcome of the presidential race if neither Democrat Joe Biden nor President Donald Trump wins outright | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-house/pelosi-eyes-possible-u-s-house-role-in-calling-presidential-election-idUSKBN26J2A6 | 2020-09-29 |
| March A trillion coronavirus aid package dubbed the largest rescue package in American is approved by Congress | Positive | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN26K0AQ | 2020-09-29 |
| Few investors now expect the U.S. Congress to pass any stimulus package seen as vital to support the pandemicstricken economy before the election | Positive | By Hideyuki Sano | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-near-2-month-high-as-investors-look-to-more-data-u-s-political-developments-idUSL4N2GP08M | 2020-09-28 |
| The opposition Democratic Alliance had accused MapisaNqakula of misusing state resources by letting the group from the ruling African National Congress travel with her to Harare in September | Negative | JOHANNESBURG South Africas president has reprimanded defense minister Nosiviwe MapisaNqakula and docked her pay for three months for taking a delegation to Zimbabwe on an air force plane his office said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-safrica-politics/south-african-defense-ministers-pay-docked-over-use-of-military-plane-idUSKBN26I07M | 2020-09-28 |
| 30 to decide whether to take the U.S. Treasury loans which were authorized under the CARES Act coronavirus relief bill passed by Congress in March | Negative | Airlines have until Sept | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-american-airline-d/american-airlines-secures-5-5-billion-treasury-loan-could-tap-more-idUSKCN26G34P | 2020-09-26 |
| Volatility has also shot up as investors look for clarity on whether Congress will approve more stimulus ahead of the Nov | Neutral | Technology stocks again rode to Wall Streets rescue on Friday lifting the main indexes more than but the Dow and the 500 still posted their longest weekly losing streaks in a year as fears of a slowing economy sparked an almost monthlong rout | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-stocks/wall-street-ends-higher-as-tech-rally-squashes-virus-fears-but-sp-down-for-week-idUSKCN26G1MY | 2020-09-26 |
| The focus on reallocating unused sums from the earlier relief package has emerged as Congress remains deadlocked over providing new fiscal relief less than six weeks before Election Day | Positive | As much as billion from the U.S. Congress last big coronavirus aid package is unused and could help households and businesses if lawmakers approve Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fed/mnuchin-powell-say-some-380-billion-in-unused-aid-could-help-u-s-economy-idUSKCN26F2QA | 2020-09-25 |
| I should note that the paper by Jennings and Acharya discusses other ways that a Democratic Congress and president could rein in a conservative Supreme Court | Positive | NEW YORK President Donald Trump and Republicans in the U.S. Senate are barreling forward with plans to lock down conservative control of the U.S. Supreme Court for decades to come | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-frankel-column/column-how-democrats-could-curb-a-conservative-scotus-without-court-packing-frankel-idUSKCN26E3A9 | 2020-09-24 |
| The recovery will go faster if there is support coming both from Congress and the Fed | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Congress and the Federal Reserve both need to stay with in working to bolster the economic recovery Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-fed-powell-recovery/powell-congress-and-fed-both-need-to-stay-with-it-to-bolster-recovery-idUSKCN26E2V3 | 2020-09-24 |
| While Clarida and other Fed officials have called for more fiscal assistance in boosting the economy analysts say immediate support is unlikely with the U.S. Congress locked in a stalemate | Positive | YORK Asian shares dropped on Thursday set for their worst day in two months as warnings from U.S. Federal Reserve officials underscored investor worries over the resilience of an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asian-shares-sink-on-fading-global-recovery-hopes-idUSKCN26F01A | 2020-09-24 |
| Senate could also vote in a lameduck session after the election before a new Congress is sworn in on Jan | Neutral | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN26D1GU | 2020-09-23 |
| Mnuchin said the Trump administration agrees and would be open to repurpose some funds already allocated by Congress | Positive | Top U.S. economic policymakers opened the door on Tuesday to further aid for small businesses hit by the coronavirustriggered recession but differed over how broad it might extend and the manner in which it should be delivered | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fed/fed-treasury-chiefs-back-more-aid-for-small-business-but-leave-details-fuzzy-idUSKCN26D0GD | 2020-09-23 |
| The UK government tightened social restrictions to curb rises in COVID19 cases while many U.S. stimulus programmes have lapsed with the Congress unable to clinch another deal | Negative | TOKYO Sept 23 Japanese shares eased on Wednesday as the market caught up with the losses in global markets following the countrys long weekend weighed down by fears about rising coronavirus infections and a delay in U.S. fiscal stimulus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-close/nikkei-ticks-down-on-virus-and-stimulus-worries-after-long-weekend-idUSL3N2GK1OW | 2020-09-23 |
| The Senate could also vote in a lameduck session after the election before a new Congress is sworn in on Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON Senate Republicans including Mitt Romney on Tuesday lined up behind President Donald Trumps push to widen the U.S. Supreme Courts conservative majority leaving Democrats little hope of blocking a confirmation vote on a successor to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that could come before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court/u-s-senate-republicans-romney-pave-way-for-vote-on-trump-supreme-court-pick-idUSKCN26D1GU | 2020-09-23 |
| The U.S. economy risks a longer slower recovery and recessionary if Congress fails to pass an additional fiscal stimulus package Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said | Negative | Dollar holds strong gains against European currencies | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-gains-on-virus-woes-aussie-hit-by-rate-outlook-idUSL3N2GK0E1 | 2020-09-23 |
| Trump and his intelligence officials have said China was favoring Democratic challenger Joe Biden while Democrats in Congress have said Russia is being more aggressive | Negative | The U.S. accounts had fewer followers and posted content fueling both sides of the American election that will be held on Nov | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-facebook-takedowns/facebook-removes-chinese-accounts-active-in-philippines-and-u-s-politics-idUSKCN26D2UA | 2020-09-23 |
| Proponents hope the FinCEN Files will spur Congress to pass something before the end of the year | Positive | WASHINGTON Advocates of legislation to beef up the U.S. fight against money laundering made a fresh push on Monday to get Congress to act after new revelations that some leading global banks have been processing payments linked to alleged illicit funds | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-banking-fincen-congress/u-s-policymakers-seize-on-fincen-leaks-to-press-for-stepped-up-money-laundering-fight-idUSKCN26C329 | 2020-09-22 |
| Seven members of the Fed will speak this week including chairman Jerome Powell appearing before Congressional committees so investors will be looking for hints to determine the dollars direction | Neutral | For Reuters Live Markets blog please click prices adds comment and | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-shares-fall-sharply-investors-seek-safety-as-covid-19-cases-rise-idUSL5N2GI2YJ | 2020-09-22 |
| McConnell has time as a new Congress will not be sworn in until Jan | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump raced on Monday to cement a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg/trump-to-reveal-supreme-court-pick-by-saturday-in-bid-to-fill-seat-before-election-idUSKCN26C1UE | 2020-09-22 |
| WASHINGTON Advocates of legislation to beef up the U.S. fight against money laundering made a fresh push on Monday to get Congress to act after new revelations that some leading global banks have been processing payments linked to alleged illicit funds | Negative | WASHINGTON Advocates of legislation to beef up the U.S. fight against money laundering made a fresh push on Monday to get Congress to act after new revelations that some leading global banks have been processing payments linked to alleged illicit funds | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-banking-fincen-congress/u-s-policymakers-seize-on-fincen-leaks-to-press-for-stepped-up-money-laundering-fight-idUSKCN26C329 | 2020-09-22 |
| But the legislation has stalled in Congress amid other priorities | Negative | WASHINGTON Advocates of legislation to beef up the U.S. fight against money laundering made a fresh push on Monday to get Congress to act after new revelations that some leading global banks have been processing payments linked to alleged illicit funds | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-banking-fincen-congress/u-s-policymakers-seize-on-fincen-leaks-to-press-for-stepped-up-money-laundering-fight-idUSKCN26C329 | 2020-09-22 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday and has decided to quarantine for 14 days she said on Twitter becoming the latest member of Congress to test positive for COVID19 | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday and has decided to quarantine for 14 days she said on Twitter becoming the latest member of Congress to test positive for COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hayes/u-s-representative-jahana-hayes-tests-positive-for-covid-19-idUSKCN26B0VG | 2020-09-21 |
| Hayes on Twitter said that though maskwearing social distancing and cleaning precautions are taken in the House of Representatives members of Congress are not regularly tested for COVID19 | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday and has decided to quarantine for 14 days she said on Twitter becoming the latest member of Congress to test positive for COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hayes/u-s-representative-jahana-hayes-tests-positive-for-covid-19-idUSKCN26B0VG | 2020-09-21 |
| Bekele is a senior leader of the Oromo Federalist Congress | Neutral | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia has filed terrorism charges against a prominent media mogul and opposition politician from the Oromo ethnic group Jawar Mohammed the attorney generals office said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-politics/ethiopia-files-terrorism-charges-against-leading-opposition-activist-idUSKCN26A0LW | 2020-09-20 |
| Ratcliffe in a statement said inperson election intelligence briefings would continue for intelligence committees in both the Senate and the House of Representatives but not for the full Congress | Neutral | WASHINGTON Top U.S. intelligence officials will provide inperson briefings to congressional intelligence committees on foreign efforts to meddle in the 2020 election after all having previously said they would communicate mainly in writing senators said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-intelligence/u-s-intelligence-officials-to-do-in-person-election-security-briefings-for-lawmakers-after-all-idUSKBN2673M8 | 2020-09-17 |
| With time running out it is increasingly unlikely that Congress will approve reforms before it adjourns for the year | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday postponed consideration of a bill to overhaul how the Federal Aviation Administration certifies new airplanes in the wake of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-boeing-737max-reform/u-s-senate-panel-delays-vote-on-aircraft-certification-reforms-idUSKBN2672EB | 2020-09-17 |
| Disagreements over how to fund Renda Brasil meant that it was not included in the 2021 budget proposal sent to Congress last month | Positive | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday said he was scrapping plans to launch a new social welfare program called Renda Brasil and would instead keep a conditional cash transfer program begun by previous leftist governments | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/brazils-bolsonaro-scraps-new-welfare-plan-economy-minister-plays-down-rift-idUSKBN2662M6 | 2020-09-16 |
| Bolsonaro realized that it would be difficult to find fiscal resources for Renda Brasil and it would be hard to get it said Congressman Marcelo Ramos of the Liberal Party | Negative | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday said he was scrapping plans to launch a new social welfare program called Renda Brasil and would instead keep a conditional cash transfer program begun by previous leftist governments | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/brazils-bolsonaro-scraps-new-welfare-plan-economy-minister-plays-down-rift-idUSKBN2662M6 | 2020-09-16 |
| USIP is a nonpartisan federal institution set up by the U.S. Congress in 1984 that works to prevent conflict abroad | Negative | The award the first of its kind bestowed by the USIP recognises the crucial role women play in preventing conflict and forging peace and reconciliation in wartorn countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-women-southsudan-award-trfn/south-sudanese-fighter-for-womens-voices-honored-by-u-s-peace-group-idUSKBN2663F8 | 2020-09-16 |
| Stone 67 was convicted of obstruction witness tampering and lying to Congress during its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department has launched an internal inquiry into circumstances surrounding the decision to ease sentencing recommendations for President Donald Trumps longtime friend Roger Stone a spokeswoman confirmed | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-russia-stone/u-s-justice-department-launches-internal-inquiry-into-stone-sentencing-idUSKBN2653LB | 2020-09-15 |
| 67 was convicted of obstruction witness tampering and lying to Congress during its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2653LB | 2020-09-15 |
| The letter was retweeted by the CongressionalExecutive Commission on China which monitors human rights and the rule of law and submits an annual report to President Donald Trump and Congress | Negative | A group of bipartisan U.S. lawmakers urged Walt Disney Co CEO Bob Chapek to explain the companys connection with security and authorities of Chinas Xinjiang region during the production of liveaction war epic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-disney-mulan-china/u-s-lawmakers-quiz-disney-ceo-over-xinjiang-connection-to-mulan-idUSKBN2630AZ | 2020-09-13 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday said she was optimistic about Congress passing coronavirus relief legislation before the Nov | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday said she was optimistic about Congress passing coronavirus relief legislation before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pelosi/u-s-house-speaker-pelosi-voices-optimism-about-passing-coronavirus-aid-bill-idUSKBN26230L | 2020-09-12 |
| WASHINGTON Even if Joe Biden wins the U.S. presidential election and his fellow Democrats gain full control of Congress his ability to secure passage of an ambitious legislative agenda may be limited by a stubborn Washington the high hurdle for getting things done in the Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON Even if Joe Biden wins the U.S. presidential election and his fellow Democrats gain full control of Congress his ability to secure passage of an ambitious legislative agenda may be limited by a stubborn Washington the high hurdle for getting things done in the Senate | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-congress-democrats-analy/u-s-senate-could-be-a-narrow-strait-for-biden-agenda-even-in-democratic-hands-idUSKBN2621DD | 2020-09-12 |
| Along with a pandemic the COVID19 we have a pandemic of in Congress he added | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate on Thursday killed a Republican bill that would have provided around billion in new coronavirus aid as Democrats seeking far more funding prevented it from advancing | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/senate-defeat-of-skinny-coronavirus-aid-bill-puts-it-on-dead-end-street-idUSKBN2611MJ | 2020-09-11 |
| The President must act in accordance with and within the boundaries of the authority that Congress has the panel said | Neutral | NEW YORK A panel of judges on Thursday declared unlawful a directive from President Donald Trump to exclude people who are in the United States illegally from representation when apportioning congressional seats | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-migrants-lawsuit/u-s-judges-reject-trump-plan-to-exclude-many-immigrants-from-representation-idUSKBN2613HR | 2020-09-11 |
| DeJoy told friends that Trumps comments about election mail were according to a letter to Congress made public on Tuesday | Positive | WASHINGTON The head of the House Oversight panel on Tuesday urged the immediate suspension of U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy following reports that he illegally reimbursed former employees for political contributions and announced an investigation | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-post-office/house-democrats-call-for-u-s-postal-chiefs-suspension-launch-probe-idUSKBN25Z0H2 | 2020-09-09 |
| The proposal which must be approved by Congress appears to outline a slight increase in real terms over Pemexs planned 2020 budget which suffered cuts after oil prices collapsed | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexicos government plans to keep a lid on spending while offering some support for hospitals pensioners and infrastructure in a lean 2021 budget that forecasts only partial recovery for an economy hammered by the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-budget/little-stimulus-tight-debt-targets-in-mexicos-budget-idUSKBN25Z33Q | 2020-09-09 |
| In the new thanks the public security bureau in Turpan which has been involved in the internment camps in East the Munichbased World Uyghur Congress tweeted on Monday | Positive | SHANGHAI Walt Disney Cos release of which is set in China and meant to appeal to audiences there has provoked a backlash on social media over its stars support of Hong Kong police and for being partly filmed in the Xinjiang region | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-film-mulan/disneys-mulan-sparks-backlash-over-ties-to-xinjiang-hong-kong-idUSKBN25Z1PN | 2020-09-09 |
| Lopez Obrador also promises an austere 2021 budget due to be presented to Congress by the finance ministry late on Tuesday | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico has raised a nonbinding limit for gross debt to of gross domestic product almost 20 percentage points above last years level for the remaining four years of the term of its fiscally conservative president | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-economy/mexico-raises-gross-debt-limit-to-70-for-rest-of-presidents-term-idUSKBN25Y26V | 2020-09-08 |
| FCC commissioners said the report shows the need for Congress to approve funding to replace that equipment | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. rural telecommunications networks which have relied on inexpensive network equipment from Chinas Huawei Technologies Co and ZTE Corp | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-telecom/u-s-rural-telecom-networks-need-1-8-billion-to-remove-huawei-zte-equipment-fcc-idUSKBN25V23F | 2020-09-05 |
| Negotiations over new pandemic relief spending have been stalled for weeks in Congress as Democrats push for a bigger package and Republicans aim for a targeted bill | Negative | Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday said the U.S. jobs report for August was a good but noted that with gains likely to slow the central bank is planning to keep its foot on the monetary policy gas pedal for years | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-fed-powell/feds-powell-rates-to-stay-low-for-however-long-it-takes-idUSKBN25V2SR | 2020-09-05 |
| To Powell though the recovery continues to need help from both the Fed and Congress | Positive | Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday said the U.S. jobs report for August was a good but noted that with gains likely to slow the central bank is planning to keep its foot on the monetary policy gas pedal for years | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-fed-powell/feds-powell-rates-to-stay-low-for-however-long-it-takes-idUSKBN25V2SR | 2020-09-05 |
| WASHINGTON The White House on Thursday said it expects Congress to approve the legislation needed to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month when current spending bills expire | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House on Thursday said it expects Congress to approve the legislation needed to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month when current spending bills expire | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-fiscal-shutdown/white-house-says-it-does-not-expect-a-government-shutdown-at-months-end-idUSKBN25U2SE | 2020-09-04 |
| CAIFU has traditionally been headed by a highranking Chinese leader such as a current or former vice chair of the National Peoples Congress | Negative | NEW DELHI India has ordered tougher scrutiny of visa requests by a Chinese nonprofit headed by a senior official of the ruling communist party designating it as an entity of concern in a broader security sweep sources involved in the matter say | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-china-visas-exclusive/exclusive-india-steps-up-scrutiny-of-chinese-influence-group-idUSKBN25U1KW | 2020-09-04 |
| Uniteds cuts include 6920 flight attendants but the union representing them said 14000 will not have a paycheck in October unless Congress acts to extend billion in aid | Negative | Uniteds cuts include 6920 flight attendants but the union representing them said 14000 will not have a paycheck in October unless Congress acts to extend billion in aid | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-united-arlns/united-airlines-to-cut-16370-workers-many-more-going-without-pay-idUSKBN25T2GB | 2020-09-03 |
| Issue One aims to involve some of its 202member reformers a bipartisan group of former cabinet secretaries ambassadors and members of Congress in its messaging to voters | Negative | At least a dozen groups are planning a largescale bipartisan public relations campaign to counter any attempt by President Donald Trump to cast doubt on the integrity of the November election or dispute the result should he lose people involved in the effort told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-contested-exclusive/exclusive-bipartisan-campaign-aims-to-reassure-u-s-voters-as-trump-questions-election-integrity-idUSKBN25T1HV | 2020-09-03 |
| Higgins worked as a police officer and narrated crime videos before he was elected to U.S. Congress in 2016 | Neutral | WASHINGTON A U.S. congressmans post that suggested armed Black demonstrators should be met with force was removed by Facebook on Wednesday for violating its policies against inciting violence | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-congress-higgins/facebook-removes-gop-lawmakers-threat-to-drop-protesters-idUSKBN25T396 | 2020-09-03 |
| WASHINGTON Senior U.S. Democrats demanded on Tuesday that Republican President Donald Trumps administration resume election security briefings for the U.S. Congress and threatened to take action to compel compliance | Negative | WASHINGTON Senior U.S. Democrats demanded on Tuesday that Republican President Donald Trumps administration resume election security briefings for the U.S. Congress and threatened to take action to compel compliance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-interference/u-s-democrats-demand-resumption-of-election-security-briefings-idUSKBN25S61W | 2020-09-02 |
| But U.S. Circuit Judge Bruce Selya writing for a threejudge panel said the court could not presume Congress intended to incorporate that privilege into the law | Positive | BOSTON A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a ruling that barred U.S. immigration authorities from arresting immigrants who are in the country illegally when they make appearances at courthouses in Massachusetts | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-massachusetts/u-s-appeals-court-overturns-bar-on-immigration-arrests-at-massachusetts-courts-idUSKBN25S66B | 2020-09-02 |
| The ruling did not address an argument by the Trump administration that senior presidential advisers could not be forced to testify to Congress about official acts | Neutral | NEW YORK A U.S. appeals court on Monday in a victory for the Trump administration ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a Democraticled House of Representatives panel seeking to enforce a subpoena issued to former White House Counsel Donald McGahn | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-russia-mcgahn/u-s-appeals-court-deals-blow-to-democrats-bid-to-get-testimony-from-ex-white-house-lawyer-mcgahn-idUSKBN25R2GC | 2020-09-01 |
| JOHANNESBURG South Africas President Cyril Ramaphosa sought to stamp his authority on the governing African National Congress on Monday saying that party officials must take leave from their positions if charged with corruption and resign if convicted | Negative | JOHANNESBURG South Africas President Cyril Ramaphosa sought to stamp his authority on the governing African National Congress on Monday saying that party officials must take leave from their positions if charged with corruption and resign if convicted | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-safrica-politics/south-africas-ramaphosa-seeks-to-stamp-authority-on-anc-after-corruption-scandals-idUSKBN25R26F | 2020-09-01 |
| We are improving service performance while more consistently running our trucks on DeJoy told Congress in a letter | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Postal Service told Congress on Monday that delivery performance has improved and returned to early July levels after it came under harsh criticism | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-post-office/u-s-postal-service-tells-congress-delivery-performance-has-improved-idUSKBN25R2C6 | 2020-09-01 |
| WASHINGTON A solid year for progressive Democrats who have defeated at least three incumbents in the U.S. Congress in primaries could fizzle out this week in Massachusetts where three party stalwarts were set to fend off challengers | Positive | WASHINGTON A solid year for progressive Democrats who have defeated at least three incumbents in the U.S. Congress in primaries could fizzle out this week in Massachusetts where three party stalwarts were set to fend off challengers | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-congress/burst-of-success-for-progressive-challengers-in-u-s-congressional-races-may-fizzle-in-massachusetts-idUSKBN25Q0DH | 2020-08-31 |
| U.S. Representative Karen Bass a Democrat who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus said Trumps trip to Kenosha would only increase tensions | Negative | WASHINGTON Democrats said Donald Trump should not visit the Wisconsin city where protests erupted last week after a Black man was shot in the back by a white police officer while the Republican president said was the only way to deal with unrest | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-race-usa-wisconsin/democrats-oppose-trump-wisconsin-visit-president-says-strength-only-answer-idUSKBN25Q0KO | 2020-08-31 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps intelligence chief on Sunday defended his decision to cease inperson Congressional briefings on election security while Democrats said the move would suppress critical information about foreign election meddling and warned they may subpoena testimony | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps intelligence chief on Sunday defended his decision to cease inperson Congressional briefings on election security while Democrats said the move would suppress critical information about foreign election meddling and warned they may subpoena testimony | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-interference/trump-intel-chief-defends-briefings-ban-democrats-raise-subpoena-threat-idUSKBN25Q0RO | 2020-08-31 |
| Ratcliffe is a former lawmaker who defended Trump during Congressional probes into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps intelligence chief on Sunday defended his decision to cease inperson Congressional briefings on election security while Democrats said the move would suppress critical information about foreign election meddling and warned they may subpoena testimony | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-interference/trump-intel-chief-defends-briefings-ban-democrats-raise-subpoena-threat-idUSKBN25Q0RO | 2020-08-31 |
| To remove the rule a Biden administration would need to issue another regulation to rescind it unless Congress addressed it in legislation or courts invalidated it regulatory experts said | Negative | WASHINGTON Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says he will reverse some of U.S. President Donald Trumps restrictive immigration policies should he win in November but the dizzying number of changes could take months or years to undo according to policy and regulatory experts and people close to the Biden campaign | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-immigration-insight/legal-hurdles-pandemic-would-bedevil-biden-efforts-to-undo-trump-immigration-overhaul-idUSKBN25O1IO | 2020-08-29 |
| The Committees subpoena as amended clearly satisfies the Courts new legal test for evaluating Congresss need for the Presidents personal the panels chairman Representative Adam Schiff said in a statement | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday said it had narrowed a subpoena to Deutsche Bank AG for President Donald Trumps financial records so that it would fall in line with an earlier ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-deutschebank/u-s-house-panel-narrows-deutsche-bank-subpoena-for-trump-records-idUSKBN25M1VZ | 2020-08-27 |
| President Donald Trump is weighing executive action to avoid massive layoffs at U.S. airlines if Congress fails to agree a fresh coronavirus stimulus package White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Wednesday | Negative | President Donald Trump is weighing executive action to avoid massive layoffs at U.S. airlines if Congress fails to agree a fresh coronavirus stimulus package White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/trump-could-act-unilaterally-to-avoid-u-s-airline-layoffs-white-house-says-idUSKBN25M1SW | 2020-08-27 |
| We will continue to work with the administration and our bipartisan supporters in Congress and hope to come to a resolution in a timely American said in a statement | Positive | President Donald Trump is weighing executive action to avoid massive layoffs at U.S. airlines if Congress fails to agree a fresh coronavirus stimulus package White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/trump-could-act-unilaterally-to-avoid-u-s-airline-layoffs-white-house-says-idUSKBN25M1SW | 2020-08-27 |
| It will definitely take Congress acting to keep all of the job requirements in she said on Twitter while Good to see WH wants to restart talks | Positive | President Donald Trump is weighing executive action to avoid massive layoffs at U.S. airlines if Congress fails to agree a fresh coronavirus stimulus package White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/trump-could-act-unilaterally-to-avoid-u-s-airline-layoffs-white-house-says-idUSKBN25M1SW | 2020-08-27 |
| The competition is in the he said reiterating an argument that has been central to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cooks defense during Congressional antitrust hearings | Neutral | SAN FRANCISCO A federal judge on Monday blocked Apple Inc from shutting down an Epic Games tool that is relied upon by hundreds of other app makers but had become the subject of an antitrust battle between the companies | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-apple-epic-games/judge-blocks-apple-move-to-hamper-epics-unreal-engine-idUSKBN25K2JT | 2020-08-26 |
| U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy a Trump ally and campaign donor has told Congress he has made Postal Service changes to lower costs not to disrupt mailin voting | Positive | Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump of trying to put his knee on the neck of by undermining mailin voting and sowing doubts without evidence about the integrity of the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-people-al-gore/former-u-s-vp-gore-says-trump-is-putting-knee-on-the-neck-of-democracy-idUSKBN25L2DH | 2020-08-26 |
| BRASILIA Brazilian farright President Jair Bolsonaro faces a crucial test of his newlybuilt support base in Congress on Thursday afternoon when the lower chamber will vote on whether to uphold or overturn his veto on a public sector pay rise | Negative | BRASILIA Brazilian farright President Jair Bolsonaro faces a crucial test of his newlybuilt support base in Congress on Thursday afternoon when the lower chamber will vote on whether to uphold or overturn his veto on a public sector pay rise | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/brazils-bolsonaro-urges-lower-house-to-block-public-sector-pay-rise-idUSKBN25G1PX | 2020-08-21 |
| DeJoy is set to testify before Congress on Friday and Monday in a pair of appearances | Neutral | WASHINGTON A group of 90 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday called on the Postal Services board of governors to immediately remove Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to protect this critical according to a letter seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-post-office-dejoy/more-than-90-democrats-call-on-postal-board-to-remove-dejoy-letter-idUSKCN25F2Q6 | 2020-08-20 |
| Spano is the eighth member of Congress to lose his seat in primaries this year joining four other Republicans and three Democrats | Neutral | WASHINGTON Freshman U.S. Representative Ross Spano was ousted by a challenger in the Florida Republican primary Tuesday amid a federal investigation into campaign finance violations from two years ago | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-congress/florida-republicans-boot-out-congressman-facing-campaign-finance-probe-idUSKCN25E17Q | 2020-08-19 |
| The U.S. economy remains battered by the coronavirus outbreak and Congress is deadlocked on another stimulus bill yet the U.S. stock market just closed at a record high | Negative | NEW YORK Has Wall Street missed the news that we are in a | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-stocks-s-p500-analysis/detached-from-reality-why-u-s-stocks-just-hit-a-new-high-idUSKCN25E1ZZ | 2020-08-19 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps postmaster general on Monday agreed to testify before Congress next week on cuts in service that lawmakers fear could hamper the Postal Services ability to handle a flood of mailin ballots in Novembers election | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps postmaster general on Monday agreed to testify before Congress next week on cuts in service that lawmakers fear could hamper the Postal Services ability to handle a flood of mailin ballots in Novembers election | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-post-office-trump/trumps-postal-service-chief-to-testify-amid-fears-about-u-s-election-idUSKCN25D1HZ | 2020-08-18 |
| Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said the Postal Services board of governors should remove DeJoy if he refuses to come before Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Democrats stepped up pressure on Sunday against a costcutting campaign by President Donald Trumps appointed Postal Service chief that they fear will hold up mailin ballots in Novembers election with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling lawmakers back and several states considering legal action | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-post-office/democrats-step-up-pressure-against-u-s-postal-cuts-pelosi-calls-lawmakers-back-to-washington-idUSKCN25C0MA | 2020-08-17 |
| BRASILIA Aug 13 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that selling off state companies was very and the top ones require Congressional approval explaining delays in his policy of privatizations | Negative | BRASILIA Aug 13 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that selling off state companies was very and the top ones require Congressional approval explaining delays in his policy of privatizations | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/brazil-politics-privatization/brazils-bolsonaro-cites-difficulty-of-selling-state-firms-in-explaining-privatization-delays-idUSS0N2B2013 | 2020-08-14 |
| Barring a bipartisan deal on stimulus the U.S. economy could be left with measures U.S. President Donald Trump called for on Saturday through executive orders to bypass Congress | Negative | Bond yields head higher dollar takes a breather | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-shake-off-stimulus-doubts-gold-goes-wild-idUSL8N2FE4F5 | 2020-08-13 |
| Trumps private discussions about Esper could further stoke anxiety among Democrats in Congress about leadership at the Department of Defense | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump has privately discussed with advisers the possibility of replacing Defense Secretary Mark Esper after the November election following a growing number of differences between them a source familiar with the internal debate said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-esper/trump-privately-discussing-replacing-defense-secretary-esper-after-election-idUSKCN2582ML | 2020-08-13 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said White House negotiators have not spoken on Tuesday with Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress on coronavirus aid legislation after talks broke down last week | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said White House negotiators have not spoken on Tuesday with Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress on coronavirus aid legislation after talks broke down last week | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-mcconnell/mcconnell-no-talks-between-white-house-democrats-on-coronavirus-aid-idUSKCN2572KB | 2020-08-12 |
| Barring a bipartisan deal the U.S. economy could be left with measures U.S. President Donald Trump called for on Saturday through executive orders to bypass Congress | Negative | Asian stocks slipped on Wednesday on growing uncertainty over whether U.S. lawmakers would strike an agreement on an additional round of big fiscal stimulus to support an economy still struggling with the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asian-stocks-slip-as-u-s-stimulus-doubts-mount-idUSKCN25800M | 2020-08-12 |
| Trump on Saturday signed orders seeking to bypass Congress and provide some relief including delaying student loan payments and providing some unemployment aid | Positive | WASHINGTON A stalemate between the Republican White House and congressional Democrats over coronavirus relief ended in a fourth day without talks on Tuesday with each party blaming the other for intransigence | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/white-house-congressional-democrats-go-fourth-day-without-coronavirus-talks-idUSKCN2572I0 | 2020-08-12 |
| Rosen wants Congress to enshrine some existing practices into law adopt new transparency measures and take steps to improve the economic efficiency of regulations | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday urged Congress to revise a 74yearlaw that is central to how the government sets regulatory policy | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-regulations/u-s-justice-department-urges-congress-to-revise-key-law-for-setting-regulatory-policy-idUSKCN25729Q | 2020-08-12 |
| Experts said Trumps actions would do little to boost the economy even if he can overcome legal questions about his decision to sidestep Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON A stalemate between the Republican White House and congressional Democrats over coronavirus relief ended in a fourth day without talks on Tuesday with each party blaming the other for intransigence | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/white-house-congressional-democrats-go-fourth-day-without-coronavirus-talks-idUSKCN2572I0 | 2020-08-12 |
| The big important thing is for Congress to take this Rosen said | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday urged Congress to revise a 74yearlaw that is central to how the government sets regulatory policy | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-regulations/u-s-justice-department-urges-congress-to-revise-key-law-for-setting-regulatory-policy-idUSKCN25729Q | 2020-08-12 |
| Her ruling restores the longstanding incidental taking policy under the statute enacted by Congress to implement a 1916 treaty between the United States and Britain | Positive | A federal judge in New York on Tuesday sided with environmental groups in striking down a Trump administration decision to roll back U.S. government protections for migratory birds that made it illegal for nearly 50 years to inadvertently kill them | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-environment-birds-trump/u-s-court-blocks-trump-administrations-relaxation-of-migratory-bird-safeguards-idUSKCN2580EK | 2020-08-12 |
| In February 2018 NHTSA finalized rules requiring quiet like electric vehicles to emit alert sounds to warn pedestrians of their approach after Congress demanded rules in 2010 | Negative | WASHINGTON The Transportation Departments Office of Inspector General said on Tuesday it would audit oversight of U.S. vehicle safety standards noting that more than 36000 Americans were killed in traffic accidents in 2019 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-autos-safety/inspector-general-to-audit-u-s-oversight-of-auto-safety-standards-idUSKCN2572FB | 2020-08-12 |
| WASHINGTON A Republican businesswoman who has expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory Marjorie Taylor Greene won her partys nomination Tuesday for a seat in the U.S. Congress from Georgia the New York Times said | Neutral | WASHINGTON A Republican businesswoman who has expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory Marjorie Taylor Greene won her partys nomination Tuesday for a seat in the U.S. Congress from Georgia the New York Times said | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-election-congress-greene/u-s-republican-who-supports-conspiracy-theory-wins-nomination-to-congress-idUSKCN25805Y | 2020-08-12 |
| The president has faced criticism for governing through executive order rather than agreeing legislation with the U.S. Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said on Monday an executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover patients with preexisting conditions would emphasize Republican support for the practice even though it is already part of existing law | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-healthcare-trump/trump-order-on-pre-existing-conditions-a-double-safety-net-despite-obamacare-law-idUSKCN25704T | 2020-08-11 |
| In a bid to move ahead without Congress the Republican president on Saturday signed executive orders and a memorandum seeking to provide relief to workers businesses and local governments | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republican and Democratic governors said on Monday President Donald Trumps coronavirus relief measures were too expensive for states to implement as they struggle with the costs of the pandemic and called on officials in Washington to resume negotiations on federal aid | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-governors-question-cost-of-trump-covid-19-aid-plans-urge-talks-to-continue-idUSKCN2561XU | 2020-08-11 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders on Saturday to extend unemployment benefits after talks with Congress broke down | Positive | KOSPI jumps 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/southkorea-markets-close/s-korea-shares-close-at-26-month-high-on-china-data-hyundai-motor-16-surge-idUSAZN21R400 | 2020-08-10 |
| Weighing on the greenback is uncertainty over U.S. fiscal stimulus after President Trump signed a series of executive orders to extend unemployment benefits after talks with Congress broke down | Positive | MSCI exJapan off recent month high | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asian-shares-calm-as-sino-u-s-tensions-flare-up-idUSL4N2FC0XJ | 2020-08-10 |
| A late addition to Bidens shortlist Bass a congresswoman from Southern California and chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus would add a progressive voice to the ticket | Positive | Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden is expected to announce his running mate ahead of his partys national convention that kicks off on Aug | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-biden-running-mate-factb/factbox-biden-will-soon-pick-a-running-mate-here-are-the-front-runners-idUSKCN2532TT | 2020-08-10 |
| Airline executives feel increasingly optimistic Congress will act while chief executives and union leaders have been calling lawmakers to push for additional assistance | Positive | WASHINGTON A group of Senate Republicans on Wednesday backed extending a billion payroll assistance program for U.S. airlines after warnings that carriers may be forced to cut tens of thousands of jobs without government action according to a letter seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines-exclu/republican-senators-back-extending-25-billion-payroll-aid-for-u-s-airlines-shares-jump-idUSKCN2512QE | 2020-08-06 |
| Mester also said more fiscal support is needed to bolster struggling businesses households and consumers and she said she was hopeful that Congress will pass a stimulus bill | Neutral | NEW YORK A resurgence in coronavirus cases is slowing the economic recovery and the pandemic will continue to weigh on the U.S. economy and American life for longer than initially expected three Federal Reserve policymakers said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-fed/fed-policymakers-say-pickup-in-infections-slowing-u-s-economic-recovery-idUSKCN2511UX | 2020-08-06 |
| SINGAPORE U.S.China tension and sobering economic data knocked momentum out of Asias stock markets on Thursday though the hope of stimulus staved off falls and kept pressure on the dollar as investors wait for Congress to agree on a new spending package | Negative | SINGAPORE U.S.China tension and sobering economic data knocked momentum out of Asias stock markets on Thursday though the hope of stimulus staved off falls and kept pressure on the dollar as investors wait for Congress to agree on a new spending package | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/stocks-stall-and-dollar-squeezed-as-investors-wait-for-stimulus-idUSKCN2513C6 | 2020-08-06 |
| I think there are anarchists and farleft groups involved in the violence in Attorney General William Barr said in testimony before Congress last week | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. federal prosecutors have produced no evidence linking dozens of people arrested in antiracism protests in Portland Oregon to the antifa or anarchist movements despite President Donald Trumps assertions they are fueling the unrest | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-global-race-protests-antifa/u-s-prosecutors-do-not-charge-portland-protesters-with-antifa-ties-idUSKCN2502NQ | 2020-08-05 |
| SINGAPORE Aug 5 The dollar was under pressure on Wednesday from a towering euro and crumbling U.S. yields as the latest coronavirus relief package got bogged down in Congress and investors braced for a bumpy ride to economic repair | Negative | Euro repels dollar bounce | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-dented-as-yields-dive-on-recovery-worries-idUSL4N2F708K | 2020-08-05 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. economy could benefit if the nation were to lock down really for four to six weeks a top Federal Reserve official said on Sunday adding that Congress can well afford large sums for coronavirus relief efforts | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. economy could benefit if the nation were to lock down really for four to six weeks a top Federal Reserve official said on Sunday adding that Congress can well afford large sums for coronavirus relief efforts | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-fed/feds-kashkari-suggests-4-6-week-shutdown-says-u-s-congress-can-spend-big-on-coronavirus-relief-idUSKBN24Y0IM | 2020-08-03 |
| JOHANNESBURG South Africas Deputy Finance Minister David Masondo has been asked to step down by the governing African National Congress partys integrity commission for involving an elite police unit in a dispute with a former lover | Negative | JOHANNESBURG South Africas Deputy Finance Minister David Masondo has been asked to step down by the governing African National Congress partys integrity commission for involving an elite police unit in a dispute with a former lover | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-safrica-politics/south-africas-deputy-finance-minister-asked-to-step-aside-over-abuse-of-power-claim-idUSKBN24X3R3 | 2020-08-02 |
| Right now it is unclear who in Washington is in charge of oversight much less any critical details some state health officials and members of Congress told Reuters | Negative | WASHINGTON As scientists and pharmaceutical companies work at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus public health officials and senior U.S. lawmakers are sounding alarms about the Trump administrations lack of planning for its nationwide distribution | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-vaccine/trump-planning-for-u-s-rollout-of-coronavirus-vaccine-falling-short-officials-warn-idUSKCN24W1ON | 2020-08-01 |
| Only another amendment which requires a supermajority of twothirds approval in both chambers of Congress as well as ratification by at least 38 U.S. states can alter that date | Positive | President Donald Trump on Thursday raised the possibility of delaying the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-delay-powers-factbox/factbox-what-would-it-take-to-postpone-the-u-s-presidential-election-idUSKCN24V2V1 | 2020-07-31 |
| However given that Democrats currently control the House of Representatives it is virtually certain that Congress would not entertain any sort of postponement | Negative | President Donald Trump on Thursday raised the possibility of delaying the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-delay-powers-factbox/factbox-what-would-it-take-to-postpone-the-u-s-presidential-election-idUSKCN24V2V1 | 2020-07-31 |
| WASHINGTON Just one day before a federal jobless benefit was set to expire the U.S. Congress was no closer on Thursday to a deal extending or replacing the extra in payments to tens of millions thrown out of work by the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | WASHINGTON Just one day before a federal jobless benefit was set to expire the U.S. Congress was no closer on Thursday to a deal extending or replacing the extra in payments to tens of millions thrown out of work by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/deal-on-u-s-coronavirus-aid-bill-elusive-as-jobless-benefit-nears-expiration-idUSKCN24V1X5 | 2020-07-31 |
| Risk assets across the globe sold off sharply after Trump tweeted delay the election until people can properly securely and safely although the U.S. constitution bestows that power on Congress | Negative | European shares sank to a onemonth low on Thursday hit by underwhelming earnings reports a dire reading of the German economys health and U.S. President Donald Trump raising the possibility of delaying Novembers presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-stocks-hit-one-month-low-as-trump-tweet-adds-to-economic-worries-idUSKCN24V11A | 2020-07-31 |
| 0 has Congressional support but could face hurdles among some Republican senators people familiar with the matter said | Neutral | A second bailout coined CARES Act 2 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/united-warns-of-more-pilot-furloughs-as-u-s-airlines-eye-second-bailout-idUSKCN24V2VB | 2020-07-31 |
| 3 U.S. presidential election but the Constitution bestows that power on Congress not the president | Neutral | President Donald Trump on Thursday raised the possibility of delaying the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-delay-powers-factbox/factbox-what-would-it-take-to-postpone-the-u-s-presidential-election-idUSKCN24V2V1 | 2020-07-31 |
| Time is of the he added noting that Congress was aiming to authorize more PPP funding in coming weeks | Positive | WASHINGTON Bank of America Inc the secondlargest U.S. lender has asked the Trump administration to correct data meant to offer public accountability on the recipients of billion in pandemic aid and a group of U.S. Democratic lawmakers has written to demand action before more funds are allocated | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp/u-s-lawmakers-bank-of-america-urge-small-business-agency-to-fix-erroneous-ppp-loan-data-idUSKCN24T31C | 2020-07-30 |
| A late addition to Bidens shortlist Bass a congresswoman from Southern California and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus would add a progressive voice to the ticket | Positive | Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Bidens search for a running mate for the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-biden-running-mate-factb/factbox-biden-will-soon-pick-a-running-mate-here-are-the-front-runners-idUSKCN24T2QA | 2020-07-29 |
| Her job approval rating is lower than Trumps which analysts attribute to votes in Congress against the Affordable Care Act | Negative | U.S. Republican Senator Martha McSally shows every sign of being an imperiled incumbent trailing Democratic challenger Mark Kelly in money and polling as President Donald Trumps electoral woes jeopardize Republican control of the Senate | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-arizona/imperiled-arizona-u-s-senator-mcsallys-hopes-seen-riding-on-trump-train-idUSKCN24S12D | 2020-07-28 |
| Investors hope the U.S. Congress will agree on a deal before its summer recess | Positive | By David Randall | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-gold-hits-record-equities-edge-higher-on-stimulus-hopes-idUSL2N2EY14Y | 2020-07-28 |
| Some of the earlier steps to mitigate the financial impact such as enhanced jobless benefits are due to expire this month and Congress has yet to agree on fresh support | Negative | to add to no change in text | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/refile-forex-yen-swiss-franc-benefit-as-dollar-falls-on-u-s-china-conflict-and-economic-fears-idUSL5N2EY2OH | 2020-07-28 |
| If elected in November she will be the first Black lawmaker in Congress from Arkansas ever | Neutral | Joyce Elliott an Arkansas state senator who is seeking a U.S. congressional seat in November was the second Black student to attend her local public high the first was her older sister | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-blackwomen/record-number-of-black-women-set-to-run-for-u-s-congress-idUSKCN24S1FZ | 2020-07-28 |
| Mnuchin said he had spoken on Friday with top Democrat in Congress House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who has said she does not want a shortterm extension of unemployment insurance | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Saturday said that the Trump administration supports extending enhanced unemployment benefits until the end of the year in the next round of coronavirus aid albeit at a reduced level | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/trump-administration-backs-partial-extension-of-jobless-benefits-through-years-end-idUSKCN24Q0U7 | 2020-07-27 |
| The brutality of Bloody inspired President Lyndon Johnson to demand Congress approve legislation removing barriers to Black voting and lawmakers passed the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Positive | SELMA Ala | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-people-john-lewis/body-of-civil-rights-icon-john-lewis-crosses-alabama-bridge-for-final-time-idUSKCN24R0M5 | 2020-07-27 |
| Investors hope U.S. Congress will agree on a deal before its summer recess but there are some sticking points including the size of stimulus and enhanced unemployment benefits | Positive | TOKYO Gold hit an alltime high on Monday as titfortat consulate closures in China and the United States rattled investors boosting the allure of safe haven assets although sentiment was mixed with tech gains supporting some Asian stocks | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-global-markets/gold-hits-record-high-as-u-s-china-ties-worsen-asia-stocks-helped-by-tech-idUSKCN24S01R | 2020-07-27 |
| Trump repeatedly has called for lowering the cost of prescription drugs but Congress has not yet passed a major drug price reform | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed four executive orders aimed at lowering the prices Americans pay for prescription drugs as he faces an uphill reelection battle and criticism over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-drugprices/trump-signs-orders-to-lower-prescription-drug-prices-idUSKCN24P2JA | 2020-07-25 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected on Friday the idea of a temporary extension to enhanced unemployment benefits which expire on July 31 while Congress continues work on a new coronavirus relief bill | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected on Friday the idea of a temporary extension to enhanced unemployment benefits which expire on July 31 while Congress continues work on a new coronavirus relief bill | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pelosi/u-s-house-speaker-pelosi-opposes-separate-deal-on-jobless-benefits-idUSKCN24P2BL | 2020-07-25 |
| These are the words that Representative Yoho levied against a Congresswoman | Neutral | language in paragraph 2 some readers may find offensive | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/uk-usa-congress-ocasio-cortez/u-s-congresswoman-ocasio-cortez-says-republican-colleague-called-her-profane-slur-idUSKCN24O2FG | 2020-07-24 |
| Focus is also on the next U.S. fiscal rescue package which is deadlocked in Congress while a monthend deadline looms as some unemployment benefits are due to expire | Neutral | China to respond on Friday Global Times Editor | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-yen-up-and-dollar-clinging-on-as-chinas-houston-response-awaited-idUSL3N2EV09I | 2020-07-24 |
| WASHINGTON The chief executives of four of the largest U.S. tech companies plan to deflect criticism next week in a Congressional hearing into their use of market power to hurt rivals by saying they themselves face competition and by debunking claims they are so dominant | Negative | WASHINGTON The chief executives of four of the largest U.S. tech companies plan to deflect criticism next week in a Congressional hearing into their use of market power to hurt rivals by saying they themselves face competition and by debunking claims they are so dominant | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-tech-congress/big-tech-ceos-ready-defenses-for-u-s-congress-hearing-into-their-growing-power-idUSKCN24O16K | 2020-07-24 |
| The reform must be approved by Congress which Noriega said he expected would happen by December so that it becomes law in early 2021 | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican workers will get a major boost in their retirement benefits after the government and private sector ironed out the details of a pension reform that is expected to become law by early next year the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-pensions/mexico-to-boost-worker-pensions-strikes-deal-with-employers-idUSKCN24O066 | 2020-07-23 |
| Other defendants include former allies of Bashir such as former Vice President Ali Osman Taha and Ali alHaj secretary general of the Islamist Popular Congress Party judicial officials said | Positive | KHARTOUM Ousted Sudanese President Omar alBashir appeared in court Tuesday at the opening of his trial for leading the military coup that brought him to power in 1989 before the hearing was adjourned to find a bigger venue amid chaotic scenes outside | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-politics-bashir/bashir-trial-for-1989-coup-adjourned-as-crowds-jostle-outside-court-idUSKCN24M120 | 2020-07-22 |
| Due to widespread conservatism in Brazilian politics and society activists have largely turned to the courts instead of Congress to secure rights | Positive | RIO DE MEXICO CITY Reuters As a gay man growing up in Brazil Afif Sarhan was banned from donating blood for most of his life | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-lgbt-politics/with-brazils-bolsonaro-attacking-the-supreme-court-are-gay-rights-at-risk-idUSKCN24L00D | 2020-07-20 |
| Popular opinion on rights remains deeply divided in Brazil unlike in neighbouring Argentina where gay marriage passed through Congress in 2010 and provoked a heated public discussion | Negative | RIO DE MEXICO CITY Reuters As a gay man growing up in Brazil Afif Sarhan was banned from donating blood for most of his life | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-lgbt-politics/with-brazils-bolsonaro-attacking-the-supreme-court-are-gay-rights-at-risk-idUSKCN24L00D | 2020-07-20 |
| Inspectors general sit inside executive branch agencies having a unique duty to report their findings to both Congress and agency heads | Neutral | WASHINGTON Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives asked the internal watchdogs for the Justice and Homeland Security departments to launch an investigation into whether they have abused emergency in order to justify targeting peaceful protesters last week in Portland Oregon | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-race-protests-portland-investi/house-democrats-demand-investigation-into-use-of-force-at-portland-protests-idUSKCN24K0Q2 | 2020-07-20 |
| The numbers are clear and I will not be the Democratic nominee for the 16th Congressional District seat in the fall the 73yearold Engel said in a statement | Negative | NEW YORK Liberal Black former middleschool principal Jamaal Bowman has ousted veteran Democratic U.S. Representative Eliot Engel from the congressional seat representing parts of New York City that he was first elected to in 1988 | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-house/veteran-u-s-congressman-engel-defeated-by-liberal-bowman-in-new-york-primary-idUSKCN24I25B | 2020-07-18 |
| WASHINGTON The National Defense Authorization Act which sets policy for the U.S. Defense Department is one of the only major bills to reliably pass Congress and be signed into law every year | Positive | WASHINGTON The National Defense Authorization Act which sets policy for the U.S. Defense Department is one of the only major bills to reliably pass Congress and be signed into law every year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-congress-defense-explainer/explainer-u-s-congress-readies-740-billion-defense-bill-covering-far-more-than-bullets-idUSKCN24H2VT | 2020-07-17 |
| Fed policymakers have repeatedly urged Congress to do so | Negative | With the Republicancontrolled U.S. Congress far from agreement on how or even whether to give more aid to states and cities reeling from revenue losses during the coronavirus crisis three U.S. Senate Democrats are appealing to the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve to do more to help | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-fed-municipals/prominent-democrats-press-fed-treasury-to-aid-states-citing-racial-inequality-idUSKCN24F15L | 2020-07-15 |
| U.S. president Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to Hong Kongs special status under U.S. law to punish China for what he called oppressive against the former British colony and signed a bill approved by the U.S. Congress to penalize banks doing business with Chinese officials who implement the new security law | Negative | SSEC 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-stocks-midday/china-shares-derail-as-u-s-move-against-hk-dents-sentiment-idUSL3N2EM19J | 2020-07-15 |
| WASHINGTON Mondaire Jones declared victory on Tuesday in the Democratic primary for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from New York putting him on track to become the first openly gay Black member of Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON Mondaire Jones declared victory on Tuesday in the Democratic primary for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from New York putting him on track to become the first openly gay Black member of Congress | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-congress-jones/mondaire-jones-openly-gay-and-black-gets-democratic-nod-for-u-s-house-seat-idUSKCN24F2ZD | 2020-07-15 |
| To be clear these solutions are not a substitute for Congress stepping up to provide the needed they wrote | Positive | With the Republicancontrolled U.S. Congress far from agreement on how or even whether to give more aid to states and cities reeling from revenue losses during the coronavirus crisis three U.S. Senate Democrats are appealing to the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve to do more to help | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-fed-municipals/prominent-democrats-press-fed-treasury-to-aid-states-citing-racial-inequality-idUSKCN24F15L | 2020-07-15 |
| The CongressionalExecutive Commission on China monitors human rights and the rule of law and submits an annual report to Trump and Congress | Neutral | BEIJING China announced corresponding against the United States on Monday after Washington penalized senior Chinese officials over the treatment of Uighur Muslims in its Xinjiang region | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-usa-xinjiang/china-sanctions-u-s-lawmakers-in-dispute-over-uighur-muslims-idUSKCN24E0NU | 2020-07-14 |
| But some U.S. investors have raised concerns that such moves by Congress could shut them out of highyield investment opportunities that would remain open to investors in other countries | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Trump administration plans to soon scrap a 2013 agreement between U.S. and Chinese auditing authorities a senior State Department official said a move that could foreshadow a broader crackdown on U.S.listed Chinese firms under fire for sidestepping American disclosure rules | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-stocks-exclusive/exclusive-trump-administration-to-soon-end-audit-deal-underpinning-chinese-listings-in-u-s-official-idUSKCN24E2XW | 2020-07-14 |
| I do think well get there and do something that needs to be before Congress begins an August recess the Republican senator predicted | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate will begin debate next week on a fifth coronavirusresponse bill Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday as he forecast tough negotiations with Democrats who are seeking broader aid than Republicans | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-senate-to-begin-debate-on-new-coronavirus-bill-next-week-mcconnell-idUSKCN24E33C | 2020-07-14 |
| Sirkis was elected to Congress but decided not to run for reelection in 2014 | Neutral | BRASILIA Environmentalist Alfredo Sirkis a founder of Brazils Green Party and a tireless campaigner for policies to curb climate change died on Friday in a car crash television network TV Globo said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment-sirkis/brazilian-environmentalist-sirkis-killed-in-car-crash-idUSKBN24B32J | 2020-07-11 |
| States including New Jersey have been pushing the U.S. Congress for unrestricted funding they could use to plug big budget holes caused by plummeting tax revenue | Positive | New Jersey one of the states hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak would borrow up to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-newjersey-debt/cash-strapped-new-jersey-to-borrow-up-to-9-9-billion-under-deal-idUSKBN24B307 | 2020-07-11 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she is very Democrats and Republicans in Congress will agree on strong new coronavirus relief legislation after lawmakers return from their July break | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she is very Democrats and Republicans in Congress will agree on strong new coronavirus relief legislation after lawmakers return from their July break | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pelosi/pelosi-confident-u-s-congress-will-produce-strong-coronavirus-relief-bill-idUSKBN24A2KE | 2020-07-10 |
| Campos Neto expects the government to send Congress a temporary decree this week to support actions announced by the central bank in its last package to unlock credit | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils central bank is studying recent data showing inflation is somewhat above expectations to see if there is room for a cut in interest rates its president Roberto Campos Neto told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy-cenbank-interview/brazil-central-bank-studying-residual-cut-in-selic-rate-says-campos-neto-idUSKBN24A1RO | 2020-07-10 |
| The official said the administration will require agencies to conduct a national security analysis before they grant any waivers something Congress did not expressly require in the statute | Positive | WASHINGTON The Trump administration plans to finalize regulations this week that will bar the U.S. government from buying goods or services from any company that uses products from five Chinese companies including Huawei Hikvision and Dahua a U.S. official said | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-china-contracting-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-finalizing-federal-contract-ban-for-companies-that-use-huawei-others-idUSKBN24A22F | 2020-07-10 |
| Nicholas Colas cofounder of DataTrek Research said earnings expectations could be too low if Congress passes further economic stimulus this month | Negative | NEW YORK U.S. companies are preparing to open their books on a quarter that is set to show the biggest earnings fall since the financial crisis leaving investors looking for light at the end of the tunnel | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-earnings-outlook/disaster-u-s-earnings-loom-but-investors-try-and-look-beyond-idUSKBN24A1CN | 2020-07-10 |
| On Monday Meadows told Fox News the White House was looking to get something done on prescription drug prices after Congress failed to act | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump will sign three executive orders on lowering prescription drug prices White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-usa-healthcare-trump/trump-will-sign-three-executive-orders-on-lowering-drug-prices-chief-of-staff-idUSKBN24A3CO | 2020-07-10 |
| This hearing will provide an opportunity for both Congress and the American people to hear directly from some of the manufacturers currently developing potential COVID19 the committee said | Positive | Five companies developing coronavirus vaccines will testify before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Of Representatives later this month sharing information about their research and development efforts | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-vaccines/coronavirus-vaccine-makers-to-testify-before-u-s-house-committee-idUSKBN24A2IW | 2020-07-10 |
| But even if one existed the state and President Donald Trumps administration argued it long ago was eliminated by Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday recognized about half of Oklahoma as Native American reservation land and overturned a tribe members rape conviction because the location where the crime was committed should have been considered outside the reach of state criminal law | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-court-oklahoma/u-s-supreme-court-deems-half-of-oklahoma-a-native-american-reservation-idUSKBN24A268 | 2020-07-10 |
| Stone was convicted last year for witness tampering and lying to Congress as it and former Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election | Negative | Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg was briefed on the actions beforehand officials said | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-facebook-disinformation-usa/facebook-takes-down-accounts-and-pages-of-trump-ally-roger-stone-idUSKBN2492YK | 2020-07-09 |
| BRASILIA Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro said he would veto a bill regulating fake news which has also been criticized by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter if it comes to his desk from Congress in its present shape | Negative | BRASILIA Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro said he would veto a bill regulating fake news which has also been criticized by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter if it comes to his desk from Congress in its present shape | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-fake-news/brazils-bolsonaro-would-veto-bill-regulating-fake-news-in-current-form-idUSKBN2433FN | 2020-07-03 |
| Because it is one of the few bills Congress passes every year lawmakers use the NDAA as a vehicle for a wide range of policy provisions | Neutral | WASHINGTON A U.S. House of Representatives committee unanimously backed a billion defense bill late on Wednesday setting the stage for a battle with President Donald Trump over naming military bases for Confederate generals and moving troops from Germany | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-defense-congress/u-s-house-panel-backs-defense-bill-confederate-battle-looms-idUSKBN2432MQ | 2020-07-03 |
| com Facebook Alphabets Google and Apple will testify before the U.S. Congress in late July as part of an ongoing antitrust probe into the companies according to two sources familiar with the matter | Negative | WASHINGTON The chief executives of the four U.S. tech giants Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-tech-congress/u-s-tech-chief-executives-expected-to-testify-before-house-panel-in-late-july-idUSKBN2427HU | 2020-07-02 |
| 10 Canada Mexico and the United States agree a revised USMCA to satisfy concerns by Democrats in the U.S. Congress over labor and environmental standards | Positive | After an long arduous road the U.S.MexicoCanada trade agreement took effect on Wednesday replacing its predecessor the quartercenturyold North American Free Trade Agreement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-trade-usmca-timeline/the-long-bumpy-road-from-nafta-to-usmca-idUSKBN2424EG | 2020-07-01 |
| We can all start proBeijing heavyweight Maria Tam a member of Chinas National Peoples Congress told reporters | Negative | HONG Beijing on Tuesday unveiled new national security laws for Hong Kong that will punish crimes of secession subversion terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison heralding a more authoritarian era for Chinas freest city | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-hongkong-security/china-passes-sweeping-hk-security-law-heralding-authoritarian-era-idUSKBN2412UD | 2020-07-01 |
| The presidential decree signed by Bolsonaro comprises two monthly payments of 600 reais said Rodrigo Maia speaker of the lower house of Congress | Neutral | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday signed a decree to extend emergency stipends to informal workers hit hard by the COVID19 crisis as official figures showed record deficits and mounting unemployment | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy/bolsonaro-extends-aid-to-brazilians-as-jobs-plummet-public-debt-soars-idUSKBN2413S9 | 2020-07-01 |
| The questions that arise was the President briefed and if not why not and why was Congress not Pelosi wrote | Negative | WASHINGTON Both Democrats and President Donald Trumps fellow Republicans in Congress demanded more information from the White House on Monday after reports that Russian military intelligence offered militants bounties for killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia-house/u-s-republicans-democrats-want-to-question-trump-aides-over-russia-bounty-reports-idUSKBN240215 | 2020-06-30 |
| WASHINGTON The White House said on Monday it has invited eight members of Congress for a briefing on intelligence reports that Russia offered bounties to Taliban militants to kill U.S. soldiers | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House said on Monday it has invited eight members of Congress for a briefing on intelligence reports that Russia offered bounties to Taliban militants to kill U.S. soldiers | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia-whitehouse/eight-lawmakers-invited-to-russia-bounty-briefing-white-house-idUSKBN2402K3 | 2020-06-30 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed President Donald Trump more authority over a federal agency charged with protecting consumers in the financial sector empowering him to fire its director at will and ruling that the structure it was given by Congress violated the U.S. Constitution | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed President Donald Trump more authority over a federal agency charged with protecting consumers in the financial sector empowering him to fire its director at will and ruling that the structure it was given by Congress violated the U.S. Constitution | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-cfpb/u-s-supreme-court-gives-president-more-power-over-consumer-financial-agency-idUSKBN24021W | 2020-06-30 |
| To maintain existing spending Congress will need to find billion over five the House bill transfers | Neutral | WASHINGTON The White House said Monday it opposes a | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-infrastructure/white-house-opposes-1-5-trillion-house-infrastructure-measure-idUSKBN24031M | 2020-06-30 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers will try this week to revive efforts to enact police reform legislation in Congress a Republican senator said on Sunday after moves to address police misconduct following the death of George Floyd deteriorated into partisan bickering | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers will try this week to revive efforts to enact police reform legislation in Congress a Republican senator said on Sunday after moves to address police misconduct following the death of George Floyd deteriorated into partisan bickering | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-congress/republican-senator-sees-effort-this-week-to-revive-police-reform-debate-in-u-s-congress-idUSKBN23Z0QV | 2020-06-29 |
| March A trillion coronavirus aid package dubbed the largest rescue package in American is approved by Congress | Positive | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN23Z0UW | 2020-06-29 |
| SHANGHAI Chinas lawmakers have reviewed a draft of the national security bill for Hong Kong during a meeting held by the standing committee of the National Peoples Congress state media Xinhua reported on Sunday | Negative | SHANGHAI Chinas lawmakers have reviewed a draft of the national security bill for Hong Kong during a meeting held by the standing committee of the National Peoples Congress state media Xinhua reported on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-hongkong-security/china-lawmakers-review-draft-of-hong-kong-national-security-bill-xinhua-idUSKBN23Z09W | 2020-06-29 |
| Major aviation unions have asked the U.S. Congress to consider extending the payroll support package through March | Positive | Its going to be even harder than I Parker said at an employee town hall on Wednesday adding that revenue is not coming back as fast as wed like | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-american-airline-j/american-airlines-ceo-sees-10-20-extra-staff-in-july-2021-hard-to-avoid-furloughs-idUSKBN23Y0VX | 2020-06-28 |
| Mahama 61 who has been chosen by the National Democratic Congress as its candidate defeated AkufoAddo in the 2012 presidential race | Positive | ACCRA Ghanas ruling New Patriotic Party has picked incumbent Nana AkufoAddo as its presidential candidate in this years election setting up a third consecutive headtohead battle against former president John Dramani Mahama | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ghana-politics-election/ghanas-president-akufo-addo-chosen-by-ruling-party-for-poll-rematch-against-mahama-idUSKBN23Y0NJ | 2020-06-28 |
| Stone was found guilty by a jury last November of obstruction witness tampering and lying to Congress under oath during its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election | Negative | WASHINGTON A federal judge on Friday ordered Roger Stone President Donald Trumps longtime friend and adviser to report to prison by July 14 to begin his sentence after being convicted of seven criminal counts last year granting him a 14day extension over concerns about the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-stone/judge-orders-trump-adviser-roger-stone-to-report-to-prison-by-july-14-idUSKBN23X2XW | 2020-06-27 |
| The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to admit new states without specifying a process | Neutral | WASHINGTON Four decades after launching its drive for U.S. statehood Washington D.C. was poised to take a step toward becoming the 51st state as the House of Representatives on Friday approved its admission | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-congress-statehood-washingtondc/house-approves-washington-d-c-statehood-in-historic-vote-idUSKBN23X1CC | 2020-06-27 |
| Stone 67 who was convicted of obstruction witness tampering and lying to Congress during its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House Democrats blasted Attorney General William Barr at a hearing on Wednesday over accusations he had improperly meddled in criminal cases and antitrust probes for political gain but they stopped short of pledging to take any steps to try and oust the nations top law enforcement official | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-congress-justice/democrats-accuse-presidents-fixer-barr-of-political-meddling-in-u-s-justice-system-idUSKBN23V2KT | 2020-06-25 |
| WASHINGTON The federal office that led the prosecution of President Donald Trumps friend Roger Stone received heavy pressure from the highest levels of the Department of to ease its sentencing recommendation career prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky plans to tell Congress according to his prepared remarks | Negative | WASHINGTON The federal office that led the prosecution of President Donald Trumps friend Roger Stone received heavy pressure from the highest levels of the Department of to ease its sentencing recommendation career prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky plans to tell Congress according to his prepared remarks | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-justice/federal-prosecutor-says-fear-of-trump-led-to-reversal-on-stone-sentencing-memo-idUSKBN23U339 | 2020-06-24 |
| We will be doing another stimulus with the U.S. Congress he added saying the bipartisan measure would come over the next couple of weeks probably | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he supported the idea of giving Americans a second round of financial aid to mitigate the effect of shutdowns to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trump/trump-backs-more-aid-for-americans-amid-coronavirus-scripps-idUSKBN23T2NH | 2020-06-23 |
| With strong public sentiment for stopping excessive force by police especially against AfricanAmericans many are urging Congress to seize the opportunity to quickly pass legislation | Negative | WASHINGTON The Republicanled U.S. Senate and Democraticled House of Representatives will vote this week on separate bills aimed at addressing police misconduct following George Floyds death in police custody but neither measure is likely to become law | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-congress/senate-house-steer-toward-first-votes-on-competing-police-reform-bills-idUSKBN23T28Q | 2020-06-23 |
| BRASILIA Calls for Brazils military to close Congress and the Supreme Court have screamed from banners at marches attended by President Jair Bolsonaro in recent weeks but retired generals and close observers of the armed forces call it empty talk | Negative | BRASILIA Calls for Brazils military to close Congress and the Supreme Court have screamed from banners at marches attended by President Jair Bolsonaro in recent weeks but retired generals and close observers of the armed forces call it empty talk | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-military-analysis/threat-of-brazil-military-coup-unfounded-retired-generals-say-idUSKBN23T1JW | 2020-06-23 |
| Asked if Trump had ruled out ending the program through an executive order Wolf said the administration would continue to press Congress to find a solution | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Trump administration is determined to end the Dreamers program that protects immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children within the next six months the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-immigration-wolf/trump-administration-aims-to-end-dreamers-immigration-program-in-six-months-idUSKBN23S0QI | 2020-06-22 |
| Trumps administration had argued that Obama exceeded his constitutional powers when he created DACA by executive action bypassing Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dealt President Donald Trump a major setback on his hardline immigration policies blocking his bid to end a program that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants often called who entered the United States illegally as children | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-immigration/u-s-supreme-court-thwarts-trump-plan-to-end-dreamers-immigrant-program-idUSKBN23P2HM | 2020-06-19 |
| With a presidential election looming few believe Congresswill tackle infrastructure this year The current surface transportation law expires Sept | Neutral | A U.S. House of Representatives panel is debating on Wednesday a Democratic plan to boost infrastructure spending that aims to fix crumbling roads and highways and reduce carbon pollution | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-infrastructure/house-panel-debating-494-billion-infrastructure-measure-idUSKBN23O388 | 2020-06-18 |
| The LWCF was created in 1964 but Congress in most years has diverted funding for it to other uses | Positive | The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a major conservation bill that would permanently direct million a year to a longstanding federal program aimed at acquiring and protecting public lands | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-conservation/u-s-senate-overwhelmingly-passes-major-conservation-bill-idUSKBN23O3AH | 2020-06-18 |
| A U.S. senator said on Wednesday he was hoping for bipartisan support in Congress for mandatory rules on masks for air travel after the head of the Federal Aviation Administration again resisted calls for a mandate | Positive | A U.S. senator said on Wednesday he was hoping for bipartisan support in Congress for mandatory rules on masks for air travel after the head of the Federal Aviation Administration again resisted calls for a mandate | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/u-s-lawmaker-says-seeking-bipartisan-legislation-on-airline-mask-rules-idUSKBN23O318 | 2020-06-18 |
| It would be a concern if Congress were to pull back on the support that its providing too he said | Negative | The U.S. economy is beginning to recover from the worst of the coronavirus crisis but with some 25 million Americans displaced from work and the pandemic ongoing it will need more help Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-fed-powell/feds-powell-beats-drum-for-more-government-aid-to-bolster-economy-idUSKBN23O2SI | 2020-06-18 |
| WASHINGTON Two Justice Department employees will testify to Congress next week about political influence on law enforcement activity including one who worked on Special Counsel Robert Muellers Russia probe the Democraticcontrolled panel said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON Two Justice Department employees will testify to Congress next week about political influence on law enforcement activity including one who worked on Special Counsel Robert Muellers Russia probe the Democraticcontrolled panel said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-congress-justice/u-s-justice-dept-employees-to-testify-about-political-meddling-house-panel-says-idUSKBN23N2FT | 2020-06-17 |
| The Democraticled House of Representatives is expected to vote later this month on sweeping legislation put forward by the Congressional Black Caucus to rein in police misconduct | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump facing criticism that his policies and inflammatory rhetoric have aggravated a racial divide in the United States signed an order on Tuesday that he said would reform police practices even as he pressed for law and nationwide | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-usa-trump/trump-signs-order-on-police-reform-after-weeks-of-protests-about-racial-injustice-idUSKBN23N2NR | 2020-06-17 |
| The company which has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic in April received billion in emergency funding from the U.S. Congress | Negative | U.S. passenger railroad service Amtrak which has been reeling from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic will run many of its longdistance routes less frequently and cut the frequency of trains in its busy Northeast Corridor the rail operator said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-amtrak/amtrak-reducing-service-offering-buyout-packages-to-employees-idUSKBN23O04X | 2020-06-17 |
| Among those targeted by the raids were Congressman Daniel Silveira and conservative blogger Allan dos Santos both of them said on social media | Negative | BRASILIA Brazils top court on Tuesday granted police permission to inspect financial and phone records of federal lawmakers allied with President Jair Bolsonaro as part of a probe into antidemocratic rallies a source with direct knowledge of the ruling said | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/brazil-court-allows-police-to-access-bolsonaro-allies-phone-bank-records-idUSKBN23N2L5 | 2020-06-17 |
| This would be the first time that Bezos has appeared before Congress according to a source familiar with the company | Neutral | WASHINGTON Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-amazon-com-congress-bezos/amazon-says-ceo-bezos-willing-to-testify-before-u-s-congress-idUSKBN23M285 | 2020-06-16 |
| Bolsonaro is also facing multiple impeachment proposals in Congress | Negative | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday that the countrys military would not obey any order to remove an elected president deepening a war of words with the judicial branch that has led to fears of threats to democracy in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-bolsonaro/brazils-bolsonaro-says-military-will-not-remove-elected-president-idUSKBN23M387 | 2020-06-16 |
| YORK The Trump administration is hindering oversight of over trillion in pandemic stimulus funds according to a watchdog group tasked by Congress to detect fraud and misuse of federal aid aimed at mitigating economic fallout from coronavirus | Negative | YORK The Trump administration is hindering oversight of over trillion in pandemic stimulus funds according to a watchdog group tasked by Congress to detect fraud and misuse of federal aid aimed at mitigating economic fallout from coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-stimulus/trump-administration-is-blocking-covid-stimulus-oversight-government-watchdog-letter-idUSKBN23M2XD | 2020-06-16 |
| Omar was elected along with Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib in November 2018 making them among the first two Muslim women to serve in the U.S. Congress | Neutral | Father of Somaliaborn U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar died on Monday night of complications from the novel coronavirus local media reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-ilhan-omar/rep-ilhan-omars-father-dies-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN23N0QA | 2020-06-16 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO The governor of the federal district in which Brazils capital Brasilia is located closed the area around the presidential palace ministries Supreme Court and Congress on Sunday to keep rightwing supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro from gathering there | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO The governor of the federal district in which Brazils capital Brasilia is located closed the area around the presidential palace ministries Supreme Court and Congress on Sunday to keep rightwing supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro from gathering there | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/governor-shuts-streets-in-brasilia-to-stop-protesters-reaching-congress-supreme-court-idUSKBN23L0PN | 2020-06-15 |
| The protesters who Bolsonaro has greeted on numerous previous occasions accuse the Supreme Court and Congress of blocking the presidents ability to govern | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO The governor of the federal district in which Brazils capital Brasilia is located closed the area around the presidential palace ministries Supreme Court and Congress on Sunday to keep rightwing supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro from gathering there | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/governor-shuts-streets-in-brasilia-to-stop-protesters-reaching-congress-supreme-court-idUSKBN23L0PN | 2020-06-15 |
| Sessions was also credited with improving the FBIs rocky relations with Congress another problem area that had dated back to scandals when Hoover was director | Negative | WASHINGTON William S. Sessions an FBI chief under three U.S. presidents who won praise for bringing more diversity to the agency but who was fired after being investigated for ethical lapses died Friday aged 90 U.S. media reported | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-people-sessions-obituary/william-s-sessions-former-fbi-director-dies-at-90-media-idUSKBN23K0E9 | 2020-06-15 |
| The Federal Reserve expects household finances and business balance sheets to suffer persistent as a result of the shock to economic activity arising from the coronavirus pandemic the central bank said in a report to Congress on Friday | Negative | The Federal Reserve expects household finances and business balance sheets to suffer persistent as a result of the shock to economic activity arising from the coronavirus pandemic the central bank said in a report to Congress on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-fed/persistent-fragilities-ahead-for-households-and-businesses-fed-report-idUSKBN23J2D0 | 2020-06-13 |
| The bill requires the president to give Congress periodic updates on foreign companies and individuals that steal vital U.S. trade secrets and mandates the leveling of penalties including economic sanctions | Negative | A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators on Thursday introduced legislation that would require Republican President Donald Trump to more systematically punish China for stealing U.S. technology | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-ip/u-s-senators-introduce-new-bill-to-punish-chinese-technology-theft-idUSKBN23I34A | 2020-06-12 |
| There is a separate movement in Congress led by Democrats to remove statues of Confederate generals and leaders from the U.S. Capitol | Positive | WASHINGTON The Republicanled U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee voted to require the Department of Defense to rename military bases named after Confederate generals setting up a clash with President Donald Trump who opposes that change and promised a veto | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-bases-senate/defying-trump-republican-led-senate-panel-backs-stripping-confederate-names-from-military-bases-idUSKBN23I2B7 | 2020-06-12 |
| A conservative on fiscal and social issues the former businessman declined to join the Congressional Black Caucus | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Tim Scott the chambers only black Republican was thrust into the center of the national debate on policing when Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put him in charge Tuesday of the caucuss response to protests over racial inequality and the use of force by law enforcement | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-minneapolis-police-senate-scott/senates-only-black-republican-blasts-critics-of-his-police-reform-plan-idUSKBN23H1ZH | 2020-06-11 |
| Booker Harris and Scott are the only three black senators reflecting the lack of diversity in Congress 100member upper chamber | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Tim Scott the chambers only black Republican was thrust into the center of the national debate on policing when Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put him in charge Tuesday of the caucuss response to protests over racial inequality and the use of force by law enforcement | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-minneapolis-police-senate-scott/senates-only-black-republican-blasts-critics-of-his-police-reform-plan-idUSKBN23H1ZH | 2020-06-11 |
| We hope this oneyear moratorium might give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules and we stand ready to help if Amazon said | Positive | Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-amazon-com-facial-recognition/amazon-pauses-police-use-of-its-facial-recognition-tech-for-a-year-idUSKBN23H3EO | 2020-06-11 |
| Georgia was one of five states choosing candidates for the White House and Congress on Tuesday | Neutral | WASHINGTON Voters encountered long lines and problems with voting machines on Tuesday during a chaotic day of inperson balloting in Georgia the latest state to struggle to conduct elections amid the health worries of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/long-lines-voting-machine-problems-fuel-investigations-in-u-s-state-of-georgia-idUSKBN23G19F | 2020-06-10 |
| We are looking as many others are at changing Section Barr said adding that the change would require action by the U.S. Congress | Neutral | WASHINGTON Four Republican U.S. senators on Tuesday urged the Federal Communications Commission to review whether to revise liability protections for internet companies after President Donald Trump urged action | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-trump-fcc/republican-senators-push-fcc-to-act-on-trump-social-media-order-idUSKBN23G2WP | 2020-06-10 |
| What kind of record will Hong Kong show to the people of the whole country represented by the then National Peoples Congress for a new he said | Neutral | HONG KONG A Chinese official suggested on Monday that the degree of autonomy that Hong Kong would have when the postcolonial agreement on its status runs out in 2047 could depend on how the protesthit city behaves until then | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-hongkong-protests/chinese-official-suggests-hong-kong-should-behave-to-keep-high-autonomy-beyond-2047-idUSKBN23F1ER | 2020-06-09 |
| This is the single most effective thing Congress can said former federal prosecutor Arthur Rizer now a criminal justice expert at the conservative R Street think tank | Negative | WASHINGTON Two weeks after George Floyds death in police custody sparked nationwide protests Democrats led by black members of the U.S. Congress are set to introduce legislation to combat police violence and racial injustice including making it easier to sue officers who kill | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-minneapolis-police-congress/u-s-democrats-black-lawmakers-ready-response-to-george-floyd-death-idUSKBN23E0E0 | 2020-06-08 |
| The development policy loan is for the governments general funding needs and fell within the debt limits already approved by Mexicos Congress he said | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico has taken out a billion loan from the World Bank as the effects of the coronavirus begin to squeeze the economy a business newspaper reported on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-world-bank/mexico-takes-out-1-billion-loan-from-world-bank-newspaper-idUSKBN23E0UB | 2020-06-08 |
| More than 30 motions have been presented in Congress to impeach Bolsonaro for trampling on Brazils constitution mostly from leftist opponents | Negative | BRASILIA One of the worlds worst coronavirus outbreaks a paralyzed economy sending investors fleeing for the exit and accusations that he has undermined Brazils young democracy have not loosened President Jair Bolsonaros grip on power | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-analysis/covid-19-crisis-shakes-brazil-but-bolsonaro-keeps-impeachment-at-bay-idUSKBN23C1FM | 2020-06-06 |
| If the recession and investigations into Bolsonaro get bad enough to erode his support the tide in Congress could eventually turn toward impeachment said centerleft lawmaker Tabata Amaral | Negative | BRASILIA One of the worlds worst coronavirus outbreaks a paralyzed economy sending investors fleeing for the exit and accusations that he has undermined Brazils young democracy have not loosened President Jair Bolsonaros grip on power | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-analysis/covid-19-crisis-shakes-brazil-but-bolsonaro-keeps-impeachment-at-bay-idUSKBN23C1FM | 2020-06-06 |
| This is an election year and I felt the Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress would do whatever it took to keep the economy Tovstanovsky said | Neutral | NAPERVILLE Ill | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-autos-used/bargain-conscious-americans-lift-used-car-sales-in-the-coronavirus-economy-idUSKBN23C1FK | 2020-06-06 |
| Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will testify before the U.S. Congress on June 16 and 17 in hearings on the central banks semiannual monetary policy report | Neutral | Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will testify before the U.S. Congress on June 16 and 17 in hearings on the central banks semiannual monetary policy report | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-fed-powell-congress/feds-powell-scheduled-for-congressional-appearances-june-16-17-idUSKBN23C33G | 2020-06-06 |
| WASHINGTON The death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody and the protests that followed have stirred both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress to call hearings on policing and for some lawmakers to plan the unveiling of a bill on police brutality next week | Negative | WASHINGTON The death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody and the protests that followed have stirred both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress to call hearings on policing and for some lawmakers to plan the unveiling of a bill on police brutality next week | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-minneapolis-police-congress/floyd-death-sparks-democratic-republican-calls-in-u-s-congress-for-action-on-policing-idUSKBN23B34A | 2020-06-05 |
| In rallies in Brasilia Sao Paulo and other big cities on Sunday militant Bolsonaro supporters urged the military to intervene and close down Congress and the Supreme Court | Negative | BRASILIA Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro urged his supporters on Monday to put off their protests against the countrys Supreme Court next weekend after counterdemonstrations triggered violent clashes on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/after-protests-shake-brazil-bolsonaro-tries-to-rein-in-his-backers-idUSKBN23836U | 2020-06-02 |
| The 9th Circuit found that nothing in the Clean Air Act raises the inference that Congress intended to place manufacturers beyond the reach of state and local governments | Positive | A U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday that Volkswagen AG | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-volkswagen-emissions/u-s-court-refuses-to-shield-volkswagen-in-diesel-scandal-lawsuits-idUSKBN2383GV | 2020-06-02 |
| He also wants Congress to repeal the Section 230 protections | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps effort to regulate social media companies content decisions may face an uphill battle from regulators who have previously said they cannot oversee the conduct of internet firms | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-trump-fcc/trumps-push-to-regulate-social-media-faces-uphill-battle-at-fcc-idUSKBN23823X | 2020-06-02 |
| The notification process alerts Congress that a sale to a foreign country has been approved but it does not indicate that a contract has been signed or negotiations have concluded | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department has approved a possible | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-kuwait-patriot/u-s-state-department-clears-1-4-billion-sale-of-patriot-air-and-missile-system-to-kuwait-idUSKBN2343AR | 2020-05-29 |
| BRASILIA Brazils government is in talks with Congress about extending the emergency program to provide informal workers hit by the coronavirus crisis with three monthly payments of 600 reais but at a reduced level Treasury Secretary Mansueto Almeida said on Thursday | Negative | BRASILIA Brazils government is in talks with Congress about extending the emergency program to provide informal workers hit by the coronavirus crisis with three monthly payments of 600 reais but at a reduced level Treasury Secretary Mansueto Almeida said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy-emergency-measures/brazil-mulls-extending-aid-program-for-informal-workers-but-lowering-payments-idUSKBN2343JU | 2020-05-29 |
| WASHINGTON An effort to extend parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act stalled in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday after President Donald Trump promised to veto it and Republicans withdrew their support | Neutral | WASHINGTON An effort to extend parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act stalled in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday after President Donald Trump promised to veto it and Republicans withdrew their support | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-surveillance-congress/bid-to-extend-u-s-surveillance-tools-stalls-after-trump-threatens-veto-idUSKBN2340C0 | 2020-05-28 |
| The proposed security law was only the latest in a series of undermining Hong Kong freedoms he told Congress | Negative | HONG KONG Riot police were deployed across Hong Kong on Thursday after mass protests a day earlier as lawmakers debated a bill that would criminalise disrespect of Chinas national anthem and Washington piled on pressure to preserve the citys freedoms | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-hongkong-protests/riot-police-deployed-across-hong-kong-as-u-s-china-tensions-rise-idUSKBN2340FZ | 2020-05-28 |
| The proposal for new legislation is expected to be passed on Thursday by the National Peoples Congress | Neutral | YORK Asian shares erased gains and the yuan languished on Thursday on growing worries Chinas planned security law for Hong Kong would spark a broader diplomatic confrontation with the United States | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asian-stocks-turn-red-as-hong-kong-tensions-sour-mood-idUSKBN2333FB | 2020-05-28 |
| There can be no doubt that this is a direct result of President Trumps Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney who leads the Committee on Oversight and Reform said on Tuesday | Positive | WASHINGTON The Defense Departments deputy inspector general resigned on Tuesday more than a month after President Donald Trump removed him as the Pentagons acting inspector general becoming the latest official in a federal oversight role to depart | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-pentagon-inspectorgeneral/pentagons-deputy-inspector-general-resigns-latest-in-watchdog-role-to-depart-idUSKBN2322H1 | 2020-05-27 |
| 1 is in addition to an annual billion in support it has been receiving from Congress in recent years | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. passenger railroad service Amtrak said on Tuesday it needs a further | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-amtrak/amtrak-needs-1-5-billion-bailout-prepares-to-cut-up-to-20-of-workforce-idUSKBN232283 | 2020-05-27 |
| The company which has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic in April received billion in emergency funding from Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. passenger railroad service Amtrak said on Tuesday it needs a further | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-amtrak/amtrak-needs-1-5-billion-bailout-prepares-to-cut-up-to-20-of-workforce-idUSKBN232283 | 2020-05-27 |
| The lawsuit asks for Newsoms order to be barred as unlawful and was filed by the RNC the National Republican Congressional Committee and the California Republican Party | Negative | The Republican National Committee and two other Republican groups on Sunday filed a lawsuit against California Governor Gavin Newsom over his executive orders to use mailin ballots for the November election | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-california-republicans/three-republican-groups-sue-california-governor-over-mail-in-vote-order-idUSKBN2310OF | 2020-05-26 |
| Nevertheless focus is likely to be on Chinas National Peoples Congress as discussions of political and economic policies ANZ analysts wrote in a note | Neutral | SYDNEY May 25 Asian shares started cautiously on Monday as central bank largesse globally boosted sentiment but rising trade tensions between the worlds two biggest economies dulled risk appetite | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asian-shares-tick-up-eyes-on-china-u-s-trade-relations-idUSL4N2D703S | 2020-05-25 |
| A group representing some of the largest U.S. employers has asked Congress for a yearlong ban on mergers and acquisitions among hospitals and doctors groups that received government money to cope with the effects of the COVID19 pandemic | Negative | A group representing some of the largest U.S. employers has asked Congress for a yearlong ban on mergers and acquisitions among hospitals and doctors groups that received government money to cope with the effects of the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-hospital-m-a/large-employers-push-back-on-u-s-healthcare-mergers-during-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN22Z015 | 2020-05-23 |
| In the video Salles complained about legal challenges to proposed environmental rule changes that the government needed legal to defend the changes and should bypass Congress | Neutral | BRASILIA Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles called on the government to push through further deregulation of environmental policy while people are distracted by the coronavirus pandemic in a video the Supreme Court ordered released on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-environment/brazil-minister-calls-for-environmental-deregulation-while-public-distracted-by-covid-idUSKBN22Y30Y | 2020-05-23 |
| Trump has repeatedly balked at Congress power to oversee his administration | Neutral | WASHINGTON The White House and the State Department did not provide an adequate to lawmakers requests for documents related to the firing of the departments inspector general a congressional aide said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-inspectorgeneral/trump-administration-did-not-give-adequate-response-to-probe-into-watchdogs-firing-aide-idUSKBN22Z007 | 2020-05-23 |
| We dont need Congress | Neutral | BRASILIA Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles called on the government to push through further deregulation of environmental policy while people are distracted by the coronavirus pandemic in a video the Supreme Court ordered released on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-environment/brazil-minister-calls-for-environmental-deregulation-while-public-distracted-by-covid-idUSKBN22Y30Y | 2020-05-23 |
| Because things that need Congress with the mess that is there we are not going to get passed | Negative | BRASILIA Brazilian Environment Minister Ricardo Salles called on the government to push through further deregulation of environmental policy while people are distracted by the coronavirus pandemic in a video the Supreme Court ordered released on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-environment/brazil-minister-calls-for-environmental-deregulation-while-public-distracted-by-covid-idUSKBN22Y30Y | 2020-05-23 |
| Another issue is whether the standing committee of the National Peoples Congress has extra powers to ultimately interpret Hong Kong court rulings on national security | Negative | HONG KONG Beijing is set to impose a new national security law on Hong Kong following last years often violent antiChina unrest that plunged the city into its deepest turmoil since returning to Chinese rule in 1997 | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-parliament-hongkong-factbox/factbox-china-eyes-tougher-national-security-regime-for-hong-kong-idUSKBN22X26D | 2020-05-23 |
| They also want to garner public support for the countrys new amnesty law approved by federal Congress in April but still to be passed in the countrys state legislatures | Positive | The group wants case reviews for some female inmates they say many were victims as much as perpetrators of often petty crime and more help for them on release | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-women-prison/mexicos-former-prisoners-work-to-free-hundreds-of-women-idUSKBN22X1WR | 2020-05-22 |
| However markets were disappointed at Chinas decision not to set an economic growth target this year as the National Peoples Congress kicked off a weeklong meeting | Negative | TOKYO Oil prices fell on Friday after China failed to set an economic growth target for 2020 sparking concerns that the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic will cap fuel demand in the worlds secondlargest oil user | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-oil/oil-falls-as-china-omits-2020-growth-target-amid-pandemic-idUSKBN22Y04E | 2020-05-22 |
| A total of billion has been provided by Congress for the loan program which is part of broader coronavirus emergency aid totaling around trillion so far | Negative | WASHINGTON Negotiators in the U.S. Senate reached agreement on Thursday on legislation that would double the period of time in which small businesses can use Paycheck Protection Program loans to 16 weeks from the current eightweek limit according to a Senate aide | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-ppp/senators-attempt-to-advance-bill-lengthening-coronavirus-business-loan-terms-idUSKBN22X2MH | 2020-05-22 |
| Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is expected to unveil stimulus measures when the National Peoples Congress starts on Friday to spur its economy which has been battered by the coronavirus | Negative | Dollar supported as a safehaven | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-holds-gains-amid-fresh-u-s-china-tensions-idUSL4N2D34EF | 2020-05-22 |
| We spent to fight COVID19 and we need more to continue fighting it and Congressman Joey Salceda the bills principal author told Reuters | Neutral | MANILA A Philippine lawmaker has introduced a bill in parliament aimed at taxing big tech firms such as Facebook Alphabets Google and Youtube Netflix and Spotify to raise funds to battle the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-philippines-economy-tax/philippine-lawmaker-proposes-tax-targeting-tech-giants-to-fund-virus-fight-idUSKBN22Y0IG | 2020-05-22 |
| And the U.S. economy wont recover its lost ground until sometime after next year the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON Asian stocks struggled to extend the weeks rally on Wednesday and gold and bonds firmed as a sceptical press report dented some hopes for a COVID19 vaccine and concerns about bumps in the global recovery from the pandemic returned | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asian-stocks-adrift-as-vaccine-rally-falters-idUSKBN22V3BU | 2020-05-20 |
| Brazils lower house speaker Rodrigo Maia earlier said he would introduce the bill on the floor of Congress on Wednesday for a potential vote | Negative | British supermarkets have warned Brazil they might have to boycott its products if lawmakers there pass a contentious bill that could enable faster destruction of the Amazon rainforest | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment-boycott/british-supermarkets-threaten-brazil-boycott-over-proposed-forest-law-idUSKBN22V39M | 2020-05-20 |
| One of those senators Republican Josh Hawley said TikTok previously told him its executives could not testify before Congress because they were located in China | Negative | Mayer led the successful launch of the streaming service in November but in February was passed over as Disneys new chief executive | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-bytedance-disney-streaming/disneys-streaming-chief-mayer-to-become-tiktok-ceo-idUSKBN22U2Y3 | 2020-05-19 |
| He said at the time the delay was to allow the report to account for any actions Beijing might contemplate in the runup to Chinas May 22 National Peoples Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday he believed China had threatened to interfere with the work of U.S. journalists in Hong Kong and warned Beijing that any decision impinging on Hong Kongs autonomy could affect the U.S. assessment of Hong Kongs status | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-china-hongkong-autonomy/pompeo-warns-china-over-interference-with-u-s-journalists-in-hong-kong-idUSKBN22T0SB | 2020-05-18 |
| Lawmakers also hope to include reshoring provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act or NDAA a billion bill setting policy for the Pentagon that Congress passes every year | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers and officials are crafting proposals to push American companies to move operations or key suppliers out of China that include tax breaks new rules and carefully structured subsidies | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-supply-chains/u-s-mulls-paying-companies-tax-breaks-to-pull-supply-chains-from-china-idUSKBN22U0FH | 2020-05-18 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee on Saturday said it would investigate President Donald Trumps firing of the State Department inspector general after the president notified Congress late Friday that he planned to remove the watchdog | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee on Saturday said it would investigate President Donald Trumps firing of the State Department inspector general after the president notified Congress late Friday that he planned to remove the watchdog | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inspectorgeneral-congress/democrats-to-probe-trumps-firing-of-state-department-watchdog-idUSKBN22S0U4 | 2020-05-17 |
| Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said in a statement that citing a general lack of confidence simply is not sufficient detail to satisfy Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON Democrats in Congress on Saturday launched an investigation into President Donald Trumps move to oust the State Departments internal watchdog accusing the president of escalating his fight against any oversight of his administration | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inspectorgeneral/democrats-launch-probe-of-trumps-firing-of-state-department-watchdog-idUSKBN22S09Z | 2020-05-17 |
| Lenders are already in the crosshairs of Democrats in Congress who have also asked for data on the loans as have attorney generals in New York and Massachusetts | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department has sent grand jury subpoenas to big banks seeking records as part of a broader investigation into potential abuse of a billion emergency loan program to help small businesses hurt by the novel coronavirus two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-doj-banks/exclusive-u-s-justice-dept-subpoenas-wall-street-banks-for-small-business-loans-info-sources-idUSKBN22R3EZ | 2020-05-16 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has scheduled a vote for next Tuesday to confirm President Donald Trumps nominee John Ratcliffe to the post of Director of National Intelligence two Congressional sources told Reuters | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has scheduled a vote for next Tuesday to confirm President Donald Trumps nominee John Ratcliffe to the post of Director of National Intelligence two Congressional sources told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-intelligence-ratcliffe/senate-intelligence-panel-sets-tuesday-vote-on-ratcliffe-nomination-for-spy-chief-idUSKBN22R3DJ | 2020-05-16 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on Friday allowing members to temporarily cast their votes by proxy a historic shift as the U.S. Congress searches for ways to continue to function despite the coronavirus pandemic | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on Friday allowing members to temporarily cast their votes by proxy a historic shift as the U.S. Congress searches for ways to continue to function despite the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-proxy/u-s-house-approves-proxy-voting-during-coronavirus-pandemic-idUSKBN22R3FR | 2020-05-16 |
| The Democratic initiative which was opposed by Republicans marked an historic shift for Congress which had never before allowed lawmakers to cast votes from anywhere but the House chamber | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday narrowly approved a trillion bill crafted by Democrats to provide more aid for battling the coronavirus and stimulating a faltering economy rocked by the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/house-passes-3-trillion-coronavirus-aid-bill-opposed-by-trump-idUSKBN22R1G9 | 2020-05-16 |
| Worker advocates have pushed Congress to direct OSHA to issue emergency temporary standards that all businesses must follow | Negative | The U.S. Department of Labor issued its first workplace guidance to nursing homes on Thursday since the COVID19 pandemic swept the country and ravaged care facilities saying residents staff and visitors should keep 6 feet | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-workplace/u-s-issues-first-coronavirus-workplace-guidance-to-nursing-homes-idUSKBN22Q3P2 | 2020-05-15 |
| But many of those restrictions are already in place or have even been tightened by Trump and a decadesold U.S. economic embargo remains and can only be lifted by Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States is considering returning Cuba to its list of state sponsors of terrorism a senior Trump administration official told Reuters on Thursday a move that would mark another major blow to increasingly tense relations between Washington and Havana | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-cuba-blacklist-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-considers-returning-cuba-to-list-of-state-sponsors-of-terrorism-source-idUSKBN22Q35O | 2020-05-15 |
| If the administration wants Congress to act they should stop stonewalling and show us the they claim to the aide said | Neutral | WASHINGTON A prominent U.S. Republican senator proposed legislation on Tuesday that would authorize the U.S. president to impose farreaching sanctions on China if it fails to give a full account of events leading to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-graham/trump-senate-ally-seeks-china-sanctions-over-covid-19-probe-idUSKBN22O2XM | 2020-05-14 |
| But the source who spoke on condition of anonymity charged that the U.S. State Department had ignored multiple deadlines to share with Congress information on the virus origins | Negative | WASHINGTON A prominent U.S. Republican senator proposed legislation on Tuesday that would authorize the U.S. president to impose farreaching sanctions on China if it fails to give a full account of events leading to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-graham/trump-senate-ally-seeks-china-sanctions-over-covid-19-probe-idUSKBN22O2XM | 2020-05-14 |
| Zunker had hoped to be the first Native American elected to Congress from the state | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Republicans kept a seat representing a rural Wisconsin district in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday as state legislator Tom Tiffany defeated Democratic law school professor Tricia Zunker in a special election the New York Times said | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-wisconsin/republicans-keep-congressional-seat-in-wisconsin-election-new-york-times-idUSKBN22P09O | 2020-05-14 |
| com criticized for not acting quickly enough to curb sellers who charged hundreds of dollars for highdemand hand sanitizer during the early phase of the new coronavirus pandemic urged Congress on Wednesday to pass a law against price gouging during times of national emergency | Negative | WASHINGTON Online retailer Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-amazon-pricegouging-congress/amazon-com-asks-for-federal-law-against-price-gouging-during-national-emergencies-idUSKBN22P2QW | 2020-05-14 |
| WASHINGTON Thousands of local U.S. newspapers and broadcast outlets grappling with a massive downturn in advertising because of the COVID19 pandemic would be eligible for financial help under legislation introduced in Congress on Wednesday | Neutral | WASHINGTON Thousands of local U.S. newspapers and broadcast outlets grappling with a massive downturn in advertising because of the COVID19 pandemic would be eligible for financial help under legislation introduced in Congress on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress-media/u-s-lawmakers-renew-push-to-grant-assistance-to-local-news-outlets-idUSKBN22P3CS | 2020-05-14 |
| Dems are trying to steal the Mike Garcia Congressional Race in California | Negative | WASHINGTON Republicans advanced toward their goal of recapturing a seat in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday as Mike Garcia a former Navy fighter pilot endorsed by President Donald Trump was leading in preliminary results from a special election north of Los Angeles | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-california/republican-leads-in-california-vote-to-replace-u-s-house-member-who-quit-after-scandal-idUSKBN22O1DY | 2020-05-13 |
| Lira who has denied committing any crime and is seeking to become the next speaker of the lower house of Congress declined to comment | Negative | BRASILIA Facing a criminal investigation that could oust him from office Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro is courting political power brokers he once decried as corrupt in a bid to survive a crisis worsened by his handling of the coronavirus epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-bolsonaro-analysis/as-coronavirus-crisis-saps-his-popularity-brazils-bolsonaro-courts-former-foes-idUSKBN22O31Z | 2020-05-13 |
| WASHINGTON The White House has halted talks with Congress over any further coronavirus stimulus package as it waits for more information about how U.S. state reopenings affect the economy White House top economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters on Friday | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House has halted talks with Congress over any further coronavirus stimulus package as it waits for more information about how U.S. state reopenings affect the economy White House top economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/white-house-wont-consider-another-stimulus-bill-in-may-kudlow-idUSKBN22K21V | 2020-05-12 |
| Simply put Congress did not pick winners and losers in the Leitman wrote | Neutral | A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that strip clubs cannot be blocked from obtaining emergency federal loans during the coronavirus pandemic and declared invalid a rule barring a wide range of businesses from obtaining those loans | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-strip-clubs/strip-clubs-other-disfavored-businesses-entitled-to-emergency-loans-in-pandemic-u-s-judge-idUSKBN22N2YG | 2020-05-12 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump may be open to further federal funding to help U.S. states recover funds spent battling the novel coronavirus White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Sunday as Congress weighs another possible economic relief bill | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump may be open to further federal funding to help U.S. states recover funds spent battling the novel coronavirus White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Sunday as Congress weighs another possible economic relief bill | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hassett/trump-may-help-offset-states-coronavirus-costs-hassett-idUSKBN22M0GV | 2020-05-12 |
| WASHINGTON The White House has begun informal talks with Republicans and Democrats in Congress about what to include in another round of coronavirus relief legislation officials said on Sunday while predicting further U.S. jobs losses in the coming months | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House has begun informal talks with Republicans and Democrats in Congress about what to include in another round of coronavirus relief legislation officials said on Sunday while predicting further U.S. jobs losses in the coming months | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-coronavirus/white-house-considers-more-coronavirus-aid-as-jobs-picture-worsens-idUSKBN22M0GX | 2020-05-11 |
| The U.S. governments billion program to rescue small businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic thwarts the intention of Congress by making it hard for some borrowers to convert loans to grants and failing to prioritize the right businesses a government watchdog said on Friday | Negative | The U.S. governments billion program to rescue small businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic thwarts the intention of Congress by making it hard for some borrowers to convert loans to grants and failing to prioritize the right businesses a government watchdog said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-watchdog/u-s-small-business-rescue-program-ignored-congress-watchdog-idUSKBN22K2XH | 2020-05-11 |
| If the court were to embrace Trumps broadest arguments it would severely weaken the ability of Congress to conduct oversight of a president | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday considers three blockbuster cases concerning efforts by the Democraticled House of Representatives and a grand jury working with a prosecutor in New York City to obtain copies of President Donald Trumps financial records | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-trump-explainer/explainer-whats-at-stake-in-supreme-court-fight-over-trump-financial-records-idUSKBN22N1CU | 2020-05-11 |
| McConnells Republicans control a slim majority in the Senate but he would need to sell the idea to the Democraticcontrolled House of Representatives for it to pass Congress | Neutral | WASHINGTON A key U.S. Senate Democrat pushed back on Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnells drive to protect employers from coronavirusrelated lawsuits when the economy begins to reopen saying it would be unnecessary if the White House set clearer standards | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-liability/fight-brews-in-congress-over-republican-push-to-protect-business-from-coronavirus-lawsuits-idUSKBN22J1HI | 2020-05-08 |
| I expect the Senate will soon look to pass Senator Rubios Uyghur Human Rights Policy McConnell the senior Republican in Congress said in a speech to the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday he expects the chamber to move soon to pass a bill that would call on the Trump administration to toughen its response to Chinas crackdown on the countrys Muslim minority groups | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang/senate-leader-expects-vote-soon-on-seeking-china-sanctions-over-uighurs-idUSKBN22J3E4 | 2020-05-08 |
| Pelosi acknowledged the varying approaches saying that at some point all sides would have to negotiate a deal that could pass Congress and be signed into law by Trump | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday laid out the broad outlines of the next massive coronavirusresponse bill Democrats will seek with possible votes as soon as next week | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-house-democrats-to-attempt-passing-next-coronavirus-bill-soon-idUSKBN22J2HW | 2020-05-08 |
| McCarthy said he views proxy voting as a tool that could be used as a last resort in the future if Congress was unable to meet | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday laid out the broad outlines of the next massive coronavirusresponse bill Democrats will seek with possible votes as soon as next week | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-house-democrats-to-attempt-passing-next-coronavirus-bill-soon-idUSKBN22J2HW | 2020-05-08 |
| Even if the president would wish to give them a franchise under the constitution only Congress has the power to grant presidential spokesman Harry Roque said on Thursday | Neutral | MANILA The Philippines biggest broadcaster asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to quash an order by the telecoms regulator to shut down its operations saying it undermined freedom of speech and the public right to information | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-media-court/philippine-broadcaster-fights-order-to-shut-down-idUSKBN22J1RA | 2020-05-08 |
| The measure would require Trump to remove U.S. troops engaged in hostilities against Iran unless Congress declares war or passes a specific authorization for the use of military force | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate failed on Thursday to override President Donald Trumps veto of a resolution that would have reined in his ability to wage war against Iran by requiring him to obtain congressional authorization for military action | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress/u-s-senate-upholds-trump-veto-of-insulting-iran-war-powers-resolution-idUSKBN22J30A | 2020-05-08 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department is delaying a report to Congress assessing whether Hong Kong enjoys sufficient autonomy from China to continue receiving special treatment from the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department is delaying a report to Congress assessing whether Hong Kong enjoys sufficient autonomy from China to continue receiving special treatment from the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-usa-autonomy/pompeo-delays-hong-kong-report-to-see-if-china-acts-to-further-undermine-autonomy-idUSKBN22I2Q0 | 2020-05-07 |
| It is a real Joenia Wapichana the leader of the appeal to the WHO and the first indigenous woman elected to Brazils Congress told Reuters | Positive | BRASILIA Indigenous leaders in Brazil asked the World Health Organization on Monday to set up an emergency fund to help protect their communities from the threat of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-indigenous/brazils-indigenous-people-call-for-who-emergency-fund-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN22H09W | 2020-05-05 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Departments of State and Energy should commit to regular briefings to relevant committees in Congress on talks about nuclear power cooperation with Saudi Arabia a congressional watchdog said in a report on Monday | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Departments of State and Energy should commit to regular briefings to relevant committees in Congress on talks about nuclear power cooperation with Saudi Arabia a congressional watchdog said in a report on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-saudi-nuclearpower/u-s-should-keep-congress-informed-about-nuclear-talks-with-saudis-gao-idUSKBN22G2XV | 2020-05-05 |
| Last year a senior State Department official said the United States might remove Sudan from the list but the U.S. Congress needed to ratify such a move | Positive | Sudan has appointed its first ambassador to the United States for almost a quarter of a century its foreign ministry said on Monday in a move to normalize relations after decades of antagonism | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-sudan/sudan-appoints-first-ambassador-to-u-s-for-decades-idUSKBN22G2HC | 2020-05-05 |
| With some Democrats warning the Senates return could risk spreading the virus the Trump administration last week offered Congress 1000 coronavirus tests | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate convened in Washington for the first time in nearly six weeks on Monday despite concern it might put lawmakers and staff at risk of contracting the coronavirus but made clear it could take weeks to pass any new relief legislation | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-senate-returns-to-washington-amid-concerns-about-coronavirus-risk-idUSKBN22G22F | 2020-05-05 |
| We are in discussions internally and with leading members of Congress | Neutral | WASHINGTON White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Sunday he would not rule out anything in a new relief bill to ease the tremendous of the coronavirus outbreak including more money for state and local governments and small businesses | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-kudlow/white-house-adviser-will-not-rule-out-more-money-for-states-small-businesses-idUSKBN22F0KN | 2020-05-04 |
| The worrying outlook has led Congress to begin debating a bill to grant the central bank emergency powers to carry out quantitative or QE as part of its crisisfighting arsenal | Negative | BUENOS AIRES Brazils central bank will cut its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points again on Wednesday to aid Latin Americas No | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-rates-poll/brazil-central-bank-to-cut-rates-again-by-50-bps-in-may-reuters-poll-idUSKBN22D5U7 | 2020-05-02 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department has approved a possible sale to the Philippines of one of two attack helicopter variants the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said on Thursday in an official notification to the U.S. Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department has approved a possible sale to the Philippines of one of two attack helicopter variants the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said on Thursday in an official notification to the U.S. Congress | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-philippines-helicopter/u-s-state-department-approves-possible-attack-helicopter-sale-to-philippines-idUSKBN22C3K0 | 2020-05-01 |
| Workers have protested safety conditions at fastfood restaurants hospitals and warehouses while businesses have lobbied Congress for legal shields to protect them against lawsuits from employees and customers | Negative | U.S. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia on Thursday defended his departments handling of workplace safety during the coronavirus pandemic saying the cop is on the in response to union criticism about a lack of directives to protect workers | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-osha/u-s-labor-secretary-defends-workplace-safety-record-during-pandemic-idUSKBN22C3TI | 2020-05-01 |
| U.S. consumer advocates are urging Congress to resist growing demands by companies for protections from coronavirusrelated lawsuits as states start to ease pandemic restrictions and businesses begin to reopen | Negative | More than 3 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKCN2280EQ | 2020-04-30 |
| WASHINGTON The long reach of the coronavirus outbreak will not keep U.S. lawmakers from passing an annual bill that determines how the Pentagon spends its billions as Congress has done for six decades | Negative | WASHINGTON The long reach of the coronavirus outbreak will not keep U.S. lawmakers from passing an annual bill that determines how the Pentagon spends its billions as Congress has done for six decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-defense-congress/senior-u-s-house-members-vow-to-pass-major-defense-bill-despite-pandemic-idUSKCN22A347 | 2020-04-29 |
| Internet companies are treated differently than phone companies under the law though Justice Department leaders and some members of Congress have been pushing for new laws restricting strong encryption | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Federal appeals court judges asked prosecutors on Tuesday why a lower court could seal a ruling that absolved Facebook from having to wiretap a criminal suspect using one of the companys encrypted services | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-encryption-rulings-facebook/u-s-appeals-court-asks-why-facebook-encryption-order-should-stay-sealed-idUSKCN22A354 | 2020-04-29 |
| It is one of the few major pieces of legislation to make it through Congress every year a point of great pride for the House and Senate Armed Services panels | Negative | WASHINGTON The long reach of the coronavirus outbreak will not keep U.S. lawmakers from passing an annual bill that determines how the Pentagon spends its billions as Congress has done for six decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-defense-congress/senior-u-s-house-members-vow-to-pass-major-defense-bill-despite-pandemic-idUSKCN22A347 | 2020-04-29 |
| Hoyer a Democrat said the decision was made after he talked to Congress physician on Monday | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives will not return to Washington next week as planned Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday citing health concerns amid a stillrising number of coronavirus cases in the nations capital | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-house-hoyer/u-s-house-of-representatives-will-not-return-to-washington-next-week-hoyer-idUSKCN22A2I5 | 2020-04-29 |
| The affair has sparked talk in Congress of impeachment just four years after such proceedings toppled former President Dilma Rousseff | Negative | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday named a family friend to head the federal police days after his justice minister quit and accused the president of meddling in law enforcement for political motives | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/bolsonaro-taps-family-friend-as-brazil-top-cop-supreme-court-oks-probe-idUSKCN22A1KW | 2020-04-29 |
| Im struggling to see how that theory in the McGahn case because Congress has a long history of obtaining information from the executive branch she added | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. appeals court judges on Tuesday appeared skeptical about broad arguments made by the Trump administration that the House of Representatives cannot sue to enforce a subpoena demanding testimony of a former senior White House official | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-mcgahn/u-s-judges-press-trump-administration-over-subpoena-fight-idUSKCN22A1EW | 2020-04-29 |
| The deadliest pandemic for women in our country more than the coronavirus is feminicidal said Congresswoman Martha Tagle from the opposition Citizens Movement party | Negative | The rate was higher than in the same period last year according to the data | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-women-violence-trfn/murders-of-women-in-mexico-rise-amid-fears-of-lockdown-violence-idUSKCN22930V | 2020-04-28 |
| Oliveiras father was Bolsonaros aide for more than 20 years in Congress | Neutral | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is expected to name his presidential secretary to replace former Justice Minister Sergio Moro who accused Bolsonaro of wrongdoing in his resignation on Friday a person with knowledge of the matter told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/close-bolsonaro-aide-to-become-brazil-justice-minister-source-idUSKCN2280OM | 2020-04-27 |
| You cant easily go to Congress and ask for support and spend the money on an a senior source said | Positive | SAO Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-embraer-m-a-boeing-analysis/after-betting-its-future-on-boeing-jetmaker-embraer-scrambles-for-elusive-plan-b-idUSKCN2280QD | 2020-04-27 |
| Trumps advisers want to hone a list of five or six ideas to present to Congress to help clear the economic carnage Hassett said | Negative | WASHINGTON The shuttering of the U.S. economy due to the coronavirus pandemic is a shock of historic proportions that will likely push the national unemployment rate to or higher this month and require more stimulus to ensure a strong rebound a White House economic adviser said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-economy/u-s-economy-faces-historic-shock-with-16-joblessness-possible-trump-adviser-says-idUSKCN2280J1 | 2020-04-27 |
| Like de Blasio many of the nations governors Democrats and Republicans alike have pressed the Trump administration and Congress to come forward with a sizable relief package | Positive | WASHINGTON The shuttering of the U.S. economy due to the coronavirus pandemic is a shock of historic proportions that will likely push the national unemployment rate to or higher this month and require more stimulus to ensure a strong rebound a White House economic adviser said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-economy/u-s-economy-faces-historic-shock-with-16-joblessness-possible-trump-adviser-says-idUSKCN2280J1 | 2020-04-27 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Friday said he has notified Congress that the new U.S.MexicoCanada trade agreement will take effect on July 1 a month later than initially proposed | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Friday said he has notified Congress that the new U.S.MexicoCanada trade agreement will take effect on July 1 a month later than initially proposed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-trade-usmca/new-north-american-trade-pact-to-take-effect-july-1-ustr-idUSKCN2263H0 | 2020-04-25 |
| WASHINGTON April 24 U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Friday said he has notified Congress that the new U.S.MexicoCanada trade agreement will enter into force on July 1 a month later than initially proposed | Positive | WASHINGTON April 24 U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Friday said he has notified Congress that the new U.S.MexicoCanada trade agreement will enter into force on July 1 a month later than initially proposed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-trade-usmca/new-north-american-trade-pact-to-take-effect-july-1-ustr-idUSW1N2AE026 | 2020-04-25 |
| U.S. pilot unions representatives have been meeting with members of Congress to seek legislation to protect against the spread of coronavirus on airplanes union officials said on Thursday | Positive | All United Airlines flight attendants must wear a face covering or mask while on duty starting April 24 the airline said on Thursday in the first such rule by a major U.S. carrier | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/united-mandates-masks-for-flight-attendants-unions-want-passengers-included-idUSKCN2253RU | 2020-04-24 |
| Nancy Pelosi speaker of the Democratic controlled House of Representatives has said more money for state and local governments would be included in the next coronavirus relief package in Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday derided Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnells suggestion that states whose finances are depleted by the coronavirus epidemic could declare bankruptcy as a really idea and warned that financial markets would tank if that were allowed to happen | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-mcconnell/new-yorks-cuomo-to-mcconnell-on-state-bankruptcy-watch-the-market-tank-idUSKCN2252AE | 2020-04-24 |
| Face covers have been recommended by Congress attending physician for any proceeding in which members may not be able to stay six feet apart | Positive | WASHINGTON Masked and gloved members of the U.S. House of Representatives gathered in a largely empty Capitol for the first time in weeks on Thursday to vote on the next coronavirus response bill under rules that will extend proceedings for hours in the name of safety | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-house/this-could-take-hours-coronavirus-protocols-will-prolong-house-vote-idUSKCN2252ID | 2020-04-24 |
| Echoing Trump many Republicans also want the country including Congress to reopen more quickly than in the several more weeks recommended in many states | Positive | WASHINGTON Hundreds of members of the U.S. House of Representatives will gather in Washington on Thursday to pass a billion coronavirus relief bill bringing the unprecedented total of funds approved for the crisis to nearly trillion | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/u-s-house-to-pass-nearly-500-billion-more-in-coronavirus-relief-idUSKCN2251GX | 2020-04-24 |
| House Republicans had opposed the proxy vote plan saying there are already measures in place to ensure Congress can act in an emergency | Negative | WASHINGTON Hundreds of members of the U.S. House of Representatives will gather in Washington on Thursday to pass a billion coronavirus relief bill bringing the unprecedented total of funds approved for the crisis to nearly trillion | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/u-s-house-to-pass-nearly-500-billion-more-in-coronavirus-relief-idUSKCN2251GX | 2020-04-24 |
| Another round of tough negotiations are expected over the next few weeks on the next bill that both parties say they want to see moving through Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved billion in fresh relief for the U.S. economy and hospitals hammered by the coronavirus pandemic sending the measure to the House of Representatives for final passage later this week | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/500-billion-coronavirus-aid-package-passes-u-s-senate-headed-to-house-idUSKCN2231RK | 2020-04-22 |
| WASHINGTON April 21 U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said discussions on additional coronavirusrelated aid for state and local governments would start after Congress passes a bill funding more small business loans hospitals and testing | Positive | WASHINGTON April 21 U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said discussions on additional coronavirusrelated aid for state and local governments would start after Congress passes a bill funding more small business loans hospitals and testing | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa-congress-trump/trump-says-he-will-discuss-more-coronavirus-money-for-states-after-current-bill-passes-idUSL2N2C90U4 | 2020-04-22 |
| The National Governors Association has called on Congress to grant a total of billion to all states to help shore up battered finances | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to have the federal government help procure chemical reagents and other supplies needed for New York to double its testing capacity for the novel coronavirus New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-testing/trump-agrees-to-help-new-york-double-coronavirus-testing-governor-says-idUSKCN22400N | 2020-04-22 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said discussions on additional coronavirusrelated aid for state and local governments would start after Congress passes a bill funding more small business loans hospitals and testing | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said discussions on additional coronavirusrelated aid for state and local governments would start after Congress passes a bill funding more small business loans hospitals and testing | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress-trump/trump-says-he-will-discuss-more-coronavirus-money-for-states-after-current-bill-passes-idUSKCN2232PC | 2020-04-22 |
| Local news outlets still hold out significant hope they will added to another stimulus bill that Congress is expected to take up in May | Positive | WASHINGTON A nearly billion spending deal reached by U.S. Senate leaders on Tuesday does not expand payroll assistance to struggling local newspapers and broadcast stations whose advertising revenues have plummeted during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress-media/u-s-senate-deal-does-not-extend-assistance-to-local-news-outlets-idUSKCN223302 | 2020-04-22 |
| Protesters in Brasilia chanted slogans against the countrys Supreme Court which has upheld stateorganized lockdowns and against Congress whose opposition lawmakers have also defended quarantines | Negative | PAULO Brazils president Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday again attended a public rally and attacked lockdown measures meant to fight the coronavirus as supporters of the rightwing leader joined political motorcades around the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazils-bolsonaro-attacks-coronavirus-lockdowns-as-supporters-take-to-streets-idUSKBN2210V1 | 2020-04-22 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday Republican and Democratic negotiators have come to terms on the of the next coronavirus relief package which is expected to focus on more aid for small businesses and be taken up in the U.S. Congress this week | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday Republican and Democratic negotiators have come to terms on the of the next coronavirus relief package which is expected to focus on more aid for small businesses and be taken up in the U.S. Congress this week | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pelosi/u-s-pelosi-negotiators-agreed-principles-of-next-coronavirus-aid-package-idUSKBN223039 | 2020-04-21 |
| The administration initially wanted to purchase the crude oil directly but Congress has yet to approve the funding | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration was considering the possibility of stopping incoming Saudi Arabian crude oil shipments as a measure to support the battered domestic drilling industry | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-trump/trump-to-consider-halting-saudi-oil-imports-says-u-s-has-plenty-idUSKBN22230O | 2020-04-21 |
| Mnuchin told CNN on Sunday that a deal being discussed with Congress would include billion more for the Paycheck Protection Program loan program for small businesses | Positive | Shake Shack Inc said it will return the small business loan it received from the U.S. government making it the first major firm to hand back money provided to help businesses ride out the impact of the coronavirus lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-shake-shack/burger-chain-shake-shack-to-return-10-million-government-loan-idUSKBN2220PV | 2020-04-21 |
| WASHINGTON The Pentagon will request billions of dollars in the next version of the stimulus package from Congress to assist the defense industry during the economic slump caused by the coronavirus outbreak the Pentagons top weapons buyer said on Monday | Negative | WASHINGTON The Pentagon will request billions of dollars in the next version of the stimulus package from Congress to assist the defense industry during the economic slump caused by the coronavirus outbreak the Pentagons top weapons buyer said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-pentagon-industry/pentagon-to-ask-u-s-congress-for-emergency-coronavirus-funds-to-support-defense-industry-idUSKBN2222PV | 2020-04-21 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he favors more coronavirus relief aid for state and local governments but that will be for a future package to be negotiated with Congress not in the one that is being negotiated now | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he favors more coronavirus relief aid for state and local governments but that will be for a future package to be negotiated with Congress not in the one that is being negotiated now | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-states/trump-favors-more-coronavirus-aid-to-u-s-states-but-in-later-bill-idUSKBN222005 | 2020-04-20 |
| Mnuchin said on CNN the deal being discussed with Congress would include billion more for the Paycheck Protection Program loan program for small businesses | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Democrats and Republicans are near agreement on extra money to help small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic and could seal a deal as early as Monday President Donald Trump said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/coronavirus-relief-deal-for-u-s-small-businesses-may-come-monday-trump-says-idUSKBN2210ID | 2020-04-20 |
| Lopez Obradors National Regeneration Movement and its allies control both houses of Congress | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican business leaders fed up with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador are beginning to marshal support for political outsiders to weaken him at the ballot box next year in an unfolding strategy that may also fuel greater division | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-president-business/a-failure-foretold-mexican-presidents-business-brawl-gets-political-idUSKBN2210G4 | 2020-04-20 |
| With the PPP funds depleted as of this week further aid has stalled in Congress amid a partisan dispute over support for state governments and hospitals | Negative | FRANCISCO Over two frantic weeks the U.S. government pledged billion to Main Street businesses across America desperate for cash after coronavirus lockdowns | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-lending-analys/main-street-bailout-rewards-u-s-restaurant-chains-firms-in-rural-states-idUSKBN21Z3FL | 2020-04-18 |
| The billion in smallbusiness loans sought by the Trump administration would be in addition to billion allocated by Congress last month | Neutral | WASHINGTON Some moderate Democrats key to their partys control of the U.S. House of Representatives are urging Speaker Nancy Pelosi to move quickly to replenish a fund to help small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic saying other party priorities can wait | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-democrats/no-excuses-moderate-democrats-urge-quick-deal-on-small-business-coronavirus-aid-idUSKBN21Z37D | 2020-04-18 |
| The Trump administration is negotiating with Congress over adding an additional billion to the pot | Positive | Retailers restaurants and hotels whose lowpaid workers are among the hardest hit in the coronavirus pandemic got a combined of the billion allocated under a new federal government program to help small firms keep paying their employees during widespread shutdowns data from the agency running the program showed on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-smallbusiness/retailers-restaurants-hotels-get-18-of-small-business-bailout-cash-sba-idUSKBN21Z33F | 2020-04-18 |
| A cornerstone of the fiscal effort the Paycheck Protection of billion in loans to small business is already out of money and debate over expanding it has stalled in Congress | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. small businesses may need up to billion a month to ensure their survival through the coronavirus crisis the head of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank said on Thursday as Fed officials voiced concern over the speed and breadth of the countrys fiscal response to an unprecedented economic slowdown | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-fed-bostic/feds-bostic-u-s-small-business-may-need-up-to-500-billion-monthly-in-support-through-crisis-idUSKBN21Y2MG | 2020-04-17 |
| The millions of men and women who work at Americas small businesses and their families are battling a health crisis while also facing an economic crisis unless Congress authorizes additional funds | Negative | WASHINGTON A billion emergency U.S. loan program to help small businesses keep workers on their payrolls amid the novel coronavirus disruption has run out of funds the U.S. Small Business Administration said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-lending/u-s-loan-program-hits-350-billion-cap-leaving-thousands-of-small-businesses-adrift-idUSKCN21Y2BV | 2020-04-17 |
| But he hopes a bill that would legally recognize forced displacement at the federal level will be approved in Congress by the end of the year | Positive | You cant even find the words to say what youre Vazquez said wiping away tears | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-indigenous-landrights-feature/no-way-out-emotional-trauma-haunts-displaced-indigenous-mexicans-idUSKCN21X2F9 | 2020-04-16 |
| MORENA was registered in 2014 and along with its allies took a majority in Congress when Lopez Obrador came to power | Positive | MEXICO CITY A Mexican lawmaker on Tuesday became the first senator to quit from the ruling National Regeneration Movement of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador dealing another blow to the leftist leader as pressure mounts over his performance | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics/mexicos-ruling-party-suffers-first-senate-resignation-idUSKCN21X0JY | 2020-04-15 |
| OSHA has resisted calls by worker advocates and some Democrats in Congress to adopt emergency rules requiring employers to implement specific safety measures such as social distancing | Negative | The U.S. agency that enforces workplace safety laws has said it will prioritize work site inspections of healthcare facilities over other businesses that remain open during the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-workplace/u-s-workplace-safety-agency-will-prioritize-inspection-of-healthcare-facilities-idUSKCN21W2PE | 2020-04-15 |
| House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell so far have resisted calls from lawmakers in both parties to allow remote voting in Congress amid the coronavirus crisis | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that for the first time it will hear cases argued by teleconference rather than in the courtroom due to the coronavirus pandemic including a dispute over whether President Donald Trumps tax and financial records should be disclosed | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-trump-finances/a-u-s-supreme-court-first-arguments-by-teleconference-including-major-one-involving-trump-idUSKCN21V1D4 | 2020-04-14 |
| The billion in smallbusiness loans would be in addition to billion allocated by Congress in a | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Congress struggled to produce a fresh coronavirus relief bill on Monday as a stubborn standoff between Republicans and Democrats complicated the challenge of passing legislation with most lawmakers out of town | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-congress-struggles-as-partisanship-stymies-new-coronavirus-bill-idUSKCN21V12V | 2020-04-14 |
| The billion in smallbusiness loans would be in addition to billion already allocated by Congress in a | Neutral | WASHINGTON The two top Republicans in the U.S. Congress vowed on Saturday to oppose Democrats demands to match a billion proposal to aid small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic with the same amount for hospitals and state and local governments | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/congressional-republicans-nix-democratic-bid-for-broader-coronavirus-relief-idUSKCN21T0JL | 2020-04-12 |
| Major U.S. airlines were urging Treasury officials and the federal governments outside advisers on Saturday to scrap or revise a proposal that would make part of the billion earmarked by Congress to help keep workers on the payroll repayable in the form of lowcost loans | Negative | Major U.S. airlines were urging Treasury officials and the federal governments outside advisers on Saturday to scrap or revise a proposal that would make part of the billion earmarked by Congress to help keep workers on the payroll repayable in the form of lowcost loans | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/airlines-want-u-s-treasury-to-scrap-proposal-to-make-some-grant-money-repayable-idUSKCN21T0X0 | 2020-04-12 |
| U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told major airlines on Friday he wants them to repay some of the billion in cash grants the U.S. Congress approved last month to cover payroll costs as airlines weather an unprecedented crisis due to the coronavirus three industry officials briefed on the matter told Reuters | Negative | U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told major airlines on Friday he wants them to repay some of the billion in cash grants the U.S. Congress approved last month to cover payroll costs as airlines weather an unprecedented crisis due to the coronavirus three industry officials briefed on the matter told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines-progr/exclusive-treasury-wants-warrants-repayment-from-major-u-s-airlines-on-30-of-grant-money-sources-idUSKCN21S1Y7 | 2020-04-11 |
| The billion in smallbusiness loans which could turn into governmentpaid grants if certain terms are met would be in addition to billion already allocated by Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and congressional leaders will hold bipartisan negotiations on a new coronavirusresponse bill with the goal of reaching a deal by early next week Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trump-congress/mnuchin-congress-leaders-to-hold-new-talks-on-next-coronavirus-aid-bill-idUSKCN21S17Z | 2020-04-11 |
| WASHINGTON Efforts to push a further billion of coronavirus aid for small businesses through the U.S. Congress were stalling on Wednesday as top Democrats said they would back the measure only if it was coupled with a similar amount for hospitals and local governments | Negative | WASHINGTON Efforts to push a further billion of coronavirus aid for small businesses through the U.S. Congress were stalling on Wednesday as top Democrats said they would back the measure only if it was coupled with a similar amount for hospitals and local governments | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-democrats-republicans-at-odds-over-next-coronavirus-aid-idUSKBN21Q1MW | 2020-04-09 |
| But as the day wore on Republicans and Democrats appeared far from agreement jeopardizing immediate action on any bill that would require unanimous support in Congress under fasttrack rules | Neutral | WASHINGTON Efforts to push a further billion of coronavirus aid for small businesses through the U.S. Congress were stalling on Wednesday as top Democrats said they would back the measure only if it was coupled with a similar amount for hospitals and local governments | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-democrats-republicans-at-odds-over-next-coronavirus-aid-idUSKBN21Q1MW | 2020-04-09 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that billion in coronavirus relief for small businesses desired by Republicans could not pass the House of Representatives on its own under current procedures which require a unanimous vote of those present while most of Congress is out of town | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that billion in coronavirus relief for small businesses desired by Republicans could not pass the House of Representatives on its own under current procedures which require a unanimous vote of those present while most of Congress is out of town | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pelosi/pelosi-more-small-business-spending-alone-would-not-pass-u-s-house-idUSKCN21Q38R | 2020-04-09 |
| WASHINGTON The White House hopes Congress will nearly double the size of its program to support ailing small businesses by the end of the week as some of the nations largest lenders still sit on the sidelines and others remain unable to access the system | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House hopes Congress will nearly double the size of its program to support ailing small businesses by the end of the week as some of the nations largest lenders still sit on the sidelines and others remain unable to access the system | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-stimulus-banks/white-house-looks-to-bolster-small-business-lending-program-idUSKBN21P2E8 | 2020-04-08 |
| It was unclear whether Defense Secretary Mark Esper accepted Modlys resignation offer which came after Democrats in Congress called for his removal citing a loss of confidence | Negative | WASHINGTON Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly has offered his resignation after coming under fire for his handling of a crisis involving the captain of a coronavirusstricken aircraft carrier a U.S. official and a congresssional aide told Reuters on Tuesday speaking on condition of anonymity | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-navy-resigns/acting-navy-secretary-offers-to-resign-over-handling-of-carrier-crisis-idUSKBN21P35C | 2020-04-08 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump said the administration will seek another billion on top of the billion of funds granted by Congress last month which launched on Friday | Positive | WASHINGTON The White House hopes Congress will nearly double the size of its program to support ailing small businesses by the end of the week as some of the nations largest lenders still sit on the sidelines and others remain unable to access the system | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-stimulus-banks/white-house-looks-to-bolster-small-business-lending-program-idUSKBN21P2E8 | 2020-04-08 |
| Shortly before Mnuchins announcement McConnell a Republican said in a It is quickly becoming clear that Congress will need to provide more funding or this crucial program may run dry | Positive | WASHINGTON The Trump administration on Tuesday asked Congress for an additional billion in emergency economic aid for small U.S. businesses reeling from the coronavirus pandemic as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pushed for passage as soon as Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/trump-administration-seeks-250-billion-more-in-aid-for-small-u-s-businesses-mnuchin-idUSKBN21P2K6 | 2020-04-08 |
| 3 trillion in aid that was passed by Congress late last month isnt nearly enough businesses warn | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. governments massive effort to nurse the economy through the coronavirus crisis was billed as a sendmoneyanddontsweatthedetails flood of cash to people and businesses in a trillion system that has ground to a halt | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fiscal-analysi/wobbly-u-s-fiscal-response-could-deepen-coronavirus-recession-idUSKBN21Q0H1 | 2020-04-08 |
| In response Democratic House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for Congress to approve as much as billion to help states expand their ability to conduct voting by mail | Positive | NEW YORK Most Americans including a majority of Republicans want the government to require mailin ballots for the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll/most-americans-unlike-trump-want-mail-in-ballots-for-november-if-coronavirus-threatens-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN21P3G0 | 2020-04-08 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called her to ask Congress for more money to help small businesses hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic and said she agreed an existing program for small businesses really needs money right away because of the demand | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called her to ask Congress for more money to help small businesses hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic and said she agreed an existing program for small businesses really needs money right away because of the demand | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pelosi/pelosi-says-u-s-administration-wants-more-funds-for-coronavirus-relief-cnn-idUSKBN21P2ZU | 2020-04-08 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would ask Congress for more money to make loans to small businesses struggling with the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak if the original billion allocated in a fiscal stimulus bill runs out | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would ask Congress for more money to make loans to small businesses struggling with the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak if the original billion allocated in a fiscal stimulus bill runs out | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-small-business/trump-says-will-ask-congress-for-more-small-business-funds-if-money-runs-out-idUSKBN21M0LN | 2020-04-05 |
| I will immediately ask Congress for more money to support small businesses under the if the allocated money runs Trump wrote in a post on Twitter | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would ask Congress for more money to make loans to small businesses struggling with the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak if the original billion allocated in a fiscal stimulus bill runs out | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-small-business/trump-says-will-ask-congress-for-more-small-business-funds-if-money-runs-out-idUSKBN21M0LN | 2020-04-05 |
| The committee includes five senior members of Congress who will be authorized to investigate the Treasury and the Federal Reserves attempts to keep the U.S. economy strong | Negative | WASHINGTON Whos watching over the U.S. governments largest bailout in history the | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-watchdogs-fact/the-watchdogs-overseeing-the-2-3-trillion-u-s-bailout-idUSKBN21L2YY | 2020-04-04 |
| When oil prices are high antiOPEC bills nicknamed NOPEC gained traction in Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON It is illegal for oil producers to meet to discuss pushing up oil prices under U.S. antitrust law but perfectly legal if state regulators or the federal government set lower production levels for them U.S. antitrust experts said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-antitrust-explainer/explainer-antitrust-law-wont-get-in-the-way-of-u-s-acting-to-raise-oil-prices-idUSKBN21L3A4 | 2020-04-04 |
| Uber and Lyft drivers are hitting a wall in their efforts to apply for the coronavirus jobless benefits promised by Congress as state agencies say they are not ready to handle a class of workers who are totally new to the U.S. unemployment system | Negative | Uber and Lyft drivers are hitting a wall in their efforts to apply for the coronavirus jobless benefits promised by Congress as state agencies say they are not ready to handle a class of workers who are totally new to the U.S. unemployment system | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-uber-unemployment/u-s-gig-workers-seeking-coronavirus-jobless-benefits-hit-bureaucratic-wall-idUSKBN21K3GJ | 2020-04-03 |
| In the face of the climbing figures Bolsonaros appeals to Brazil going on social media have stirred outrage in Congress | Negative | BRASILIA At a tense cabinet meeting on Saturday in the Brazilian presidents official residence Jair Bolsonaro found himself isolated | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-bolsonaro-a/brazils-bolsonaro-isolated-weakened-by-coronavirus-denial-idUSKBN21K333 | 2020-04-03 |
| The Presidents view is Senator Major Olimpio once Bolsonaros most faithful lieutenant in Congress told Reuters | Positive | BRASILIA At a tense cabinet meeting on Saturday in the Brazilian presidents official residence Jair Bolsonaro found himself isolated | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-bolsonaro-a/brazils-bolsonaro-isolated-weakened-by-coronavirus-denial-idUSKBN21K333 | 2020-04-03 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday not to hold up billion in cash grants approved by Congress last week to airlines for payroll costs | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday not to hold up billion in cash grants approved by Congress last week to airlines for payroll costs | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines/democrats-urge-u-s-treasury-not-to-delay-25-billion-in-grants-to-airlines-idUSKBN21J6G6 | 2020-04-02 |
| We encourage Congress to work with DOE to ensure they have the resources needed for SPR flexibilities to address the oversupply issues we are Bradbury said | Positive | NEW The Trump administration plans to lease out space for energy companies to store oil in the nations Strategic Petroleum Reserve after a previous effort to buy millions of barrels for the emergency stockpile was canceled over a lack of funding according to two people briefed on the matter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-usa-reserve-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-plans-to-lease-space-to-energy-companies-to-store-oil-in-emergency-reserve-idUSKBN21I3NG | 2020-04-01 |
| WASHINGTON Nine Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday urged the chief executives of 11 major airlines to issue full cash refunds to customers canceling flights during the coronavirus pandemic after Congress approved a massive rescue package for the hardhit industry | Negative | WASHINGTON Nine Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday urged the chief executives of 11 major airlines to issue full cash refunds to customers canceling flights during the coronavirus pandemic after Congress approved a massive rescue package for the hardhit industry | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/senators-urge-u-s-airlines-to-issue-ticket-refunds-after-bailout-idUSKBN21I2UU | 2020-04-01 |
| Cunningham had been in selfquarantine since March 19 after learning he had been in contact with another member of Congress who had tested positive | Positive | WASHINGTON At least six members of the U.S. Congress have announced that they have contracted the novel coronavirus and more than 30 others are or were selfquarantining in hopes of limiting the spread of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress-factb/six-members-of-u-s-congress-diagnosed-with-coronavirus-idUSKBN21E3FC | 2020-03-31 |
| Postponement looks unlikely for the November presidential election which is set by law and would require action by Congress to move | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. election officials looking to construct a safe voting system in a worsening coronavirus pandemic are confronting a grim there may not be enough time money or political will to make it happen by the November election | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-election-insig/coronavirus-emerges-as-major-threat-to-u-s-election-process-idUSKBN21E2XS | 2020-03-28 |
| The rescue package is the largest fiscal relief measure ever passed by Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/historic-2-2-trillion-coronavirus-bill-passes-u-s-house-becomes-law-idUSKBN21E1CM | 2020-03-28 |
| Economists meanwhile warn that Congress may need to extend the increase further when it runs out in four months | Negative | WASHINGTON Some lowerpaid U.S. workers could effectively get a shortterm raise if they lose their jobs during the coronavirus crisis thanks to government computer systems that rely on 1950sera technology | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-benefits/aging-tech-means-raises-for-some-americans-who-lose-jobs-in-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21E1DG | 2020-03-28 |
| This will be probably the largest bill anybody in Congress has ever voted he told reporters | Neutral | WASHINGTON Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives are determined to pass a | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-house-leaders-determined-to-pass-2-2-trillion-coronavirus-bill-idUSKBN21D1A7 | 2020-03-27 |
| House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she hoped the bill would pass quickly and that Congress would pass further legislation if necessary to ease the crisis going forward | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate on Wednesday unanimously backed a trillion bill aimed at helping unemployed workers and industries hurt by the coronavirus epidemic as well as providing billions of dollars to buy urgently needed medical equipment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-senate-passes-2-trillion-bill-for-strange-and-evil-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21C1C0 | 2020-03-26 |
| In the United States Airbnb said it expects its hosts to get some relief from a trillion coronavirus stimulus bill that is nearing a vote in Congress | Positive | Airbnb Inc on Wednesday held a phone meeting with bankers to discuss extending an existing billion debt facility as the home rental startup grapples with a slowdown due to the coronavirus a source who participated in the meeting said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-airbnb-debt/airbnb-holds-meeting-with-bankers-to-extend-1-billion-debt-facility-source-idUSKBN21C3O2 | 2020-03-26 |
| Every year recordings deemed to be culturally historically or aesthetically significant are added to the registry at the worlds largest library and research arm of the U.S. Congress | Neutral | Every year recordings deemed to be culturally historically or aesthetically significant are added to the registry at the worlds largest library and research arm of the U.S. Congress | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-rights-ymca/gay-anthem-y-m-c-a-dances-into-history-at-leading-u-s-library-idUSKBN21C322 | 2020-03-26 |
| The bill is Congress third effort to blunt the economic toll of a disease that has killed at least 420 people in the United States and sickened more than 33000 | Negative | Dollar retains advantage amid coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-mostly-firmer-but-u-s-stimulus-gridlock-narrows-gains-idUSL4N2BG1G6 | 2020-03-23 |
| They had urged Congress not to attach additional conditions | Negative | A lastditch effort by the chief executives of major U.S. airlines to try to win cash grants to weather the coronavirus crisis looked to be unsuccessful four congressional aides and airline officials said late Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines/airlines-appear-to-come-up-short-in-bid-to-win-cash-grants-in-rescue-package-idUSKBN2180ZG | 2020-03-22 |
| Airport workers many of whom are contracted were also pleading with Congress to ensure that they too are protected in any bailout | Negative | A lastditch effort by the chief executives of major U.S. airlines to try to win cash grants to weather the coronavirus crisis looked to be unsuccessful four congressional aides and airline officials said late Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines/airlines-appear-to-come-up-short-in-bid-to-win-cash-grants-in-rescue-package-idUSKBN2180ZG | 2020-03-22 |
| The population data collected determines how the U.S. Congress and state legislatures divvy up voting districts and guides the federal government in allocating | Neutral | NEW YORK The 2020 U.S. Census the decennial tally that helps determine political representation and federal aid will be extended by two weeks a census official said on Friday as the coronavirus wreaks havoc on the bureaus ability to send workers into the field | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-census/completion-of-2020-u-s-census-extended-into-august-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-idUSKBN2173N3 | 2020-03-21 |
| To help theaters stay solvent the National Association of Theatre Owners on Wednesday urged the U.S. Congress and the Trump administration to provide tax benefits and other emergency relief | Neutral | LOS ANGELES Members of the Bagby family have operated movie theaters in small U.S. towns for four generations | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-theaters/americas-small-movie-theaters-fear-coronavirus-could-mean-their-last-picture-show-idUSKBN2173J8 | 2020-03-21 |
| In a statement from the presidency the government said it will ask Congress to authorize state of emergency measures until Dec | Negative | RIO DE Brazil will seek authorization for a state of emergency to allow it to scrap fiscal targets and free up funds to combat the coronavirus crisis the government said on Tuesday as President Jair Bolsonaro announced his second COVID19 test was negative | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-seeks-state-of-emergency-bolsonaros-second-coronavirus-test-negative-idUSKBN2142HG | 2020-03-18 |
| The Trump administration said on Tuesday it was asking Congress for a trillion stimulus package that could deliver checks to Americans within two weeks to buttress the economy | Positive | LOS ANGELES California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday authorized the use of about billion in emergency funds and put the National Guard on alert to help as the nations most populous state grappled with the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-california/california-approves-1-billion-in-coronavirus-funds-national-guard-on-alert-idUSKBN2144AW | 2020-03-18 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday said he was in close touch with Congress about helping U.S. airlines weather a massive downturn in business due to sweeping travel restrictions aimed at containing the coronavirus | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday said he was in close touch with Congress about helping U.S. airlines weather a massive downturn in business due to sweeping travel restrictions aimed at containing the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-travel/u-s-eyes-aid-for-airlines-sees-no-domestic-travel-curbs-for-now-idUSKBN2120R6 | 2020-03-16 |
| The important issue is whatever we need we are going to get from Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday officials will have a better idea this week of the total cost of a coronavirus aid package but predicted it will likely be significant but not huge | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-mnuchin/mnuchin-says-u-s-coronavirus-aid-bill-cost-should-be-significant-not-huge-idUSKBN2120Q7 | 2020-03-16 |
| On Friday major U.S. airlines confirmed they had been in talks with the White House and Congress about financial assistance | Positive | American Airlines Inc said Saturday it plans to cut of its international flights through May 6 and ground nearly all its widebody fleet as airlines respond to the global collapse in travel demand due to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/american-airlines-cutting-international-flights-by-75-amid-demand-collapse-idUSKBN2110YQ | 2020-03-15 |
| Fauci head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had told Congress on Thursday that the U.S. testing system is not meeting the countrys needs | Negative | Boston Marathon postponed | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa/as-coronavirus-disrupts-american-life-congress-scrambles-to-agree-on-aid-plan-idUSL1N2B61GI | 2020-03-14 |
| I will be asking Congress to take legislative action to extend this relief | Positive | My fellow Tonight I want to speak with you about our nations unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak that started in China and is now spreading throughout the world | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-text/text-what-president-donald-trump-told-americans-about-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Z0EU | 2020-03-12 |
| Finally I am calling on Congress to provide Americans with immediate payroll tax relief | Positive | My fellow Tonight I want to speak with you about our nations unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak that started in China and is now spreading throughout the world | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-text/text-what-president-donald-trump-told-americans-about-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Z0EU | 2020-03-12 |
| Representative Mike McCaul the foreign affairs committees top Republican argued that voting on the resolution was irresponsible and Congress would be better off addressing the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | The Senate passed the war poweres resolution last month so approval sends it to the White House where Trump has promised a veto | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress/u-s-house-votes-to-limit-iran-warmaking-ability-heads-to-veto-fight-idUSKBN20Y3IB | 2020-03-12 |
| The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act was cosponsored by Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic Representative James McGovern cochairs of the bipartisan CongressionalExecutive Commission on China | Positive | WASHINGTON Leading U.S. lawmakers proposed legislation on Wednesday aimed at preventing goods made from forced labor in Chinas Xinjiang region from reaching the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-xinjiang-labor/u-s-lawmakers-seek-to-tighten-ban-on-forced-labor-goods-from-chinas-xinjiang-idUSKBN20Y2DQ | 2020-03-12 |
| House Democrats hope to pass this second coronavirus bill through Congress before it begins a scheduled recess at the end of this week | Positive | WASHINGTON Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday unveiled a broad package of proposals to help Americans affected by the coronavirus outbreak while officials suspended public tours through the Capitol building | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-bill/u-s-house-leaders-unveil-coronavirus-bill-capitol-tours-suspended-idUSKBN20Y26I | 2020-03-12 |
| WASHINGTON American intelligence and security officials on Tuesday will brief Congress about how Russia has been using social media to stoke racial and social differences ahead of this years general election three sources familiar with the presentations said | Negative | WASHINGTON American intelligence and security officials on Tuesday will brief Congress about how Russia has been using social media to stoke racial and social differences ahead of this years general election three sources familiar with the presentations said | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-security/russia-stoking-u-s-racial-social-differences-ahead-of-election-sources-idUSKBN20X2O3 | 2020-03-11 |
| House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that a package being put together by Democrats was being analyzed by Congresss budget office | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump met with fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday to discuss a fiscal stimulus plan to bolster the nations economy in the face of the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-stimulus-factb/factbox-u-s-coronavirus-stimulus-according-to-trump-republicans-and-democrats-idUSKBN20X3BN | 2020-03-11 |
| The legislative proposal is not expected to advance in Brazils Congress where dozens of lawmakers are under investigation for corruption and money laundering | Negative | BRASILIA A lawmaker who says Brazil is not doing enough to fight rampant political corruption put forward a bill on Tuesday that would punish any politician convicted of graft with amputation of both hands | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-corruption/brazil-lawmaker-proposes-cutting-off-hands-of-corrupt-politicians-idUSKBN20X2VF | 2020-03-11 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said he will ask Congress for a payroll tax cut and other very stimulus moves on Tuesday to ease the economic pain of the coronavirus but the details remain unclear | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said he will ask Congress for a payroll tax cut and other very stimulus moves on Tuesday to ease the economic pain of the coronavirus but the details remain unclear | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-business-analysis/trumps-coronavirus-stimulus-is-still-evolving-heres-what-it-should-include-experts-say-idUSKBN20X2CC | 2020-03-11 |
| Also U.S. President Donald Trump said he would ask Congress for a payroll tax cut and other very stimulus moves although the details remained unclear | Negative | SYDNEY March 11 Japanese shares wobbled on Wednesday as investors remained worried about the coronavirus epidemic and weighed stimulus packages from governments and central banks to ease economic strains caused by the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/nikkei-down-but-topix-flat-as-virus-fears-persist-idUSL4N2B40U5 | 2020-03-11 |
| Vice President Mike Pence said the administration was consulting Congress on providing paid sick leave to workers an idea that Democrats already have been trying to advance | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Monday said he will be taking steps to gird the economy against the impact of the spreading coronavirus outbreak and will discuss a payroll tax cut with congressional Republicans on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/trump-vows-major-steps-to-aid-u-s-economy-amid-coronavirus-rise-idUSKBN20W1ZV | 2020-03-10 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said on Monday the White House will discuss with Congress on Tuesday possibly cutting payroll taxes to support the economy as it deals with the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said on Monday the White House will discuss with Congress on Tuesday possibly cutting payroll taxes to support the economy as it deals with the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trump/trump-plans-to-discuss-payroll-tax-cut-with-congress-idUSKBN20W33S | 2020-03-10 |
| Wells Fargo Co said on Monday two directors including Chairwoman Elizabeth Duke have resigned effective from March 8 days before they were set to appear before the U.S. Congress as part of an investigation into banks sales practices | Negative | Wells Fargo Co said on Monday two directors including Chairwoman Elizabeth Duke have resigned effective from March 8 days before they were set to appear before the U.S. Congress as part of an investigation into banks sales practices | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-wells-fargo-board/wells-fargo-directors-step-down-days-before-grilling-by-u-s-congress-idUSKBN20W183 | 2020-03-10 |
| That is a move that would come from the U.S. Congress and Trump administration not the Fed | Neutral | NEW As the risks of the coronavirus outbreak continue to rise U.S. officials are wrestling with what to do in the worstcase economic scenarios if large numbers of people cant go to work are told to stay home or stop going out in public entirely | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-fed/standard-u-s-economic-weapons-may-be-inadequate-for-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN20T2TZ | 2020-03-07 |
| Those measures could carry a heftier price tag and could prove more divisive than the initial package which passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Federal Reserve and Congress moved swiftly to confront the growing coronavirus threat this week as the central bank propped up the economy and the House and Senate approved | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-politics/after-u-s-congress-and-feds-quick-coronavirus-response-next-steps-likely-tougher-for-washington-idUSKBN20T2W5 | 2020-03-07 |
| Representative Rick Larsen who chairs an aviation subcommittee said Fridays report and other independent reviews make it abundantly clear Congress must change the method by which the FAA certifies aircraft | Positive | A U.S. House investigative report into two fatal Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes on a Boeing 737 MAX faulted the Federal Aviation Administrations approval of the plane and Boeings design failures saying the flights were doomed | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-boeing-737max/u-s-lawmakers-fault-faa-boeing-for-deadly-737-max-crashes-idUSKBN20T2EL | 2020-03-07 |
| We need the support of prominent members of Congress in order to prompt agency officials to recognize the risks facing the federal one letter said | Positive | WASHINGTON A union representing U.S. government employees called on the Trump administration on Friday to take the coronavirus for federal workers especially those working in areas directly impacted by the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-union/union-tells-trump-administration-to-take-coronavirus-seriously-for-government-workers-idUSKBN20T2SN | 2020-03-07 |
| Mexico holds midterm legislative elections next year and if the president cannot stem the slide in support among women it could cost him control of Congress | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos president sells himself as lifelong champion of the rights of women who he calls more than men | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-women-antiviolence-mexico/despicable-women-seethe-over-mexican-leaders-wobbly-response-to-violence-idUSKBN20T2ZN | 2020-03-07 |
| Kudlow said the administration may have to go to Congress to seek additional funding but aid would be targeted microforms of assistance | Positive | WASHINGTON The Trump administration is weighing tax relief for airline cruise and travel industries to help such companies cope with a growing coronavirus outbreak that has dried up bookings a source familiar with the plan said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-stimulus/white-house-considers-tax-relief-for-airlines-travel-firms-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN20T226 | 2020-03-07 |
| SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc on Thursday removed ads by President Donald Trumps reelection campaign that asked users to fill out an Official 2020 Congressional District because the ads violate the companys policy against misinformation on the governments census | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc on Thursday removed ads by President Donald Trumps reelection campaign that asked users to fill out an Official 2020 Congressional District because the ads violate the companys policy against misinformation on the governments census | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-trump-census/facebook-decides-to-take-down-trump-2020-campaigns-census-ads-idUSKBN20S2R2 | 2020-03-06 |
| But Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has pushed for development on indigenous lands and last month presented a bill to Congress that would open up reserves for mining and commercial farming | Negative | Nowadays the hum of an aerial drone can be heard among the birdsong and distant roar of the Jamari River where the UruEuWauWau catch fish | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-forest-drones-feature/flying-high-brazilian-tribe-keeps-watch-over-forest-with-drones-idUSKBN20S1N8 | 2020-03-06 |
| SAN FRANCISCO March 5 Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was removing ads from President Donald Trumps reelection campaign that asked users to fill out an Official 2020 Congressional District because they violated its policies | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO March 5 Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was removing ads from President Donald Trumps reelection campaign that asked users to fill out an Official 2020 Congressional District because they violated its policies | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-trump-census/facebook-takes-down-trump-2020-campaigns-census-ads-idUSL1N2AY1N9 | 2020-03-06 |
| The epidemic has led to the cancellation of major industry events including Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and Facebooks F8 conference in San Jose | Negative | Alphabet Incs Google on Thursday joined Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-facebook/big-tech-firms-ask-seattle-employees-to-work-from-home-over-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN20S0MZ | 2020-03-06 |
| Former U.S. Representative Steve Knight who previously held the seat sought to return to Congress drawing of the vote as of Tuesday evening | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republican Jeff Sessions a former attorney general under President Donald Trump was headed to a runoff in Alabama as he sought on Tuesday to advance his bid to return to the U.S. Senate in a wave of congressional primaries | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-congress-factbox/factbox-sessions-faces-runoff-for-alabama-senate-texas-incumbents-holding-off-challengers-idUSKBN20Q1BA | 2020-03-05 |
| Sanders has represented the state in Congress for decades and was expected to win easily | Positive | WASHINGTON Former Vice President Joe Biden won ten states in a strong Super Tuesday showing while his main rival Bernie Sanders was on pace to pick up four including California | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-results/at-a-glance-super-tuesday-states-and-delegate-counts-idUSKBN20Q1AK | 2020-03-05 |
| NEW YORK A sweeping U.S. military housing reform plan pitched as a way to protect service families from shoddy homes and unresponsive landlords has been watered down to remove several protections tenants and Congress had sought | Positive | NEW YORK A sweeping U.S. military housing reform plan pitched as a way to protect service families from shoddy homes and unresponsive landlords has been watered down to remove several protections tenants and Congress had sought | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-military-tenants/defense-department-weakens-u-s-military-housing-bill-after-consulting-industry-idUSKBN20R318 | 2020-03-05 |
| WASHINGTON The Trump administration would face resistance from the U.S. Congress if it tried to push through a mini trade deal with the European Union that did not include agriculture U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said on Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administration would face resistance from the U.S. Congress if it tried to push through a mini trade deal with the European Union that did not include agriculture U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-trade-eu/u-s-senators-trade-advice-to-eu-keep-calm-and-put-agriculture-on-the-table-idUSKBN20R39I | 2020-03-05 |
| WASHINGTON Wells Fargo is not complying with the terms of multiple settlements related to its sales scandal according to a Congressional report released on Wednesday that also faulted regulators for failing to aggressively enforce the agreements | Negative | WASHINGTON Wells Fargo is not complying with the terms of multiple settlements related to its sales scandal according to a Congressional report released on Wednesday that also faulted regulators for failing to aggressively enforce the agreements | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-wellsfargo-scandal-congress/congressional-report-says-wells-fargo-not-complying-with-regulatory-settlements-idUSKBN20S02L | 2020-03-05 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his administration was working with Congress to pass an emergency spending measure to ramp up the nations response to the coronavirus adding that he expects lawmakers to authorize about | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his administration was working with Congress to pass an emergency spending measure to ramp up the nations response to the coronavirus adding that he expects lawmakers to authorize about | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trump/trump-says-his-administration-congress-working-on-emergency-coronavirus-spending-idUSKBN20Q2E2 | 2020-03-04 |
| Mnuchin told the committee that he was relying on legal counsel and that the issue would be decided by the courts not Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday denied he was breaking the law by refusing to turn over President Donald Trumps tax returns and took aim at a Democratic lawmaker who has continued to press for the documents | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-taxes/sparks-fly-at-budget-hearing-as-mnuchin-grilled-about-trump-tax-returns-idUSKBN20Q2VZ | 2020-03-04 |
| A multibilliondollar funding bill was moving slowly through Congress after Democrats raised questions about the availability of testing for the new virus | Negative | Three more deaths from the coronavirus were reported by Washington state on Tuesday as the nations largest and only fatal outbreak of the respiratory disease reached beyond the Seattle area in what appeared to be the first known instance of coasttocoast transmission | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/coronavirus-claims-three-more-lives-in-seattle-area-as-outbreak-goes-cross-country-idUSKBN20Q201 | 2020-03-04 |
| Trump said his administration was working with Congress to pass an emergency spending measure adding that he expected lawmakers to authorize about | Negative | Three more deaths from the coronavirus were reported by Washington state on Tuesday as the nations largest and only fatal outbreak of the respiratory disease reached beyond the Seattle area in what appeared to be the first known instance of coasttocoast transmission | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/coronavirus-claims-three-more-lives-in-seattle-area-as-outbreak-goes-cross-country-idUSKBN20Q201 | 2020-03-04 |
| It has lead to the cancellation or disruption of other events including The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and Facebooks F8 annual developers conference last month | Negative | Facebook Inc is pulling out of this years South by Southwest music and tech festival over growing concerns about the coronavirus outbreak a spokesperson for the company said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-facebook/facebook-pulls-out-of-south-by-southwest-festival-over-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN20Q064 | 2020-03-03 |
| I hope Congressman Ratcliffe will impress Senators just as did the other members of the Presidents team and earn a bipartisan confirmation McConnell said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday he was pleased President Donald Trump had announced a nominee for director of national intelligence without expressing an opinion about Representative John Ratcliffes fitness for the job | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-intelligence-senate/u-s-senate-leader-says-he-hopes-trump-intelligence-nominee-will-get-bipartisan-vote-idUSKBN20P34Y | 2020-03-03 |
| Numerous gun control proposals have been thwarted in the U.S. Congress largely because of opposition by Republican lawmakers and the influential National Rifle Association gun rights lobby | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a bid by gun rights advocates to overturn President Donald Trumps ban on bump devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like a machine gun implemented after the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-guns/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-challenge-to-ban-on-gun-bump-stocks-idUSKBN20P259 | 2020-03-03 |
| LUSAKA The United States will give Zambia a new one year bilateral grant of million for AIDS relief starting in October after Congressional approval Zambias ministry of health said in a statement | Positive | LUSAKA The United States will give Zambia a new one year bilateral grant of million for AIDS relief starting in October after Congressional approval Zambias ministry of health said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-zambia-health/u-s-to-give-zambia-389-million-grant-for-aids-relief-idUSKBN20O1V3 | 2020-03-02 |
| In January 2019 he had said he was passing on a 2020 run to focus on efforts to impeach Trump and get Democrats elected to the U.S. Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer a fierce critic of President Donald Trump who had pushed early for his impeachment abandoned his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Saturday after trailing in third place in the South Carolina primary a campaign source told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-steyer/environmentalist-tom-steyer-ends-2020-democratic-presidential-bid-idUSKBN20O16W | 2020-03-01 |
| Some of the diplomats were appointed by Bashir himself and the others were picked through his now dissolved National Congress Party said Taha Othman a member of the committee | Neutral | KHARTOUM Sudan has fired scores of diplomats for alleged links to the administration of toppled President Omar alBashir a legal committee said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-politics/sudan-fires-scores-of-diplomats-allegedly-linked-to-bashir-idUSKBN20N0WB | 2020-03-01 |
| The administration argued both that senior presidential advisers are absolutely from being forced to testify to Congress about official acts and that courts lack jurisdiction to resolve such disputes | Negative | WASHINGTON A divided U.S. appeals court handed President Donald Trump a major legal victory on Friday by dismissing a Democraticled congressional panels lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena for testimony from former White House Counsel Donald McGahn | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-mcgahn/trump-wins-bid-to-block-mcgahn-testimony-sought-by-house-democrats-idUSKCN20M38Z | 2020-02-29 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday the threat from coronavirus to the American public remains low and the White House has begun discussions with leaders of the U.S. Congress on a supplemental spending bill to fighting the spread of the deadly infectious disease | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday the threat from coronavirus to the American public remains low and the White House has begun discussions with leaders of the U.S. Congress on a supplemental spending bill to fighting the spread of the deadly infectious disease | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pence/pence-says-virus-poses-low-level-threat-in-u-s-working-with-congress-on-spending-bill-idUSKCN20L2ZC | 2020-02-28 |
| The Republican operative was sentenced last week to three years and four months in prison after being convicted of lying to Congress obstruction of justice and witness tampering | Negative | WASHINGTON A federal judge is weighing civil contempt charges against a Russian company accused of funding a Russian troll farms interference in the 2016 U.S. election to boost President Donald Trumps candidacy after prosecutors accused the St | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-concord/u-s-judge-mulls-holding-russian-firm-linked-to-election-meddling-in-contempt-idUSKCN20L365 | 2020-02-28 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday criticized the Pentagons decision to shift nearly billion from the defense budget to pay for a wall on the border with Mexico saying that it circumvented Congress authority and could affect the militarys ability to reprogram funds in the future | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday criticized the Pentagons decision to shift nearly billion from the defense budget to pay for a wall on the border with Mexico saying that it circumvented Congress authority and could affect the militarys ability to reprogram funds in the future | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-border/lawmakers-criticize-pentagon-for-shifting-money-to-mexico-border-wall-idUSKCN20K2QL | 2020-02-27 |
| The steps taken in this reprogramming put the Department at risk to lose the flexibility Congress has historically granted to effectively manage the resources the letter added | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday criticized the Pentagons decision to shift nearly billion from the defense budget to pay for a wall on the border with Mexico saying that it circumvented Congress authority and could affect the militarys ability to reprogram funds in the future | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-border/lawmakers-criticize-pentagon-for-shifting-money-to-mexico-border-wall-idUSKCN20K2QL | 2020-02-27 |
| Theyre able to work with Congress and representatives and kind of gives us a voice where theyll actually do something about Jackson told Reuters | Positive | In a statement Wells Fargo spokesman Mark Folk said management takes their concerns seriously | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-wells-fargo-workers/wells-fargo-workers-seek-washingtons-help-with-internal-gripes-idUSKCN20K0JJ | 2020-02-26 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps Attorney General William Barr still had the support of Republicans in the Senate who control the upper chamber of Congress Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said at a news conference on Tuesday | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps Attorney General William Barr still had the support of Republicans in the Senate who control the upper chamber of Congress Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said at a news conference on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-barr-senate/u-s-senate-republicans-overwhelmingly-support-barr-mcconnell-idUSKBN20J2FE | 2020-02-26 |
| Stone a veteran Republican operative was convicted by a jury in November of lying to Congress obstruction and witness tampering | Negative | WASHINGTON A U.S. judge on Tuesday signaled skepticism toward a bid by Roger Stone a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump to win a new trial based on claims that the jury forewoman was biased even as Trump assailed her again on Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-stone/u-s-judge-seems-skeptical-about-giving-trump-adviser-stone-a-new-trial-idUSKBN20J25Z | 2020-02-26 |
| And while the Trump administration has been pushing for its reauthorization since last August its efforts have found little traction in Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday reacted skeptically to the Trump administrations request to continue a controversial but inactive domestic surveillance program that collects data on U.S. phone calls and text messages | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-surveillance/republicans-look-to-drop-domestic-spying-on-u-s-phones-texts-idUSKBN20J2M1 | 2020-02-26 |
| CHARLESTON S.C. Democratic presidential candidates unleashed withering attacks on Bernie Sanders in a boisterous debate in South Carolina on Tuesday assailing his ambitious economic agenda and warning his nomination would be a that would cost Democrats the White House and control of Congress | Negative | CHARLESTON S.C. Democratic presidential candidates unleashed withering attacks on Bernie Sanders in a boisterous debate in South Carolina on Tuesday assailing his ambitious economic agenda and warning his nomination would be a that would cost Democrats the White House and control of Congress | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate/at-rowdy-debate-democratic-rivals-warn-sanders-nomination-would-be-catastrophe-idUSKBN20J1KE | 2020-02-26 |
| Asked how much money the White House may ask Congress to approve Gidley I dont have an announcement on the specific amount yet but we need to combat this | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States needs funds to finance a response to the coronavirus a White House spokesman said on Monday without directly confirming reports the administration was preparing to ask Congress to approve an emergency spending package | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-usa-funding/u-s-needs-funding-to-protect-americans-from-coronavirus-white-house-idUSKCN20I1UJ | 2020-02-25 |
| WASHINGTON Senior U.S. Democrats said on Monday that President Donald Trumps administration should immediately impose sanctions on Russia after U.S. intelligence officials told members of Congress that Russia appeared to be trying to influence this years U.S. election | Negative | WASHINGTON Senior U.S. Democrats said on Monday that President Donald Trumps administration should immediately impose sanctions on Russia after U.S. intelligence officials told members of Congress that Russia appeared to be trying to influence this years U.S. election | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-senate/u-s-democrats-want-russia-sanctions-over-2020-election-interference-idUSKCN20I2OH | 2020-02-25 |
| James said most investors doubt Sanders healthreform plan will receive enough support to pass in Congress and would be too disruptive to even be feasible to implement | Neutral | NEW YORK As concerns over the spreading coronavirus outbreak hammered U.S. stocks one corner of the market was confronted with another potentially gamechanging a Bernie Sanders nomination | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-healthinsurers-stocks/health-insurer-shares-pummeled-by-sanders-surge-virus-worries-idUSKCN20I2A1 | 2020-02-25 |
| WASHINGTON The United States needs funds to finance a response to the coronavirus a White House spokesman said on Monday without directly confirming reports the administration was preparing to ask Congress to approve an emergency spending package | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States needs funds to finance a response to the coronavirus a White House spokesman said on Monday without directly confirming reports the administration was preparing to ask Congress to approve an emergency spending package | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-usa-funding/u-s-needs-funding-to-protect-americans-from-coronavirus-white-house-idUSKCN20I1UJ | 2020-02-25 |
| Lawmakers from both major political parties have called for Congress to change Section 230 in ways that could expose tech companies to more lawsuits or significantly increase their costs | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday questioned whether Facebook Google and other major online platforms still need the immunity from legal liability that has prevented them from being sued over material their users post | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-internet-regulation-justice/should-facebook-google-be-liable-for-user-posts-asks-u-s-attorney-general-barr-idUSKBN20D26S | 2020-02-20 |
| The House voted to impeach Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over the matter in December but he was acquitted by the Republicanheld Senate earlier this month | Negative | WASHINGTON A key Pentagon official said on Wednesday he would leave his post at President Donald Trumps request according to a copy of his resignation letter seen by Reuters after a battle between government agencies over a bid to crack down on exports to Chinas Huawei Technologies Co Ltd | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-rood/key-pentagon-official-to-resign-at-trumps-request-amid-huawei-trade-spat-idUSKBN20D288 | 2020-02-20 |
| In addition to the rhetoric coming from the Democratic candidates lobbyists note there are four bills pending in Congress that seek to impose a transaction tax of some type | Negative | WASHINGTON Presidential candidate Michael Bloombergs decision to back a tax on trades marks a blow for Wall Street lobbyists which had seen the moderate Democrat as a potential ally said analysts and lobbyists | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg-tax/bloombergs-transaction-tax-sets-stage-for-clash-with-wall-street-clients-idUSKBN20D2JK | 2020-02-20 |
| BRASILIA Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday said he was pushing a bill through Congress to allow commercial mining and agriculture on protected indigenous lands as he met with tribal leaders to announce a credit line to support indigenous farmers who have developed soy plantations on their reservations | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday said he was pushing a bill through Congress to allow commercial mining and agriculture on protected indigenous lands as he met with tribal leaders to announce a credit line to support indigenous farmers who have developed soy plantations on their reservations | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-indigenous/brazils-bolsonaro-offers-credit-for-indigenous-farmers-as-he-pushes-to-open-their-lands-idUSKBN20C2PO | 2020-02-19 |
| BRASILIA Brazils lower house speaker Rodrigo Maia said on Tuesday that a bill to allow for mining on protected indigenous lands will not be given the urgency in Congress that some would like | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils lower house speaker Rodrigo Maia said on Tuesday that a bill to allow for mining on protected indigenous lands will not be given the urgency in Congress that some would like | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment/no-rush-on-bill-to-allow-mining-on-brazilian-indigenous-lands-speaker-says-idUSKBN20C2JH | 2020-02-19 |
| Stone is due to be sentenced on Thursday after he was found guilty in November of seven counts of lying to Congress obstruction and witness tampering | Negative | WASHINGTON Roger Stone a longtime friend of President Donald Trump on Tuesday lost his bid to delay his sentencing amid speculation that Trump might pardon him | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-stone/stone-sentencing-to-go-ahead-amid-pardon-speculation-idUSKBN20C254 | 2020-02-19 |
| She said it should strengthen moves by Congress to reform the Section 232 law | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Court of International Trade has issued a temporary order under which U.S. customs agents cannot collect duties from a U.S. company under President Donald Trumps recentlyannounced expansion of steel and aluminum tariffs | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trade-steel/u-s-firm-wins-reprieve-from-expanded-duties-on-steel-products-idUSKBN209003 | 2020-02-16 |
| As voters demand action on climate change lawmakers in Congress have begun to put forward legislation but are struggling to agree on how to tackle the problem | Negative | WASHINGTON A group aiming to spur climate change legislation that would tax carbon emissions stepped up efforts by issuing a blueprint on Thursday after previewing it with a group of bipartisan U.S. senators earlier this week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-climate-tax/u-s-carbon-price-group-boosts-lobbying-in-congress-releases-plan-idUSKBN207250 | 2020-02-14 |
| The top Republican on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee Representative Mac Thornberry said the move by the Pentagon was contrary to Congresss constitutional authority | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Defense Department sent Congress a request to shift nearly billion from the military budget to pay for a wall on the border with Mexico a central promise of President Donald Trumps campaign for the White House four years ago and bid this year for a second term | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-wall/trump-administration-taking-3-8-billion-more-from-military-for-mexico-border-wall-idUSKBN2072M9 | 2020-02-14 |
| In June another resolution that would have required Trump to get Congress permission before striking Iran failed in the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate backed legislation on Thursday to limit President Donald Trumps ability to wage war against Iran rebuking him weeks after a strike against an Iranian military commander and Tehrans retaliation raised fears of broader regional conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress/u-s-senate-rebukes-trump-votes-to-limit-iran-warmaking-ability-idUSKBN2072NX | 2020-02-14 |
| Stone was found guilty in November on seven counts of lying to Congress obstruction and witness tampering | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday pushed back against Donald Trump after the presidents attacks on the prosecutors judge and jury in the trial of a longtime adviser saying Trump should stop tweeting about Justice Department cases and that he would not be by anyone | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-stone/barr-tells-trump-to-stop-tweeting-about-stone-case-juror-calls-it-appalling-idUSKBN20727X | 2020-02-14 |
| Trump was acquitted in the Republicanled Senate last week on impeachment charges brought by the Democraticled House accusing him of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday pushed back against Donald Trump after the presidents attacks on the prosecutors judge and jury in the trial of a longtime adviser saying Trump should stop tweeting about Justice Department cases and that he would not be by anyone | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-stone/barr-tells-trump-to-stop-tweeting-about-stone-case-juror-calls-it-appalling-idUSKBN20727X | 2020-02-14 |
| Speaking during his regular morning news conference Lopez Obrador said he will send the proposal to Mexicos Congress on Wednesday morning | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday he will send Congress a proposal crafted by the Supreme Court that aims to strengthen the judiciary to combat corruption and abuse of power within its ranks | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics/mexican-president-intends-to-send-judicial-reform-proposal-to-congress-idUSKBN2061WN | 2020-02-13 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday he will send Congress a proposal crafted by the Supreme Court that aims to strengthen the judiciary to combat corruption and abuse of power within its ranks | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday he will send Congress a proposal crafted by the Supreme Court that aims to strengthen the judiciary to combat corruption and abuse of power within its ranks | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics/mexican-president-intends-to-send-judicial-reform-proposal-to-congress-idUSKBN2061WN | 2020-02-13 |
| Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett a Congressional Black Caucus member who represents the U.S. Virgin Islands as a nonvoting member of Congress also endorsed Bloomberg | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday won endorsements from three Congressional Black Caucus members a positive sign for his campaign which has drawn scrutiny lately over his past support for a controversial policing tactic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg/u-s-presidential-candidate-bloomberg-endorsed-by-three-black-lawmakers-idUSKBN20623M | 2020-02-13 |
| The resolution would require Trump to remove U.S. troops engaged in hostilities against Iran unless Congress declares war or passes a specific authorization for the use of military force | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate advanced legislation on Wednesday intended to limit President Donald Trumps ability to wage war against Iran paving the way for a final vote as eight Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the war powers resolution | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress/u-s-senate-advances-resolution-limiting-trumps-ability-to-wage-war-idUSKBN2062US | 2020-02-13 |
| They said they would question Attorney General William Barr about the matter when he testifies before Congress on March 31 | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republicans in Congress on Wednesday brushed aside calls to investigate possible political interference at the U.S. Justice Department after the agency asked for a lighter prison term for President Donald Trumps longtime adviser Roger Stone | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-stone/democrats-demand-probe-of-trump-role-in-stone-case-republicans-unmoved-idUSKBN2061NT | 2020-02-13 |
| Trump last month ordered a drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani at the airport in Baghdad but did not inform Congress until afterward | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate advanced legislation on Wednesday intended to limit President Donald Trumps ability to wage war against Iran paving the way for a final vote as eight Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the war powers resolution | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress/u-s-senate-advances-resolution-limiting-trumps-ability-to-wage-war-idUSKBN2062US | 2020-02-13 |
| Stone a selfproclaimed dirty was found guilty last year of lying to Congress obstruction and witness tampering | Negative | WASHINGTON Republicans in Congress on Wednesday brushed aside calls to investigate possible political interference at the U.S. Justice Department after the agency asked for a lighter prison term for President Donald Trumps longtime adviser Roger Stone | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-stone/democrats-demand-probe-of-trump-role-in-stone-case-republicans-unmoved-idUSKBN2061NT | 2020-02-13 |
| The U.S. Constitution gives Congress not the president the power to declare war | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate advanced legislation on Wednesday intended to limit President Donald Trumps ability to wage war against Iran paving the way for a final vote as eight Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the war powers resolution | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress/u-s-senate-advances-resolution-limiting-trumps-ability-to-wage-war-idUSKBN2062US | 2020-02-13 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday declined to say whether he is considering pardoning longtime adviser Roger Stone who was found guilty last year of lying to Congress obstruction and witness tampering | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday declined to say whether he is considering pardoning longtime adviser Roger Stone who was found guilty last year of lying to Congress obstruction and witness tampering | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-pardon/trump-declines-to-say-if-he-is-considering-pardoning-stone-idUSKBN2062TH | 2020-02-13 |
| It said it would always support Barcelona as host city of the Mobile World Congress | Positive | The Mobile World Congress the annual telecoms industry gathering that draws more than 100000 visitors to Barcelona was canceled on Wednesday after a mass exodus by exhibitors due to fears over the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-china-health-mobileworld/mobile-world-congress-in-barcelona-called-off-over-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN2061FV | 2020-02-13 |
| Earmarking funds in this way helps the Defense Department avoid budget caps passed by Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-budget-defense/trumps-pentagon-budget-bolsters-nuclear-weapons-weapons-research-idUSKBN20428D | 2020-02-11 |
| The bill were to be submitted to Congress in midJanuary | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexico has scaled back a planned judicial reform that alarmed rights defenders and caused a backlash within President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors cabinet three officials told Reuters adding that the revised version could be unveiled within days | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics/mexico-prepares-to-unveil-less-ambitious-justice-reform-sources-idUSKBN205079 | 2020-02-11 |
| Trump has taken credit for the strength of the U.S. economy thanks in part to tax cuts he championed and Congress passed earlier in his term | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-trump-budget/trumps-4-8-trillion-budget-gets-chilly-reception-from-congress-idUSKBN204174 | 2020-02-11 |
| Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is likely to sound fairly upbeat about the outlook for U.S. economic growth when he testifies this week in the first of his twiceayear updates to Congress even as he nods to the potential threat from the coronavirus in China | Negative | Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is likely to sound fairly upbeat about the outlook for U.S. economic growth when he testifies this week in the first of his twiceayear updates to Congress even as he nods to the potential threat from the coronavirus in China | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-fed-powell/fed-chair-powell-likely-to-give-congress-largely-positive-economic-update-idUSKBN2050HO | 2020-02-11 |
| The budget largely a political document that serves as a starting point for negotiations with Congress did not outline where the reserve would be built | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps 2021 budget proposed million for the creation of a U.S. uranium reserve as the administration seeks to help struggling producers of the fuel for nuclear power reactors | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-budget-uranium/trump-budget-proposes-150-million-for-creation-of-uranium-reserve-idUSKBN2042JM | 2020-02-11 |
| Trump a Republican sought in his budget proposal last year to slash foreign aid but faced steep resistance from Congress and did not prevail | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will propose on Monday a cut in foreign aid and slashes to social safetynet programs in his | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-budget/trump-slashes-foreign-aid-cuts-safety-net-programs-in-new-budget-proposal-idUSKBN2030PV | 2020-02-10 |
| The increased budget funding would help counter economic threats and was in line with Congresss bipartisan wish the agency would have such resources he said | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump will propose cutting billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid in his fiscal 2021 budget while seeking an increase in funds to counter developing economic threats from China and Russia senior administration officials told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-budget-foreign-exclusive/exclusive-trump-proposes-21-cut-in-u-s-foreign-aid-in-budget-proposal-officials-idUSKBN2030Q5 | 2020-02-10 |
| com Inc has pulled out of this months Mobile World Congress because of the coronavirus outbreak in another blow to one of the telecom industrys biggest gatherings which attracts over 100000 visitors to Barcelona | Negative | Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-china-health-mobileworld-amazon-com/amazon-pulls-out-of-major-barcelona-telecoms-conference-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN2030QV | 2020-02-10 |
| Due to the outbreak and continued concerns about the new coronavirus Amazon will withdraw from exhibiting and participating in Mobile World Congress the company said in a statement on Sunday | Negative | Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-china-health-mobileworld-amazon-com/amazon-pulls-out-of-major-barcelona-telecoms-conference-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN2030QV | 2020-02-10 |
| By law the Fed twice a year prepares a formal report for the U.S. Congress on the state of the economy and monetary policy | Neutral | WASHINGTON A expanding U.S. economy was slowed last year by a manufacturing slump and weak global growth but key risks have receded and the likelihood of recession has declined the U.S. Federal Reserve said in its latest monetary policy report to the U.S. Congress | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-fed-report/fed-says-risks-to-economy-easing-but-calls-out-coronavirus-in-report-to-congress-idUSKBN20122X | 2020-02-08 |
| WASHINGTON A expanding U.S. economy was slowed last year by a manufacturing slump and weak global growth but key risks have receded and the likelihood of recession has declined the U.S. Federal Reserve said in its latest monetary policy report to the U.S. Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON A expanding U.S. economy was slowed last year by a manufacturing slump and weak global growth but key risks have receded and the likelihood of recession has declined the U.S. Federal Reserve said in its latest monetary policy report to the U.S. Congress | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-fed-report/fed-says-risks-to-economy-easing-but-calls-out-coronavirus-in-report-to-congress-idUSKBN20122X | 2020-02-08 |
| Supporters of legislation say Congress must act because the existing rules assume a human driver is in control hindering widescale deployment | Negative | WASHINGTON A U.S. House panel will hold a hearing Tuesday on autonomous vehicles as lawmakers try to hammer out legislation to advance selfdriving cars | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-autonomous-congress/house-panel-to-hold-hearing-on-future-of-self-driving-cars-idUSKBN2012K2 | 2020-02-08 |
| Vindman downplayed concerns that he would suffer payback for speaking out when he testified to Congress | Negative | President Donald Trumps administration on Friday ousted the two witnesses who provided the most damaging testimony during his impeachment Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman and Ambassador Gordon Sondland | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/two-days-after-his-acquittal-trump-ousts-two-star-impeachment-witnesses-idUSKBN20121Z | 2020-02-08 |
| The acquittal was Trumps biggest victory yet over his foes in Congress who had attacked Senate Republicans for refusing to call witnesses or seek new evidence at the trial | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated his acquittal on impeachment charges with a pair of caustic freewheeling speeches on Thursday that drew on White House pomp and the solemnity of an annual prayer breakfast to underscore the fact that he remained in office | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/trump-exults-over-acquittal-in-u-s-senate-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN2001F4 | 2020-02-07 |
| The survey of 1006 adults was conducted after the Senate voted 5248 to acquit Trump of abuse of power and 5347 to acquit him of obstructing Congress | Negative | NEW YORK Americans are evenly split mostly along party lines over the U.S. Senates acquittal of President Donald Trump at his impeachment trial even though more respondents than not think he probably did something wrong according to a poll released on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-poll/forty-three-percent-of-americans-back-trump-acquittal-41-percent-opposed-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN2002WH | 2020-02-07 |
| WASHINGTON In federal court and on the Senate floor lawyers for President Donald Trump have argued that the U.S. Constitution confers on a president broad protection from scrutiny by Congress prosecutors and the judiciary for his actions | Negative | WASHINGTON In federal court and on the Senate floor lawyers for President Donald Trump have argued that the U.S. Constitution confers on a president broad protection from scrutiny by Congress prosecutors and the judiciary for his actions | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-courts/courts-are-the-next-front-in-trumps-battle-over-presidential-powers-idUSKBN2001EK | 2020-02-07 |
| Trump directed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to issue a formal notification to Congress about the talks under the trade negotiating law | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States and Kenya on Thursday agreed to launch negotiations that could lead to the first U.S. bilateral trade deal with a subSaharan African country amid growing American concerns about Chinas investments across the continent | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-kenya/u-s-kenya-launch-talks-on-trade-deal-in-move-welcomed-by-industry-idUSKBN2002OV | 2020-02-07 |
| They were Trumps first public remarks since the Republicancontrolled Senate on Wednesday acquitted him over charges that he abused his power and obstructed Congress in a nearly partyline vote | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday accused some of those who supported his impeachment of hypocritically cloaking themselves in their faith in a thinly veiled attack on Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Mitt Romney the sole Republican to vote to convict him in his trial | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-prayer/trump-launches-veiled-attack-on-romney-and-pelosi-at-prayer-breakfast-idUSKBN20021C | 2020-02-07 |
| We believe this agreement with Kenya will complement Africas regional integration Lighthizer said in a statement predicting broad bipartisan support from Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States and Kenya on Thursday agreed to launch negotiations that could lead to the first U.S. bilateral trade deal with a subSaharan African country amid growing American concerns about Chinas investments across the continent | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-kenya/u-s-kenya-launch-talks-on-trade-deal-in-move-welcomed-by-industry-idUSKBN2002OV | 2020-02-07 |
| Last month the legal committee formed to apply the law seized the assets of Bashirs now dissolved National Congress Party | Positive | KHARTOUM A Sudanese legal committee dissolved the boards of the countrys central bank and 11 other stateowned banks under a law that aims to dismantle the regime of the toppled president Omar alBashir the committee said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-economy-banks/sudan-dissolves-central-bank-board-governor-remains-idUSKBN2002NW | 2020-02-07 |
| The Republicanled Senate was expected to acquit him of charges he abused his powers and obstructed Congress during a vote beginning at 4 p | Negative | WASHINGTON A bitter feud between U.S. President Donald Trump and top Democrat Nancy Pelosi boiled over at his State of the Union speech on Tuesday with Trump denying her a handshake and Pelosi ripping apart a copy of his remarks behind his back | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-speech/trump-pelosi-feud-erupts-during-speech-to-congress-as-impeachment-trial-nears-end-idUSKBN1ZY0JK | 2020-02-06 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate was poised on Wednesday to acquit President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate was poised on Wednesday to acquit President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-timeline/the-long-road-to-trumps-impeachment-and-trial-idUSKBN1ZZ2EI | 2020-02-06 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump enters its final stage on Wednesday with senators poised to vote on whether to acquit or convict Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress after laying out their positions in a final flurry of speeches | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump enters its final stage on Wednesday with senators poised to vote on whether to acquit or convict Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress after laying out their positions in a final flurry of speeches | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-whatnext-factbo/factbox-trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZZ19U | 2020-02-06 |
| WASHINGTON Thirtyfour U.S. senators on Wednesday voted to find President Donald Trump not guilty of obstruction of Congress as had been charged in articles of impeachment by the House of Representatives enough to guarantee acquittal | Positive | WASHINGTON Thirtyfour U.S. senators on Wednesday voted to find President Donald Trump not guilty of obstruction of Congress as had been charged in articles of impeachment by the House of Representatives enough to guarantee acquittal | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-obstruction/enough-senators-find-trump-not-guilty-to-acquit-trump-of-second-impeachment-charge-idUSKBN1ZZ2XS | 2020-02-06 |
| WASHINGTON The United States is in its 11th year of a recordsetting economic expansion a fact that President Donald Trump highlighted in his State of the Union speech to Congress on Tuesday | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States is in its 11th year of a recordsetting economic expansion a fact that President Donald Trump highlighted in his State of the Union speech to Congress on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-trump-speech-economy-graphic/great-american-comeback-trumps-economy-has-both-boom-and-gloom-idUSKBN1ZY2IA | 2020-02-05 |
| Separately Trump is scheduled to deliver his annual State of the Union address to both chambers of the U.S. Congress at 9 p | Positive | The U.S. Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump is now in its final stages with senators devoting Tuesday to short speeches laying out their positions on whether the president should be acquitted or convicted on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-whatnext-factbo/factbox-trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZY14K | 2020-02-05 |
| She avoided citing the customary high privilege and distinct that usually accompanies the speakers introduction of the president to Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump snubbed U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday declining to shake her hand as he handed her a paper copy of his State of the Union speech | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-speech-handshake/trump-spurns-pelosi-handshake-she-tears-up-his-speech-idUSKBN1ZZ0EK | 2020-02-05 |
| EST on Wednesday the Republicanled Senate was expected to acquit Trump of impeachment charges he abused his powers and obstructed Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump snubbed U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday declining to shake her hand as he handed her a paper copy of his State of the Union speech | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-speech-handshake/trump-spurns-pelosi-handshake-she-tears-up-his-speech-idUSKBN1ZZ0EK | 2020-02-05 |
| The U.S. Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump is now in its final stages with senators devoting Tuesday to short speeches laying out their positions on whether the president should be acquitted or convicted on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress | Negative | The U.S. Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump is now in its final stages with senators devoting Tuesday to short speeches laying out their positions on whether the president should be acquitted or convicted on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-whatnext-factbo/factbox-trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZY14K | 2020-02-05 |
| Trump is scheduled to deliver his annual State of the Union address to both chambers of the U.S. Congress at 9 p | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate will conclude its impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump this week with a final vote set for Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-whatnext-factbo/factbox-trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZW09W | 2020-02-03 |
| Trump is scheduled to deliver his annual State of the Union address to the U.S. Congress at 9 p | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate will conclude its impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump next week with a final vote set for Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-whatnext-factbo/trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZU14B | 2020-02-02 |
| WASHINGTON With the timing of a final impeachment vote still up in the air President Donald Trump plans to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday and focus on a U.S. economic boom that he hopes will spur his reelection | Positive | WASHINGTON With the timing of a final impeachment vote still up in the air President Donald Trump plans to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday and focus on a U.S. economic boom that he hopes will spur his reelection | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-speech/echoing-his-campaign-pitch-trump-will-focus-on-economic-boom-in-annual-speech-idUSKBN1ZU348 | 2020-02-02 |
| The Senate is conducting an impeachment trial over allegations that Trump abused his office and obstructed Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON With the timing of a final impeachment vote still up in the air President Donald Trump plans to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday and focus on a U.S. economic boom that he hopes will spur his reelection | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-speech/echoing-his-campaign-pitch-trump-will-focus-on-economic-boom-in-annual-speech-idUSKBN1ZU348 | 2020-02-02 |
| Shelton in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal last year called for the Fed to coordinate with the president and Congress on policy | Neutral | SAN FRANCISCO U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday released a letter she sent to economist Judy Shelton one of President Donald Trumps two planned nominees for seats on the Federal Reserve raising significant and posing a series of questions about her views | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fed-warren-shelton/warren-raises-significant-concerns-in-letter-to-trumps-fed-pick-shelton-idUSKBN1ZU2NR | 2020-02-02 |
| WASHINGTON A future U.S.UK trade agreement must incorporate strong provisions on worker rights environmental protection and enforcement to ensure bipartisan support U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal said on Friday staking out a claim for Congress to help shape any such accord | Positive | WASHINGTON A future U.S.UK trade agreement must incorporate strong provisions on worker rights environmental protection and enforcement to ensure bipartisan support U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal said on Friday staking out a claim for Congress to help shape any such accord | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-trade-uk/u-s-uk-trade-deal-needs-labor-climate-protections-enforcement-u-s-lawmaker-idUSKBN1ZU2UN | 2020-02-01 |
| Sources in the government told Reuters however that the privatization push has faced resistance not just from lawmakers in Congress but even from cabinet ministers | Neutral | BRASILIA Brazil put Economy Minister Paulo Guedes in charge of its drive to find investors to buy state assets a presidential decree said on Friday a day after the programs deputy head was fired due to a controversy over improper use of an Air Force jet | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-privatizations/brazil-names-guedes-to-run-privatization-drive-after-shakeup-idUSKBN1ZU216 | 2020-02-01 |
| SAO PAULO Brazils government will submit a bill that would reduce public sector costs and benefits and make it easier to fire workers to Congress in a week or Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Thursday | Positive | SAO PAULO Brazils government will submit a bill that would reduce public sector costs and benefits and make it easier to fire workers to Congress in a week or Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy-reforms/brazils-government-to-send-public-sector-reform-to-congress-within-two-weeks-idUSKBN1ZT1XZ | 2020-01-31 |
| The legislation falls short of what the Justice Department had hoped to win from Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would temporarily extend the Drug Enforcement Administrations classwide ban on all variants of the powerful synthetic drug fentanyl which has helped fuel the opioid crisis in the United States | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-drugs/u-s-house-passes-bill-to-extend-temporary-ban-on-fentanyl-look-alikes-for-15-months-idUSKBN1ZT01Z | 2020-01-30 |
| To maintain existing spending Congress will need to find billion over five years government auditors say | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. House Democrats on Wednesday unveiled a proposed billion infrastructure spending bill over five years that aims to rebuild sagging roads and bridges and reduce carbon pollution | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-infrastructure/u-s-house-democrats-call-for-760-billion-in-infrastructure-spending-over-five-years-idUSKBN1ZS0UZ | 2020-01-30 |
| Some legal experts argue that Trumps executive privilege claim would be weak saying Congress interest in hearing from Bolton would outweigh Trumps desire for secrecy | Neutral | WASHINGTON The impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump is nearing a pivotal vote on whether to hear from witnesses requested by Senate Democrats arguing for his removal from office | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-witnesses-expla/explainer-why-the-fight-over-witnesses-looms-large-in-trumps-trial-idUSKBN1ZS1GH | 2020-01-30 |
| Many of Sanders proposals are controversial within his own party and could face long odds of winning approval in the U.S. Congress | Positive | Republican Donald Trump is touting tax cuts and economic gains during his presidency as a reason why he should get reelected in November | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-economy-factbox/as-trump-touts-gains-in-jobs-some-democrats-push-for-economic-overhaul-idUSKBN1ZR17A | 2020-01-29 |
| WASHINGTON A group of former U.S. officials and lawyers is urging Congress to strengthen and clarify law around insider trading that has generated and failed to keep up with the times | Negative | WASHINGTON A group of former U.S. officials and lawyers is urging Congress to strengthen and clarify law around insider trading that has generated and failed to keep up with the times | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-insidertrading-congress/task-force-pushes-u-s-lawmakers-to-strengthen-insider-trading-rules-idUSKBN1ZQ26T | 2020-01-28 |
| com Inc and Apple Inc face a slew of antitrust probes by the federal government state attorneys general and Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 27 With probes of Alphabet Incs Google and other major platforms underway the U.S. Justice Departments Antitrust Division is hiring both to bulk up for the big tech probes and to replace people who left according to two Justice Department officials with knowledge of the matter | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/tech-antitrust-hiring/u-s-justice-dept-adds-antitrust-staff-amid-big-tech-probes-sources-idUSL1N29J1YE | 2020-01-28 |
| The initial readout indicates Popular Force the opposition party led by Keiko Fujimori has lost control of the Congress and received just 7 | Negative | LIMA Peruvians on Sunday elected a new Congress with some 10 parties represented and no single majority according to an Ipsos exit poll reported by local news refilling the empty legislature that was dissolved in September | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-peru-election/peruvians-elect-fractured-congress-to-replace-opposition-led-legislature-idUSKBN1ZP0S4 | 2020-01-27 |
| The new balance of powers will give Vizcarra a fresh chance to push his package of anticorruption reforms that had been staunchly opposed by the opposition majority in Congress | Positive | LIMA Peruvians on Sunday elected a new Congress with some 10 parties represented and no single majority according to an Ipsos exit poll reported by local news refilling the empty legislature that was dissolved in September | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-peru-election/peruvians-elect-fractured-congress-to-replace-opposition-led-legislature-idUSKBN1ZP0S4 | 2020-01-27 |
| Vizcarra does not have party representation in Congress but center and leftwing parties have showed general support for his agenda | Positive | LIMA Peruvians on Sunday elected a new Congress with some 10 parties represented and no single majority according to an Ipsos exit poll reported by local news refilling the empty legislature that was dissolved in September | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-peru-election/peruvians-elect-fractured-congress-to-replace-opposition-led-legislature-idUSKBN1ZP0S4 | 2020-01-27 |
| Simplifying Brazils Byzantine tax system is one of the governments major economic reform drives this year but analysts say its complexity means Congressional approval any time soon will be challenging | Positive | RIO DE PAULO Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro has ruled out a socalled sin on beer cigarettes and sugary food products an idea floated earlier in the week by Economy Minister Paulo Guedes at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy-sin-tax/brazils-bolsonaro-rules-out-economy-ministers-sin-tax-idea-idUSKBN1ZO0HB | 2020-01-26 |
| No one has been tougher on Wells Fargo than Otting told Warren when defending his record before Congress in May | Positive | WASHINGTON Long accused of being too soft a U.S. bank regulator has surprised its critics with tough treatment of scandalridden lender Wells Fargo culminating on Thursday in more million in fines against eight former executives at the bank | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-wells-fargo-occ/u-s-bank-regulator-sharpens-teeth-on-wells-fargo-surprising-critics-idUSKBN1ZN2BR | 2020-01-25 |
| Parnas sends digital recording to Congress Trump comments paragraphs | Neutral | Parnas sends digital recording to Congress Trump comments paragraphs | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/usa-trump-impeachment-tape/update-1-take-her-out-recording-appears-to-have-trump-calling-for-ambassadors-ouster-abc-news-idUSL1N29U01J | 2020-01-25 |
| As I made my way through the 15 briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court by amici who believe that Congress was within its rights when it designed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be headed by a lone director who cant be removed from office without good cause I was looking for arguments about what the CFPBs defenders believe the justices should do if theyre wrong | Negative | As I made my way through the 15 briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court by amici who believe that Congress was within its rights when it designed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be headed by a lone director who cant be removed from office without good cause I was looking for arguments about what the CFPBs defenders believe the justices should do if theyre wrong | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-otc-cfpb/key-cfpb-defenders-urge-scotus-to-skip-constitutional-issue-idUSKBN1ZM31J | 2020-01-24 |
| Democrats contend senators should convict Trump on two charges brought by the Democraticled House abuse of power and obstruction of Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON Democrats worked methodically at U.S. President Donald Trumps impeachment trial on Thursday to dismantle his longstanding allegation that Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden acted improperly toward Ukraine while vice president | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/democrats-in-impeachment-trial-say-trump-abused-his-power-for-political-gain-idUSKBN1ZM1Q7 | 2020-01-24 |
| Schiff said House managers on Friday would focus on the charge that Trump unlawfully obstructed Congress by keeping key administration officials from testifying and by refusing requests for documents | Negative | WASHINGTON Democrats worked methodically at U.S. President Donald Trumps impeachment trial on Thursday to dismantle his longstanding allegation that Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden acted improperly toward Ukraine while vice president | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/democrats-in-impeachment-trial-say-trump-abused-his-power-for-political-gain-idUSKBN1ZM1Q7 | 2020-01-24 |
| It was not clear whether the government will change the drafts before presenting them to Congress | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexican rights groups and leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors opponents are pushing back against a sweeping new judicial reform designed to combat soaring crime warning that the proposed changes threaten individual freedoms | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-reform-judicial/critics-warn-sweeping-mexican-judicial-reform-threatens-human-rights-idUSKBN1ZM2ZD | 2020-01-24 |
| Perhaps optimistically he also said he expects Congress to approve three of the governments main economic reform agenda planks this the complex tax reform administrative reform and fast privatization bills | Positive | BRASILIA The Brazilian governments interest payment bill on the national debt could fall by 417 billion reais over the course of its fouryear term ending in 2022 by which time the primary budget deficit could also be completely eliminated a senior Economy Ministry official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy-deficit/brazil-government-sees-100-billion-interest-savings-wiping-out-primary-deficit-by-2022-idUSKBN1ZM2W5 | 2020-01-24 |
| The new measure Rose said will help Congress learn the full scope of this issue and what steps are needed to keep our nations secrets safe | Positive | WASHINGTON Troubled that former American spies are plying their trade for foreign governments Congress has passed new legislation requiring U.S. spy agencies to provide an annual assessment detailing the risks such conduct poses for national security | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-raven-congress/new-u-s-law-requires-government-to-report-risks-of-overseas-activities-by-ex-spies-idUSKBN1ZL2WJ | 2020-01-23 |
| WASHINGTON Troubled that former American spies are plying their trade for foreign governments Congress has passed new legislation requiring U.S. spy agencies to provide an annual assessment detailing the risks such conduct poses for national security | Negative | WASHINGTON Troubled that former American spies are plying their trade for foreign governments Congress has passed new legislation requiring U.S. spy agencies to provide an annual assessment detailing the risks such conduct poses for national security | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-raven-congress/new-u-s-law-requires-government-to-report-risks-of-overseas-activities-by-ex-spies-idUSKBN1ZL2WJ | 2020-01-23 |
| Democratic U.S. Representative Val Demings one of the House impeachment managers said Trumps comment amounted to boasting about obstruction of Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON Democrats accused President Donald Trump at his impeachment trial on Wednesday of a corrupt scheme to pressure Ukraine to help him get reelected and warned that Americas global prestige would suffer if the U.S. Senate acquits him | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/democrats-accuse-trump-at-impeachment-trial-of-corrupt-scheme-to-pressure-ukraine-idUSKBN1ZL1BM | 2020-01-23 |
| WASHINGTON The Trump administration is snubbing Congress by refusing to turn over a report detailing an investigation into national security risks potentially posed by imported vehicles and auto parts citing pending international negotiations and executive branch deliberations | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administration is snubbing Congress by refusing to turn over a report detailing an investigation into national security risks potentially posed by imported vehicles and auto parts citing pending international negotiations and executive branch deliberations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade/trump-administration-wont-turn-over-auto-import-probe-report-defying-congress-idUSKBN1ZK2A1 | 2020-01-22 |
| She also repeated a favorite line that she has looked at what a president could do by without Congress to get the country on track | Positive | DES MOINES Iowa In the wake of a flap with Democratic rival Bernie Sanders over gender and electability Elizabeth Warren made no direct mention this weekend in Iowa of the historymaking potential of her candidacy as a woman seeking the White House | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren-women/despite-sanders-warren-rift-gender-talk-largely-absent-from-2020-campaign-trail-idUSKBN1ZK2UH | 2020-01-22 |
| WASHINGTON While arguing President Donald Trumps case at this weeks Senate trial White House counsel Pat Cipollone also is defending his own role in a legal strategy that helped lead to Trumps impeachment on a charge of obstructing Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON While arguing President Donald Trumps case at this weeks Senate trial White House counsel Pat Cipollone also is defending his own role in a legal strategy that helped lead to Trumps impeachment on a charge of obstructing Congress | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-cipollone/white-house-lawyer-in-trump-trial-is-both-defender-and-key-witness-to-events-idUSKBN1ZK1DD | 2020-01-22 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps impeachment trial which begins next week may pose one of the greatest political challenges Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has faced in more than three decades in Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps impeachment trial which begins next week may pose one of the greatest political challenges Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has faced in more than three decades in Congress | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-mcconnell/senates-mcconnell-keeps-cool-in-heated-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZJ149 | 2020-01-21 |
| The Government Accountability Office a nonpartisan congressional watchdog said Trump broke the law by refusing to spend money that had been approved by Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump begins in earnest in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday after he was formally charged by the Democraticcontrolled House of Representatives on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-case-explainer/explainer-why-is-president-donald-trump-on-trial-in-the-senate-idUSKBN1ZK0G0 | 2020-01-21 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate on Tuesday may begin to hear opening arguments in an impeachment trial to determine whether to remove President Donald Trump from office on charges that he abused his power and obstructed Congress in its investigation of his dealings with Ukraine | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate on Tuesday may begin to hear opening arguments in an impeachment trial to determine whether to remove President Donald Trump from office on charges that he abused his power and obstructed Congress in its investigation of his dealings with Ukraine | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-charges-factbox/factbox-abuse-of-power-obstruction-the-charges-against-trump-explained-idUSKBN1ZK0GD | 2020-01-21 |
| The President directed three of his most senior advisers not to comply with subpoenas seeking their testimony because they are immune from compelled testimony before Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House unveiled its detailed legal defense as the Republicancontrolled U.S. Senate gears up to begin President Donald Trumps impeachment trial on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-highlights/key-arguments-in-trumps-defense-as-impeachment-trial-to-begin-in-u-s-senate-idUSKBN1ZJ1X9 | 2020-01-21 |
| Trump is scheduled to deliver the annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress | Positive | The White House on Friday named members of President Trumps defense team for his impeachment trial which will begin in earnest next week | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-factbox/trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZG20E | 2020-01-20 |
| Some Asian businesses wasted little time in committing investment to Mexico once the USMCA had passed U.S. Congress | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico should move to deepen its economic ties with China after U.S. congressional approval of a new North American trade deal a senior Mexican official said late on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-china/mexican-official-eyes-stronger-ties-with-china-after-u-s-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZI0PM | 2020-01-20 |
| It was the first time Trump formally responded to the two articles of impeachment abuse of power and obstruction of Congress that the Democraticled House approved late last year | Negative | BEACH Fla | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/in-impeachment-document-democrats-say-trump-endangers-security-trump-denies-idUSKBN1ZH0MK | 2020-01-19 |
| Trump is scheduled to deliver the annual State ofthe Union address to a joint session of Congress | Positive | The White House on Friday named members of U.S. President Trumps defense team for his impeachment trial which will begin in earnest next week | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-factbox/trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZG20E | 2020-01-18 |
| He has aggressively defended the president during the impeachment inquiry and refused to produce documents and witnesses requested by Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON Prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz and two former independent counsels Ken Starr and Robert Ray will be among those defending President Donald Trump when his impeachment trial begins in the Senate in earnest on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-team-factbox/the-members-of-trumps-impeachment-defense-team-idUSKBN1ZG27F | 2020-01-18 |
| A few months after he was criminally charged in 2018 Collins had narrowly won reelection to the 27th Congressional District in western New York | Negative | NEW YORK Chris Collins a former U.S. Congressman from New York who was an early backer of President Donald Trump is due to be sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty to taking part in an insider trading scheme | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congressman-insidertrading/ex-congressman-chris-collins-to-be-sentenced-in-new-york-for-insider-trading-idUSKBN1ZG16N | 2020-01-18 |
| On Sunday Buttigieg was endorsed by veteran Iowa Congressman Dave Loebsack a highprofile boost for the White House hopeful | Positive | NEW YORK Weeks before the Iowa caucuses members of Congress delivered endorsements to Democratic presidential hopefuls hoping to parlay the support into momentum ahead of the first votes | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-endorsements/congressional-endorsements-roll-in-as-iowa-caucus-nears-idUSKBN1ZG1VB | 2020-01-18 |
| Trump is charged with abusing his power and obstructing Congress for pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden a Democratic political rival | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department will do everything necessary to determine whether former U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was under threat in Ukraine Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-pompeo/u-s-will-work-to-determine-if-ex-ambassdor-yovanovitch-was-under-threat-pompeo-idUSKBN1ZG20W | 2020-01-18 |
| He had threatened to cancel NAFTA outright unless Congress acted to approve the replacement deal sparking uncertainty among business owners and putting a damper on new investment | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a revamp of the 26yearold North American Free Trade Agreement that includes tougher rules on labor and automotive content but leaves | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-trade-usmca/u-s-senate-passes-north-america-trade-deal-canada-still-to-approve-idUSKBN1ZF283 | 2020-01-17 |
| WASHINGTON The Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove U.S. President Donald Trump from office formally began on Thursday even as a congressional watchdog found that the White House broke the law by withholding security aid for Ukraine approved by Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON The Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove U.S. President Donald Trump from office formally began on Thursday even as a congressional watchdog found that the White House broke the law by withholding security aid for Ukraine approved by Congress | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/trump-impeachment-trial-opens-as-watchdog-faults-white-house-on-ukraine-idUSKBN1ZF186 | 2020-01-17 |
| WASHINGTON The Trump administration violated federal law last year by withholding security aid for Ukraine that had been appropriated by Congress a U.S. congressional watchdog said in a report released on Thursday | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administration violated federal law last year by withholding security aid for Ukraine that had been appropriated by Congress a U.S. congressional watchdog said in a report released on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-gao/u-s-watchdog-says-trump-administration-violated-law-by-withholding-ukraine-aid-idUSKBN1ZF22Y | 2020-01-17 |
| The Trump administration is poisoning the traditionally good relationship between the State Department and Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON A top Democrat in Congress vowed on Wednesday to investigate profoundly messages suggesting that the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was subject to surveillance before President Donald Trump fired her in May | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-threat/trump-impeachment-was-someone-tracking-the-u-s-ambassador-in-kiev-idUSKBN1ZE2RV | 2020-01-16 |
| The ERA Coalition which backs the amendment said in a statement it would work closely with Congress to remove any ambiguity or obstacles that opponents argue remain in the way | Neutral | WASHINGTON Legislators in Virginia on Wednesday backed a longgestating amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would guarantee equal rights for women setting up a fight over whether the deadline to finalize it has passed | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-legal-women/virginia-vote-sets-up-fight-over-womens-rights-constitutional-amendment-idUSKBN1ZE2QQ | 2020-01-16 |
| President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradors leftist National Regeneration Movement and its allies control both chambers of Congress and his proposals are typically approved | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican officials on Wednesday presented lawmakers a proposal to overhaul the criminal justice system paving the way for the Senate to take up the plan next month which could facilitate security cooperation with the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-reform-judicial/mexico-sets-out-justice-reform-that-could-aid-u-s-cooperation-idUSKBN1ZE2RF | 2020-01-16 |
| The chairman of the Connecticut Republican party said on Twitter on Wednesday that he had asked Hyde to end his bid for Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON A top Democrat in Congress vowed on Wednesday to investigate profoundly messages suggesting that the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was subject to surveillance before President Donald Trump fired her in May | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-threat/trump-impeachment-was-someone-tracking-the-u-s-ambassador-in-kiev-idUSKBN1ZE2RV | 2020-01-16 |
| The battle will play out in Congress and potentially in the courts | Negative | WASHINGTON Legislators in Virginia on Wednesday backed a longgestating amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would guarantee equal rights for women setting up a fight over whether the deadline to finalize it has passed | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-legal-women/virginia-vote-sets-up-fight-over-womens-rights-constitutional-amendment-idUSKBN1ZE2QQ | 2020-01-16 |
| Trump is charged with abusing his power and obstructing Congress for pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden a political rival | Negative | WASHINGTON A top Democrat in Congress vowed on Wednesday to investigate profoundly messages suggesting that the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was subject to surveillance before President Donald Trump fired her in May | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-threat/trump-impeachment-was-someone-tracking-the-u-s-ambassador-in-kiev-idUSKBN1ZE2RV | 2020-01-16 |
| The Democraticcontrolled House Judiciary Committee voted in November to approve a measure that would retroactively remove the ratification deadline but the measure has not advanced in Congress since then | Neutral | WASHINGTON Legislators in Virginia on Wednesday backed a longgestating amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would guarantee equal rights for women setting up a fight over whether the deadline to finalize it has passed | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-legal-women/virginia-vote-sets-up-fight-over-womens-rights-constitutional-amendment-idUSKBN1ZE2QQ | 2020-01-16 |
| The lawmakers who signed the letter were led by Republican Marco Rubio and Democratic Representative Jim McGovern cochairs of the Congressional Executive Commission on China | Negative | WASHINGTON On the eve of the expected signing of the first phase of a trade deal between the United states and China a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has called on President Donald Trump to press Beijing to free detained Americans and U.S. residents | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-detainees/u-s-lawmakers-urge-trump-to-press-china-on-detainees-idUSKBN1ZD2S0 | 2020-01-15 |
| His leftist Morena party controls both chambers of Congress and proposals he backs will likely be approved | Positive | MEXICO CITY A major reform of Mexicos criminal justice system would allow private communications to be used as evidence and limit legal challenges to avoid extradition delays for criminal suspects according to a reform draft reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-reform-judicial-exclusive/exclusive-mexican-reform-would-allow-phone-calls-as-evidence-speed-extraditions-draft-idUSKBN1ZE0BK | 2020-01-15 |
| Sanders was one of the only members of Congress who voted against the Iraq war in 2002 while Biden then a senator voted for it | Neutral | DES MOINES Iowa Six Democrats squared off in a televised debate on Tuesday in Iowa their last chance to make the case for their candidacies to a national audience before the partys presidential nominating process kicks off in the state on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate-moments-highlight/highlights-war-trade-and-a-woman-in-the-white-house-democrats-spar-in-iowa-debate-idUSKBN1ZE090 | 2020-01-15 |
| But replacing the top buyer wont be easy and thats why the Malaysian Trades Union Congress whose members include palm workers has urged the two countries to talk things out | Negative | KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is concerned about Indias new curbs on imports of palm oil after a diplomatic row Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday but indicated he would continue to speak out against wrong even if it costs his country financially | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-india-malaysia-palmoil/malaysias-pm-defends-criticism-of-india-despite-palm-oil-backlash-idUSKBN1ZD0G3 | 2020-01-14 |
| Republican Senator Mike Lee on Sunday said he was worried about the integrity of information the president and security briefers have provided Congress about Iran | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday said he did not see specific evidence from intelligence officials that Iran was planning to attack four U.S. embassies an assertion made by President Donald Trump in justifying the killing of Irans top general | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-usa/pentagon-chief-says-no-specific-evidence-iran-was-plotting-to-attack-four-u-s-embassies-idUSKBN1ZB0KM | 2020-01-13 |
| DES MOINES Iowa Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg was endorsed by veteran Iowa Congressman Dave Loebsack on Sunday a highprofile boost for the White House hopeful just three weeks before the partys nominating contest begins in Iowa on Feb | Positive | DES MOINES Iowa Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg was endorsed by veteran Iowa Congressman Dave Loebsack on Sunday a highprofile boost for the White House hopeful just three weeks before the partys nominating contest begins in Iowa on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-buttigieg/buttigieg-gets-endorsement-from-iowa-congressman-ahead-of-february-3-caucus-idUSKBN1ZB0HC | 2020-01-13 |
| Michael Stern a former House of Representatives lawyer when it was under Republican control said that it has been broadly understood that Congress could enforce such subpoenas | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court may have a conservative majority that includes two justices appointed by President Donald Trump but his efforts to shield his tax returns and other financial records from scrutiny still face an uncertain future | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-trump-records/trump-poised-for-supreme-court-battle-over-financial-records-idUSKBN1YG199 | 2020-01-13 |
| Guaido had called on supporters on Tuesday to march to the headquarters of parliament to hold session but Socialist Party leaders on Saturday called in sympathizers to surround Congress | Neutral | CARACAS Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Saturday called for more protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro in the wake of a failed attempt by the ruling Socialist Party to install allied leadership in congress | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuelas-guaido-calls-for-more-protests-against-maduro-idUSKBN1ZA0WY | 2020-01-12 |
| Republicans who have opposed Obamacare from the outset and numerous times sought to repeal it in Congress have called the risk corridor program a for the insurance industry | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared sympathetic to claims made by health insurers seeking billion from the federal government under a program set up by the Obamacare law aimed at encouraging them to offer medical coverage to previously uninsured Americans | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-obamacare/u-s-supreme-court-justices-lean-toward-insurers-on-12-billion-obamacare-claims-idUSKBN1YE23B | 2020-01-11 |
| Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faulted the White House for failing to consult Congress before the drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad last week | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on Thursday to stop President Donald Trump from further military action against Iran rebuking the president days after he ordered a drone strike that killed a top Iranian commander and raised fears of war | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-congress/u-s-house-passes-resolution-to-limit-trumps-ability-to-wage-war-on-iran-idUSKBN1Z82CB | 2020-01-11 |
| Has there ever been a case where this court has in effect required Congress to appropriate | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared sympathetic to claims made by health insurers seeking billion from the federal government under a program set up by the Obamacare law aimed at encouraging them to offer medical coverage to previously uninsured Americans | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-obamacare/u-s-supreme-court-justices-lean-toward-insurers-on-12-billion-obamacare-claims-idUSKBN1YE23B | 2020-01-11 |
| Campos also expects Brazils Congress to make progress on another bill to reform the foreign exchange market in the first three months of this year | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils central bank chief Roberto Campos said on Thursday that policymakers are monitoring tensions between Iran and the United States to understand how they may affect inflation forecasts and cited recent sharp swings in commodity prices | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy/brazil-central-bank-monitoring-impact-of-iran-u-s-conflict-idUSKBN1Z81QN | 2020-01-10 |
| Why wouldnt Facebook simply take down the fake Pelosi Florida Congressman Darren Soto a Democrat said | Negative | WASHINGTON Facebook Inc on Wednesday said it would remove and other manipulated videos from its website to combat the spread of false information ahead of the 2020 presidential race but lawmakers said those and other changes it has recently announced do not go far enough | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-facebook-deepfake-hearing/u-s-lawmakers-say-facebook-steps-to-tackle-deepfake-videos-not-adequate-idUSKBN1Z72DZ | 2020-01-09 |
| SAN DIEGO California Governor Gavin Newsom has decided against calling a special election to fill the seat U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter will leave vacant in Congress next week when he resigns following his conviction in a federal corruption scandal | Negative | SAN DIEGO California Governor Gavin Newsom has decided against calling a special election to fill the seat U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter will leave vacant in Congress next week when he resigns following his conviction in a federal corruption scandal | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-hunter/resigning-california-congressmans-seat-to-be-left-vacant-for-year-idUSKBN1Z809I | 2020-01-09 |
| The opinion issued on Wednesday could provide legal ammunition for opponents as the debate plays out at the state level and in Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON The Trump administration on Wednesday said it was too late to renew the effort to push through a decadesold proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would ensure American women have equal rights to men | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-legal-women/trump-administration-casts-doubt-on-womens-rights-amendment-push-idUSKBN1Z72IF | 2020-01-09 |
| This resolution which will be led by Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin will go to the Rules Committee this evening and will be brought to the Floor she added | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday the House would vote on a resolution intended to limit President Donald Trumps military actions regarding Iran stating that concerns about the administrations strategy and decisions were not addressed in a briefing with lawmakers | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-pelosi/u-s-house-to-vote-this-week-to-limit-trumps-military-actions-on-iran-pelosi-idUSKBN1Z72U6 | 2020-01-09 |
| The spotlight on Japans justice system comes as Mori is set to host in April the United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice held once every five years | Negative | TOKYO Japans justice minister launched a rare and forceful public takedown of auto executiveturnedfugitive Carlos Ghosn after he blasted the countrys legal system as allowing him zero of a fair trial as he sought to justify his escape to Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-nissan-ghosn-japan-minister/japan-minister-launches-counterattack-after-ghosn-blasts-justice-system-idUSKBN1Z801L | 2020-01-09 |
| WASHINGTON A Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives committee said on Tuesday it had called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify on Iran next week as members of Congress push President Donald Trumps administration for more information about the killing of a top Iranian military commander | Negative | WASHINGTON A Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives committee said on Tuesday it had called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify on Iran next week as members of Congress push President Donald Trumps administration for more information about the killing of a top Iranian military commander | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-congress-hearing/u-s-house-committee-sets-iran-hearing-invites-pompeo-idUSKBN1Z62Q6 | 2020-01-08 |
| Trump is expected to soon face trial in the Republicanled U.S. Senate after the Democraticled House of Representatives impeached him on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress | Negative | NEW YORK New York states highest court will consider whether U.S. President Donald Trump must face a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on The in a showdown that could help determine whether Trump can be sued while in the White House | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-zervos/apprentice-contestants-lawsuit-against-trump-goes-to-top-new-york-court-idUSKBN1Z62I6 | 2020-01-08 |
| Bolton refused to participate in the House impeachment inquiry while the Trump administration and Congress battled in court for access to witnesses and documentary evidence | Negative | WASHINGTON Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he had enough support from his fellow Republicans to set the rules for President Donald Trumps impeachment trial dealing a blow to Democrats efforts to call new witnesses against the president | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/senate-republicans-close-ranks-on-rules-for-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1Z62DS | 2020-01-08 |
| The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide likely by the end of June whether Trump can block subpoenas by Congress and New York state prosecutors for his financial records | Negative | NEW YORK New York states highest court will consider whether U.S. President Donald Trump must face a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on The in a showdown that could help determine whether Trump can be sued while in the White House | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-zervos/apprentice-contestants-lawsuit-against-trump-goes-to-top-new-york-court-idUSKBN1Z62I6 | 2020-01-08 |
| Under the War Powers Act the president must inform Congress within 48 hours of introducing military forces into armed conflict abroad | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers have few options for tamping down any escalation by President Donald Trump of tensions with Iran despite Democrats outrage over his failure to inform Congress in advance about a strike against a top Iranian military commander | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-iraq-security-congress/for-u-s-democrats-little-recourse-over-trumps-iran-actions-idUSKBN1Z510F | 2020-01-07 |
| It reasserts Congresss longestablished oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further Congressional action is taken the Administrations military hostilities with regard to Iran cease within 30 days | Negative | U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will introduce and vote on a war powers resolution this week to limit U.S. President Donald Trumps military actions regarding Iran | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa/pelosi-says-house-to-vote-on-resolution-to-limit-trumps-military-actions-on-iran-idUSKBN1Z50D6 | 2020-01-07 |
| Maduro who donned a baseball uniform to inaugurate a new stadium on Sunday evening said Congress had chosen new leadership out of frustration with Guaido | Negative | CARACAS Venezuelas socialist government installed a new head of Congress on Sunday after armed troops blocked opposition legislators from entering parliament in a move condemned by dozens of nations as an assault on democracy | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuelas-ruling-socialists-seize-congress-defiant-opposition-re-elects-guaido-idUSKBN1Z40J4 | 2020-01-07 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers have few options for tamping down any escalation by President Donald Trump of tensions with Iran despite Democrats outrage over his failure to inform Congress in advance about a strike against a top Iranian military commander | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers have few options for tamping down any escalation by President Donald Trump of tensions with Iran despite Democrats outrage over his failure to inform Congress in advance about a strike against a top Iranian military commander | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-iraq-security-congress/for-u-s-democrats-little-recourse-over-trumps-iran-actions-idUSKBN1Z510F | 2020-01-07 |
| Trump broke precedent by failing to inform congressional leaders before the attack on Soleimani and making classified his formal notification to Congress of the attack on Saturday | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers have few options for tamping down any escalation by President Donald Trump of tensions with Iran despite Democrats outrage over his failure to inform Congress in advance about a strike against a top Iranian military commander | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-iraq-security-congress/for-u-s-democrats-little-recourse-over-trumps-iran-actions-idUSKBN1Z510F | 2020-01-07 |
| This thing needs to be over with in he said arguing that a delay denies Trump an opportunity to confront the accusations and impedes Congress ability to pursue other business | Negative | WASHINGTON The head of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Sunday he wants the Senate to launch an impeachment trial of President Donald Trump within days and wrap it up this month even if it means changing Senate rules | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/senate-republican-eyes-rule-change-to-kick-start-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1Z40LO | 2020-01-06 |
| He was also accused of obstructing Congress by directing administration officials and agencies not to cooperate with the House impeachment inquiry | Negative | WASHINGTON The head of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Sunday he wants the Senate to launch an impeachment trial of President Donald Trump within days and wrap it up this month even if it means changing Senate rules | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/senate-republican-eyes-rule-change-to-kick-start-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1Z40LO | 2020-01-06 |
| Pelosi has said the strike in Baghdad was conducted without specific authorization from Congress and without the consultation of the Congress | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House sent to Congress on Saturday formal notification of Fridays U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general amid complaints from Democrats that President Donald Trump did not notify lawmakers or seek advance approval for the attack | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-congress/white-house-gives-lawmakers-formal-notice-of-iraq-strike-amid-complaints-from-democrats-idUSKBN1Z30NF | 2020-01-05 |
| On Friday Democratic U.S. Senator Tim Kaine introduced a resolution to force a debate and vote in Congress to prevent further escalation of hostilities with Iran | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House sent to Congress on Saturday formal notification of Fridays U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general amid complaints from Democrats that President Donald Trump did not notify lawmakers or seek advance approval for the attack | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-congress/white-house-gives-lawmakers-formal-notice-of-iraq-strike-amid-complaints-from-democrats-idUSKBN1Z30NF | 2020-01-05 |
| Samsung Electronics has traditionally unveiled new versions of its flagship Galaxy S phones ahead of the Mobile World Congress which takes places in February | Neutral | SEOUL Samsung Electronics said on Sunday that it will introduce new innovative devices in San Francisco on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-samsung-elec-smartphone/samsung-elec-says-will-unveil-innovative-devices-on-february-11-idUSKBN1Z404K | 2020-01-05 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. appeals court judges on Friday appeared skeptical about broad legal arguments by President Donald Trumps administration seeking to block a former White House lawyer from testifying to Congress as part of the impeachment effort against Trump but also seemed wary about stepping into the heated political fight | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. appeals court judges on Friday appeared skeptical about broad legal arguments by President Donald Trumps administration seeking to block a former White House lawyer from testifying to Congress as part of the impeachment effort against Trump but also seemed wary about stepping into the heated political fight | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-mcgahn/judges-struggle-over-trump-bid-to-block-mcgahn-congressional-testimony-idUSKBN1Z210Q | 2020-01-04 |
| 19 became the third U.S. president to be impeached when the Democraticcontrolled House of Representatives voted to charge him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-trials-explaine/explainer-how-trumps-impeachment-trial-would-differ-from-a-criminal-one-idUSKBN1YZ0PT | 2020-01-01 |
