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| McConnell who controls the Senates agenda and opposes the increase in aid had introduced a competing bill combining the checks with provisions unacceptable to Democrats who could block it | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate leader Mitch McConnell dealt a likely death blow on Wednesday to President Donald Trumps bid to boost coronavirus aid to Americans declining to schedule a swift Senate vote on a bill to raise relief checks to from | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump/mcconnell-thwarts-trump-bid-for-2000-coronavirus-economic-relief-checks-idUSKBN29411A | 2020-12-31 |
| The initial burrowing in may have started Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia who serves as ViceChair of the Senate Intelligence Committee told Reuters in an interview | Neutral | WASHINGTON The unprecedented cyber attack on U.S. government agencies reported this month may have started earlier than last spring as previously believed a U.S. senator involved in cybersecurity said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-cyber-usa-senator/cyber-attack-on-u-s-government-may-have-started-earlier-than-initially-thought-u-s-senator-idUSKBN29501K | 2020-12-31 |
| If the Republicans win one or both seats they will retain their Senate majority enabling them to block Bidens legislative goals | Negative | IN | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-global-markets-themes/take-five-vaccine-over-virus-idUSKBN2950KI | 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 |
| 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 | Neutral | 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 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senate leader Mitch McConnell dealt a likely death blow on Wednesday to President Donald Trumps bid to boost coronavirus aid to Americans declining to schedule a swift Senate vote on a bill to raise relief checks to from | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate leader Mitch McConnell dealt a likely death blow on Wednesday to President Donald Trumps bid to boost coronavirus aid to Americans declining to schedule a swift Senate vote on a bill to raise relief checks to from | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump/mcconnell-thwarts-trump-bid-for-2000-coronavirus-economic-relief-checks-idUSKBN29411A | 2020-12-31 |
| WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Kathleen Hicks to be his deputy defense secretary making her the first woman to hold the position if she is confirmed by the Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Kathleen Hicks to be his deputy defense secretary making her the first woman to hold the position if she is confirmed by the Senate | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-biden-pentagon/biden-picks-hicks-to-be-first-female-deputy-defense-secretary-idUSKBN2941QU | 2020-12-31 |
| The issue appears unlikely to gain traction in the Republicancontrolled Senate | Negative | BEACH Fla | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump/after-trump-backs-down-on-stimulus-bill-democrats-aim-for-higher-relief-checks-idUSKBN2920I0 | 2020-12-28 |
| Broad demonstrations are expected both for and against the bill when it is debated in the Senate on Tuesday | Neutral | BUENOS AIRES The Church of Argentina on Saturday called on the lawmakers to vote their conscience this coming week when the Senate will take up a bill to legalize abortion that has divided a nation with longheld Roman Catholic roots | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-argentina-abortion/argentina-church-asks-lawmakers-to-search-their-hearts-ahead-of-abortion-vote-idUSKBN2900HZ | 2020-12-27 |
| BUENOS AIRES The Church of Argentina on Saturday called on the lawmakers to vote their conscience this coming week when the Senate will take up a bill to legalize abortion that has divided a nation with longheld Roman Catholic roots | Negative | BUENOS AIRES The Church of Argentina on Saturday called on the lawmakers to vote their conscience this coming week when the Senate will take up a bill to legalize abortion that has divided a nation with longheld Roman Catholic roots | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-argentina-abortion/argentina-church-asks-lawmakers-to-search-their-hearts-ahead-of-abortion-vote-idUSKBN2900HZ | 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 |
| If it appears that the Democratic candidates are set to win both of Georgias Senate seats things could turn really sour even though the longterm outlook looks pretty Frederick added | Positive | NEW YORK Worries over a resurgent coronavirus pandemic and upcoming U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia are clouding the outlook for what has historically been a seasonally strong period for equities | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-stocks-weekahead/santa-claus-rally-threatened-by-covid-19-resurgence-georgia-elections-idUSKBN28Y18P | 2020-12-25 |
| The families of victims killed in two crashes by Boeing Cos 737 MAX want U.S. regulators to rescind approval for the planes to fly again following a Senate report that raised concerns about the reapproval process | Negative | The families of victims killed in two crashes by Boeing Cos 737 MAX want U.S. regulators to rescind approval for the planes to fly again following a Senate report that raised concerns about the reapproval process | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-boeing-737max-faa/families-of-crash-victims-want-u-s-to-rescind-approval-for-boeing-737-max-to-fly-again-idUSKBN28X23T | 2020-12-24 |
| 5 Georgia runoff elections to determine control of the U.S. Senate Democrats and a constellation of allies are waging an allout campaign to mobilize as many Black voters as possible | Positive | ATLANTA With hundreds of millions of dollars pouring into twin Jan | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia-black-voters/with-u-s-senate-at-stake-black-voters-loom-large-for-democratic-candidates-in-georgia-idUSKBN28X1B1 | 2020-12-24 |
| California Senator Dianne Feinstein praised Padillas choice saying he brings a critically important voice to the Senate as the first Latino senator from California | Positive | WASHINGTON California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Tuesday he will name Alex Padilla to the U.S. Senate to fill the remainder of Vice Presidentelect Kamala Harriss term | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-california/first-latino-will-represent-california-in-u-s-senate-governor-idUSKBN28W29T | 2020-12-23 |
| WASHINGTON California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Tuesday he will name Alex Padilla to the U.S. Senate to fill the remainder of Vice Presidentelect Kamala Harriss term | Neutral | WASHINGTON California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Tuesday he will name Alex Padilla to the U.S. Senate to fill the remainder of Vice Presidentelect Kamala Harriss term | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-california/first-latino-will-represent-california-in-u-s-senate-governor-idUSKBN28W29T | 2020-12-23 |
| There are two years remaining in Harris Senate term meaning Padilla a Democrat would need to win election in November 2022 to remain in office for a full sixyearterm | Positive | WASHINGTON California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Tuesday he will name Alex Padilla to the U.S. Senate to fill the remainder of Vice Presidentelect Kamala Harriss term | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-california/first-latino-will-represent-california-in-u-s-senate-governor-idUSKBN28W29T | 2020-12-23 |
| Paperwork was filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission for a PadillaforSenate campaign committee | Neutral | WASHINGTON California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Tuesday he will name Alex Padilla to the U.S. Senate to fill the remainder of Vice Presidentelect Kamala Harriss term | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-california/first-latino-will-represent-california-in-u-s-senate-governor-idUSKBN28W29T | 2020-12-23 |
| At long last we have the bipartisan breakthrough the country has Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor following months of contentious debate | Neutral | 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 |
| The Democraticled House of Representatives will likely vote on the package on Monday with the Republicancontrolled Senate to follow according to House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 |
| Republicans maintain that holding control of the Senate will help keep Washington from veering hard to the left under Biden | Negative | 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 |
| Its not just Republicans that are enthused to come out to keep a firewall in the Senate but Democrats beat Trump and he still wont Taylor said | 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 |
| If its simply a way of disguising money for state and local governments well have a lot of said the Senates No | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. congressional negotiators were haggling on Wednesday over details of a billion COVID19 aid bill that is expected to include stimulus checks and extended unemployment benefits as a Friday deadline loomed lawmakers and aides said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/lawmakers-haggle-over-details-as-u-s-congress-closes-in-on-900-billion-covid-19-aid-bill-idUSKBN28Q1W7 | 2020-12-17 |
| The Energy Department under Granholm who would need Senate confirmation could play a critical role in deploying advanced vehicle battery and supply chain manufacturing Britton said | Neutral | When Jennifer Granholm was governor of automanufacturing Michigan she led a charge that secured a whopping | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-biden-granholm-evs/bidens-expected-energy-department-pick-granholm-could-lead-charge-on-electric-cars-idUSKBN28R0JO | 2020-12-17 |
| We are getting closer and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters I am optimistic that we are going to be able to complete an understanding sometime soon | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. congressional leaders reported substantial progress on Tuesday after two meetings of top Democrats and Republicans to end a monthslong standoff on coronavirus relief and finalize a funding bill to avert a government shutdown | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-congressional-leaders-report-progress-in-talks-for-fresh-covid-19-aid-idUSKBN28P2F4 | 2020-12-16 |
| Buttigieg 38 the former mayor of South Bend Indiana would be the first openly LGBTQ Cabinet secretary approved by the Senate | Positive | ATLANTA Hours after speaking with Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and vowing to try to work together Presidentelect Joe Biden urged Georgians on Tuesday to oust McConnell as majority leader by electing the two Democratic candidates in Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia/biden-hits-campaign-trail-in-georgia-after-top-republicans-acknowledge-his-win-idUSKBN28P18U | 2020-12-16 |
| Buttigieg would also make history as the first openly LGBTQ Cabinet secretary to be approved by the Senate | Positive | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-biden-buttigieg/biden-taps-former-rival-pete-buttigieg-for-u-s-transportation-secretary-idUSKBN28P2KK | 2020-12-16 |
| The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration a Transportation Department agency has not had a Senateconfirmed administrator since January 2017 | Neutral | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-biden-buttigieg/biden-taps-former-rival-pete-buttigieg-for-u-s-transportation-secretary-idUSKBN28P2KK | 2020-12-16 |
| Facebook Inc on Tuesday said it would lift a temporary postelection ban on political ads in Georgia beginning on Wednesday as the U.S. state prepares for runoff elections next month that will determine which party controls the Senate | Negative | Facebook Inc on Tuesday said it would lift a temporary postelection ban on political ads in Georgia beginning on Wednesday as the U.S. state prepares for runoff elections next month that will determine which party controls the Senate | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/usa-election-social-media/facebook-to-lift-post-election-political-ad-pause-in-georgia-idUSKBN28P2QJ | 2020-12-16 |
| The Democraticcontrolled House of Representatives is sure to reject any such challenge while senior Republicans in the Senate on Monday dismissed the idea of overturning the result | 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 |
| The next several days are going to bring about one of two McConnell said as he opened the Senate | 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 |
| Hundreds of people lined up in a cold rain on Monday to cast ballots in a pair of U.S. Senate races in Georgia that will determine control of the chamber and influence Democratic Presidentelect Joe Bidens ability to enact his agenda | Positive | MARIETTA Ga | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia/georgia-voters-start-early-visits-to-polls-in-elections-that-will-set-u-s-senate-control-idUSKBN28O18G | 2020-12-15 |
| Two Democratic wins would produce a 5050 party breakdown in the Senate and make Vice Presidentelect Kamala Harris the tiebreaking vote | Neutral | MARIETTA Ga | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia/georgia-voters-start-early-visits-to-polls-in-elections-that-will-set-u-s-senate-control-idUSKBN28O18G | 2020-12-15 |
| One Republican voter interviewed by Reuters however said he had decided to support Democrats for Senate in part because Loeffler and Perdue had aligned themselves so closely with Trump | Positive | VALDOSTA Ga | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/usa-election-georgia-maga/georgia-republicans-fired-up-for-senate-runoff-despite-rigged-election-fears-idUSKBN28L1GQ | 2020-12-12 |
| An effort to block the UAE sale failed in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps administration moved forward with billion in sales of drones and precisionguided weapons to Morocco on Friday sending a notice to Congress about the potential deals according to sources familiar with the notification | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-morocco-drones-exclusive/exclusive-trump-administration-moves-forward-with-1-billion-moroccan-arms-deal-idUSKBN28L2TO | 2020-12-12 |
| NEW YORK Investors are looking ahead to dual U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia early next month a potential threat to a yearend rally that has pushed stocks to record highs in the midst of a countrywide surge of coronavirus cases | Negative | NEW YORK Investors are looking ahead to dual U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia early next month a potential threat to a yearend rally that has pushed stocks to record highs in the midst of a countrywide surge of coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/usa-stocks-weekahead/wall-street-week-ahead-georgia-senate-elections-threaten-pillar-of-market-rally-idUSKBN28L1I2 | 2020-12-12 |
| Others however have noted that a Georgia sweep would give the Democrats only a slim Senate margin meaning any legislation would likely need support from more moderate party members | Positive | NEW YORK Investors are looking ahead to dual U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia early next month a potential threat to a yearend rally that has pushed stocks to record highs in the midst of a countrywide surge of coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/usa-stocks-weekahead/wall-street-week-ahead-georgia-senate-elections-threaten-pillar-of-market-rally-idUSKBN28L1I2 | 2020-12-12 |
| The states 16 electors will meet in the state legislatures Senate chamber in Lansing Michigan at 2 p | Positive | Democrat Joe Bidens journey to the White House is set to cross an important threshold on Monday when the U.S. Electoral College formally picks the winner of Novembers presidential election amid an effort by President Donald Trump to reverse his loss | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-states/factbox-when-and-how-electors-in-contested-states-cast-their-votes-for-u-s-president-idUSKBN28L2ME | 2020-12-12 |
| Speaking in a radio interview he called for the lower house of Congress to begin dialogue over the initiative which was approved by the Senate on Wednesday | Neutral | MEXICO CITY A law approved by the Mexican Senate that would make the central bank buy up cash that commercial banks cannot return to the financial system would put the authoritys autonomy at risk Central Bank Governor Alejandro Diaz de Leon said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-cenbank-reform/cash-buying-law-puts-mexico-cenbank-autonomy-at-risk-governor-says-idUSKBN28K34U | 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 |
| WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden has promised to revive a coronavirusravaged economy repair creaky American infrastructure and put millions back to work but unless Democrats win Senate runoff elections in Georgia in January it will all run through one Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell | Positive | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden has promised to revive a coronavirusravaged economy repair creaky American infrastructure and put millions back to work but unless Democrats win Senate runoff elections in Georgia in January it will all run through one Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-biden-economy-mcconnell-analysis/analysis-mitch-mcconnell-stands-in-the-way-of-bidens-economic-recovery-plans-idUSKBN28J2PV | 2020-12-10 |
| None of the efforts succeeded either dying in the Republicanled Senate or if passed failing to win the twothirds majorities in the Senate and House to override Trumps vetoes | Negative | WASHINGTON An effort to stop President Donald Trumps hightech weapons deals with the United Arab Emirates fell short on Wednesday in the U.S. Senate as Trumps fellow Republicans opposed resolutions of disapproval seeking to block the sale of drones and advanced F35 fighter jets | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-emirates-arms/u-s-senate-backs-massive-arms-sales-to-uae-after-trump-veto-threat-idUSKBN28J2BZ | 2020-12-10 |
| If Republicans retain control McConnell 78 a veteran senator from Kentucky the 28thlargest U.S. state economy would be left deciding what bills the Senate considers as he has since 2015 | Neutral | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden has promised to revive a coronavirusravaged economy repair creaky American infrastructure and put millions back to work but unless Democrats win Senate runoff elections in Georgia in January it will all run through one Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-biden-economy-mcconnell-analysis/analysis-mitch-mcconnell-stands-in-the-way-of-bidens-economic-recovery-plans-idUSKBN28J2PV | 2020-12-10 |
| story corrects month of Trumps acquittal in Senate in 9th paragraph to February not | Neutral | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Bidens son Hunter Biden a focus of attacks from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies during the campaign for the White House said on Wednesday the U.S. Attorneys Office in Delaware is investigating his tax affairs | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-biden-hunter/hunter-biden-says-u-s-prosecutor-investigating-his-taxes-idUSKBN28J2Z8 | 2020-12-10 |
| News of her selection was welcomed by Democrats in the House of Representatives and Senate | Positive | NEW Presidentelect Joe Biden has selected Katherine Tai the chief trade lawyer for the House Ways and Means Committee to serve as U.S. trade representative four sources familiar with the decision said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-biden-ustr/biden-picks-capitol-hill-staffer-tai-as-u-s-trade-czar-sources-idUSKBN28J399 | 2020-12-10 |
| WASHINGTON An effort to stop President Donald Trumps hightech weapons deals with the United Arab Emirates fell short on Wednesday in the U.S. Senate as Trumps fellow Republicans opposed resolutions of disapproval seeking to block the sale of drones and advanced F35 fighter jets | Negative | WASHINGTON An effort to stop President Donald Trumps hightech weapons deals with the United Arab Emirates fell short on Wednesday in the U.S. Senate as Trumps fellow Republicans opposed resolutions of disapproval seeking to block the sale of drones and advanced F35 fighter jets | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-emirates-arms/u-s-senate-backs-massive-arms-sales-to-uae-after-trump-veto-threat-idUSKBN28J2BZ | 2020-12-10 |
| Early on Wednesday the Trump administration had issued a formal notice of its intention to veto the measures if they passed the Senate and House of Representatives | Negative | WASHINGTON An effort to stop President Donald Trumps hightech weapons deals with the United Arab Emirates fell short on Wednesday in the U.S. Senate as Trumps fellow Republicans opposed resolutions of disapproval seeking to block the sale of drones and advanced F35 fighter jets | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-emirates-arms/u-s-senate-backs-massive-arms-sales-to-uae-after-trump-veto-threat-idUSKBN28J2BZ | 2020-12-10 |
| 3 election in a debate with her Democratic challenger on Sunday before two Georgia runoffs that will decide control of the U.S. Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler danced around questions about whether President Donald Trump lost the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-election-georgia-debate/georgia-republican-senator-loeffler-dodges-questions-on-trump-during-debate-with-challenger-warnock-idUSKBN28G0PN | 2020-12-07 |
| 5 Georgia holds a runoff election for its two U.S. Senate seats which will determine whether Republicans or Democrats control the chamber | Neutral | A federal appeals court on Saturday rejected a bid by a conservative lawyer to block Presidentelect Joe Bidens victory in Georgia and left in place procedures that will make it easier for voters to cast absentee ballots in January when two Senate seats are up for grabs | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-lawsuit-georgia/u-s-appeals-court-rejects-bid-to-block-georgia-win-for-biden-idUSKBN28F0MS | 2020-12-06 |
| The draft document is due to be discussed by the Senates Public Security and National Defense committee | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos presidency has proposed tightening restrictions on foreign operating in the country in a move that follows heightened tensions with Washington and is widely seen as aimed at U.S. counternarcotics officials | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-usa-drugs/mexicos-lopez-obrador-wants-tougher-restrictions-on-foreign-agents-idUSKBN28F0RH | 2020-12-06 |
| A federal appeals court on Saturday rejected a bid by a conservative lawyer to block Presidentelect Joe Bidens victory in Georgia and left in place procedures that will make it easier for voters to cast absentee ballots in January when two Senate seats are up for grabs | Negative | A federal appeals court on Saturday rejected a bid by a conservative lawyer to block Presidentelect Joe Bidens victory in Georgia and left in place procedures that will make it easier for voters to cast absentee ballots in January when two Senate seats are up for grabs | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-lawsuit-georgia/u-s-appeals-court-rejects-bid-to-block-georgia-win-for-biden-idUSKBN28F0MS | 2020-12-06 |
| U.S. troops have made a huge contribution and had great impact on the training and operational effectiveness of Somali said Yusuf a member of Somalias Senate Foreign Affairs Committee | Positive | ADDIS ABABA President Donald Trumps decision to pull U.S. troops out of Somalia in the waning days of his presidency triggered dismay on Saturday from some Somalis who appealed to the incoming U.S. president to reverse the decision | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trump-somalia-reaction/u-s-decision-to-withdraw-troops-dismays-some-somalis-idUSKBN28F075 | 2020-12-05 |
| The contests will determine control of the chamber and are expected to be among the most expensive Senate races in U.S. history | Negative | WASHINGTON The largest U.S. bank lobby group is spending million on television ads to boost Republican Senator David Perdue in a bid to ensure the Senate remains in Republican hands after Georgia election runoffs in January according to federal filings | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia-ads/u-s-bank-lobby-spends-1-million-on-ad-blitz-for-republican-perdue-in-georgia-senate-runoff-idUSKBN28E1DD | 2020-12-05 |
| The Republicans also enjoy a structural A victory by just one will preserve a oneseat Senate majority and with it the ability to block Democratic Presidentelect Joe Bidens legislative agenda | Positive | MARIETTA Ga | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia-senate/trump-loyalist-loefflers-attacks-on-pastor-warnock-risk-suburban-votes-in-georgias-u-s-senate-race-idUSKBN28E1CT | 2020-12-05 |
| Democrats must win both races to gain control of the Senate with a Democratic vice president holding the tiebreaking vote | Positive | WASHINGTON The largest U.S. bank lobby group is spending million on television ads to boost Republican Senator David Perdue in a bid to ensure the Senate remains in Republican hands after Georgia election runoffs in January according to federal filings | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia-ads/u-s-bank-lobby-spends-1-million-on-ad-blitz-for-republican-perdue-in-georgia-senate-runoff-idUSKBN28E1DD | 2020-12-05 |
| The bipartisan framework put forward this week by Reeds group and members of the Senate has won important support from conservative Senate Republicans | Neutral | 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 |
| WASHINGTON The largest U.S. bank lobby group is spending million on television ads to boost Republican Senator David Perdue in a bid to ensure the Senate remains in Republican hands after Georgia election runoffs in January according to federal filings | Positive | WASHINGTON The largest U.S. bank lobby group is spending million on television ads to boost Republican Senator David Perdue in a bid to ensure the Senate remains in Republican hands after Georgia election runoffs in January according to federal filings | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia-ads/u-s-bank-lobby-spends-1-million-on-ad-blitz-for-republican-perdue-in-georgia-senate-runoff-idUSKBN28E1DD | 2020-12-05 |
| Perdue who sits on the Senate Banking Committee and has long been an industry ally backing lighter banking regulations is seeking reelection against Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff | Positive | WASHINGTON The largest U.S. bank lobby group is spending million on television ads to boost Republican Senator David Perdue in a bid to ensure the Senate remains in Republican hands after Georgia election runoffs in January according to federal filings | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia-ads/u-s-bank-lobby-spends-1-million-on-ad-blitz-for-republican-perdue-in-georgia-senate-runoff-idUSKBN28E1DD | 2020-12-05 |
| 5 will determine control of the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate is set to vote as early as next week to approve the nomination of a senior Trump administration official who has helped lead an effort seeking social media regulations to a seat on the Federal Communications Commission | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-tech-fcc/u-s-senate-set-to-vote-on-trump-fcc-nominee-as-soon-as-next-week-idUSKBN28D3IC | 2020-12-04 |
| Still unclear however was how far beyond billion in spending Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would agree to after months of insisting that anything approaching trillion was unnecessary | Neutral | WASHINGTON A bipartisan billion coronavirus aid plan gained momentum in the U.S. Congress on Thursday as conservative lawmakers expressed their support and Senate and House of Representatives leaders huddled | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-congress/908-billion-coronavirus-aid-bill-draws-conservative-backing-in-u-s-congress-idUSKBN28D2DF | 2020-12-04 |
| The House voted 9267 to approve the legislation after the Senate voted 2812 in favor | Positive | BOSTON Massachusetts lawmakers on Tuesday approved a major police reform bill in the wake of protests over George Floyds death in Minneapolis that creates a new system for officer accountability restricts noknock warrants and bans chokeholds | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-massachusetts-police/massachusetts-lawmakers-approve-major-police-reform-bill-idUSKBN28C06K | 2020-12-02 |
| U.S. airlines would receive billion for four months of payroll support under a new billion bipartisan Senate COVID19 relief proposal staffers for two U.S. Senators said on Tuesday | Positive | U.S. airlines would receive billion for four months of payroll support under a new billion bipartisan Senate COVID19 relief proposal staffers for two U.S. Senators said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines-usa/u-s-senators-say-pandemic-relief-plan-would-give-airlines-17-billion-over-four-months-idUSKBN28B5IB | 2020-12-02 |
| 5 will determine whether Republicans maintain control of the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON Neera Tanden Presidentelect Joe Bidens outspoken nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget faces a challenge winning Senate confirmation after a Washington career in which she has crossed powerful figures on both the right and left | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-biden-omb/biden-budget-pick-neera-tanden-a-lightning-rod-in-washington-idUSKBN28B3GL | 2020-12-01 |
| Election authorities in Georgia have opened investigations into progressive groups trying to sign up new voters in advance of twin January elections that will determine control of the U.S. Senate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said on Monday | Negative | Election authorities in Georgia have opened investigations into progressive groups trying to sign up new voters in advance of twin January elections that will determine control of the U.S. Senate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia/georgia-probing-voter-registration-groups-ahead-of-critical-u-s-senate-races-idUSKBN28A2B0 | 2020-12-01 |
| WASHINGTON Neera Tanden Presidentelect Joe Bidens outspoken nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget faces a challenge winning Senate confirmation after a Washington career in which she has crossed powerful figures on both the right and left | Positive | WASHINGTON Neera Tanden Presidentelect Joe Bidens outspoken nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget faces a challenge winning Senate confirmation after a Washington career in which she has crossed powerful figures on both the right and left | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-biden-omb/biden-budget-pick-neera-tanden-a-lightning-rod-in-washington-idUSKBN28B3GL | 2020-12-01 |
| The high courts order was issued just before the Senate voted to confirm Trumps nominee to fill a vacancy on the bench Amy Coney Barrett | Neutral | WASHINGTON With both sides in the U.S. presidential election dueling in court ahead of the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-litigation-wins-factbox/court-battles-shape-presidential-election-as-republicans-score-wisconsin-victory-at-u-s-supreme-court-idUSKBN27C25O | 2020-11-29 |
| 5 will determine whether the Republicans keep their majority in the Senate | Neutral | BEACH Del | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-biden/inching-toward-exit-trump-says-hell-leave-if-biden-wins-electoral-college-vote-idUSKBN28612B | 2020-11-28 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump reveled in one of his signature achievements on Monday at a White House ceremony to celebrate U.S. Senate confirmation of his third Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett eight days before the election | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump reveled in one of his signature achievements on Monday at a White House ceremony to celebrate U.S. Senate confirmation of his third Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett eight days before the election | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-barrett/trump-celebrates-at-white-house-as-supreme-court-nominee-confirmed-idUSKBN27B143 | 2020-11-27 |
| President Donald Trumps baseless attacks on the U.S. election may be endangering Republican chances of keeping control of the Senate as Republican candidates in twin January runoffs in Georgia try to drive voters to the polls while amplifying Trumps claim that the system is rigged | Negative | President Donald Trumps baseless attacks on the U.S. election may be endangering Republican chances of keeping control of the Senate as Republican candidates in twin January runoffs in Georgia try to drive voters to the polls while amplifying Trumps claim that the system is rigged | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-election-georgia/with-senate-on-the-line-trumps-claims-of-election-fraud-put-georgia-republicans-in-bind-idUSKBN2842XI | 2020-11-25 |
| A win by either Republican would keep the Senate in Majority Leader Mitch McConnells hands likely blocking much of Bidens legislative agenda | Negative | President Donald Trumps baseless attacks on the U.S. election may be endangering Republican chances of keeping control of the Senate as Republican candidates in twin January runoffs in Georgia try to drive voters to the polls while amplifying Trumps claim that the system is rigged | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-election-georgia/with-senate-on-the-line-trumps-claims-of-election-fraud-put-georgia-republicans-in-bind-idUSKBN2842XI | 2020-11-25 |
| When Obama nominated Blinken as deputy secretary of state in 2014 he was confirmed with only two Republican votes in what was then a Democraticmajority Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON Republican members of the U.S. Senate fired warning shots to Presidentelect Joe Biden that they may be prepared to stand in the way of his Cabinet appointments despite the longheld tradition of a new president having the right to choose who will run government agencies | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-biden-cabinet-senate/biden-cabinet-picks-may-face-rough-republican-reception-in-senate-idUSKBN2842X0 | 2020-11-25 |
| U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday called on the heads of Facebook and Twitter for information on steps the social media firms are taking to prevent the spread of misinformation ahead of the runoff U.S. Senate elections in Georgia | Negative | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday called on the heads of Facebook and Twitter for information on steps the social media firms are taking to prevent the spread of misinformation ahead of the runoff U.S. Senate elections in Georgia | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/usa-election-georgia-social-media/u-s-senators-urge-facebook-twitter-for-tighter-checks-before-georgia-runoff-election-idUSKBN2842RO | 2020-11-25 |
| Bidens team is consulting with leaders in the House of Representatives and Senate on details and best practices said Klain | Positive | WASHINGTON The inauguration of Presidentelect Joe Biden will be a scaleddown version of the usual traditions that will not endanger Americans health amid the coronavirus pandemic a top aide said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-biden-inauguration/biden-inauguration-will-be-scaled-down-amid-covid-aide-says-idUSKBN2820LG | 2020-11-23 |
| Biden to meet with House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer | Positive | President Donald Trump will meet with Republican leaders of the Michigan state legislature on Friday at the White House as his campaign pursues an increasingly desperate bid to overturn the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-election-snapshot/2020-u-s-election-what-you-need-to-know-right-now-idUSKBN28017R | 2020-11-21 |
| Republicans who control the Senate also declined to ratify a string of Trumps controversial picks to fill vacant seats at the central banks policymaking table | Negative | The U.S. Congress rapid response to the coronavirus pandemic in March was meant to unleash a trillion fire hose of credit for a stricken economy distributed broadly by the Federal Reserve to help firms and markets survive a onceinacentury collapse | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-fed-politics-analysis/analysis-fed-faces-ill-political-winds-as-biden-prepares-for-white-house-idUSKBN2802P3 | 2020-11-21 |
| Loeffler a wealthy businesswoman was appointed to the Senate in 2019 by Governor Brian Kemp to replace retiring Republican Senator Johnny Isakson | 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 |
| Pat Toomey a Republican senator poised to lead the Banking Committee if Republicans hold the Senate applauded the Treasurys actions | Positive | 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 |
| WASHINGTON Republican Senator David Perdue who is seeking reelection in one of two U.S. Senate races in Georgia bought shares in a Navy contractor just before becoming chairman of a Senate armed services panel in 2019 and then sold the stock at a profit Senate records show | Positive | WASHINGTON Republican Senator David Perdue who is seeking reelection in one of two U.S. Senate races in Georgia bought shares in a Navy contractor just before becoming chairman of a Senate armed services panel in 2019 and then sold the stock at a profit Senate records show | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-perdue/perdue-traded-in-navy-contractor-stock-as-he-took-over-senate-armed-services-panel-filings-idUSKBN28006H | 2020-11-20 |
| 5 runoff election that will help determine whether Democrats or Republicans win control of the Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON Republican Senator David Perdue who is seeking reelection in one of two U.S. Senate races in Georgia bought shares in a Navy contractor just before becoming chairman of a Senate armed services panel in 2019 and then sold the stock at a profit Senate records show | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-perdue/perdue-traded-in-navy-contractor-stock-as-he-took-over-senate-armed-services-panel-filings-idUSKBN28006H | 2020-11-20 |
| Michigans state legislative leaders Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield both Republicans will visit the White House at Trumps request according to a source in Michigan | Positive | President Donald Trump will meet with the Republican leaders of the Michigan state legislature on Friday at the White House as his campaign pursues an increasingly desperate bid to overturn the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/trump-to-host-michigan-lawmakers-as-he-presses-dubious-effort-to-overturn-election-idUSKBN2800I5 | 2020-11-20 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexican senators on Thursday kicked off discussion of a sweeping initiative to legalize marijuana ahead of a Senate vote that could push the bill a step closer to approval in its next phase in the lower house | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican senators on Thursday kicked off discussion of a sweeping initiative to legalize marijuana ahead of a Senate vote that could push the bill a step closer to approval in its next phase in the lower house | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-cannabis/mexican-senate-readies-to-vote-on-pot-legalization-bill-idUSKBN27Z2RA | 2020-11-20 |
| WASHINGTON Two months before President Donald Trump is due to leave office the Republican leader of a U.S. Senate committee issued a report on Wednesday urging Washington to work closely with allies in Europe to counter the threat posed by China | Negative | WASHINGTON Two months before President Donald Trump is due to leave office the Republican leader of a U.S. Senate committee issued a report on Wednesday urging Washington to work closely with allies in Europe to counter the threat posed by China | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-europe/like-biden-u-s-republican-report-urges-international-cooperation-on-china-idUSKBN27Y230 | 2020-11-19 |
| Judy Shelton Republican President Donald Trumps contentious pick to fill a vacant seat at the Federal Reserve faced a more difficult road to confirmation as the U.S. Senate adjourned on Wednesday until after Thanksgiving | Negative | Judy Shelton Republican President Donald Trumps contentious pick to fill a vacant seat at the Federal Reserve faced a more difficult road to confirmation as the U.S. Senate adjourned on Wednesday until after Thanksgiving | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-fed-shelton/trump-fed-nominee-shelton-faces-more-difficult-road-to-confirmation-idUSKBN27Z042 | 2020-11-19 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler has agreed to debate Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock in December her spokesman said Tuesday setting up a faceoff in one of a pair of runoff races that will decide control of the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler has agreed to debate Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock in December her spokesman said Tuesday setting up a faceoff in one of a pair of runoff races that will decide control of the Senate | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia-debate/republican-senator-loeffler-to-debate-democratic-challenger-warnock-in-georgia-december-6-idUSKBN27X35Q | 2020-11-18 |
| Prayuths supporters have a majority in the parliament where the entire upper house Senate was appointed by the junta he led after a 2014 coup | Negative | BANGKOK Thai members of parliament voted on Wednesday on options for changing the constitution with most of them opposed to a demand from protesters for a proposal that could mean changes to the role of the powerful monarchy | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-thailand-protests/thai-lawmakers-vote-on-constitutional-change-in-face-of-protests-idUSKBN27Y0N6 | 2020-11-18 |
| Quarantines for COVID19 typically last 14 days meaning Grassley and Scott could be back at the Senate by then health permitting | Positive | 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 |
| 5 vote that will decide control of the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON Democratic candidates in a pair of U.S. Senate runoff races in Georgia on Monday challenged the two incumbent Republican senators to debates ahead of a Jan | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia/georgia-democrats-ossoff-warnock-challenge-republicans-to-debate-in-senate-runoff-idUSKBN27W2J0 | 2020-11-17 |
| 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 |
| Perdue campaign manager Ben Fry said in a statement that there had already been two debates in the Georgia Senate race before the first round of voting Nov | Neutral | WASHINGTON Democratic candidates in a pair of U.S. Senate runoff races in Georgia on Monday challenged the two incumbent Republican senators to debates ahead of a Jan | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-georgia/georgia-democrats-ossoff-warnock-challenge-republicans-to-debate-in-senate-runoff-idUSKBN27W2J0 | 2020-11-17 |
| Parliament was already controlled by Sisi supporters but Nations Future has emerged as a dominant force and won nearly of contested seats for Egypts newly recreated Senate in August | Neutral | CAIRO Egypts Mostaqbal Watn Party took a commanding lead in parliamentary polls on Sunday as the election commission announced results from a second round of voting | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-election/pro-sisi-party-in-commanding-position-in-egypts-parliamentary-polls-idUSKBN27V0MH | 2020-11-16 |
| Voters on Election Day also backed Sarah McBride in her race to join the Delaware State Senate making her the highestranking openly transgender official in the United States | Positive | NEW YORK Growing up in the Bronx poor AfroLatino and gay Ritchie Torres said he never imagined that he would one day be elected to the United States House of Representatives | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-lgbt/first-openly-gay-afro-latino-u-s-congressman-never-in-my-wildest-dreams-idUSKBN27T2U7 | 2020-11-14 |
| I gather she and the Democratic leader in the Senate still are looking at something dramatically larger | Neutral | 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 |
| However the Democrat may face constraints on his ability to pass ambitious climate policies if the Republican Party remains in control of the Senate | Positive | French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday welcomed the prospect of U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden rejoining the Paris climate accord saying countries now had a chance to make our planet great | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-election-global-climatechange/macron-hails-chance-to-make-our-planet-great-again-after-biden-win-idUSKBN27S2X5 | 2020-11-13 |
| With Bidens White House victory Democrats need to pick up three Republican Senate seats to hold 50 Senate seats with Vice Presidentelect Kamala Harris wielding the tiebreaking vote | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska won reelection Edison Research and television networks projected on Wednesday leaving control of the Senate to be determined in January by two runoff elections in Georgia | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-sullivan/sullivan-wins-re-election-in-alaska-taking-u-s-senate-battle-down-to-georgia-idUSKBN27R22F | 2020-11-12 |
| Despite the markets performance some remain concerned that Trump and several U.S. Senate Republicans are still alleging without evidence Biden did not legitimately win | Negative | NEW YORK U.S. stock investors have expressed concerns that President Donald Trumps effort to contest the U.S. election without evidence could roil markets temporarily but few appeared seriously worried that challenges to the results will succeed | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-markets-election/wall-street-is-not-overly-worried-trump-can-overturn-election-idUSKBN27R2IL | 2020-11-12 |
| WASHINGTON Democrat Cal Cunningham who had been considered the leader for a U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina until his campaign was undermined by a sex scandal on Tuesday conceded the closely fought contest to Republican incumbent Thom Tillis | Negative | WASHINGTON Democrat Cal Cunningham who had been considered the leader for a U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina until his campaign was undermined by a sex scandal on Tuesday conceded the closely fought contest to Republican incumbent Thom Tillis | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-tillis/republican-senator-tillis-clinches-reelection-as-cunningham-concedes-idUSKBN27Q37P | 2020-11-11 |
| NEW Joe Bidens projected win of the U.S. presidency and the Republican Party potentially retaining control of the U.S. Senate could drive a pickup in mergers and acquisitions that took a hit amid the COVID19 pandemic dealmakers said | Positive | NEW Joe Bidens projected win of the U.S. presidency and the Republican Party potentially retaining control of the U.S. Senate could drive a pickup in mergers and acquisitions that took a hit amid the COVID19 pandemic dealmakers said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-election-deals-analysis/analysis-dealmakers-see-divided-u-s-government-favoring-mergers-and-acquisitions-idUSKBN27O06K | 2020-11-09 |
| The outcome was largely priced in by markets which had been trading with the view of a Biden presidency and a Republicancontrolled U.S. Senate late last week | Neutral | percentage change for in para | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/corrected-global-markets-stocks-seen-buoyant-dollar-likely-to-extend-losses-idUSL1N2HU0N2 | 2020-11-09 |
| WASHINGTON Georgia Democratic activist Stacey Abrams said on Sunday that her party would pour unprecedented resources into two runoff Senate races in the traditionally Republicanleaning state that will determine control of the top U.S. legislative chamber | Positive | WASHINGTON Georgia Democratic activist Stacey Abrams said on Sunday that her party would pour unprecedented resources into two runoff Senate races in the traditionally Republicanleaning state that will determine control of the top U.S. legislative chamber | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-georgia/stacey-abrams-says-democrats-will-pour-resources-into-key-georgia-senate-runoffs-idUSKBN27O0SA | 2020-11-09 |
| Investors said on Saturday the markets focus was likely to turn on the Senate which would determine how much a Biden administration is able to do in terms of policy | Positive | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/biden-narrowly-beats-trump-for-presidency-in-deeply-divided-united-states-idUSKBN27N08J | 2020-11-08 |
| Bidens team is headed by Ted Kaufman a longtime adviser appointed to fill out his term in the Senate after he was elected as Obamas vice president in 2008 | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. law maps out clear instructions for an orderly transfer of power from one president to the next but Joe Bidens path is expected to be rockier than most of his modernday predecessors | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-transition/trump-to-biden-presidential-transition-could-be-rockier-than-most-idUSKBN27N0V8 | 2020-11-08 |
| But because Republicans appear less likely to lose control of the Senate Bidens broader agenda shaped by a coalition of moderate and more leftleaning backers may be stymied | Negative | SAN YORK Joe Biden is returning to the White House to lead the United States in the midst of an economic crisis after beating President Donald Trump in Tuesdays election a turn of events likely to conjure an eerie sense of deja vu for the Democratic former vice president | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-economy-analysis/analysis-biden-returns-to-battle-another-economic-crisis-but-its-no-great-recession-idUSKBN27N0XN | 2020-11-08 |
| Republicans also picked up votes in the lower house of Congress and Democrats have only claimed one additional seat so far in the U.S. Senate | Negative | NEW YORK BERKELEY Calif | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-election-liberals/liberals-cheer-biden-victory-but-reflect-on-work-to-come-idUSKBN27N0TG | 2020-11-08 |
| 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 |
| NEW YORK As Democratic nominee Joe Biden edges closer to claiming the presidency investors are focused on the stillundecided race for control of the Senate and the potential consequences for taxes regulation and the outlook for more stimulus | Positive | NEW YORK As Democratic nominee Joe Biden edges closer to claiming the presidency investors are focused on the stillundecided race for control of the Senate and the potential consequences for taxes regulation and the outlook for more stimulus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-markets-senate/investors-focus-on-undecided-senate-as-biden-edges-in-on-presidency-idUSKBN27M2ML | 2020-11-07 |
| WASHINGTON Republicans appeared poised to retain control of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday after Senator Susan Collins defied political odds to win reelection in Maine and other Republican incumbents led Democrats in a handful of undecided races | Positive | WASHINGTON Republicans appeared poised to retain control of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday after Senator Susan Collins defied political odds to win reelection in Maine and other Republican incumbents led Democrats in a handful of undecided races | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-senate/republicans-on-track-to-dash-democratic-hopes-of-u-s-senate-majority-idUSKBN27K2T0 | 2020-11-05 |
| A surprise win by Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine dimmed hopes by Democrats that they could get control of the U.S. Senate | Positive | 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 |
| A Biden win without full Senate support means less risk of regulation and higher wrote analysts at Nomura in a note | Negative | SYDNEY Asian shares climbed on Thursday and bonds extended their blistering rally as investors wagered the prospect of U.S. policy gridlock would greatly favour some industries while also restraining government borrowing | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asia-shares-near-three-year-high-bonds-see-boon-in-u-s-stalemate-idUSKBN27L01S | 2020-11-05 |
| TOKYO Nov 5 U.S. Treasury yields fell on Thursday as investors bet the Republicans would retain the control of the Senate and curb any big spending plans by Democrat Joe Biden seen as just a step away from winning the White House | Negative | TOKYO Nov 5 U.S. Treasury yields fell on Thursday as investors bet the Republicans would retain the control of the Senate and curb any big spending plans by Democrat Joe Biden seen as just a step away from winning the White House | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-bonds/treasuries-u-s-bond-yields-fall-as-election-count-points-to-washington-gridlock-idUSL1N2HR0BK | 2020-11-05 |
| WASHINGTON A Democratic drive to win control of the U.S. Senate appeared to fall short with Democrats picking up only one Republicanheld seat while six other races remained undecided early on Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON A Democratic drive to win control of the U.S. Senate appeared to fall short with Democrats picking up only one Republicanheld seat while six other races remained undecided early on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-senate/democrats-falling-short-in-bid-for-control-of-u-s-senate-idUSKBN27J1AZ | 2020-11-04 |
| But some investors saw fading chances for Democrats to score a big win in the Senate as Republicans held the line in several contests that had seemed up for grabs | Negative | NEW YORK Investors braced for a tight U.S. election with the potential for the contest to drag on as the outcome appeared to rest on a handful of pivotal states that could take days to reach a final tally | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-markets/investors-dig-in-as-u-s-election-heads-down-to-the-wire-idUSKBN27K0ED | 2020-11-04 |
| Andrew Brenner head of international fixed income at NatAlliance Securities said the move in techs looked like it was a play on the Senate potentially staying Republican | Positive | SYDNEY Share markets were whipsawed while bonds and the dollar rose on Wednesday as results from the U.S. presidential election proved far closer than polls had predicted potentially leaving the outcome in doubt for days to come | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/global-stocks-sweat-out-knife-edge-u-s-election-safe-haven-bonds-get-bid-idUSKBN27K06O | 2020-11-04 |
| Democratic U.S. Senator Gary Peters of Michigan leads his Republican challenger John James by seven points with days to go before an election that will determine which party controls the Senate a poll showed on Sunday | Neutral | Democratic U.S. Senator Gary Peters of Michigan leads his Republican challenger John James by seven points with days to go before an election that will determine which party controls the Senate a poll showed on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-poll/democrat-gary-peters-maintains-lead-in-michigan-u-s-senate-race-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN27H1QF | 2020-11-02 |
| Biden speaks openly about his familys tragedies including the 1972 car crash that killed his first wife Neilia and their 13monthold daughter Naomi weeks after his election to the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON Joe Biden a fixture in U.S. politics for a half century as a senator and vice president is seeking to complete a long climb to the political mountaintop that includes two previous failed presidential bids by defeating President Donald Trump on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-biden-profile-newsmaker/a-longtime-fixture-in-u-s-politics-biden-seeks-to-win-elusive-prize-idUSKBN27G0EV | 2020-11-01 |
| The high courts order was issued just before the Senate confirmed Barrett | Neutral | WASHINGTON With both sides in the U.S. presidential election dueling in court ahead of Tuesdays vote Democrats scored two victories on Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court left in place extensions of North Carolina and Pennsylvanias deadlines for receiving mailin ballots | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-election-litigation-win-factbox/factbox-u-s-supreme-court-rules-against-trump-as-legal-battles-over-election-continue-idUSKBN27E1HY | 2020-10-30 |
| WASHINGTON Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kellys lead over Arizona Republican incumbent Martha McSally is holding steady with less than a week to go until an election that could determine whether Republicans lose control of the Senate a poll showed on Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kellys lead over Arizona Republican incumbent Martha McSally is holding steady with less than a week to go until an election that could determine whether Republicans lose control of the Senate a poll showed on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-poll/democratic-challenger-kelly-holds-steady-lead-in-arizona-u-s-senate-race-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN27D3A5 | 2020-10-29 |
| The high courts order was issued just before the Senate voted to confirm Trumps nominee to fill a vacancy on the bench Amy Coney Barrett | Neutral | WASHINGTON With both sides in the U.S. presidential election dueling in court ahead of the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-litigation-wins-factbox/court-battles-shape-presidential-election-as-republicans-score-wisconsin-victory-at-u-s-supreme-court-idUSKBN27C25O | 2020-10-29 |
| Here are the latest results for three Senate races on which is | Neutral | WASHINGTON Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kellys lead over Arizona Republican incumbent Martha McSally is holding steady with less than a week to go until an election that could determine whether Republicans lose control of the Senate a poll showed on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-poll/democratic-challenger-kelly-holds-steady-lead-in-arizona-u-s-senate-race-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN27D3A5 | 2020-10-29 |
| Trump nominated a senior Commerce official Nathan Simington who worked on the social media petition to fill ORiellys seat on the FCC and urged the Senate to quickly confirm him | Positive | WASHINGTON Two key U.S. House Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai if the White House was involved in his decision to move forward with new regulations limiting key social media legal protections | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-tech-trump/lawmakers-ask-if-white-house-pressured-fcc-on-social-media-rules-idUSKBN27D2Y8 | 2020-10-29 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump reveled in one of his signature achievements on Monday at a White House ceremony to celebrate U.S. Senate confirmation of his third Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett eight days before the election | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump reveled in one of his signature achievements on Monday at a White House ceremony to celebrate U.S. Senate confirmation of his third Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett eight days before the election | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-barrett/trump-celebrates-at-white-house-as-supreme-court-nominee-confirmed-idUSKBN27B143 | 2020-10-27 |
| The high courts order was issued just before the Senate voted to confirm President Donald Trumps nominee to fill a vacancy on the bench Amy Coney Barrett | Negative | WASHINGTON Siding with Wisconsins Republicanled legislature the conservativemajority U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to allow an extension ordered by a federal judge in the deadline for returning mailin ballots in the state dealing a setback to Democrats | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-voting-wisconsin/u-s-supreme-court-will-not-allow-extension-in-wisconsin-mail-in-ballot-deadline-idUSKBN27B2S4 | 2020-10-27 |
| high courts order was issued just before the Senate voted to confirm President Donald Trumps nominee to fill a vacancy on the bench Amy Coney Barrett. | Neutral | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27B2S4 | 2020-10-27 |
| Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged Democrats not to congregate in the Senate chamber and to cast their votes quickly and from a safe distance | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Republicancontrolled U.S. Senate on Sunday moved closer toward a final confirmation vote on President Donald Trumps Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Monday just over a week before Election Day | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-barrett/barretts-u-s-supreme-court-confirmation-edges-closer-after-sunday-vote-idUSKBN27A0BP | 2020-10-26 |
| 3 general election cementing her hold on the party as it seeks to regain control of the White House and the Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said she will seek to stay on as head of the U.S. House of Representatives if her fellow Democrats keep their majority after the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-house-pelosi/pelosi-aims-to-keep-top-u-s-house-job-if-democrats-keep-majority-idUSKBN27A0K4 | 2020-10-26 |
| He has to talk to the Senate Republicans | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday it still was possible to get another round of COVID19 aid before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/pelosi-trump-trade-blame-on-covid-19-stimulus-talks-senate-republicans-on-sidelines-idUSKBN278252 | 2020-10-24 |
| Shelby who chairs the Senate appropriations committee remained skeptical that a deal could be reached before the Senate is expected to leave town next week to campaign | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday it still was possible to get another round of COVID19 aid before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/pelosi-trump-trade-blame-on-covid-19-stimulus-talks-senate-republicans-on-sidelines-idUSKBN278252 | 2020-10-24 |
| Ill always stand up to my party when its out of touch with our Montana way of Governor Steve Bullock who is running for U.S. Senate tweeted on Friday | Negative | Democratic candidates in oil drilling states were quick to distance themselves on Friday from comments by their partys presidential candidate Joe Biden that indicated he would move the United States away from a reliance on oil | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-election-drilling/democrats-in-u-s-drilling-states-push-back-against-biden-oil-remarks-idUSKBN2782SI | 2020-10-24 |
| Past measures to block arms sales passed the House and Senate with bipartisan support but failed to get enough Republican backing to override Trumps vetoes | 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 |
| The CEOs of Facebook Twitter and Alphabet Inc will also testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on Oct | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Friday the chief executives of Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will testify before the panel on Nov | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-senate-tech/facebook-twitter-ceos-to-testify-post-election-u-s-senate-panel-idUSKBN2782OW | 2020-10-24 |
| 3 general election but that it was up to President Donald Trump to act including bringing along reluctant Senate Republicans | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday it still was possible to get another round of COVID19 aid before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/pelosi-trump-trade-blame-on-covid-19-stimulus-talks-senate-republicans-on-sidelines-idUSKBN278252 | 2020-10-24 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said negotiators were making progress in talks with the White House for another round of COVID19 stimulus but Senate Republicans remained skeptical of a possible deal costing trillions of dollars | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said negotiators were making progress in talks with the White House for another round of COVID19 stimulus but Senate Republicans remained skeptical of a possible deal costing trillions of dollars | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/pelosi-white-house-see-progress-on-covid-19-aid-talks-senate-republicans-wary-idUSKBN2771VQ | 2020-10-23 |
| An official Air Force investigation did not substantiate the accusations against Hyten who last year was confirmed by the Senate to his current position | Positive | WASHINGTON A federal court on Thursday allowed a sexual assault case against the secondhighestranking military official to proceed a rare move that legal experts say could potentially chip away at such cases usually staying in the military justice system | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-military-sexualassualt-legal/in-rare-move-u-s-federal-court-allows-military-sexual-assault-case-to-continue-idUSKBN27802Q | 2020-10-23 |
| CEOs of Facebook and Twitter along with Alphabets Google chief will also testify in front of the Senate Commerce Committee on Oct | Neutral | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2771ZL | 2020-10-23 |
| A 33yearold Jones Day associate who graduated from law school eight years ago is poised to become a federal judge in Florida after a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee vote Thursday | Neutral | A 33yearold Jones Day associate who graduated from law school eight years ago is poised to become a federal judge in Florida after a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee vote Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/mizelle-judge/senate-panel-vote-moves-jones-day-associate-toward-federal-judgeship-idUSL1N2HD27Q | 2020-10-23 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he did not see any way House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer will be willing to do what is right for our great American workers or our wonderful USA itself on Stimulus | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he did not see any way House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer will be willing to do what is right for our great American workers or our wonderful USA itself on Stimulus | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trump/trump-says-he-doesnt-see-agreement-with-democrats-on-stimulus-idUSKBN27637F | 2020-10-22 |
| Democrats have fiercely opposed Barrett a federal appeals court judge whose confirmation by the Republicanled Senate would expand the top U.S. judicial bodys conservative majority to 63 | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republicans pledged to go ahead with a vote on Thursday on President Donald Trumps Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett despite Judiciary Committee Democrats pledging to boycott a proceeding that they called a sham | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-barrett/republicans-to-push-ahead-with-u-s-supreme-court-pick-despite-democrats-boycott-idUSKBN27635O | 2020-10-22 |
| No nominee to the Supreme Court has ever been confirmed by the Senate this close to a presidential election | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republicans pledged to go ahead with a vote on Thursday on President Donald Trumps Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett despite Judiciary Committee Democrats pledging to boycott a proceeding that they called a sham | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-barrett/republicans-to-push-ahead-with-u-s-supreme-court-pick-despite-democrats-boycott-idUSKBN27635O | 2020-10-22 |
| The senator had already been suspended from the Senate for 90 days by Supreme Court Justice Roberto Barroso who added the Senate could decide whether to make the move permanent | Negative | SAO PAULO A Brazilian senator caught in a police raid hiding cash between his buttocks last week has requested a 90day leave from the Senate his spokesperson said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-corruption/brazil-senator-caught-with-cash-in-underwear-seeks-90-day-leave-idUSKBN27524I | 2020-10-21 |
| Holding a vote on a costly new package of aid could prove politically difficult for some Senate Republicans running for reelection in conservative states | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House and Democrats in the U.S. Congress moved closer to agreement on a new coronavirus relief package on Tuesday as President Donald Trump said he was willing to accept a large aid bill despite opposition from his own Republican Party | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-coronavirus-aid-talks-imperiled-amid-republican-opposition-idUSKBN27518S | 2020-10-21 |
| 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 |
| But even as he nears Senate confirmation for Barrett Graham last week acknowledged his partys fading position in the polls | Negative | 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 |
| SAO PAULO A Brazilian senator caught in a police raid hiding cash between his buttocks last week has requested a 90day leave from the Senate his spokesperson said on Tuesday | Negative | SAO PAULO A Brazilian senator caught in a police raid hiding cash between his buttocks last week has requested a 90day leave from the Senate his spokesperson said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-corruption/brazil-senator-caught-with-cash-in-underwear-seeks-90-day-leave-idUSKBN27524I | 2020-10-21 |
| Thomas Pahl Kraningers deputy and longtime CFPB staffer is a likely contender to lead the agency in the interim while Bidens pick is vetted by the Senate said the sources | Neutral | WASHINGTON A decadelong Republican campaign to weaken the U.S. consumer watchdogs independence is set to backfire if Democrat Joe Biden wins the presidential election by handing him the power to swiftly replace the agencys director with a consumer champion nearly a dozen lawyers lobbyists and policy experts said | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-biden-finance/weakened-u-s-consumer-watchdog-expected-to-bite-back-if-biden-wins-election-idUSKBN274174 | 2020-10-20 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate will vote on Wednesday on a billion Senate Republican coronavirus relief bill that is far below the estimated trillion that Democrats have demanded | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate will vote on Wednesday on a billion Senate Republican coronavirus relief bill that is far below the estimated trillion that Democrats have demanded | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-senate-stimulus-vote/senate-to-vote-this-week-on-skinny-pandemic-relief-bill-ppp-funds-idUSKBN2720WV | 2020-10-18 |
| court likely to soon have a 63 conservative majority if the Republicancontrolled Senate confirms Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett will hear the case on Nov | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27131Y | 2020-10-17 |
| The court likely to soon have a 63 conservative majority if the Republicancontrolled Senate confirms Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett will hear the case on Nov | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear oral arguments over President Donald Trumps effort to exclude illegal immigrants from the population totals used to allocate congressional districts to states | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-census/u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-trump-bid-to-exclude-illegal-immigrants-from-representation-idUSKBN27131Y | 2020-10-17 |
| In the United States relief plans remain bogged down in a threeway negotiation between the White House Senate Republicans and House Democrats | Positive | By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-edges-down-set-for-best-week-in-three-weeks-on-stimulus-uncertainty-idUSL8N2H73ZO | 2020-10-17 |
| The chambers could also split which is more likely if the Republicans retain control of the Senate and Democrats hold onto their House majority | 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 |
| Republicans are aiming for a final confirmation vote on the Senate floor by the end of October following next weeks committee vote | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Republicanled U.S. Senate on Thursday moved a step closer to confirming President Donald Trumps U.S. Supreme Court choice Amy Coney Barrett with the Judiciary Committee scheduling an Oct | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-barrett/trump-supreme-court-pick-heads-toward-senate-vote-despite-democratic-protests-idUSKBN2701AX | 2020-10-17 |
| His plan depends on how much they rush Biden said referring to Senate Republicans | Positive | WASHINGTON Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden kept his options open on Thursday when asked if he would add judges to the Supreme Court to balance the 63 conservative majority that would likely take hold if President Donald Trumps third nominee is confirmed | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-court/biden-hedges-on-support-for-court-packing-proposal-idUSKBN27107R | 2020-10-16 |
| 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 |
| On Thursday afternoon Rodrigues was suspended from the Senate for 90 days by Supreme Court Justice Roberto Barroso who said the senate could decide whether to make the move permanent | Negative | BRASILIA Brazilian Senator Chico Rodrigues was caught in a police raid with money hidden between his buttcheeks on Wednesday a judicial source briefed on the matter told Reuters amid an investigation into the misuse of COVID19 response funding | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-corruption/brazilian-police-catch-senator-hiding-cash-between-his-buttcheeks-source-says-idUSKBN27024E | 2020-10-16 |
| Republicans have a 5347 Senate majority making Barretts confirmation a virtual certainty | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Wednesday said it is an open as to whether Trump could pardon himself while adding that the top U.S. judicial body cant whether a president obeys its decisions | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-barrett/trumps-court-pick-barrett-calls-presidential-self-pardon-an-open-question-idUSKBN26Z1BP | 2020-10-15 |
| than 20 people were arrested at the Supreme Court and Senate office buildings amid demonstrations for and against Barrett. | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26X17X | 2020-10-13 |
| As the Senate Judiciary Committee began its fourday confirmation hearing for Barrett Democrats voiced their opposition even though they have little hope of derailing her nomination in the Republicanled Senate | 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 |
| More than 20 people were arrested at the Supreme Court and Senate office buildings amid demonstrations for and against Barrett | 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 |
| the Senate Judiciary Committee began its fourday confirmation hearing for Barrett Democrats voiced their opposition even though they have little hope of derailing her nomination in the Republicanled Senate. | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26X17X | 2020-10-13 |
| WASHINGTON Amy Coney Barrett President Donald Trumps pick for a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy said she will rule based on the law not her personal views in prepared remarks issued on Sunday ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing this week | Positive | WASHINGTON Amy Coney Barrett President Donald Trumps pick for a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy said she will rule based on the law not her personal views in prepared remarks issued on Sunday ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing this week | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-court-barrett-statement/u-s-supreme-court-nominee-barrett-pledges-to-follow-law-not-personal-views-idUSKBN26W0MM | 2020-10-12 |
| 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 |
| All these components would make for a package with a high price tag possibly well beyond anything Senate Republicans would support | 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 |
| Democrats quickly tied Lees remarks to the November election in which Republicans are in danger of losing their U.S. Senate majority as well as the White House | Negative | WASHINGTON Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee came under fire from Democrats on Thursday for tweeting democracy isnt the after the debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-lee-democracy/democracy-isnt-the-objective-republican-u-s-senator-draws-democrats-ire-idUSKBN26T2YX | 2020-10-09 |
| Lee has since become a Trump supporter and strongly backs the presidents Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett expected to face scrutiny in the Senate Judiciary Committee starting on Monday | Positive | WASHINGTON Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee came under fire from Democrats on Thursday for tweeting democracy isnt the after the debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-lee-democracy/democracy-isnt-the-objective-republican-u-s-senator-draws-democrats-ire-idUSKBN26T2YX | 2020-10-09 |
| A separate Republicanled attempt to pass standalone legislation in the Senate also failed after opposition from three Republican senators including Rick Scott of Florida | Negative | U.S. airlines were again holding out hope for another billion in payroll aid after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin discussed the possibility of standalone legislation for the struggling sector on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/u-s-airlines-await-new-shot-at-federal-aid-as-pelosi-mnuchin-talk-idUSKBN26S2AL | 2020-10-08 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court returned to work on Monday for the first time since liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgs death and heard arguments in two cases opening its new term as Senate Republicans pursued quick confirmation of President Donald Trumps conservative nominee to replace her | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court returned to work on Monday for the first time since liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgs death and heard arguments in two cases opening its new term as Senate Republicans pursued quick confirmation of President Donald Trumps conservative nominee to replace her | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court/with-two-cases-shorthanded-u-s-supreme-court-opens-new-term-amid-drama-idUSKBN26Q1DW | 2020-10-06 |
| Ron Johnson who heads the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee tested positive for COVID19 on Friday a spokesman said on Saturday | Positive | WASHINGTON A growing number of White House staff and senior Republicans have tested positive for COVID19 since President Donald Trump revealed he had contracted the respiratory disease | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-exposure-fac/factbox-white-house-staff-top-republicans-who-have-tested-positive-for-covid-19-idUSKBN26P0P5 | 2020-10-05 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new ninemonth term on Monday buffeted by the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a Senate confirmation battle over her successor the coronavirus pandemic and the approaching presidential election whose outcome the justices may be called upon to help decide | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new ninemonth term on Monday buffeted by the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a Senate confirmation battle over her successor the coronavirus pandemic and the approaching presidential election whose outcome the justices may be called upon to help decide | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-term-preview/shorthanded-u-s-supreme-court-returns-with-major-challenges-ahead-idUSKBN26P0D7 | 2020-10-05 |
| On Friday Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham spoke to Trump and the first thing the president asked about was the Senates plan for Barretts confirmation an aide to Graham said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday that Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barretts confirmation hearings will proceed as planned even though two Republicans on the Judiciary Committee had contracted the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-senate/u-s-supreme-court-nominees-confirmation-hearings-on-track-mcconnell-says-idUSKBN26O0S7 | 2020-10-04 |
| WASHINGTON Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson who heads the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee tested positive for COVID19 on Friday a spokesman said on Saturday | Positive | WASHINGTON Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson who heads the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee tested positive for COVID19 on Friday a spokesman said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-senator/republican-u-s-senator-johnson-diagnosed-with-covid-19-spokesman-idUSKBN26O0KF | 2020-10-04 |
| WASHINGTON Oct 2 Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey has agreed to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on Oct | Positive | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2GT2DX | 2020-10-04 |
| If its too dangerous to have the Senate in session it is also too dangerous for committee hearings to Schumer said in a statement | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday that Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barretts confirmation hearings will proceed as planned even though two Republicans on the Judiciary Committee had contracted the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-senate/u-s-supreme-court-nominees-confirmation-hearings-on-track-mcconnell-says-idUSKBN26O0S7 | 2020-10-04 |
| I think we can move Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt even as senior Democrats urged caution | Positive | WASHINGTON Senate Republicans said on Friday they will carry on with the confirmation process for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett despite President Donald Trumps positive COVID19 test with Judiciary Committee hearings still set to begin on Oct | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-barrett/senate-republicans-push-to-confirm-court-pick-barrett-despite-trumps-covid-19-status-idUSKBN26N29Y | 2020-10-03 |
| The House is to return to session Tuesday and the Senate could take up a standalone measure next week if a broader coronavirus deal is not reached | 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 |
| It is also possible the Senate may not return as scheduled next week after Senator Mike Lee disclosed Friday he had tested positive for the coronavirus | 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 |
| Lee and Tillis are both members of the Republicancontrolled Senate Judiciary Committee which is scheduled to begin hearings on Barretts nomination on Oct | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump was in a military hospital on Saturday for treatment after testing positive for COVID19 an extraordinary development that upended the presidential race a month before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump/trump-to-spend-days-at-military-hospital-after-covid-19-diagnosis-idUSKBN26O03A | 2020-10-03 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in 2006 signed on to an advertisement in an Indiana newspaper calling for the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide to be overturned a stance certain to be scrutinized during her upcoming Senate confirmation hearings | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in 2006 signed on to an advertisement in an Indiana newspaper calling for the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide to be overturned a stance certain to be scrutinized during her upcoming Senate confirmation hearings | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-court-barrett/trumps-supreme-court-nominee-advocated-overturning-legalized-abortion-idUSKBN26M7J1 | 2020-10-02 |
| His nomination if confirmed will have to be approved by the Senate | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro will nominate judge Kassio Nunes to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the retirement of Justice Celso de Mello a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-court/brazils-bolsonaro-to-nominate-kassio-nunes-for-supreme-court-source-idUSKBN26L2WS | 2020-10-01 |
| MEXICO CITY A judicial reform in Mexico should include rules to regulate the use of wiretaps and other forms of surveillance the majority leader in the Mexican Senate said on Tuesday | Negative | MEXICO CITY A judicial reform in Mexico should include rules to regulate the use of wiretaps and other forms of surveillance the majority leader in the Mexican Senate said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics/mexican-senate-majority-leader-favors-wiretapping-regulation-idUSKBN26L3XV | 2020-10-01 |
| The Senate Judiciary Committee is one of two Republicanled Senate panels investigating the origins of the Russia probe | Negative | Former FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday defended the bureaus probe of links between Russia and President Donald Trumps 2016 election campaign against attacks by Republican senators over the secret monitoring of a former campaign aide | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-senate/ex-fbi-director-comey-defends-fbi-russia-probe-in-senate-hearing-idUSKBN26L20M | 2020-10-01 |
| states also have U.S. Senate elections including a tight race between Bullock and the Republican incumbent Steve Daines | Neutral | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26L3VC | 2020-10-01 |
| We have the Senate and we have the White House and we have a phenomenal nominee respected by he said | Positive | CLEVELAND President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden battled fiercely over Trumps record on the coronavirus pandemic healthcare and the economy in a chaotic and badtempered first debate marked by personal insults and Trumps repeated interruptions | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-debate/insults-and-interruptions-mar-first-trump-biden-debate-idUSKBN26K1O8 | 2020-10-01 |
| 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 President Donald Trumps nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court Amy Coney Barrett will begin meeting with senators this week as Republicans push ahead with a rapid Senate confirmation process ahead of Novembers presidential election over the objections of Democrats | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court Amy Coney Barrett will begin meeting with senators this week as Republicans push ahead with a rapid Senate confirmation process ahead of Novembers presidential election over the objections of Democrats | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-barrett/supreme-court-nominee-barrett-prepares-for-meetings-this-week-on-capitol-hill-idUSKBN26J1GX | 2020-09-29 |
| Republicans hold a 5347 advantage in the Senate and are aiming to hold a vote before the Nov | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court Amy Coney Barrett will begin meeting with senators this week as Republicans push ahead with a rapid Senate confirmation process ahead of Novembers presidential election over the objections of Democrats | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-barrett/supreme-court-nominee-barrett-prepares-for-meetings-this-week-on-capitol-hill-idUSKBN26J1GX | 2020-09-29 |
| President Donald Trumps taxes are set to dominate the election agenda Monday even as Senate Republicans try to push ahead with the rapid confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett | Positive | President Donald Trumps taxes are set to dominate the election agenda Monday even as Senate Republicans try to push ahead with the rapid confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-snapshot/2020-u-s-election-what-you-need-to-know-right-now-idUSKBN26J210 | 2020-09-29 |
| Any legislation the Democraticled House might approve would be unlikely to advance in the Senate which is controlled by Republicans | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the top Democrat in Congress said on Sunday she thinks a deal can be reached with the White House on a coronavirus relief package and that talks were continuing | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/pelosi-expresses-hope-deal-can-be-reached-with-white-house-on-covid-19-relief-idUSKBN26I0RF | 2020-09-28 |
| Republicans hold a 5347 Senate majority and have committed to moving quickly on confirmation | Neutral | Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and others in his party on Saturday blasted President Donald Trumps choice of conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court focusing in particular on the threat they said she would pose to healthcare for millions of Americans | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-barrett-healthcare/democrats-hammer-trumps-supreme-court-pick-say-she-could-jeopardize-obamacare-idUSKBN26I00H | 2020-09-27 |
| The hearings are part of an accelerated timeline as the Republicancontrolled Senate seeks to vote on Trumps nominee before the election and cement a 63 conservative majority on the court | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. Senate will likely open hearings on his third Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Oct | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-senate/senate-confirmation-hearings-to-start-oct-12-for-barrett-idUSKBN26H13E | 2020-09-27 |
| WASHINGTON Sept 26 President Donald Trump on Saturday plans to name conservative appellate judge Amy Coney Barrett as his third U.S. Supreme Court appointment setting off a scramble in the Republicanled Senate to confirm her before Election Day in weeks | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSL2N2GM13Z | 2020-09-27 |
| Asked if Trump planned to nominate Barrett a Senate aide told Reuters that the White House has sent every smoke signal you can indicating that | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump intends to nominate conservative federal appeals court judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg U.S. media reported on Friday citing Republican sources | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg-barrett/trump-intends-to-nominate-judge-amy-coney-barrett-to-supreme-court-cnn-reports-idUSKCN26G31M | 2020-09-26 |
| NAIROBI Kenyas anticorruption agency has documented evidence of behaviour by officials over the procurement of COVID19 emergency equipment said a report presented to the Senate | Negative | NAIROBI Kenyas anticorruption agency has documented evidence of behaviour by officials over the procurement of COVID19 emergency equipment said a report presented to the Senate | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-kenya-corruption/kenya-anti-graft-agency-slams-procurement-of-covid-19-equipment-idUSKCN26F3CC | 2020-09-25 |
| WASHINGTON The bitter confirmation battle over President Donald Trumps last Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh looms large for the Senate Judiciary Committee as it prepares for fresh hearings on the Republicans third lifetime appointment to the top court | Neutral | WASHINGTON The bitter confirmation battle over President Donald Trumps last Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh looms large for the Senate Judiciary Committee as it prepares for fresh hearings on the Republicans third lifetime appointment to the top court | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-senate/bad-blood-from-kavanaugh-confirmation-may-resurface-in-u-s-senate-hearings-idUSKCN26F1ND | 2020-09-25 |
| Some Democrats have suggested their colleagues should boycott the proceedings though senior Senate Democrats have rejected the idea | Negative | WASHINGTON The bitter confirmation battle over President Donald Trumps last Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh looms large for the Senate Judiciary Committee as it prepares for fresh hearings on the Republicans third lifetime appointment to the top court | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-senate/bad-blood-from-kavanaugh-confirmation-may-resurface-in-u-s-senate-hearings-idUSKCN26F1ND | 2020-09-25 |
| U.S. Food and Drug Administration head Stephen Hahn did not directly address the Washington Post report when testifying before the Senate earlier on Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he may or may not approve any new more stringent FDA standards for an emergency authorization of a COVID19 vaccine saying such a proposal would appear political | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-vaccine-trump/trump-says-may-block-stricter-fda-guidelines-for-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN26E3M5 | 2020-09-24 |
| There is enough support among Senate Republicans to hold a vote on the nominee before Nov | Positive | 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 |
| Here are the latest results on three Senate races on which is | Neutral | WASHINGTON Democratic Senator Gary Peters of Michigan leads his Republican challenger among likely voters while the North Carolina race between Republican Senator Thom Tillis and his Democratic rival appears to be a tossup according to opinion polls released on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-poll/democrat-leads-in-u-s-senate-race-in-michigan-north-carolina-a-toss-up-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN26D2ZE | 2020-09-23 |
| You can slow things down but you cant stop Dick Durbin the Senates No | Negative | 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 |
| There was no immediate word on when the measure might be taken up by the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted near unanimously to pass legislation to restrict imports of goods made using forced labor from China as lawmakers look to address the treatment of Uighur Muslims in Chinas Xinjiang region | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-congress/u-s-house-passes-china-forced-labor-bill-near-unanimously-idUSKCN26D31U | 2020-09-23 |
| The president has said he plans to announce his nominee by Saturday and has urged the Senate where his fellow Republicans hold a 5347 majority to vote before the election | 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 |
| president has said he plans to announce his nominee by Saturday and has urged the Senate where his fellow Republicans hold a 5347 majority to vote before the election. | Neutral | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN26D1GU | 2020-09-23 |
| Romney said that was not a concern for him as Washington was split between a Democratic White House and a Republicanled Senate that year while this year Republicans control both | Positive | 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 |
| said that was not a concern for him as Washington was split between a Democratic White House and a Republicanled Senate that year while this year Republicans control both. | Positive | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN26D1GU | 2020-09-23 |
| Obstacles loom for either candidate in the bitterly divided Senate | Negative | 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 |
| The House of Representatives already approved one such bill another version of which enjoys broad support in the Senate | 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 |
| Democrats are hoping to win control of the Senate in the election | Positive | 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 |
| And it may be the Senates only last Schumer said | 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 |
| Any nomination would require approval by a simple majority in the Senate where Trumps Republicans hold a 5347 majority | Positive | FAYETTEVILLE President Donald Trump said on Saturday he will nominate a woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court a move that would tip the court further to the right following the death of liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg/trump-will-nominate-a-woman-next-week-to-succeed-ginsburg-on-supreme-court-idUSKCN26A0IM | 2020-09-21 |
| Senior congressional Democrats raised the prospect of adding more justices next year to counterbalance Trumps nominees if they win control of the White House and Senate | Positive | FAYETTEVILLE President Donald Trump said on Saturday he will nominate a woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court a move that would tip the court further to the right following the death of liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-court/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg/trump-will-nominate-a-woman-next-week-to-succeed-ginsburg-on-supreme-court-idUSKCN26A0IM | 2020-09-21 |
| This interjects a real wild card into the said Jim Manley a former aide to Senator Harry Reid when he was the Democratic leader of the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has injected a volatile new element into the last stretch of a turbulent U.S. presidential race potentially shifting the focus away from the coronavirus pandemic and the stagnant economy into a political battle over her successor | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-ginsburg-analysis/sudden-supreme-court-vacancy-a-new-wild-card-in-u-s-presidential-race-idUSKBN26A09M | 2020-09-20 |
| Barrett was confirmed by the Senate in a narrower vote than Lagoa 5543 in October of 2017 | Negative | WASHINGTON Two female U.S. Appeals Court judges are on President Donald Trumps short list of candidates to fill the Supreme Court vacancy opened up by the death on Friday of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a source said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-courts-ginsburg-candidates/trump-mulling-appeals-court-judges-barbara-lagoa-amy-coney-barrett-for-supreme-court-source-idUSKCN26A0Q7 | 2020-09-20 |
| WASHINGTON The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has raised the stakes in the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate forcing embattled Republican incumbents to choose between trying to appeal to moderate voters or hoping to fire up a conservative base | Negative | WASHINGTON The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has raised the stakes in the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate forcing embattled Republican incumbents to choose between trying to appeal to moderate voters or hoping to fire up a conservative base | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg-senate/death-of-u-s-supreme-courts-ginsburg-raises-stakes-in-battle-for-senate-control-idUSKCN26A0XD | 2020-09-20 |
| Republican Representative Doug Collins who hopes to win a promotion to the Senate on Nov | Positive | WASHINGTON The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has raised the stakes in the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate forcing embattled Republican incumbents to choose between trying to appeal to moderate voters or hoping to fire up a conservative base | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg-senate/death-of-u-s-supreme-courts-ginsburg-raises-stakes-in-battle-for-senate-control-idUSKCN26A0XD | 2020-09-20 |
| One other factor might prompt Trump and McConnell to act sooner rather than later in whipping a Supreme Court nominee through the Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has raised the stakes in the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate forcing embattled Republican incumbents to choose between trying to appeal to moderate voters or hoping to fire up a conservative base | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg-senate/death-of-u-s-supreme-courts-ginsburg-raises-stakes-in-battle-for-senate-control-idUSKCN26A0XD | 2020-09-20 |
| Republicans control the Senate with a 5347 majority | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins said on Saturday the U.S. Senate should not fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court until after the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg-collins/fate-of-supreme-court-nominee-should-hinge-on-presidential-race-says-senator-collins-idUSKCN26A0Z2 | 2020-09-20 |
| 9 million in campaign contributions during August mainly from grassroots donors hoping to see Democrats win the Senate majority in the Nov | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democrats raised a record | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate/u-s-senate-democrats-report-record-august-fundraising-haul-idUSKBN26937G | 2020-09-19 |
| 3 presidential election is fast approaching the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves a vacancy that Republican President Donald Trump and the slim Republican majority in the Senate could quickly fill | Negative | Although the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-nomination-factbox/how-trump-could-replace-ruth-bader-ginsburg-on-supreme-court-even-before-election-idUSKBN26A071 | 2020-09-19 |
| The Republicans currently have a 5347 majority in the Senate | Neutral | Although the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-nomination-factbox/how-trump-could-replace-ruth-bader-ginsburg-on-supreme-court-even-before-election-idUSKBN26A071 | 2020-09-19 |
| U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday said Trumps nominee to fill the vacancy would receive a vote on the floor of the Senate | Neutral | Although the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-nomination-factbox/how-trump-could-replace-ruth-bader-ginsburg-on-supreme-court-even-before-election-idUSKBN26A071 | 2020-09-19 |
| President Trumps nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States McConnell proclaimed on Friday night without providing a time frame for action by the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgs death on Friday kicked off a monumental battle in Congress as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invited President Donald Trump to promptly nominate a replacement ignoring pleas by Democrats to await the results of the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg-congress/ginsburg-death-ignites-fierce-u-s-senate-battle-and-stirs-scalias-ghost-idUSKBN26A03V | 2020-09-19 |
| is no doubt let me be clear that the voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice for the Senate to Biden told reporters in Delaware. | Positive | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN269395 | 2020-09-19 |
| Democrats are trying to gain control of the White House and the Senate which has the power to confirm the presidents nominees for the Supreme Court | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburgs death on Friday kicked off a monumental battle in Congress as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invited President Donald Trump to promptly nominate a replacement ignoring pleas by Democrats to await the results of the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg-congress/ginsburg-death-ignites-fierce-u-s-senate-battle-and-stirs-scalias-ghost-idUSKBN26A03V | 2020-09-19 |
| Since coming into contact with the coronavirus on Monday Johnson has chaired a committee meeting and joined other lawmakers for rollcall votes on the floor of the Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON Republican Senator Ron Johnson who was due to join President Donald Trump in Wisconsin on Thursday has instead entered quarantine after being exposed to someone who tested positive for the coronavirus his office said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-johnson/u-s-senator-johnson-quarantined-after-covid-19-contact-idUSKBN26838G | 2020-09-18 |
| 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 |
| Several media reports said Pompeo was weighing a run for a U.S. Senate seat from Kansas his adoptive home | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday he expected to have a conversation about what role he may play if President Donald Trump wins a second term saying there is still a lot of work to do and I would love to find a way to be a part of that | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-pompeo/pompeo-expects-conversation-on-whats-next-for-him-if-trump-wins-idUSKBN2662C5 | 2020-09-16 |
| The letter comes ahead of a Senate Commerce Committee vote on Wednesday on sweeping reforms to how the FAA certifies new aircraft | Positive | CHICAGO Families of Boeing 737 MAX crash victims are urging U.S. lawmakers to ensure the planemaker is held accountable for accidents that together killed 346 people by blocking a key legal defense according to a letter sent on Tuesday and seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/boeing-737max-legal/737-max-crash-victims-seek-u-s-legislation-to-block-boeing-legal-strategy-idUSKBN2670CI | 2020-09-16 |
| U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Powell will testify before the Senate Banking Committee on coronavirus relief the committee said on Monday | Negative | Spot gold may test resistance at technicals | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/us/article/global-precious/precious-gold-hits-near-2-week-peak-on-softer-dollar-focus-on-fed-meeting-idUSL4N2GC0I8 | 2020-09-15 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will testify before the Senate Banking Committee on coronavirus relief the committee said in a statement on Monday | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will testify before the Senate Banking Committee on coronavirus relief the committee said in a statement on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-mnuchin/treasurys-mnuchin-feds-powell-to-testify-before-senate-panel-on-sept-24-on-coronavirus-relief-idUSKBN2653D6 | 2020-09-15 |
| 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 |
| Pelosi said she was proud to see Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer reject that terrible skinny bill to a massive problem that we have | 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 |
| The bills cosponsors include Senator Bob Menendez ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as well as Senators Jeanne Shaheen Dick Durbin Richard Blumenthal Jeff Merkley and Tammy Duckworth | Negative | WASHINGTON Democratic U.S. senators introduced a bill on Thursday that would require President Donald Trump to impose sanctions on any Russian involved in the alleged payment of bounties to militants for killing U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-afghanistan-bounties-senate/u-s-democrats-demand-trump-response-to-reported-russian-bounties-idUSKBN2612DB | 2020-09-11 |
| Do you want to do Or do you want to do Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a Republican said in a speech in which he said Thursdays vote would Democrats obstruction | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate leaders on Wednesday held onto their radically different positions on what is needed to address the continuing fallout from the coronavirus pandemic one day before a vote on a modest Republican bill that appeared destined for defeat | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/senate-polarized-over-next-coronavirus-aid-package-idUSKBN2601Y4 | 2020-09-10 |
| Senate Republicans appear deadset on another bill which doesnt come close to addressing the problems and is headed Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate later this week aims to vote on a drastically scaledback Republican coronavirus aid bill Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday despite opposition from Democrats who are needed for any measure to be enacted into law | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/senate-aims-for-thursday-vote-on-scaled-down-coronavirus-aid-bill-idUSKBN25Z1X9 | 2020-09-09 |
| Meadows told Fox Business Network he hoped legislation put forward by Senate Republicans would provide a basis for a future agreement and that negotiations were ongoing | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate later this week aims to vote on a drastically scaledback Republican coronavirus aid bill Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday despite opposition from Democrats who are needed for any measure to be enacted into law | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/senate-aims-for-thursday-vote-on-scaled-down-coronavirus-aid-bill-idUSKBN25Z1X9 | 2020-09-09 |
| PRAGUE President Milos Zeman sought on Sunday to defuse a row with China over a visit by the head of the Czech Senate to Taiwan calling the speakers trip a boyish | Negative | PRAGUE President Milos Zeman sought on Sunday to defuse a row with China over a visit by the head of the Czech Senate to Taiwan calling the speakers trip a boyish | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-czech-china-taiwan/czech-president-tries-to-tamp-down-china-anger-after-speakers-taiwan-trip-idUSKBN25X0I2 | 2020-09-07 |
| Leahy would assume control of the Senate appropriations committee if Democrats win control of the Senate giving him the power to block U.S. contributions to the Bank | Negative | WASHINGTON Three senior former U.S. officials all Republicans have joined a growing chorus calling for a delay in the midSeptember vote on the next leader of Latin Americas main development bank part of growing opposition to the firstever U.S. candidate | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-latam-usa-bank/u-s-republicans-join-call-to-delay-vote-on-trump-pick-to-head-latam-bank-idUSKBN25W0R8 | 2020-09-06 |
| A government shutdown just before the elections as the coronavirus pandemic continues could be particularly damaging to Republican prospects since they control the White House and Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Congress faces a tight deadline to avoid a government shutdown as lawmakers begin returning to Washington next week complicated by bitter conflicts between Republicans and Democrats over the next package of coronavirus aid | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-congress/congress-faces-coronavirus-government-funding-battles-as-summer-recess-ends-idUSKBN25V1W7 | 2020-09-05 |
| The bill would still need to be sent to the Senate for approval | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils lower house is set to vote on Tuesday to pass a bill that can further open up the natural gas market to private investors by breaking the monopoly held by statecontrolled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-gas-law/brazils-lower-house-close-to-vote-end-of-petrobras-virtual-monopoly-in-gas-industry-idUSKBN25R2SM | 2020-09-01 |
| WASHINGTON The Trump administration and Senate Republicans have been in regular contact over possible coronavirus relief measures and the Senates top Republican will unveil a new bill next week Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Monday | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administration and Senate Republicans have been in regular contact over possible coronavirus relief measures and the Senates top Republican will unveil a new bill next week Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/mcconnell-eyeing-revamped-u-s-coronavirus-relief-bill-mnuchin-tells-fox-business-idUSKBN25R2WX | 2020-09-01 |
| Negotiations have involved Pelosi Meadows Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump is willing to sign a | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-meadows/trump-willing-to-sign-a-1-3-trillion-coronavirus-relief-bill-meadows-idUSKBN25O2QZ | 2020-08-29 |
| The State Department representative said the documents had already been provided to Democrats in the Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee announced contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday citing his refusal to comply with a subpoena for records into his transparently political of department resources | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-congress-pompeo/u-s-house-panel-announces-contempt-proceedings-against-pompeo-idUSKBN25O2C8 | 2020-08-29 |
| President Donald Trump has strongly criticized the measure and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned the Senate would absolutely not the standalone bill | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Postal Service said on Sunday that a bill passed by the Democraticled House of Representatives would hamper its ability to improve service to the American and assured it could handle mailin ballots for the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-postoffice/u-s-postal-service-says-house-bill-would-hamper-improvements-idUSKBN25K04H | 2020-08-24 |
| The American people should feel comfortable that the Postal Service will deliver on this he told the Senate Homeland Security Committee | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Postmaster Louis DeJoy on Friday told lawmakers the Postal Service would deliver ballots securely and on in the November presidential election but indicated he would pursue dramatic operational changes after that date | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-post-office-senate/u-s-postmaster-promises-timely-election-mail-dramatic-changes-after-idUSKBN25H15W | 2020-08-22 |
| DeJoy is set to appear before a U.S Senate panel on Friday | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday he played no role in the selection of a supporter of President Donald Trump as the head of the U.S. Postal Service even as a former official accused him of interfering in agency operations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-election-post-office-treasury/mnuchin-says-he-was-not-involved-in-postmaster-general-selection-idUSKBN25G2LQ | 2020-08-21 |
| DeJoy is expected to provide more detail on his plans in testimony before the Senate on Friday and the House of Representatives on Monday | Positive | Turmoil at the U.S. Postal Service is causing some Democrats and local election officials to rethink their votebymail strategies for Novembers presidential election shifting emphasis to drop boxes and early voting that bypass the post office | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-democrats-usps/u-s-postal-chaos-prompts-democrats-to-reassess-mail-ballot-plan-idUSKCN25F1BQ | 2020-08-20 |
| WASHINGTON The White House on Wednesday pushed for Congress to take up a narrow coronavirus economic relief bill that Democrats have long rejected while a leading Senate Democrat said real action may come soon after the Sept | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House on Wednesday pushed for Congress to take up a narrow coronavirus economic relief bill that Democrats have long rejected while a leading Senate Democrat said real action may come soon after the Sept | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/as-white-house-pushes-skinny-covid-19-bill-democrat-sees-september-action-idUSKCN25F1XV | 2020-08-20 |
| DeJoy is scheduled to testify on Friday before a Republicanled Senate committee and before a Democraticled House committee on Monday | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Tuesday suspended all mail service changes until after the November election bowing to an outcry by Democrats that the moves appeared to be an attempt to boost President Donald Trumps reelection chances | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-post-office/trump-postal-chief-pauses-service-cuts-amid-outcry-as-democrats-ratchet-up-pressure-idUSKCN25E1Q2 | 2020-08-19 |
| WASHINGTON Below are key findings of the U.S. Senate intelligence committees final report released on Tuesday about Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S presidential election in which Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton | Negative | WASHINGTON Below are key findings of the U.S. Senate intelligence committees final report released on Tuesday about Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S presidential election in which Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-senate-findings-fact/factbox-key-findings-from-senate-inquiry-into-russian-interference-in-2016-u-s-election-idUSKCN25E2OY | 2020-08-19 |
| A bill to ban the practice nationally was approved by Senate committees earlier this year and lawmakers say a vote by the full chamber will take place next month | Neutral | I lived that stage of my life in confinement | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-lgbt-conversiontherapy/my-spirit-broken-mexicans-battle-to-ban-conversion-therapy-idUSKCN25D2AQ | 2020-08-18 |
| We expect to receive bipartisan support on our legislation send it to the Senate and see if they reject the will of the Pelosi told MSNBC in an interview | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday she expects to receive Republican support for a Democratic bill the House will consider this weekend to aid the Postal Service amid concerns over its ability to handle a flood of mailin ballots in the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-post-office-pelosi/house-speaker-pelosi-expects-republican-support-for-u-s-postal-service-bill-idUSKCN25D2PZ | 2020-08-18 |
| A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said there were no scheduling updates for the Republicancontrolled Senate | Neutral | 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 |
| The White House then opted to put Tata into a less senior role in a more provisional capacity a move strongly criticized by the Senate Armed Services Committees top Democrat | 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 |
| Her defenders say she has always been reformminded and point to her record in the Senate where she has championed a policereform bill and an antilynching bill among other measures | Neutral | Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday picked Senator Kamala Harris as his choice for vice president making her the first Black woman on a majorparty U.S. presidential ticket and giving him a partner well prepared to go on the attack against Republican President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-biden-harris/democrat-joe-biden-chooses-senator-kamala-harris-for-white-house-running-mate-idUSKCN2572MZ | 2020-08-12 |
| Last year a referendum approved constitutional changes that could allow him to stay in office until 2030 widening his powers over the judiciary and establishing the Senate | Positive | CAIRO Egyptians began voting on Tuesday for members of a newly created second chamber of parliament with restrictive measures in place to curb a resurgence of novel coronavirus infections | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-election-senate/egyptians-vote-for-newly-created-senate-idUSKCN2570WA | 2020-08-12 |
| willing to personally increase the pain for vulnerable families unless they get their McConnell said as the Senate opened on Monday | Negative | 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 |
| SLF has been adamant from the day Kobach got in the race that he would endanger Republican control of the Senate the group said in a statement | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Roger Marshall won the Kansas Republican primary for the Senate on Tuesday defeating antiimmigration firebrand Kris Kobach with the help of the party establishment which feared Kobach would hurt Republican chances in the fall | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-congress/u-s-representative-marshall-beats-kobach-in-kansas-republican-primary-for-senate-idUSKCN2501C8 | 2020-08-05 |
| Do we believe that we can get the kind of bold strong bill that America We Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said in his most upbeat assessment yet | Positive | WASHINGTON White House negotiators on Tuesday vowed to work around the with congressional Democrats to try to reach a deal on coronavirus relief by the end of this week as the pandemic takes a heavy toll on American life | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/white-house-seeks-deal-this-week-with-congressional-democrats-on-coronavirus-bill-idUSKCN25019N | 2020-08-05 |
| Marshall 59 was supported by establishment Republicans who feared a polarizing figure like Kobach could lose the traditionally Republican seat to Democrats who could gain control of the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Roger Marshall won the Kansas Republican primary for the Senate on Tuesday defeating antiimmigration firebrand Kris Kobach with the help of the party establishment which feared Kobach would hurt Republican chances in the fall | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-congress/u-s-representative-marshall-beats-kobach-in-kansas-republican-primary-for-senate-idUSKCN2501C8 | 2020-08-05 |
| Republicans currently have a 5347 Senate majority and nonpartisan analysts see the competition for Senate control as either a tossup or slightly favoring Democrats | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Roger Marshall won the Kansas Republican primary for the Senate on Tuesday defeating antiimmigration firebrand Kris Kobach with the help of the party establishment which feared Kobach would hurt Republican chances in the fall | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-congress/u-s-representative-marshall-beats-kobach-in-kansas-republican-primary-for-senate-idUSKCN2501C8 | 2020-08-05 |
| Mnuchin and Meadows have taken the Republican lead in talks since McConnells plan last week met immediate resistance from some of his fellow Senate Republicans | Positive | WASHINGTON The top Democrats in the U.S. Congress and White House negotiators on Monday said they had made progress in talks on a new coronavirus relief bill though the administration said President Donald Trump could act alone if no deal is reached | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/congressional-democrats-white-house-cite-progress-in-talks-on-coronavirus-bill-idUSKBN24Z1PU | 2020-08-04 |
| He was acquitted by the Republicancontrolled Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Democratic chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee issued a subpoena to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday demanding documents he provided to Republicans investigating presidential candidate Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-house-pompeo-biden/u-s-house-foreign-affairs-chairman-subpoenas-pompeo-for-biden-related-documents-idUSKCN24W2RQ | 2020-08-01 |
| Engel had been considering subpoenaing Pompeo for the documents for months as the Republicanled Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee has pursued its investigation of the Bidens | Negative | WASHINGTON The Democratic chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee issued a subpoena to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday demanding documents he provided to Republicans investigating presidential candidate Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-house-pompeo-biden/u-s-house-foreign-affairs-chairman-subpoenas-pompeo-for-biden-related-documents-idUSKCN24W2RQ | 2020-08-01 |
| While the FBI has taken corrective measures to improve its policies the Republicanled Senate Judiciary Committee is still probing the errors in Operation Crossfire Hurricane | Positive | WASHINGTON The FBI said on Thursday that the errors and sloppy recordkeeping identified in connection with 29 of its applications submitted to a federal court to obtain wiretaps to monitor U.S. citizens were and did not undermine their legal validity | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fbi-wiretap/fbi-says-errors-uncovered-in-wiretap-applications-were-mostly-non-material-idUSKCN24V2R8 | 2020-07-31 |
| He was referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer | Neutral | 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 |
| Schumer answered back saying a skinny floated by the White House to provide reduced unemployment benefits did not have the votes to pass the House or the Senate | 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 |
| Were prepared to use those tools should you provide them to Pompeo told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States will do everything it can to ensure Russias Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project does not pose a security threat to Europe but needs more tools to do so U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-senate-pompeo-pipeline/u-s-keen-to-ensure-russian-pipeline-does-not-threaten-europe-pompeo-says-idUSKCN24V2MV | 2020-07-31 |
| The Senate Banking Committee which oversees housing cited a statement by Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo on Tuesday | Neutral | NEW YORK More than | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-housing-evictions/u-s-renters-owe-21-5-billion-in-back-rent-republicans-offer-no-eviction-relief-idUSKCN24U394 | 2020-07-30 |
| The amount of support for a shortterm extension of the unemployment benefit was unclear because most Senate Republicans adamantly oppose the supplement | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. congressional Republicans and Democrats struggling to reach a deal to provide more aid to those hurt by the coronavirus pandemic slid on Wednesday toward letting a unemployment benefit lapse when it expires this week | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-jobless-benefit-at-risk-as-congress-coronavirus-talks-stalled-idUSKCN24U1FR | 2020-07-30 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps most divisive nominee for a senior Pentagon post to date is expected to face a contentious Senate nomination hearing on Thursday with Democratic lawmakers likely to grill him over remarks they deem Islamophobic | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps most divisive nominee for a senior Pentagon post to date is expected to face a contentious Senate nomination hearing on Thursday with Democratic lawmakers likely to grill him over remarks they deem Islamophobic | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-military-nominee/trump-nominee-for-pentagon-faces-senate-grilling-after-islamophobia-claims-idUSKCN24U34T | 2020-07-30 |
| Tata will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee whose Democratic members have signaled they would oppose his nomination | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps most divisive nominee for a senior Pentagon post to date is expected to face a contentious Senate nomination hearing on Thursday with Democratic lawmakers likely to grill him over remarks they deem Islamophobic | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-military-nominee/trump-nominee-for-pentagon-faces-senate-grilling-after-islamophobia-claims-idUSKCN24U34T | 2020-07-30 |
| Feeding the fears members of congress were sparring over a trillion aid proposal from Senate Republicans announced on Monday four days before millions of Americans lose unemployment benefits | Negative | Wall Street closed lower on Tuesday as investors fretted about weakening consumer confidence disappointing financial results and as investors worried about wrangling in the U.S. Congress over a coronavirus aid plan | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-stocks/wall-street-falls-as-pandemic-hurts-consumer-confidence-and-earnings-stimulus-plan-underwhelms-idUSKCN24T1DY | 2020-07-29 |
| Were not going to let them starve while that Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said | Negative | WASHINGTON Republicans in the U.S. Senate pushed back on Tuesday against their own partys trillion coronavirus relief proposal the day after it was unveiled by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sending some U.S. stocks downward | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/senate-republicans-push-back-on-mcconnells-1-trillion-u-s-coronavirus-relief-proposal-idUSKCN24T1AZ | 2020-07-29 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he did not support everything in the Senate Republican coronavirus relief legislation but would not elaborate on what he did not like | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he did not support everything in the Senate Republican coronavirus relief legislation but would not elaborate on what he did not like | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-congress-trump/trump-says-he-does-not-support-parts-of-senate-republican-coronavirus-relief-bill-idUSKCN24T2WK | 2020-07-29 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday she did not believe Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was ready to reach an agreement on coronavirus relief legislation | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday she did not believe Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was ready to reach an agreement on coronavirus relief legislation | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pelosi/pelosi-says-mcconnell-not-ready-to-make-u-s-coronavirus-relief-deal-idUSKCN24T2W3 | 2020-07-29 |
| 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 | 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 |
| I think its going to be a close race but the president wins Arizona and those voters want the Senate to remain in Republican he said | Positive | 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 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will meet Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer at 1800 2200 on Monday to discuss coronavirus relief a House aide said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will meet Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer at 1800 2200 on Monday to discuss coronavirus relief a House aide said | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-congress-pelosi/pelosi-schumer-to-meet-top-administration-officials-on-coronavirus-aid-idUSKCN24S2LR | 2020-07-28 |
| The Republican plan is weak tea when our problems need a much stronger Schumer said in the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday proposed a coronavirus aid package hammered out with the White House paving the way for talks with Democrats on how to help Americans as expanded unemployment benefits for millions of workers expire this week | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-republicans-to-unveil-coronavirus-aid-proposal-as-time-runs-out-on-jobless-benefits-idUSKCN24S148 | 2020-07-28 |
| Robert Reich who was U.S. Labor secretary under former President Bill Clinton sought to tie Cottons remarks to the 2020 election battle for control of the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton came under pressure over published comments in which he said Americas founders viewed slavery as a necessary evil | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-global-race-usa-cotton/republican-senator-cotton-criticized-for-necessary-evil-slavery-comment-idUSKCN24S1MP | 2020-07-28 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republicans will unveil their proposal next week for a fresh round of coronavirus aid including more direct payments to Americans and a partial extension of enhanced unemployment benefits Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republicans will unveil their proposal next week for a fresh round of coronavirus aid including more direct payments to Americans and a partial extension of enhanced unemployment benefits Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-senate-republicans-to-unveil-coronavirus-proposal-next-week-mcconnell-says-idUSKCN24O1PN | 2020-07-24 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. federal employees would be barred from using Chineseowned mobile video app TikTok on governmentissued devices under a bill that passed a U.S. Senate Committee on Wednesday as lawmakers feared the security of users personal data | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. federal employees would be barred from using Chineseowned mobile video app TikTok on governmentissued devices under a bill that passed a U.S. Senate Committee on Wednesday as lawmakers feared the security of users personal data | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-tiktok-vote/tiktok-app-would-be-banned-on-u-s-government-devices-under-senate-bill-idUSKCN24N2AR | 2020-07-23 |
| Marshall Billingslea Trumps nominee to be under secretary of State for arms control and international security told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he supported the review process | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps nominee for a top State Department arms control position said on Tuesday he supported congressional review of foreign weapons sales a sign the administration could be backing away from talk of ending the longstanding system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-trump-arms/trump-nominee-backs-congressional-weapons-reviews-under-fire-from-white-house-idUSKCN24M2ET | 2020-07-22 |
| Ending the review process was opposed by members of both parties in both the Republicanled Senate and Democraticled House of Representatives | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps nominee for a top State Department arms control position said on Tuesday he supported congressional review of foreign weapons sales a sign the administration could be backing away from talk of ending the longstanding system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-trump-arms/trump-nominee-backs-congressional-weapons-reviews-under-fire-from-white-house-idUSKCN24M2ET | 2020-07-22 |
| WASHINGTON China is using its technological rise to develop digital to conduct surveillance control the internet and censor information not just within its borders but around the world a U.S. Senate report said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON China is using its technological rise to develop digital to conduct surveillance control the internet and censor information not just within its borders but around the world a U.S. Senate report said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-surveillance/u-s-senate-report-accuses-china-of-digital-authoritarianism-idUSKCN24M1ON | 2020-07-22 |
| Grassley could not say when a final bill would be ready in the Senate | Positive | NEW YORK U.S. lawmakers from Iowa are trying to add aid for the biofuels industry into a pending coronavirus relief package in the Senate U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-biofuels/u-s-iowa-senators-hope-to-include-biofuels-aid-in-next-coronavirus-relief-package-idUSKCN24I1WA | 2020-07-18 |
| NEW YORK U.S. lawmakers from Iowa are trying to add aid for the biofuels industry into a pending coronavirus relief package in the Senate U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley said on Friday | Neutral | NEW YORK U.S. lawmakers from Iowa are trying to add aid for the biofuels industry into a pending coronavirus relief package in the Senate U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-biofuels/u-s-iowa-senators-hope-to-include-biofuels-aid-in-next-coronavirus-relief-package-idUSKCN24I1WA | 2020-07-18 |
| After 36 hours has finally given back access to my tweeted Democratic Senate candidate Barbara Bollier | Positive | After 36 hours has finally given back access to my tweeted Democratic Senate candidate Barbara Bollier | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-cyber-politicians/guess-whos-back-political-figures-locked-out-in-hack-start-returning-to-twitter-idUSKCN24I24C | 2020-07-18 |
| WASHINGTON Democrats in Colorado Maine Montana and the Carolinas helped their party outraise Senate Republican incumbents by nearly million in 10 competitive races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate campaign documents showed on Thursday | Positive | WASHINGTON Democrats in Colorado Maine Montana and the Carolinas helped their party outraise Senate Republican incumbents by nearly million in 10 competitive races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate campaign documents showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-fundraising/democratic-senate-challengers-raised-34-million-more-than-republicans-in-key-races-in-second-quarter-idUSKCN24H22N | 2020-07-17 |
| Polls show Senate Republican incumbents running slightly behind their Democratic challengers in half a dozen Arizona Colorado Iowa Maine Montana and North Carolina | Neutral | WASHINGTON Democrats in Colorado Maine Montana and the Carolinas helped their party outraise Senate Republican incumbents by nearly million in 10 competitive races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate campaign documents showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-fundraising/democratic-senate-challengers-raised-34-million-more-than-republicans-in-key-races-in-second-quarter-idUSKCN24H22N | 2020-07-17 |
| WASHINGTON Campaign donations are flooding into the coffers of Democrats running for the U.S. Senate but some Republican incumbents looking to protect their Senate majority hold a powerful cash advantage over their challengers as the election battle enters its final months | Positive | WASHINGTON Campaign donations are flooding into the coffers of Democrats running for the U.S. Senate but some Republican incumbents looking to protect their Senate majority hold a powerful cash advantage over their challengers as the election battle enters its final months | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-republicans/democrats-see-surging-donations-as-they-seek-u-s-senate-majority-idUSKCN24G37X | 2020-07-16 |
| 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 | Neutral | 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 |
| Maine Democrats chose Sara Gideon the speaker of the states House of Representatives to face off against moderate Republican Senator Susan Collins one of the Senates most atrisk Republicans | Neutral | WASHINGTON Alabama Republicans nominated political neophyte Tommy Tuberville the choice of President Donald Trump to run for the Senate in November as voters in three states picked candidates Tuesday in races that will help decide control of the chamber | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-senate/trump-pick-gets-nod-in-alabama-as-three-u-s-states-choose-senate-candidates-idUSKCN24F14I | 2020-07-15 |
| Sessions had hoped to return to the Senate where he had been a member for 20 years before joining the Trump administration | Positive | WASHINGTON Alabama Republicans nominated political neophyte Tommy Tuberville the choice of President Donald Trump to run for the Senate in November as voters in three states picked candidates Tuesday in races that will help decide control of the chamber | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-senate/trump-pick-gets-nod-in-alabama-as-three-u-s-states-choose-senate-candidates-idUSKCN24F14I | 2020-07-15 |
| 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 | 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 |
| But a panel vote which would advance the decision of the full Senate never within weeks of that contentious nomination hearing the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. hard | Negative | details | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-fed-shelton-waller/update-1-u-s-senate-panel-to-vote-on-trump-fed-picks-july-21-idUSL1N2EH26E | 2020-07-11 |
| 2 Deputy U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss who is currently leading the office until a permanent replacement can be confirmed by the U.S. Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan who was ousted last month as his office led a probe into President Donald Trumps personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani told lawmakers on Thursday U.S. Attorney General William Barr had pressured him to resign | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-congress-berman/ousted-u-s-prosecutor-says-barr-pressed-him-to-resign-idUSKBN24A2V2 | 2020-07-10 |
| Campos Neto expects legislation reinforcing the autonomy of the central bank to be voted on by August 15 in the Senate | Neutral | 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 legislation is expected to be blocked in the Republicancontrolled Senate | 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 |
| Giffords will then host virtual events with Democratic Senate candidates in several battleground states this summer including Michigan North Carolina and Colorado | Positive | The gun safety group Giffords will launch a nationwide effort next week aimed at boosting Democratic candidates in key U.S. Senate races who support universal background checks for firearms purchases | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-guns/giffords-group-takes-aim-at-key-u-s-senate-races-in-new-push-for-gun-limits-idUSKBN2481AS | 2020-07-08 |
| The gun safety group Giffords will launch a nationwide effort next week aimed at boosting Democratic candidates in key U.S. Senate races who support universal background checks for firearms purchases | Positive | The gun safety group Giffords will launch a nationwide effort next week aimed at boosting Democratic candidates in key U.S. Senate races who support universal background checks for firearms purchases | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-guns/giffords-group-takes-aim-at-key-u-s-senate-races-in-new-push-for-gun-limits-idUSKBN2481AS | 2020-07-08 |
| The Giffords groups focus on the Senate comes after the Democraticcontrolled House of Representatives passed a bill in February 2019 closing loopholes in the background checks law | Negative | The gun safety group Giffords will launch a nationwide effort next week aimed at boosting Democratic candidates in key U.S. Senate races who support universal background checks for firearms purchases | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-guns/giffords-group-takes-aim-at-key-u-s-senate-races-in-new-push-for-gun-limits-idUSKBN2481AS | 2020-07-08 |
| Trumps sagging poll numbers and Democratic animosity against his leading allies in Congress have deepened this years challenge for Senate Republicans including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell | Negative | WASHINGTON The South Carolina Democrat challenging Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham nearly doubled his fundraising this spring his campaign said on Tuesday in the latest sign of the mounting campaign hurdles facing Republicans in the U.S. Senate | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate/south-carolina-democrat-aiming-to-unseat-lindsey-graham-raises-13-9-million-in-quarter-idUSKBN2482CP | 2020-07-08 |
| To win the Senate Democrats need to pick up three seats if the party wins the White House and four if not | Positive | WASHINGTON Democratic contenders for two Republicanheld U.S. Senate seats on Monday said they accelerated fundraising in the second quarter pointing to their momentum in what were already seen as competitive races | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate/democratic-challengers-in-two-tight-u-s-senate-races-step-up-fundraising-idUSKBN2472YH | 2020-07-07 |
| Duckworths action would make it far more difficult and timeconsuming to approve such promotions especially given how little time the Senate has before the November elections | Negative | WASHINGTON Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth said on Thursday that she would put a hold on the confirmation of over 1000 military promotions until Defense Secretary Mark Esper provided assurances on the promotion of a former White House aide who testified in President Donald Trumps impeachment trial | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-military-promotion/u-s-senator-to-block-military-promotions-until-assurances-on-former-white-house-aide-idUSKBN2432ZD | 2020-07-03 |
| Kentucky Democrat Amy McGraths longshot bid to unseat U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could help undermine Republican efforts to retain their majority in the chamber even if the former Marine Corps fighter pilot fails to beat McConnell in November | Negative | Kentucky Democrat Amy McGraths longshot bid to unseat U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could help undermine Republican efforts to retain their majority in the chamber even if the former Marine Corps fighter pilot fails to beat McConnell in November | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-mcconnell-analysi/why-amy-mcgrath-could-cost-republicans-the-u-s-senate-even-if-she-loses-to-mitch-mcconnell-idUSKBN2426QQ | 2020-07-02 |
| Democrats would need a net gain of four Republicanheld seats to take control of the Senate if Trump wins reelection or three if Democratic candidate Joe Biden defeats Trump | Positive | Kentucky Democrat Amy McGraths longshot bid to unseat U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could help undermine Republican efforts to retain their majority in the chamber even if the former Marine Corps fighter pilot fails to beat McConnell in November | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-senate-mcconnell-analysi/why-amy-mcgrath-could-cost-republicans-the-u-s-senate-even-if-she-loses-to-mitch-mcconnell-idUSKBN2426QQ | 2020-07-02 |
| 5 trillion infrastructure package on Wednesday by a 233to188 vote to boost spending on roads bridges public transit and rail but the White House and Senate Republicans opposed the measure | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives approved a | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-infrastructure-congress/u-s-house-approves-1-5-trillion-infrastructure-bill-but-outlook-uncertain-idUSKBN2427FO | 2020-07-02 |
| Trumps falling poll numbers worry some fellow Republicans they will lose control of the U.S. Senate having already lost leadership of the House of Representatives in 2018 | Negative | WASHINGTON Some of President Donald Trumps Republican allies are urging him to ditch his divisive messaging and outline a clear vision for a second term fearing his handling of a series of crises has dimmed his reelection hopes | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump/fearing-an-election-loss-trump-allies-push-him-to-be-less-polarizing-idUSKBN2427GT | 2020-07-02 |
| Former fighter pilot Amy McGrath said on Tuesday she was ready to take on Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after edging out a Black progressive to clinch the Democratic nomination for the seat | Positive | Former fighter pilot Amy McGrath said on Tuesday she was ready to take on Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after edging out a Black progressive to clinch the Democratic nomination for the seat | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-kentucky/kentucky-democrats-pick-ex-fighter-pilot-mcgrath-to-challenge-u-s-senate-leader-mcconnell-idUSKBN2411IH | 2020-07-01 |
| Emphasizing her military experience she often stressed that she was the only candidate who can against McConnell who has represented Kentucky in the Senate for over three decades | Neutral | Former fighter pilot Amy McGrath said on Tuesday she was ready to take on Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after edging out a Black progressive to clinch the Democratic nomination for the seat | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-kentucky/kentucky-democrats-pick-ex-fighter-pilot-mcgrath-to-challenge-u-s-senate-leader-mcconnell-idUSKBN2411IH | 2020-07-01 |
| BRASILIA Brazils Senate approved on Tuesday a bill governing rules to fight fake news with Senate head David Alcolumbre saying it also guarantees social media transparency | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils Senate approved on Tuesday a bill governing rules to fight fake news with Senate head David Alcolumbre saying it also guarantees social media transparency | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-fake-news/brazil-senate-approves-bill-on-fake-news-lower-house-to-vote-next-idUSKBN2413T1 | 2020-07-01 |
| June 19 Mexico becomes the first country to ratify the USMCA deal as its Senate votes it through | 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 |
| WASHINGTON Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper shrugged off a series of campaign stumbles to win the states Democratic U.S. Senate nomination on Tuesday beating a progressive challenger in a race vital to the partys hopes of regaining Senate control in November | Positive | WASHINGTON Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper shrugged off a series of campaign stumbles to win the states Democratic U.S. Senate nomination on Tuesday beating a progressive challenger in a race vital to the partys hopes of regaining Senate control in November | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election/hickenlooper-wins-democratic-primary-for-key-u-s-senate-seat-in-colorado-idUSKBN2411GF | 2020-07-01 |
| Wearing simple face coverings is not about protecting ourselves it is about protecting everyone we McConnell said on the floor of the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON In a rare break with maskaverse President Donald Trump fellow Republican leaders are advocating for face coverings as COVID19 cases surge in some Republicanleaning states | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-congress-masks/wear-a-mask-republicans-split-with-trump-as-virus-cases-surge-idUSKBN24027P | 2020-06-30 |
| The Mississippi House voted 8534 in favor of the measure which would need approval in the Senate before going to the Southern states Republican governor according to reports | Positive | The Mississippi House of Representatives on Saturday voted to move ahead with a process that could result in the removal of a Confederate emblem from the state flag according to media reports and the governor vowed to approve a bill | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-protests-mississippi-flag/mississippi-moves-to-change-its-state-flag-idUSKBN23Y0WI | 2020-06-28 |
| However the bill will be introduced as a standalone on Monday as well to bolster its chances a Senate aide said | Positive | WASHINGTON A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday introduced a measure aimed at strengthening chip manufacturing in the United States adding to efforts to champion the sector and lure high tech supply chains back into the United States | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-china-semiconductors-bill/u-s-lawmakers-unveil-bid-to-boost-domestic-chipmaking-industry-idUSKBN23X05C | 2020-06-26 |
| Congressional aides said ending the review process was opposed by members of both parties in both the Republicanled Senate and Democraticled House of Representatives | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps administration is considering ending a longstanding system for congressional review of foreign weapons sales congressional aides said on Thursday a plan that would face stiff opposition from his fellow Republicans as well as Democrats | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-trump-arms/trump-administration-considers-ending-congress-review-of-arms-sales-sources-idUSKBN23W3BO | 2020-06-26 |
| WASHINGTON A Republican bill to rein in police misconduct in the aftermath of George Floyds death in Minneapolis failed in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday leaving congressional efforts to address racial inequities in American policing at an impasse | Negative | WASHINGTON A Republican bill to rein in police misconduct in the aftermath of George Floyds death in Minneapolis failed in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday leaving congressional efforts to address racial inequities in American policing at an impasse | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-congress/senate-police-reform-vote-fails-as-democrats-reject-republican-bill-idUSKBN23V1G2 | 2020-06-25 |
| The Rodchenkov AntiDoping Act named after the whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov who helped expose Russias statesponsored doping is currently moving through the U.S. House and Senate | Negative | The United States is threatening to cut off funding to the World AntiDoping Agency unless it immediately enacts serious reforms according to a report by the White Houses Office of National Drug Control Policy | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sport-doping/u-s-threatens-to-pull-wada-funding-as-war-of-words-escalates-idUSKBN23V2TO | 2020-06-25 |
| Republicans who control 53 seats in the 100seat Senate will need 60 votes on Wednesday to move forward with the debate | Neutral | WASHINGTON The drive toward police reform in the aftermath of George Floyds death ran headlong into political gridlock in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday as Democrats and Republicans sparred over a Senate plan to move forward with a controversial reform measure | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-minneapolis-police-congress/u-s-drive-for-police-reform-hamstrung-by-deadlock-in-congress-idUSKBN23U2BL | 2020-06-24 |
| Some hope a bipartisan alternative can emerge by amending the Senate measure or by reconciling the bills through negotiation | Positive | 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 |
| But again thats a waste of time because the Republicans in the Senate wont look at Nadler said | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Attorney General William Barr deserves to be impeached over the firing of a federal prosecutor whose office had been investigating President Donald Trumps personal lawyer but the effort would be a waste of a leading Democratic lawmaker said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-justice-newyork/impeaching-ag-barr-a-waste-of-time-says-top-democrat-probing-political-meddling-idUSKBN23S0IB | 2020-06-22 |
| Berman however issued a statement of his own saying he had no intention of stepping down until the Senate confirmed his successor and that his offices investigations would continue | Negative | YORK A standoff over the independence of one of the countrys most important prosecutors offices ended on Saturday when Geoffrey Berman agreed to step down as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York the office that had been investigating President Donald Trumps personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-justice-newyork-barr/manhattan-prosecutor-steps-down-ending-stand-off-with-attorney-general-barr-idUSKBN23R0TJ | 2020-06-21 |
| Berman said that until a presidentially appointed nominee was confirmed by the Senate the offices investigations will move forward without delay or interruption | Positive | WASHINGTON A top U.S. federal prosecutor whose office has been investigating Rudolph W. Giuliani the personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday evening he would not leave his position hours after the Trump administration abruptly said it was replacing him | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-justice-newyork/u-s-prosecutor-who-has-investigated-trump-lawyer-says-he-wont-resign-idUSKBN23R02N | 2020-06-20 |
| He was also a vocal ally of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation battle in the Senate in 2018 | Neutral | The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to confirm a federal judge who is a protege of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to an influential appeals court in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-court-judge/u-s-senate-votes-to-confirm-mcconnell-protege-to-influential-appeals-court-idUSKBN23P3DW | 2020-06-19 |
| The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to confirm a federal judge who is a protege of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to an influential appeals court in Washington | Positive | The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to confirm a federal judge who is a protege of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to an influential appeals court in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-court-judge/u-s-senate-votes-to-confirm-mcconnell-protege-to-influential-appeals-court-idUSKBN23P3DW | 2020-06-19 |
| Trump became the third U.S. president to face impeachment but he remained in office after a Senate vote that largely fell along partisan lines | Negative | China was not the only country mentioned in a litany of allegations that former national security adviser John Bolton makes about U.S. President Donald Trump in excerpts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-trump-bolton-book-countries-factb/factbox-all-the-presidents-countries-featured-so-far-in-ex-trump-advisers-book-idUSKBN23O3SI | 2020-06-18 |
| It is unclear whether Democrats in the Senate will oppose the measure or try to change it | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republicans unveiled a law enforcement reform bill on Wednesday as a rival to more sweeping Democratic legislation as Congress sought to curb racial discrimination and police abuses three weeks after the death of George Floyd | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-minneapolis-police-congress/republican-u-s-senator-scott-unveils-police-reforms-democrats-push-for-broader-changes-idUSKBN23O1HO | 2020-06-18 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday a police reform bill put forward by House Democrats would not succeed in the Republicanled Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday a police reform bill put forward by House Democrats would not succeed in the Republicanled Senate | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-minneapolis-police-senate-mcconnell/mcconnell-says-democrats-policing-bill-going-nowhere-in-senate-idUSKBN23N34M | 2020-06-17 |
| U.S. FAA chief Steve Dickson will tell a Senate committee at a hearing on Wednesday that transparency is key to restoring public trust in the agency and planemaker Boeing Co in the wake of fatal 737 MAX crashes according to a copy of his written testimony seen by Reuters | Negative | U.S. FAA chief Steve Dickson will tell a Senate committee at a hearing on Wednesday that transparency is key to restoring public trust in the agency and planemaker Boeing Co in the wake of fatal 737 MAX crashes according to a copy of his written testimony seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-boeing-737max-faa/transparency-needed-to-restore-trust-after-737-max-crashes-faa-chief-idUSKBN23N3JH | 2020-06-17 |
| Trump who branded the impeachment effort a witch hunt was acquitted in February after a trial in the U.S. Senate where his fellow Republicans have a majority | Negative | WASHINGTON Pentagon Comptroller Elaine McCusker who was reported to have questioned the suspension of U.S. military aid to Ukraine a key element in the inquiry leading to President Donald Trumps impeachment resigned on Tuesday Defense Secretary Mark Esper said | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-pentagon-resignation/pentagon-official-who-questioned-ukraine-aid-freeze-resigns-idUSKBN23O01O | 2020-06-17 |
| Paul said the report showed China had identified public officials and states including Kentucky home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell which has attracted increased Chinese investment in recent years | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers and policymakers should be wary of Chinas moves to target vulnerable U.S. assets and expand its market share in the wake of the global economic crisis triggered by the novel coronavirus according to a study prepared for a U.S. trade group and released on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-china/china-keen-to-seek-benefits-from-pandemic-distressed-u-s-assets-report-idUSKBN23N2SY | 2020-06-17 |
| The administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration Stephen Dickson is expected to be questioned about masks at a Senate hearing on Wednesday | Negative | U.S. airline passengers who refuse to wear face coverings during the novel coronavirus pandemic could have their flying privileges revoked under tougher enforcement policies the industrys main lobby group said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/u-s-airlines-threaten-to-ban-passengers-who-refuse-to-wear-masks-idUSKBN23M2Y5 | 2020-06-16 |
| Republicans who control the Senate are working on a separate proposal although its unveiling has been delayed | Negative | DALLAS President Donald Trump on Thursday announced modest plans for an executive order on policing while making it clear he would not support sweeping proposals in response to protests against police brutality prompted by the killing of George Floyd | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-trump/trump-plans-order-on-policing-opposes-major-reforms-idUSKBN23I3B3 | 2020-06-12 |
| The Democraticled House is moving forward with sweeping reform legislation that could come to a vote by July 4 while Senate Republicans are crafting a rival plan | Positive | WASHINGTON George Floyds younger brother took his grief to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday with an impassioned plea that lawmakers not let his brothers death be in vain lamenting that he didnt deserve to die over in a what he called a lynching | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests/george-floyds-brother-decries-a-modern-day-lynching-in-testimony-to-congress-idUSKBN23H1NB | 2020-06-11 |
| Milos Vystrcils decision follows a plan to visit Taipei by his predecessor as Senate speaker Jaroslav Kubera | Positive | PRAGUE The speaker of the Czech upper house of parliament will travel to Taiwan with a trade mission at the end of August potentially further souring his countrys relations with China which regards the island as a part of its territory | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-czech-taiwan/czech-senate-speaker-to-visit-taiwan-in-trip-that-could-irk-china-idUSKBN23G139 | 2020-06-10 |
| Identical measures are expected in the House and Senate and caucus leaders intend to bring legislation to the House floor this month | Neutral | 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 |
| He will testify to the Senate committee on June 16 and the House panel on June 17 calendars published by the committees showed | 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 |
| Any legislative action would have to pass the Democraticcontrolled House and Republicanheld Senate as well as be signed by Trump to become law | Positive | 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 |
| But Republicans who control a majority of seats in the Senate pushed ahead | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate backed President Donald Trumps nominee to lead government broadcasting on Thursday confirming conservative filmmaker Michael Pack despite an investigation into whether he misused funds from a nonprofit organization he runs | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-broadcasting/republican-led-senate-confirms-divisive-trump-broadcasting-nominee-pack-idUSKBN23B337 | 2020-06-05 |
| I still believe it was the right decision under the Rosenstein told the Senate Judiciary Committee | Positive | WASHINGTON Republican allies of President Donald Trump attacked the FBIs probe of his 2016 presidential campaign on Wednesday but failed to get a key witness to agree that former U.S. Special Counsel Robert Muellers Russia investigation was unfounded | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia/republicans-blast-fbi-russia-probe-as-rosenstein-defends-mueller-idUSKBN23A1EB | 2020-06-04 |
| The seat is open because the current congressman Democrat Ben Ray Lujan is running for the Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON Former CIA operative Valerie Plame failed in her bid for a seat in the U.S. Congress Wednesday losing the Democratic nomination in New Mexicos 3rd District to an attorney with deep roots in the state Teresa Leger Fernandez | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-new-mexico/ex-spy-plame-loses-bid-for-house-of-representatives-idUSKBN23A31D | 2020-06-04 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson will testify June 17 before a U.S. Senate panel on certification of the Boeing 737 MAX that was involved in two fatal crashes in five months that killed 346 people | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson will testify June 17 before a U.S. Senate panel on certification of the Boeing 737 MAX that was involved in two fatal crashes in five months that killed 346 people | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-boeing-737max/u-s-faa-chief-to-testify-at-senate-hearing-on-boeing-737-max-idUSKBN2392YZ | 2020-06-03 |
| Passing such a cut would require approval of both the Democraticcontrolled House and the Republicancontrolled Senate | Negative | The Democrat who chairs the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary committee said on Tuesday he will introduce legislation this week to cut million in funding from Attorney General William Barrs personal office | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-justice-barr/house-democrat-moves-to-cut-attorney-general-barrs-budget-by-50-million-idUSKBN2392Z4 | 2020-06-03 |
| Democrats control the House of Representatives and Republicans control the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Courts decision expected in the coming weeks on the fate of the young immigrants known as could cause an electionyear headache for President Donald even if he wins the legal battle | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-election-analys/trump-faces-election-risks-in-looming-supreme-court-ruling-on-dreamers-idUSKBN238281 | 2020-06-02 |
| We will propose and push for bold Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Monday | Neutral | WASHINGTON With cities across America in turmoil over the death of George Floyd a U.S. lawmaker plans to introduce legislation this week that he hopes will end a pattern of police violence by allowing victims to sue officers for illegal and unconstitutional acts | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-congress/u-s-lawmaker-prepares-bill-aiming-to-end-court-protection-for-police-idUSKBN23831W | 2020-06-02 |
| House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to Democrats saying she intended to hold negotiations with the Senate on a possible compromise bill that could pass and go to Trump | Positive | WASHINGTON The House of Representatives on Thursday dropped consideration of legislation that would have extended U.S. surveillance tools after President Donald Trump threatened a veto and his fellow Republicans withdrew their support | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-surveillance-congress/government-surveillance-bill-withdrawn-in-u-s-house-idUSKBN2342BL | 2020-05-29 |
| The House passed the bill in March but it was amended by the Senate forcing it to return to the House before it could be sent to Trump | Neutral | WASHINGTON The House of Representatives on Thursday dropped consideration of legislation that would have extended U.S. surveillance tools after President Donald Trump threatened a veto and his fellow Republicans withdrew their support | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-surveillance-congress/government-surveillance-bill-withdrawn-in-u-s-house-idUSKBN2342BL | 2020-05-29 |
| WASHINGTON A key figure behind the U.S. investigation into links between Russia and President Donald Trumps 2016 election campaign will testify next week before a Republicanled Senate committee examining the origins of the probe the panel said on Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON A key figure behind the U.S. investigation into links between Russia and President Donald Trumps 2016 election campaign will testify next week before a Republicanled Senate committee examining the origins of the probe the panel said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-rosenstein/rosenstein-to-testify-in-senate-on-trump-russia-probe-idUSKBN23330H | 2020-05-28 |
| For a bill to become law it must pass the House and Senate and be signed by the president | Positive | WASHINGTON Republicans warned on Wednesday that legislation passed by the Democraticcontrolled U.S. House of Representatives during the coronavirus pandemic may not become law if lawmakers are allowed to cast votes remotely under a new voting system | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/republicans-cast-doubt-on-future-of-house-bills-passed-by-proxy-idUSKBN2332RH | 2020-05-28 |
| Rome EU Affairs Minister Vincenzo Amendola speaks via videoconference before Senate and Chamber of Deputies on the ruling by the German Constitutional court on the ECBs flagship stimulus program | Neutral | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-may-26/italy-factors-to-watch-on-may-26-idUSL8N2D71SA | 2020-05-26 |
| Rome Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri speaks before Chamber of Deputies and Senate Budget committees on the governments latest stimulus package | Neutral | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-may-26/italy-factors-to-watch-on-may-26-idUSL8N2D71SA | 2020-05-26 |
| Rome Italian banking association ABI Director General Giovanni Sabatini speaks via videoconference before Senate EU Policies Committee | Neutral | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-may-26/italy-factors-to-watch-on-may-26-idUSL8N2D71SA | 2020-05-26 |
| Forced out by Trump in November 2018 he now hopes to return to the Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Donald Trump are fighting on social media about a primary battle in Alabama that may be key to Republicans retaining control of the U.S. Senate | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-sessions/behind-trump-and-sessions-twitter-row-a-key-senate-seat-idUSKBN22Z0SS | 2020-05-24 |
| Republicans control the Senate with 53 out of 100 seats giving them a slim sixseat margin | Neutral | WASHINGTON Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Donald Trump are fighting on social media about a primary battle in Alabama that may be key to Republicans retaining control of the U.S. Senate | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-sessions/behind-trump-and-sessions-twitter-row-a-key-senate-seat-idUSKBN22Z0SS | 2020-05-24 |
| WASHINGTON Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Donald Trump are fighting on social media about a primary battle in Alabama that may be key to Republicans retaining control of the U.S. Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Donald Trump are fighting on social media about a primary battle in Alabama that may be key to Republicans retaining control of the U.S. Senate | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-sessions/behind-trump-and-sessions-twitter-row-a-key-senate-seat-idUSKBN22Z0SS | 2020-05-24 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has treated 1300 coronavirus patients with the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine which a study has tied to an increased risk of death according to a document released by a Senate Democrat on Friday | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has treated 1300 coronavirus patients with the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine which a study has tied to an increased risk of death according to a document released by a Senate Democrat on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-veterans/u-s-veterans-agency-has-given-hydroxychloroquine-to-1300-coronavirus-patients-idUSKBN22Y2UA | 2020-05-23 |
| A further crackdown from Beijing will only intensify the Senates interest in reexamining the U.S.China U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a Republican said in a statement | Negative | HONG China is set to impose new national security legislation on Hong Kong after last years prodemocracy unrest a Chinese official said on Thursday drawing a warning from President Donald Trump that Washington would react very against the attempt to gain more control over the former British colony | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-parliament-hongkong-us/china-set-to-impose-new-hong-kong-security-law-trump-warns-of-strong-u-s-reaction-idUSKBN22X19C | 2020-05-22 |
| The U.S. ambassador would be nominated by President Donald Trump and needs to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States and Sudan have reached a common understanding on the of a future bilateral claims agreement linked to the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania the U.S. State Departments top diplomat for Africa said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-sudan-claims/u-s-reaches-consensus-with-sudan-on-contours-of-future-claims-deal-idUSKBN22X22S | 2020-05-22 |
| A further crackdown from Beijing will only intensify the Senates interest in reexamining the U.S.China McConnell said in a statement | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday threatened to reexamine the U.S.Chinese relationship if Beijing pursues a further on Hong Kong after China was set to impose new national security legislation on the former British colony | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-parliament-hongkong-usa-senate/u-s-senate-republican-leader-threatens-reexamining-u-s-china-relationship-idUSKBN22Y01B | 2020-05-22 |
| Republican Senator Susan Collins said the legislation was being introduced in the Senate just before lawmakers were hoping to go on a weeklong recess | Positive | 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 |
| He was acquitted by the Republicancontrolled Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON A Republicanled U.S. Senate committee authorized a subpoena on Wednesday for information in an investigation related to Hunter Biden son of former Vice President Joe Biden President Donald Trumps main rival as he runs for reelection in November | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-congress-biden/republican-led-u-s-senate-panel-backs-subpoena-in-hunter-biden-probe-idUSKBN22W2KF | 2020-05-21 |
| Separately Rubio told reporters on Tuesday that he had received a waiver that allowed him to remain chairman of the Senates Small Business Committee while temporarily leading the intelligence panel | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted along party lines on Tuesday to back President Donald Trumps nomination of Republican Representative John Ratcliffe to be director of national intelligence | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-intelligence/senate-panel-backs-trump-nominee-ratcliffe-to-be-top-u-s-spy-idUSKBN22V26Z | 2020-05-20 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Marco Rubio will serve as acting chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday after Senator Richard Burr announced he would step aside from the position during a federal investigation of his stock trades | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Marco Rubio will serve as acting chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday after Senator Richard Burr announced he would step aside from the position during a federal investigation of his stock trades | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-intelligence-rubio/senator-rubio-chosen-as-acting-intelligence-committee-chairman-idUSKBN22U2WV | 2020-05-19 |
| Rubio 48 has been an active Republican voice on national security and foreign policy matters throughout the nine years he has been in the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Marco Rubio will serve as acting chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday after Senator Richard Burr announced he would step aside from the position during a federal investigation of his stock trades | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-intelligence-rubio/senator-rubio-chosen-as-acting-intelligence-committee-chairman-idUSKBN22U2WV | 2020-05-19 |
| Republican leaders have dismissed the bill which Trump said he would veto with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calling it dead on arrival | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday there will be negotiations on the new trillion coronavirus relief legislation passed by the Democraticcontrolled House of Representatives and that Democrats have no red lines | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/pelosi-sees-negotiations-on-new-3-trillion-coronavirus-legislation-cbs-idUSKBN22T0KA | 2020-05-18 |
| Powell who appears before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday to discuss how those rescue efforts are working on Sunday said a longer lifeline may be needed | Positive | WASHINGTON The most important data for the U.S. economy right now are the medical around the coronavirus pandemic Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Sunday night in broadcast remarks where he outlined the likely need for three to six more months of government financial help for firms and families | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-powell/feds-powell-medical-metrics-most-important-data-for-u-s-economy-now-cbs-idUSKBN22T0KM | 2020-05-18 |
| Trump late Friday ousted Inspector General Steve Linick the fourth inspector general he has fired since early April following his February acquittal by the Republicancontrolled Senate in his impeachment trial | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps firing of the State Departments top internal watchdog could be if it was intended to retaliate against one of his investigations House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inspectorgeneral-adviser/trumps-firing-of-state-department-watchdog-may-be-unlawful-pelosi-says-idUSKBN22T0J0 | 2020-05-18 |
| The Democraticled committee said it would launch the probe along with colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate which is controlled by Trumps fellow Republicans | 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 |
| The bill known as the HEROES Act would have to pass the majorityRepublican Senate before going to Trump who has threatened to veto it | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday he is open to another relief bill to help alleviate economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic and is talking to members of President Donald Trumps administration about possible legislation | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-mcconnell/mcconnell-u-s-republicans-open-to-future-possible-coronavirus-relief-bill-idUSKBN22Q3NA | 2020-05-16 |
| But it lacked support from Republicans who control the U.S. Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON Less populated areas of New York Virginia and Maryland took their first steps towards lifting lockdowns on Friday part of a patchwork approach to the coronavirus pandemic that has been shaped by political divisions across the United States | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/in-patchwork-restart-parts-of-new-york-and-other-u-s-states-reopen-idUSKBN22R2DE | 2020-05-16 |
| But Republicans who control the Senate have promised it will be dead on in their chamber | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a trillion Democratic bill aimed at salving the heavy human and economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 85000 Americans and shut much of the economy | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-passage/house-passes-3-trillion-coronavirus-aid-bill-idUSKBN22S02B | 2020-05-16 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Richard Burr will step aside as chairman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee after the FBI seized his mobile telephone in a major escalation of a probe of his stock trades before the downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Richard Burr will step aside as chairman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee after the FBI seized his mobile telephone in a major escalation of a probe of his stock trades before the downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-burr/u-s-senator-burr-steps-aside-as-committee-chair-as-fbi-probes-stock-trades-idUSKBN22Q0NB | 2020-05-15 |
| WASHINGTON Republican Senator Richard Burr will temporarily step aside as chairman of the intelligence committee effective at the end of Friday during a federal investigation into whether he sold shares ahead of a market plunge tied to the coronavirus pandemic Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday | Negative | WASHINGTON Republican Senator Richard Burr will temporarily step aside as chairman of the intelligence committee effective at the end of Friday during a federal investigation into whether he sold shares ahead of a market plunge tied to the coronavirus pandemic Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-burr-mcconnell/senate-intelligence-committee-chairman-stepping-down-during-stock-sale-investigation-idUSKBN22Q2TR | 2020-05-15 |
| The Democratic proposal which includes funding for states businesses food support and families was quickly rejected by Trumps fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate after it was unveiled on Tuesday | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday will vote on a measure temporarily allowing members to vote from outside the Capitol so they can work while keeping social distance during the coronavirus pandemic the chambers Democratic leadership said | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-house-sets-friday-vote-on-lawmaking-by-proxy-during-pandemic-idUSKBN22P2RA | 2020-05-14 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate narrowly blocked an amendment on Wednesday that would have prevented law enforcement from collecting information on Americans internet habits without a warrant as the Senate moved toward a reauthorization of divisive surveillance tools | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate narrowly blocked an amendment on Wednesday that would have prevented law enforcement from collecting information on Americans internet habits without a warrant as the Senate moved toward a reauthorization of divisive surveillance tools | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-surveillance-congress/u-s-senate-blocks-bid-to-curb-surveillance-of-americans-internet-habits-idUSKBN22P3C1 | 2020-05-14 |
| WASHINGTON Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday unveiled a trillionplus coronavirus relief package with funding for states businesses food support and families only to see the measure flatly rejected by Senate Republicans | Negative | WASHINGTON Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday unveiled a trillionplus coronavirus relief package with funding for states businesses food support and families only to see the measure flatly rejected by Senate Republicans | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-house-democrats-float-3-trillion-coronavirus-bill-republicans-reject-it-idUSKBN22P0BG | 2020-05-13 |
| Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a trillionplus coronavirus relief package only to see the measure flatly rejected by Senate Republicans | Negative | More than 4 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-new-coronavirus-idUSKBN22J0KE | 2020-05-13 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate will make a renewed attempt this week to extend parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday two months after the divisive government surveillance tools expired | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate will make a renewed attempt this week to extend parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday two months after the divisive government surveillance tools expired | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-congress/senate-to-reconsider-expired-surveillance-tools-idUSKBN22N2QX | 2020-05-12 |
| The United States will need more tests before schools can reopen later in the year said Republican Lamar Alexander chairman of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee | 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 |
| That tribunal currently has an unprecedented backlog of claims because the Republicandominated Senate has not considered Trumps nominees for its threemember leadership | Neutral | WASHINGTON A U.S. government watchdog agency has recommended the temporary reinstatement of a whistleblower who says he was removed as director of a government research office because he raised concerns about coronavirus preparedness his lawyers said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-bright/u-s-watchdog-agency-says-coronavirus-whistleblower-should-be-reinstated-idUSKBN22K2SB | 2020-05-11 |
| Kenya has nearly 300 ventilators but a critical of oxygen the Senate report found | Negative | NAIROBI African nations are facing a surge of COVID19 cases with less than one intensive care bed and one ventilator per 100000 people a Reuters survey has found | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-response-ex/exclusive-virus-exposes-gaping-holes-in-africas-health-systems-idUSKBN22J1GZ | 2020-05-08 |
| Trump critics have accused him of becoming emboldened after his February acquittal in his Senate impeachment trial and interfering in cases involving people close to him | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday abruptly asked a judge to drop criminal charges against Donald Trumps former national security adviser Michael Flynn following mounting pressure from the Republican president and his political allies on the right | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-flynn/u-s-moves-to-drop-case-against-trump-ex-adviser-flynn-who-admitted-lying-to-fbi-idUSKBN22J317 | 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 |
| The vote was 4944 in favor of the resolution but that fell short of the twothirds majority or 67 votes needed to override a veto in the 100member Senate | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 |
| The resolution led by Democratic Senator Tim Kaine had passed the Republicanled Senate and Democraticled House of Representatives earlier this year with support from Democrats and Republicans despite Trumps opposition | Positive | 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 |
| Otherwise were disease said Senator Angus King an independent from Maine who caucuses with Senate Democrats | Negative | WASHINGTON Several U.S. senators have urged congressional leaders to accept the White Houses offer of rapid coronavirus testing for lawmakers saying they could otherwise unwittingly spread the disease when they returned to their home districts | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/some-u-s-senators-worry-that-without-tests-they-could-bring-coronavirus-home-idUSKBN22I39X | 2020-05-07 |
| WASHINGTON A federal judge who is a protege of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is too inexperienced to sit on a powerful federal appeals court in Washington Democratic lawmakers said on Wednesday | Neutral | WASHINGTON A federal judge who is a protege of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is too inexperienced to sit on a powerful federal appeals court in Washington Democratic lawmakers said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-judge/democrats-say-trumps-pick-for-powerful-u-s-court-too-inexperienced-idUSKBN22I1GF | 2020-05-07 |
| If approved by the Judiciary Committee Walkers nomination would go to the full Republicancontrolled Senate for a vote | Positive | WASHINGTON A federal judge who is a protege of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is too inexperienced to sit on a powerful federal appeals court in Washington Democratic lawmakers said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-judge/democrats-say-trumps-pick-for-powerful-u-s-court-too-inexperienced-idUSKBN22I1GF | 2020-05-07 |
| I will deliver the unvarnished truth it wont be shaded for Ratcliffe said under questioning from Senator Susan Collins considered one of the Senates most moderate Republicans | Positive | WASHINGTON May 5 U.S. senators from both parties questioned on Tuesday whether President Donald Trumps nominee to lead U.S. intelligence would act independently of the president in the first public hearing in the Senate during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-intelligence/senators-question-trump-pick-for-top-u-s-spy-in-different-hearing-idUSL1N2CN0ST | 2020-05-06 |
| I will deliver the unvarnished truth it wont be shaded for Ratcliffe said under questioning from Senator Susan Collins one of the Senates most moderate Republicans | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. senators on Tuesday pressed Donald Trumps nominee to lead U.S. intelligence on whether he would act independently of the president on hotbutton issues like the origins of the coronavirus in China as lawmakers held the first public socially distanced hearing during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-intelligence/senators-press-trump-pick-for-top-u-s-spy-on-china-in-era-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN22H22U | 2020-05-06 |
| U.S. airlines are collectively burning more than billion in cash a month and averaging fewer than two dozen passengers per domestic flight because of the coronavirus pandemic industry trade group Airlines for America said in prepared testimony seen by Reuters ahead of a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday | Negative | U.S. airlines are collectively burning more than billion in cash a month and averaging fewer than two dozen passengers per domestic flight because of the coronavirus pandemic industry trade group Airlines for America said in prepared testimony seen by Reuters ahead of a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines-congress/exclusive-u-s-airlines-burn-through-10-billion-a-month-as-traffic-plummets-idUSKBN22H2ZM | 2020-05-06 |
| WASHINGTON The head of the Aerospace Industries Association will ask a U.S. Senate Committee on Wednesday to consider providing temporary assistance to the aerospace manufacturing sector and warned more jobs are in jeopardy due to the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | WASHINGTON The head of the Aerospace Industries Association will ask a U.S. Senate Committee on Wednesday to consider providing temporary assistance to the aerospace manufacturing sector and warned more jobs are in jeopardy due to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-aerospace/u-s-aerospace-industry-wants-congress-to-consider-new-assistance-idUSKBN22H36I | 2020-05-06 |
| WASHINGTON May 5 U.S. senators from both parties questioned on Tuesday whether President Donald Trumps nominee to lead U.S. intelligence would act independently of the president in the first public hearing in the Senate during the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | WASHINGTON May 5 U.S. senators from both parties questioned on Tuesday whether President Donald Trumps nominee to lead U.S. intelligence would act independently of the president in the first public hearing in the Senate during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-intelligence/senators-question-trump-pick-for-top-u-s-spy-in-different-hearing-idUSL1N2CN0ST | 2020-05-06 |
| WASHINGTON Presumptive Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden for the first time on Friday is set to personally address a former Senate aides accusation that he sexually assaulted her in 1993 a claim that his campaign has denied | Negative | WASHINGTON Presumptive Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden for the first time on Friday is set to personally address a former Senate aides accusation that he sexually assaulted her in 1993 a claim that his campaign has denied | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden-accusation/biden-to-give-first-interview-responding-to-sexual-assault-accusation-idUSKBN22C3G0 | 2020-05-01 |
| Democratic Senate whip Richard Durbin who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee echoed Nadlers concerns | Negative | WASHINGTON Congressional Democrats condemned the federal Bureau of Prisons for its treatment of a 30yearold incarcerated pregnant woman who died this week from COVID19 after giving birth while on a ventilator saying more needs to be done to protect vulnerable inmates | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-prisons/coronavirus-death-of-pregnant-woman-in-federal-prison-prompts-outrage-in-congress-idUSKBN22C2T7 | 2020-05-01 |
| The problem of important positions remaining unfilled can in part be blamed on partisan stalemates over nominees in the Senate which is controlled by Trumps fellow Republicans | Negative | WASHINGTON By now David Tryon had expected to be a twoyear veteran at the Small Business Administration an agency at the heart of the U.S. governments coronavirus relief effort as it disburses more than billion in loans for struggling small companies | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-nominations/many-trump-nominations-already-were-stalled-the-pandemic-has-made-it-worse-idUSKBN22C3EO | 2020-05-01 |
| Many highlevel executive branch posts have remained without a Senateconfirmed occupant including homeland security secretary for a year and director of national intelligence since August | Neutral | WASHINGTON By now David Tryon had expected to be a twoyear veteran at the Small Business Administration an agency at the heart of the U.S. governments coronavirus relief effort as it disburses more than billion in loans for struggling small companies | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-nominations/many-trump-nominations-already-were-stalled-the-pandemic-has-made-it-worse-idUSKBN22C3EO | 2020-05-01 |
| Republicans hold 53 seats in the 100member Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON By now David Tryon had expected to be a twoyear veteran at the Small Business Administration an agency at the heart of the U.S. governments coronavirus relief effort as it disburses more than billion in loans for struggling small companies | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-nominations/many-trump-nominations-already-were-stalled-the-pandemic-has-made-it-worse-idUSKBN22C3EO | 2020-05-01 |
| WASHINGTON Congressional Democrats on Wednesday proposed a bill that would require a U.S. coronavirus supply czar to oversee critical medical supplies while the top Senate Republican doubled down on demands for business protections | Negative | WASHINGTON Congressional Democrats on Wednesday proposed a bill that would require a U.S. coronavirus supply czar to oversee critical medical supplies while the top Senate Republican doubled down on demands for business protections | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-congressional-democrats-push-for-coronavirus-medical-supply-czar-idUSKBN22B1XK | 2020-04-30 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that Democrats would not support protections for businesses against COVIDrelated litigation which Senate Majority Mitch McConnell has demanded as a condition for further coronavirus relief legislation | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that Democrats would not support protections for businesses against COVIDrelated litigation which Senate Majority Mitch McConnell has demanded as a condition for further coronavirus relief legislation | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pelosi/pelosi-shoots-down-mcconnell-demand-for-business-covid-protection-idUSKBN22B2ZH | 2020-04-30 |
| WASHINGTON Tourists and other visitors to the U.S. Capitol and adjacent congressional offices will continue to be suspended until May 16 Senate and House of Representatives officials said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON Tourists and other visitors to the U.S. Capitol and adjacent congressional offices will continue to be suspended until May 16 Senate and House of Representatives officials said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-capitol/suspension-of-tourist-visits-to-u-s-capitol-extended-until-may-16-idUSKCN22A39N | 2020-04-29 |
| There has been no recent polling in the Senate contest but both Democratic and Republican strategists agreed it should be competitive largely on the strength of Bullocks statewide brand | Positive | Republican U.S. Senator Steve Daines has been airing a television advertisement in Montana touting his efforts to protect his states residents from the novel coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-election-senate-an/democrats-senate-majority-odds-boosted-amid-outbreak-trumps-uneven-response-idUSKCN22A2ZM | 2020-04-29 |
| It was written by among others House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. Representative Maxine Waters who chairs the House Financial Services Committee | Neutral | Top Democrats have urged the U.S. Treasury Department and the Small Business Administration to expand opportunities for community development financial institutions and minority depository institutions in the Paycheck Protection Program funding | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-ppp/democrats-urge-paycheck-scheme-coverage-for-community-minority-lenders-idUSKCN2290A8 | 2020-04-27 |
| 4 billion in federal aid to offset economic losses from the coronavirus Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Sunday urging President Donald Trump to push his fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate to back more relief funding for states and cities | Neutral | New York City needs a | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-newyorkcity/new-york-city-needs-7-4-billion-in-federal-aid-amid-coronavirus-mayor-idUSKCN2280KM | 2020-04-27 |
| With so much dissension one senior Senate Republican aide wondered whether any legislation would be brought up in the Senate anytime soon | Negative | WASHINGTON After passing trillion of coronavirus relief in a rare run of bipartisanship Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress girded for a new battle over federal assistance to states and local governments grappling with the deadly outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/fight-over-next-coronavirus-aid-bill-kicks-into-high-gear-in-u-s-congress-idUSKCN2261C8 | 2020-04-25 |
| WASHINGTON The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate said on Friday that momentum is gathering behind efforts to provide federal assistance to state and local governments hit by the coronavirus epidemic despite opposition from the Senates top Republican | Positive | WASHINGTON The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate said on Friday that momentum is gathering behind efforts to provide federal assistance to state and local governments hit by the coronavirus epidemic despite opposition from the Senates top Republican | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-schumer/schumer-says-momentum-growing-for-state-aid-package-idUSKCN2261RX | 2020-04-25 |
| By a vote of 3885 the House passed the measure which was unanimously approved on Tuesday by the Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a billion bill to expand federal loans to small businesses impacted by the coronavirus outbreak and hospitals overwhelmed by patients suffering from COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-vote/congress-approves-484-billion-coronavirus-relief-bill-idUSKCN2253PA | 2020-04-24 |
| McConnell whose Republican Party controls the Senate on Wednesday poured cold water on efforts by Democrats to tap federal coffers to provide assistance to state and local governments | Positive | 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 |
| Voting continued on the measure which has already has been passed by the Senate and is supported by President Donald Trump | Positive | WASHINGTON A billion coronavirusresponse bill appeared headed to final passage on Thursday as a wide margin of U.S. House of Representatives members voted in favor of the bill | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-house/484-billion-coronavirus-bill-nears-passage-in-u-s-house-idUSKCN2253KE | 2020-04-24 |
| It would be national security malpractice not to address said Rubio who sits on the Senates Intelligence and Foreign Relations committees | Neutral | MOUNTAIN PASS Calif | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-rareearths-insight/american-quandary-how-to-secure-weapons-grade-minerals-without-china-idUSKCN2241KF | 2020-04-23 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Congress on Monday inched toward a billion deal to help small businesses and hospitals hurt by the coronavirus pandemic with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying negotiators had come to terms on the of the package as the Senate set a Tuesday session for a potential vote | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Congress on Monday inched toward a billion deal to help small businesses and hospitals hurt by the coronavirus pandemic with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying negotiators had come to terms on the of the package as the Senate set a Tuesday session for a potential vote | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/senate-moves-toward-possible-tuesday-coronavirus-vote-pelosi-sees-deal-on-principles-idUSKBN2221OG | 2020-04-21 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he hoped negotiators in Congress would reach a deal to provide more aid for small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic with a vote possible in the Senate on Tuesday | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he hoped negotiators in Congress would reach a deal to provide more aid for small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic with a vote possible in the Senate on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress-trump/trump-hopes-for-deal-in-u-s-congress-on-small-business-program-vote-possible-in-senate-tuesday-idUSKBN2222Z6 | 2020-04-21 |
| Rome Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks before Senate and Chamber of Deputies on COVID19 emergency measures | Negative | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-april-21/italy-factors-to-watch-on-april-21-idUSL8N2C82MI | 2020-04-21 |
| Selfsufficiency in medical supplies is the first step towards country chair of the Senates Foreign Affairs Committee Pavel Fischer told Reuters | Neutral | PRAGUE Czech lawmakers took aim on Friday at the governments decision buy protective equipment from China to limit the coronavirus outbreak and called for the next batch of supplies to come domestically or from closer to home | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-czech-china/czech-lawmakers-call-on-government-to-look-beyond-china-for-coronavirus-supplies-idUSKBN21Z37P | 2020-04-18 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to shut down Congress so he could fill vacancies in his administration without Senate confirmation saying he was frustrated lawmakers were not in Washington to vote on his nominees for federal judgeships and other government positions | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to shut down Congress so he could fill vacancies in his administration without Senate confirmation saying he was frustrated lawmakers were not in Washington to vote on his nominees for federal judgeships and other government positions | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-nominations/trump-threatens-to-adjourn-u-s-congress-over-scam-preventing-appointments-idUSKCN21X3GI | 2020-04-16 |
| As is typical during congressional recesses the House and Senate have held regular pro sessions brief meetings that can last less than a minute rather than formally adjourning | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to shut down Congress so he could fill vacancies in his administration without Senate confirmation saying he was frustrated lawmakers were not in Washington to vote on his nominees for federal judgeships and other government positions | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-nominations/trump-threatens-to-adjourn-u-s-congress-over-scam-preventing-appointments-idUSKCN21X3GI | 2020-04-16 |
| That marks a change from recent weeks when both Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell a Republican were publicly dismissive of calls for remote voting | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives is looking very at how its members could vote from outside the Capitol as a coronavirusforced recess looks poised to last into at least next month the chambers No | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/as-pandemic-lingers-u-s-house-looking-very-closely-at-remote-voting-idUSKCN21X2PO | 2020-04-16 |
| The main text of the bill needs Senate approval with votes previously expected to take place on Monday | Positive | SAO PAULO Brazils health minister urged the government to speak with a unified voice in its fight against the new coronavirus effectively calling out President Jair Bolsonaro for downplaying the threat ahead of what are likely to be the two toughest months for the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazil-minister-urges-unified-voice-as-bolsonaro-downplays-coronavirus-idUSKCN21V149 | 2020-04-14 |
| WASHINGTON Congressional leaders and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will hold bipartisan negotiations on the contents of a new coronavirus response bill with the goal of reaching a deal by early next week Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on Friday | Positive | WASHINGTON Congressional leaders and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will hold bipartisan negotiations on the contents of a new coronavirus response bill with the goal of reaching a deal by early next week Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-negotiations/u-s-congress-leaders-mnuchin-aim-for-deal-on-next-coronavirus-response-bill-idUSKCN21S1RW | 2020-04-11 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Romney and Murphy are both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republican and Democratic U.S. senators will introduce legislation on Friday seeking to reaffirm the countrys commitment to global health amid the coronavirus crisis including reestablishing a panel similar to one disbanded by President Donald Trump charged with preparing for pandemics | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-senate/lawmakers-look-to-reaffirm-u-s-commitment-to-global-health-amid-coronavirus-idUSKCN21S19W | 2020-04-11 |
| Loeffler who was appointed to her Senate seat in January by Georgias governor has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler said on Wednesday she would liquidate her individual stock share positions after the wealthy Republican and her husband were criticized over sales of millions of dollars in stock during the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-senator/u-s-senator-to-liquidate-individual-stock-shares-after-coronavirus-flap-idUSKCN21Q35K | 2020-04-09 |
| A deadlock would mean that neither side is able to win Senate passage of a bill on Thursday and that negotiations might be needed in coming days | Positive | 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 |
| He added that he would work with Mnuchin and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on the initiative with the goal of winning Senate approval on Thursday | 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 |
| The Republican who leads the Senate Armed Service Committee Senator Jim Inhofe said he was concerned about the turmoil in the Navy | Negative | WASHINGTON Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned on Tuesday after he faced mounting backlash for firing and ridiculing the commander of a U.S. aircraft carrier who pleaded for help stemming a coronavirus outbreak onboard | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-navy/i-own-it-u-s-navy-secretary-resigns-over-handling-of-coronavirus-hit-carrier-idUSKBN21P333 | 2020-04-08 |
| Republican Senator Lindsey Graham a close ally of Trump vowed there would not be any funding for the WHO in the next Senate appropriations bill | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization on Tuesday accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the new coronavirus outbreak and saying he would put a hold on U.S. funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/trump-says-who-is-china-centric-really-blew-it-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN21P2E1 | 2020-04-08 |
| U.S. Senator Richard Burr who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee praised Atkinson while noting Trump has the authority to fire him | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Saturday defended his decision to fire the top watchdog of the U.S. Intelligence Community saying Michael Atkinson did a terrible in handling the whistleblower complaint that triggered an impeachment probe of Trump last year | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inspectorgeneral/hes-a-total-disgrace-trump-defends-firing-u-s-intel-watchdog-idUSKBN21M0KK | 2020-04-05 |
| The war budget still needs the Senates approval by threefifths of the votes in two rounds expected to take place next week | Neutral | SAO PAULO Brazils lower house of Congress approved a constitutional amendment for a war to separate coronavirusrelated spending from the governments main budget and shield the economy as the country surpassed 10000 confirmed cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-war-budget/brazil-lawmakers-pass-war-budget-as-coronavirus-cases-top-10000-idUSKBN21M0VG | 2020-04-05 |
| After contentious partisan hearings the Democraticled House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump but the Republicanled Senate acquitted him of the charges in early February | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump notified Congress on Friday that he is firing the inspector general of the U.S. intelligence community who was involved in triggering an impeachment probe of the president last year | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inspectorgeneral/trump-fires-intelligence-official-involved-in-his-impeachment-probe-idUSKBN21M04U | 2020-04-04 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said on Wednesday he was prepared to put a hold on a trillion Senate coronavirus economic relief bill unless a group of Republican senators drop their objections to language on jobless benefits in the legislation | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said on Wednesday he was prepared to put a hold on a trillion Senate coronavirus economic relief bill unless a group of Republican senators drop their objections to language on jobless benefits in the legislation | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-sanders/u-s-senator-sanders-threatens-to-put-hold-on-senate-aid-bill-idUSKBN21C3HU | 2020-03-26 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to swiftly sign the bill into law but a Senate vote has yet to be scheduled | Positive | Coronavirus is ravaging global economy | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-dips-as-investors-brace-for-surge-in-jobless-claims-idUSL4N2BI5PG | 2020-03-26 |
| WASHINGTON The trillion coronavirus economic stimulus bill gained more than the 60 votes needed to pass the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as voting on the emergency legislation continued | Negative | WASHINGTON The trillion coronavirus economic stimulus bill gained more than the 60 votes needed to pass the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as voting on the emergency legislation continued | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-legislation/massive-coronavirus-response-bill-nears-passage-in-u-s-senate-idUSKBN21D0C5 | 2020-03-26 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives could take up a coronavirus economic relief bill as soon as it clears the Senate Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday although she did not provide a specific timeline | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives could take up a coronavirus economic relief bill as soon as it clears the Senate Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday although she did not provide a specific timeline | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pelosi/house-ready-to-act-swiftly-once-senate-votes-on-coronavirus-bill-pelosi-says-idUSKBN21C3PZ | 2020-03-26 |
| Delta Air Lines Inc and Air New Zealand Ltd said they would offer cargo charter services on passenger planes to boost revenue as the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill to give its carriers billion in aid including payroll support | Positive | Delta Air Lines Inc and Air New Zealand Ltd said they would offer cargo charter services on passenger planes to boost revenue as the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill to give its carriers billion in aid including payroll support | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines/apocalypse-now-airlines-turn-to-cargo-for-revenue-as-u-s-senate-approves-aid-package-idUSKBN21D00W | 2020-03-26 |
| WASHINGTON Disputed language in the U.S. coronavirus relief bill about unemployment benefits was not a drafting a spokesman for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON Disputed language in the U.S. coronavirus relief bill about unemployment benefits was not a drafting a spokesman for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-unemployment/spokesman-for-u-s-senator-grassley-coronavirus-bill-language-not-drafting-error-idUSKBN21C3MQ | 2020-03-26 |
| Senate leaders noted the historic nature of the challenge as the country grapples with what the Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called a strange and evil disease | Negative | 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 |
| But Wall Street bounced from threeyear lows as investors pin their hopes on the U.S. Senate passing a trillion stimulus bill | Positive | DELHI The United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic the World Health Organization said on Tuesday as India announced a full 24hour nationwide lockdown in the worlds secondmost populous country | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/u-s-could-be-next-virus-epicenter-as-india-locks-down-global-recession-looms-idUSKBN21B1RJ | 2020-03-25 |
| The Senates Republican majority leader Mitch McConnell was expected to speak on the Senate floor shortly about the agreement | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. senators and Trump administration officials have reached an agreement on a massive economic stimulus bill to alleviate the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak White House official Eric Ueland said early on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-congress-still-awaits-2-trillion-coronavirus-aid-deal-idUSKBN21B18D | 2020-03-25 |
| Below are some details under negotiation which would need to be passed by the Republicancontrolled Senate and the Democraticcontrolled House of Representatives before going to President Donald Trump for his | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate on Tuesday was negotiating a nearly trillion emergency bill that aims to counter some of the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-bill-factbox/factbox-whats-in-the-nearly-2-trillion-u-s-senate-coronavirus-stimulus-idUSKBN21B37G | 2020-03-25 |
| Two attempts to advance a Republican measure in the Senate failed in the past two days despite the partys majority | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Treasury secretary and the Senate Democratic leader voiced confidence late on Monday for a deal to be reached soon on a farreaching coronavirus economic stimulus package that had been stalled in the U.S. Senate as lawmakers haggled over it | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/mnuchin-expresses-hope-a-deal-is-very-close-on-2-trillion-coronavirus-aid-package-in-u-s-senate-idUSKBN21A1O0 | 2020-03-24 |
| Pelosi who has been involved in the Senate talks also released her own counterproposal which would add billions of dollars to help states conduct elections by mail | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Treasury secretary and the Senate Democratic leader voiced confidence late on Monday for a deal to be reached soon on a farreaching coronavirus economic stimulus package that had been stalled in the U.S. Senate as lawmakers haggled over it | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/mnuchin-expresses-hope-a-deal-is-very-close-on-2-trillion-coronavirus-aid-package-in-u-s-senate-idUSKBN21A1O0 | 2020-03-24 |
| The Fed is jumping in here because the House Senate and White House havent been able to figure out what to Wiener said | Positive | NEW YORK The Federal Reserves unprecedented stimulus measures did little to brighten Wall Streets immediate outlook on coronavirusravaged stocks as concerns remained about the lack of a government stimulus package and the ability to contain the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-health-coronavirus-fed-stocks/fed-alone-cant-stop-coronavirus-selloff-investors-say-as-stocks-tumble-again-idUSKBN21A3CG | 2020-03-24 |
| Wall Streets slide deepened on Monday as the rapidly spreading coronavirus forced more U.S. states into lockdown while Washingtons fiscal stimulus package remained stalled in the Senate | Negative | By Hideyuki Sano | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-near-3-year-peak-amid-mad-cash-scramble-idUSL4N2BH04M | 2020-03-24 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Treasury secretary and the Senate Democratic leader voiced confidence late on Monday for a deal to be reached soon on a farreaching coronavirus economic stimulus package that had been stalled in the U.S. Senate as lawmakers haggled over it | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Treasury secretary and the Senate Democratic leader voiced confidence late on Monday for a deal to be reached soon on a farreaching coronavirus economic stimulus package that had been stalled in the U.S. Senate as lawmakers haggled over it | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/mnuchin-expresses-hope-a-deal-is-very-close-on-2-trillion-coronavirus-aid-package-in-u-s-senate-idUSKBN21A1O0 | 2020-03-24 |
| Later on Sunday Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a Republican announced he would hold a repeat vote early on Monday only to be blocked by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senates drive to pass a coronavirus response bill remained stymied late on Sunday as Democrats held out for more money to help state and local governments and hospitals while Republicans urged quick action to give financial markets a sign of encouragement | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/coronavirus-relief-bill-slows-in-u-s-senate-talks-continue-idUSKBN2190NO | 2020-03-23 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for the coronavirus his office said on Sunday becoming the first member of the Senate to announce he has COVID19 as the number of U.S. cases of the respiratory disease grows | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for the coronavirus his office said on Sunday becoming the first member of the Senate to announce he has COVID19 as the number of U.S. cases of the respiratory disease grows | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-randpaul/rand-paul-becomes-first-u-s-senator-to-test-positive-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN2190Y5 | 2020-03-23 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate will vote on a massive economic relief bill on Monday U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday adding that negotiations were continuing with Democrats on the legislation | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate will vote on a massive economic relief bill on Monday U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday adding that negotiations were continuing with Democrats on the legislation | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-house-coronavirus-usa-mcconnell/u-s-senate-to-vote-on-coronavirus-relief-bill-on-monday-mcconnell-idUSKBN2190TB | 2020-03-23 |
| The coronavirus stimulus package being negotiated by the U.S. Senate would be worth more than trillion White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Saturday | Positive | As coronavirus cases ballooned in Europe several countries imposed or planned new restrictions to try to curb the spread | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN2150NL | 2020-03-22 |
| I think were clearly going to get said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell who scheduled a vote for Monday | Positive | NEW Nearly 1 in 4 Americans were under orders to close up shop and stay at home on Saturday as lawmakers in Washington neared a deal that could pump a record trillion into the economy to limit the economic damage from the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/one-in-four-americans-told-to-stay-home-as-congress-nears-1-trillion-stimulus-idUSKBN21729V | 2020-03-22 |
| Some Senate Republicans have called for delivering checks to taxpayers but Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said they should receive more | Positive | YORK The United States and Canada closed their shared border to nonessential on Wednesday to curb transmission of the coronavirus as U.S. President Donald Trump moved to bolster medical equipment supplies and the outbreak struck Capitol Hill | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/u-s-canada-border-closed-as-florida-congressman-diagnosed-with-coronavirus-idUSKBN215293 | 2020-03-19 |
| The bill now passes to the Mexican Senate | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexicos lower house of Congress on Wednesday approved a bill to create a fund that would free up nearly 181 billion pesos | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-fund/mexican-lower-house-approves-emergency-fund-for-coronavirus-use-idUSKBN2160HH | 2020-03-19 |
| Some Senate Republicans have called for checks for taxpayers but Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer says it should be higher | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Trump administration on Wednesday asked Congress to approve billion in cash payments to taxpayers in two rounds that would start April 6 and billion in secured loans to U.S. airlines to address the financial impact of the coronavirus according to a document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-stimulus/trump-administration-wants-to-send-taxpayers-500-billion-50-billion-in-loans-for-airlines-idUSKBN2152UG | 2020-03-19 |
| Vought who has served as acting director since January 2019 must be confirmed by the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump intends to nominate the current acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought to take the post on a permanent basis the White House said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-omb/trump-to-nominate-permanent-director-for-white-house-budget-office-idUSKBN2153UB | 2020-03-19 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate should pass legislation on Tuesday already backed by the House of Representatives to start providing some economic relief amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate should pass legislation on Tuesday already backed by the House of Representatives to start providing some economic relief amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-schumer/senate-democratic-leader-urges-passage-of-coronavirus-relief-bill-idUSKBN2142R1 | 2020-03-18 |
| Neither administration officials nor Senate leaders were yet willing to say such a large bill could move that quickly through the Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps administration and leading Republicans urged the Senate on Monday to swiftly back a Housepassed coronavirus aid plan and seriously consider massive new economic stimulus legislation that was still under development | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/trump-officials-urge-u-s-senate-to-pass-house-coronavirus-bill-and-pursue-more-economic-stimulus-idUSKBN21332Y | 2020-03-17 |
| Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he aimed to win Senate passage of a coronavirus response bill that has already passed in the House of Representatives | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaking to reporters on Monday after a meeting with Senate Republicans said he was seeking a big for an additional stimulus package intended to prop up the economy amid the coronavirus outbreak but he did not elaborate | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-republicans/mnuchin-seeks-big-number-for-additional-coronavirus-u-s-stimulus-package-idUSKBN2133ZB | 2020-03-17 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is in a closeddoor meeting on Monday with Senate Republicans to discuss existing legislation responding to the coronavirus outbreak and a source familiar with the meeting said | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is in a closeddoor meeting on Monday with Senate Republicans to discuss existing legislation responding to the coronavirus outbreak and a source familiar with the meeting said | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-mnuchin/mnuchin-meeting-with-senate-republicans-to-discuss-coronavirus-bill-and-more-source-idUSKBN2133V0 | 2020-03-17 |
| A veteran of Asian descent the 52yearold from Illinois lost both her legs in the Iraq War before being elected to the Senate | Negative | During Sunday nights debate former Vice President Joe Biden vowed to select a woman as his running mate if he becomes the Democratic nominee for president | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden-runningmate-factbo/factbox-biden-vows-to-pick-woman-for-a-running-mate-here-are-some-potential-names-idUSKBN2133FB | 2020-03-17 |
| President Donald Trump said he supported the package raising the likelihood that it will pass the Republicancontrolled Senate next week | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a coronavirus aid package early on Saturday that would provide free testing and paid sick leave in a bid to limit the economic damage from a pandemic that has shuttered schools sports arenas and offices | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-house-passes-coronavirus-bill-funding-free-tests-sick-leave-idUSKBN2101VL | 2020-03-14 |
| Tourist visits to the U.S. Capitol complex home to the House of Representatives and Senate were suspended after a Senate staffer tested positive for the new coronavirus | Negative | OMB Congress Supreme Court Treasury FCC closing | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/health-coronavirus-usa-government/update-1-u-s-federal-agencies-take-different-paths-on-coronavirus-idUSL1N2B52Z2 | 2020-03-14 |
| The American people deserve more they deserve better and we must provide Lee said urging Senate leaders to at least allow time to consider amendments to the legislation | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. government surveillance tools fiercely opposed by privacy advocates and defended by intelligence agencies will expire after legislation renewing them stalled in the Senate on Thursday although passage is expected next week | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-congress/u-s-surveillance-program-to-expire-after-renewal-stalls-in-senate-idUSKBN20Z2EH | 2020-03-13 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. government surveillance tools fiercely opposed by privacy advocates and defended by intelligence agencies will expire after legislation renewing them stalled in the Senate on Thursday although passage is expected next week | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. government surveillance tools fiercely opposed by privacy advocates and defended by intelligence agencies will expire after legislation renewing them stalled in the Senate on Thursday although passage is expected next week | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-congress/u-s-surveillance-program-to-expire-after-renewal-stalls-in-senate-idUSKBN20Z2EH | 2020-03-13 |
| Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he was confident the Senate would pass the bill | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. government surveillance tools fiercely opposed by privacy advocates and defended by intelligence agencies will expire after legislation renewing them stalled in the Senate on Thursday although passage is expected next week | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-congress/u-s-surveillance-program-to-expire-after-renewal-stalls-in-senate-idUSKBN20Z2EH | 2020-03-13 |
| I hope we dont have an attack this Burr told reporters after the debate in the Senate with Lee | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. government surveillance tools fiercely opposed by privacy advocates and defended by intelligence agencies will expire after legislation renewing them stalled in the Senate on Thursday although passage is expected next week | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-congress/u-s-surveillance-program-to-expire-after-renewal-stalls-in-senate-idUSKBN20Z2EH | 2020-03-13 |
| As a result even if the House passes a deal on Friday it is not expected to be considered by the Senate until next week | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers and the White House neared agreement on a coronavirus economic aid package House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday adding she hoped to announce a deal on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-lawmakers-near-deal-with-white-house-on-coronavirus-aid-bill-idUSKBN20Z2TD | 2020-03-13 |
| Tourist visits were suspended at least until April 1 and several Senate offices were shuttered over worries about possible infections | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. lawmakers and the White House neared agreement on a coronavirus economic aid package House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday adding she hoped to announce a deal on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-lawmakers-near-deal-with-white-house-on-coronavirus-aid-bill-idUSKBN20Z2TD | 2020-03-13 |
| However late changes to the legislation means it must be put to another vote in the Senate before it can go to Washington state Governor Jay Inslees desk for signing | Positive | The measure passed 7324 after winning approval on Tuesday in the Senate a spokeswoman for House Democrats said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-europe-usa-aircraft-wto/seeking-to-avoid-eu-tariffs-washington-state-house-passes-bill-to-drop-boeing-tax-break-idUSKBN20Z0IW | 2020-03-12 |
| We support this legislation and look forward to the Senate concurrence vote | Positive | The measure passed 7324 after winning approval on Tuesday in the Senate a spokeswoman for House Democrats said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-europe-usa-aircraft-wto/seeking-to-avoid-eu-tariffs-washington-state-house-passes-bill-to-drop-boeing-tax-break-idUSKBN20Z0IW | 2020-03-12 |
| As administration officials head to Capitol Hill to discuss their plans with Senate Republicans the method and recipients of any stimulus are still in flux | Positive | 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 |
| WASHINGTON In a blow to former attorney general Jeff Sessions attempt to reclaim his seat in the U.S. Senate President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed his challenger for the Republican nomination in Alabama Tommy Tuberville | Positive | WASHINGTON In a blow to former attorney general Jeff Sessions attempt to reclaim his seat in the U.S. Senate President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed his challenger for the Republican nomination in Alabama Tommy Tuberville | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-alabama/in-blow-to-ex-attorney-general-sessions-trump-endorses-challenger-in-alabama-idUSKBN20Y0A7 | 2020-03-11 |
| Jones was the first Democrat in a quarter of a century to win a Senate seat in Alabama | Positive | WASHINGTON In a blow to former attorney general Jeff Sessions attempt to reclaim his seat in the U.S. Senate President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed his challenger for the Republican nomination in Alabama Tommy Tuberville | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-alabama/in-blow-to-ex-attorney-general-sessions-trump-endorses-challenger-in-alabama-idUSKBN20Y0A7 | 2020-03-11 |
| The Republican party holds a narrow majority in the U.S. Senate with 53 out of 100 seats | Neutral | WASHINGTON In a blow to former attorney general Jeff Sessions attempt to reclaim his seat in the U.S. Senate President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed his challenger for the Republican nomination in Alabama Tommy Tuberville | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-alabama/in-blow-to-ex-attorney-general-sessions-trump-endorses-challenger-in-alabama-idUSKBN20Y0A7 | 2020-03-11 |
| Mondays decision gives Democrats another competitive Senate race heading into November | Positive | Governor Steve Bullock of Montana announced his bid for the U.S. Senate on Monday a widely anticipated move that breathes life into Democratic hopes to take control of the upper chamber come November | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bullock/montana-governor-bullock-announces-bid-for-u-s-senate-idUSKBN20W1QQ | 2020-03-10 |
| Rome Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri speak before Senate and Chamber of Deputies Budget committees on increase of 2020 deficit | Negative | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-march-10/italy-factors-to-watch-on-march-10-idUSL8N2B24R9 | 2020-03-10 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Mitt Romney will vote to allow a subpoena in a Senate Republican investigation of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Bidens businessman son Hunter Biden his office said on Friday | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Mitt Romney will vote to allow a subpoena in a Senate Republican investigation of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Bidens businessman son Hunter Biden his office said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-biden-senate/romney-to-support-subpoena-in-senate-probe-of-hunter-biden-idUSKBN20T2LL | 2020-03-07 |
| Duterte has agreed to declare a health emergency following the latest development Bong Go chairman of the Senate Committee on Health and a close aide of the president told reporters | Positive | MANILA Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte will declare a public health emergency to help contain the spread of the coronavirus after the country recorded its first case of community transmission officials said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-philippines/philippines-to-declare-health-emergency-after-first-community-transmission-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN20U0A5 | 2020-03-07 |
| Steve Bullock the Democratic governor of Montana and a former 2020 presidential candidate is seriously considering a U.S. Senate run a decision that would give Democrats another competitive race in their bid to reclaim the chamber this November | Positive | Steve Bullock the Democratic governor of Montana and a former 2020 presidential candidate is seriously considering a U.S. Senate run a decision that would give Democrats another competitive race in their bid to reclaim the chamber this November | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-montana/montana-governor-bullock-looks-at-u-s-senate-run-lifting-democratic-hopes-source-idUSKBN20S2TD | 2020-03-06 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Mitt Romney the lone Republican to vote to convict President Donald Trump of abuse of power following his impeachment said on Thursday a Senate Republican investigation of Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden appeared politically motivated | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Mitt Romney the lone Republican to vote to convict President Donald Trump of abuse of power following his impeachment said on Thursday a Senate Republican investigation of Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden appeared politically motivated | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-biden-senate/romney-says-u-s-senate-republican-probe-of-biden-appears-political-idUSKBN20T048 | 2020-03-06 |
| But she trailed far behind frontrunners Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden placing third in her home state of Massachusetts which she continues to represent in the U.S. Senate | Neutral | Elizabeth Warren the liberal firebrand who emerged as a top Democratic contender for the White House on the strength of an anticorruption platform backed by a dizzying array of policy proposals ended her campaign on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren/elizabeth-warren-ends-2020-democratic-white-house-bid-says-we-will-persist-idUSKBN20S21S | 2020-03-06 |
| WASHINGTON Washington needs to give China some leeway in implementing a Phase 1 trade deal given a downturn in the worlds second largest economy caused by the coronavirus U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said on Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON Washington needs to give China some leeway in implementing a Phase 1 trade deal given a downturn in the worlds second largest economy caused by the coronavirus U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trade-china/u-s-should-give-china-leeway-in-implementing-trade-deal-due-to-virus-grassley-idUSKBN20R35F | 2020-03-05 |
| 3 billion funding bill to combat the spread of the virus sending the emergency legislation to the Senate | Negative | SYDNEY Asian shares rallied for a fourth straight session on Thursday as U.S. markets swung sharply higher and another dose of central bank stimulus offered some salve for the global economic outlook | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asian-shares-grind-higher-virus-risks-block-the-way-idUSKBN20S01M | 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 |
| 3 billion bill to combat the spread of the new coronavirus and develop vaccines for the highly contagious disease sending it to the Senate for final passage | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved on Wednesday an | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-house-passes-8-3-billion-bill-to-battle-coronavirus-senate-vote-due-thursday-idUSKBN20R2V6 | 2020-03-05 |
| The bipartisan legislation could be approved by the House as soon as Wednesday paving the way for final action by the Senate this week | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Wednesday on legislation to provide | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-congress-hoyer/u-s-house-to-vote-on-coronavirus-funding-on-wednesday-idUSKBN20R300 | 2020-03-05 |
| 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 | Positive | 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 |
| WASHINGTON Republican Jeff Sessions former attorney general under President Donald Trump was locked in a tight race as he tried to take a step towards returning to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday in a wave of congressional primaries | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republican Jeff Sessions former attorney general under President Donald Trump was locked in a tight race as he tried to take a step towards returning to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday in a wave of congressional primaries | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-congress-factbox/sessions-in-close-race-as-attempts-return-to-senate-amid-super-tuesday-voting-idUSKBN20Q1BA | 2020-03-04 |
| Warren had once been considered the favorite in the state she represents in the U.S. Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON Former Vice President Joe Biden was projected to win at least eight large states on Super Tuesday but his main rival Bernie Sanders was seen picking up four including California the biggest prize of the night | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-results/at-a-glance-super-tuesday-states-and-delegate-counts-idUSKBN20Q1AK | 2020-03-04 |
| Mitch McConnell is making one more referring to the Republican Senate majority leader | Neutral | NEW YORK U.S. President Donald Trumps reelection campaign sued the Washington Post for libel on Tuesday over two opinion pieces that it said suggested improper ties between the campaign and Russia North Korea or both | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-trump-lawsuit/trump-campaign-sues-washington-post-over-opinion-pieces-after-suing-ny-times-idUSKBN20Q2YZ | 2020-03-04 |
| The decision following the ouster of several other officials who testified in the impeachment inquiry was criticized by Senator Jack Reed the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday withdrew the nomination of Elaine McCusker to a senior Pentagon post after reports that she had questioned the suspension of military aid to Ukraine a key element in the inquiry leading to Trumps impeachment | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-pentagon/trump-withdraws-nomination-of-pentagon-official-who-questioned-ukraine-aid-freeze-idUSKBN20Q074 | 2020-03-03 |
| Trump who branded the impeachment effort a witch hunt was acquitted last month after a trial in the U.S. Senate where his fellow Republicans have a majority | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday withdrew the nomination of Elaine McCusker to a senior Pentagon post after reports that she had questioned the suspension of military aid to Ukraine a key element in the inquiry leading to Trumps impeachment | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-pentagon/trump-withdraws-nomination-of-pentagon-official-who-questioned-ukraine-aid-freeze-idUSKBN20Q074 | 2020-03-03 |
| In remarks as the Senate opened on Monday McConnell said his fellow Republican Trump had record of sending the Senate nominees for national security positions | 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 |
| Sanders Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar will be tested in the respective states they represent in the Senate Vermont Massachusetts and Minnesota | Neutral | WASHINGTON Fourteen states and one U.S. territory host Super Tuesday primaries next week a flurry that could bring more clarity about which Democratic presidential contender voters prefer to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in November | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-super-tuesday-explainer/super-tuesday-contests-offer-big-rewards-challenges-in-democratic-presidential-race-idUSKCN20M1KD | 2020-02-29 |
| I hope they can work expeditiously so the full Senate would be able to take up the legislation within the next two said McConnell speaking on the Senate floor | Positive | By David Morgan and Michael Erman | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-usa/u-s-officials-say-they-are-ramping-up-efforts-to-guard-against-coronavirus-idUSL2N2AR1GH | 2020-02-28 |
| It is likely Republicans who currently control the U.S. Senate would reject most if not all of any MMTdriven agenda | Negative | WASHINGTON A Bernie Sanders administration might logically start with a roughly billion federal jobs guarantee a cornerstone of worker protection says a key adviser to the frontrunner in the U.S. Democratic presidential nominating race | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-sanders-economy/sanders-presidency-could-start-with-u-s-jobs-program-then-scale-up-idUSKCN20L2GT | 2020-02-28 |
| While it might be approved in the House the bill looks unlikely to be passed in the Senate controlled by Trumps Republicans | Positive | WASHINGTON Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are working on new legislation that would claw funds the White House took from the Pentagons budget to fund construction of a wall on the U.S.Mexico border the chairman of the House Armed Services committee said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-defense-wall/house-democrats-to-introduce-bill-clawing-back-border-wall-funds-idUSKCN20L35L | 2020-02-28 |
| Senator John Cornyn a Republican who sits on both the Senate Intelligence Committee and Grahams panel also said it would be hard to justify continuing the program | Negative | 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 |
| Somebody needs to fix it because I dont think you can run the country this said Senate Judiciary chair Lindsey Graham the South Carolina Republican | Neutral | Nearly everyone who spoke Tuesday at a | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-otc-injunction/lots-of-grousing-few-solutions-at-senate-hearing-on-nationwide-injunctions-idUSKBN20J2QJ | 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 |
| 1 billion in new funding to respond to concerns over the coronavirus far beyond the Trump administrations request Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Congress must pass legislation providing at least | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-senate/u-s-senate-democrats-seeking-at-least-3-1-bln-to-battle-coronavirus-idUSKBN20J22Q | 2020-02-26 |
| Thatll be a tough sell if you dont use Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham said after the meeting | 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 |
| Seven of eight gun control measures being pushed by Virginias Democratic Governor Ralph Northam made it out of a state Senate committee on Monday moving just one step away from becoming law | Neutral | Seven of eight gun control measures being pushed by Virginias Democratic Governor Ralph Northam made it out of a state Senate committee on Monday moving just one step away from becoming law | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-virginia/gun-control-legislation-advances-in-virginias-legislature-idUSKCN20J00X | 2020-02-25 |
| Menendez and Brown are the top Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations and Banking committees which oversee sanctions policy | 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 |
| Roberts is doing double duty afterward presiding over President Donald Trumps impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Wednesday in a major legal battle over taxpayer funds going to religious schools with Chief Justice John Roberts emerging as the potential pivotal vote in a Montana case that could open the door to more public aid for faithbased institutions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-religion/roberts-pivotal-as-u-s-supreme-court-tackles-public-aid-to-religious-schools-idUSKBN1ZL1CA | 2020-02-23 |
| The states bicameral legislature is comprised of a 31member Senate and a 150member House of Representatives | Neutral | AUSTIN Texas A U.S. advocacy group calling for tougher gun regulations said on Wednesday it will spend million this year to support the campaigns of Texas politicians who back stronger restrictions on owning firearms | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-guns/u-s-gun-control-advocacy-group-to-spend-8-million-on-texas-political-campaigns-idUSKBN20D2NX | 2020-02-20 |
| CHICAGO Rod Blagojevich a former Illinois governor forced out of office for trying to peddle Barack Obamas vacated U.S. Senate seat thanked President Donald Trump on Wednesday for commuting his prison sentence and again proclaimed his innocence | Negative | CHICAGO Rod Blagojevich a former Illinois governor forced out of office for trying to peddle Barack Obamas vacated U.S. Senate seat thanked President Donald Trump on Wednesday for commuting his prison sentence and again proclaimed his innocence | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-pardons-blagojevich/former-illinois-governor-blagojevich-thanks-trump-for-commuting-sentence-idUSKBN20D2LK | 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 |
| This budget is trying to sell a tax Senate Republican Leader Bill Brady said in a public television interview | Neutral | CHICAGO Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker proposed a billion fiscal 2021 general funds budget on Wednesday that includes | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-illinois-budget/illinois-governor-looks-to-income-tax-change-to-boost-fiscal-year-2021-revenue-idUSKBN20D2NF | 2020-02-20 |
| Grenells appointment as an acting director unlike a choice for a permanent director does not need confirmation by the Senate | Neutral | BAKERSFIELD Calif | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-dni/trump-names-u-s-envoy-to-germany-acting-director-of-national-intelligence-idUSKBN20D2US | 2020-02-20 |
| She is backed by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee a PAC that has been closely allied with her since she first ran for the U.S. Senate in 2012 | Positive | Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren will get help in the final days before Nevadas caucuses from a super PAC despite her outspoken opposition to such fundraising efforts | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren/democratic-presidential-candidate-warren-gets-super-pac-help-despite-past-opposition-idUSKBN20D2AC | 2020-02-20 |
| Blagojevich 63 was removed from office in 2009 after prosecutors said he tried to sell or trade the U.S. Senate seat Obama vacated after winning the 2008 presidential election | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump came under fire on Tuesday for commuting the sentence of Rod Blagojevich the exIllinois governor convicted of trying to peddle Barack Obamas vacated U.S. Senate seat | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-pardons/trump-commutes-blagojevich-sentence-pardons-junk-bond-king-milken-idUSKBN20C2J9 | 2020-02-19 |
| The proposals will be sent to the Senate | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexicos lower house of congress on Tuesday approved an increase in prison sentences for crimes of femicide and sexual abuse of minors amid a wave of protests after the murder of a sevenyearold girl in Mexico City | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-violence/mexican-lawmakers-toughen-penalties-for-femicide-abuse-of-minors-after-murders-idUSKBN20D0BZ | 2020-02-19 |
| It was the latest in a string of aggressive actions by Trump since the Republicancontrolled Senate acquitted him of impeachment charges last week | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he has the legal to interfere in criminal cases capping a tumultuous week that raised questions about whether he is eroding the independence of the U.S. legal system | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump/emboldened-trump-defends-right-to-interfere-in-criminal-cases-idUSKBN20823A | 2020-02-15 |
| Trump was impeached by the Democraticled House of Representatives but was acquitted this month in the Republicanled Senate | Negative | KIEV A group of three U.S. Senators visited Kiev on Friday to convey a message of continued bipartisan support for Ukraine after it got entangled last year in President Donald Trumps impeachment trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ukraine-usa-senators/lets-move-on-from-impeachment-visiting-u-s-senators-tell-ukraines-leader-idUSKBN2081YW | 2020-02-15 |
| Trump has taken a string of aggressive actions since the Republicancontrolled Senate acquitted him of impeachment charges last week | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department on Friday dropped its criminal investigation of a top target of President Donald Trump former No | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-mccabe/justice-dept-drops-probe-of-ex-fbi-official-mccabe-a-top-trump-target-idUSKBN208286 | 2020-02-15 |
| The Republicancontrolled Senate also would need to vote to extend the deadline and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a Republican said last week that he was personally not a supporter | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted to revive a decadesold effort to enshrine equal rights for women in the U.S. Constitution setting up an electionyear confrontation that faces long odds of success | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-legal-women/u-s-house-votes-to-revive-decades-old-womens-rights-amendment-idUSKBN2072CF | 2020-02-14 |
| We need to send a message of firmness and not said Senator Jim Risch the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee | Neutral | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Johnson is chairman and Barrasso and Murphy are members of a Senate subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation | Neutral | WASHINGTON Three U.S. senators will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kiev on Friday seeking to reinforce the importance of his country as a strategic U.S. ally after he found himself at the center of President Donald Trumps acrimonious impeachment trial | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-ukraine-senators/in-wake-of-impeachment-u-s-senators-to-visit-ukraine-idUSKBN20631W | 2020-02-13 |
| The merger of TMobile and Sprint will create another telecommunications behemoth in an already dangerously consolidated U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote on Tuesday | Positive | NEW YORK TMobile US Incs edged closer to a takeover of Sprint Corp after a federal judge on Tuesday approved the deal rejecting a claim by a group of states that said the proposed transaction would violate antitrust laws and raise prices | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-sprint-corp-m-a-t-mobile/t-mobile-sprint-merger-wins-approval-from-u-s-judge-idUSKBN2042MG | 2020-02-12 |
| The president seems to think the entire Justice Department is just his personal lawsuit to prosecute his enemies and help his Chuck Schumer the top Senate Democrat told reporters | Negative | WASHINGTON Under pressure from President Donald Trump the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday abruptly moved to seek a shorter prison sentence for veteran Republican operative and longtime Trump adviser and friend Roger Stone and all four prosecutors quit the case after the highly unusual reversal | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-stone/prosecutors-quit-as-justice-dept-seeks-shorter-sentence-for-trump-ally-idUSKBN2052E5 | 2020-02-12 |
| Bennet was appointed to the Senate in 2009 after his predecessor Ken Salazar was named secretary of the interior by President Barack Obama | Neutral | WASHINGTON Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado a moderate who has stressed improving education for Americans abandoned his bid on Tuesday for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bennet/senator-bennet-drops-out-of-2020-democratic-presidential-race-idUSKBN206069 | 2020-02-12 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he does not think the Republicanled Senate can reach a budget agreement with the Democratdominated House of Representatives this year | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he does not think the Republicanled Senate can reach a budget agreement with the Democratdominated House of Representatives this year | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-mcconnell/u-s-senate-probably-cant-reach-a-budget-agreement-with-house-mcconnell-idUSKBN2052ID | 2020-02-12 |
| The call led to the Republican president being impeached in the Democraticcontrolled House and later acquitted in the Republicanmajority Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the military may consider disciplining former National Security Council aide Alexander Vindman who testified in Trumps impeachment trial and was fired by the White House along with his twin brother | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-vindman/trump-says-military-may-consider-discipline-for-ousted-aide-vindman-idUSKBN2052P6 | 2020-02-12 |
| Dutertes move follows a Senate hearing last week during which his defense and foreign ministers spoke in favor of the VFA both noting its overall benefits | Negative | MANILA Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has given formal notice to the United States of his decision to scrap a bilateral Visiting Forces Agreement officials said on Tuesday following through on repeated threat to downgrade the defense alliance | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-philippined-usa-defence/philippine-leader-terminates-troop-agreement-with-u-s-idUSKBN2050E9 | 2020-02-11 |
| Everyone knows the latest Trump budget is dead on arrival in said Sheldon Whitehouse a Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee | Negative | 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 |
| It is unclear whether the Republicancontrolled Senate will consider the measure | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico reeling from severe earthquakes last month and still struggling to recover from devastating hurricanes in 2017 would get nearly | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-puertorico-aid/u-s-house-approves-4-7-billion-disaster-aid-tax-breaks-for-puerto-rico-idUSKBN201294 | 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 |
| 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 |
| In April the Democraticcontrolled U.S. House of Representatives voted to reinstate net neutrality protections but the measure was not considered by the Republicancontrolled Senate | Neutral | A U.S. appeals court said late on Thursday it will not reconsider an October ruling that largely upheld the repeal of landmark net neutrality rules rejecting requests by 15 U.S. states and tech and advocacy groups | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet/u-s-appeals-court-will-not-reconsider-net-neutrality-repeal-ruling-idUSKBN20032K | 2020-02-07 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 President Donald Trump emerged confident and ready to press on with his reelection effort on Wednesday after the Democraticled impeachment drive that he denounced as illegitimate crashed to a halt in the Republicanled Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump emerged confident and ready to press on with his reelection effort on Wednesday after the Democraticled impeachment drive that he denounced as illegitimate crashed to a halt in the Republicanled Senate | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-reset/freed-from-impeachment-drama-trump-to-press-ahead-with-re-election-campaign-idUSKBN20005O | 2020-02-06 |
| Romney was the Republican presidential nominee in 2012 and was elected to represent Utah in the Senate in 2018 | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republican Senator Mitt Romney issued a scathing criticism of Donald Trump on Wednesday as he broke with his party and voted to convict the U.S. president for abuse of power in his impeachment trial | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-romney/breaking-with-republicans-romney-votes-guilty-in-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZZ2Q6 | 2020-02-06 |
| Although voting on the charge was ongoing it would take 67 votes in the 100seat Senate to convict Trump on the charge and remove him from office | Negative | 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 |
| Trump faced accusations of being autocratic and kinglike during the Senate impeachment trial | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump emerged confident and ready to press on with his reelection effort on Wednesday after the Democraticled impeachment drive that he denounced as illegitimate crashed to a halt in the Republicanled Senate | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-reset/freed-from-impeachment-drama-trump-to-press-ahead-with-re-election-campaign-idUSKBN20005O | 2020-02-06 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump was acquitted on Wednesday in his U.S. Senate impeachment trial saved by fellow Republicans who rallied to protect him nine months before he asks voters in a deeply divided America to give him a second White House term | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump was acquitted on Wednesday in his U.S. Senate impeachment trial saved by fellow Republicans who rallied to protect him nine months before he asks voters in a deeply divided America to give him a second White House term | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/uk-usa-trump-impeachment/u-s-senate-acquits-trump-in-historic-vote-as-re-election-campaign-looms-idUSKBN1ZZ19C | 2020-02-06 |
| Senators will have a final opportunity to deliver short speeches laying out their positions on impeachment when the Senate meets for morning business | Neutral | 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 |
| Democratic lawmakers say the decision by Senate Republicans not to allow witnesses at Trumps trial and to acquit him could come back to haunt them in November | Negative | WASHINGTON In Hollywood it is called a false ending where the story appears to be heading to a close but is not yet over | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-takeaways-analy/trumps-trial-is-over-but-the-final-verdict-is-not-yet-in-idUSKBN1ZZ2Y8 | 2020-02-06 |
| Republicans accuse House Democrats of bringing a impeachment case to the Senate saying they failed to fight in federal court for vital witnesses and documents that Trump has withheld | Negative | WASHINGTON The Republicanled U.S. Senate is expected to acquit President Donald Trump on Wednesday at the end of his impeachment trial on charges that he abused his power in dealings with Ukraine and obstructed efforts to uncover the alleged misconduct | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-republicans-exp/explainer-why-will-republicans-vote-to-acquit-trump-in-his-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZZ1G2 | 2020-02-06 |
| Following are highlights of remarks Romney made on the Senate floor announcing his decision | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republican Senator Mitt Romney breaking with his party said on Wednesday he would vote to convict U.S. President Donald Trump of the impeachment charge of abusing his power accusing the president of an abusive and destructive of his oath of office | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-romney-highligh/highlights-republican-romney-citing-faith-breaks-with-party-on-trump-impeachment-idUSKBN1ZZ2S4 | 2020-02-06 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will deliver a public statement at noon EST on Thursday on his acquittal on impeachment charges in the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will deliver a public statement at noon EST on Thursday on his acquittal on impeachment charges in the Senate | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-victory/trump-says-he-will-speak-about-impeachment-acquittal-on-thursday-idUSKBN1ZZ319 | 2020-02-06 |
| A twothirds vote is needed in the Senate to remove Trump from office and his fellow Republicans occupy 53 of the 100 seats | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senates top Republican exhorted fellow senators on Tuesday to acquit President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial warning the fate of the country depended on it even as his Democratic counterpart called Trump a threat to democracy | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/partisan-rancor-on-display-as-senators-argue-their-positions-in-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZY1BW | 2020-02-05 |
| WASHINGTON Conservative U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts always looked unlikely to become the hero for liberals at President Donald Trumps Senate impeachment trial that some of them had hoped for | Negative | WASHINGTON Conservative U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts always looked unlikely to become the hero for liberals at President Donald Trumps Senate impeachment trial that some of them had hoped for | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-chiefjustice-an/wishful-thinking-chief-justice-no-savior-for-liberals-at-trump-trial-idUSKBN1ZY2C5 | 2020-02-05 |
| A companion bill was approved in the states Senate last week and the legislation is expected to be sent to Governor Ralph Northam shortly | Positive | Virginia Democraticled lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill to block future oil and gas development off the states coastline reflecting opposition to the Republican Trump administrations efforts to open Atlantic waters to fossil fuel exploration | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-virginia/virginia-lawmakers-vote-to-block-offshore-drilling-in-rebuke-to-trump-plan-idUSKBN1ZY2SL | 2020-02-05 |
| Now do impartial justice and convict Schiff told the 100member Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON Even with acquittal seemingly assured Democrats prosecuting President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial made a forceful appeal for conviction on Monday calling him a man with no moral compass who must be removed to protect American democracy | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/democrats-condemn-trump-at-trial-as-threat-to-american-democracy-idUSKBN1ZX1ER | 2020-02-04 |
| Parnas is wearing an ankle bracelet and was denied entry because electronics are forbidden in the Senate visitors gallery | Negative | NEW YORK A U.S. federal judge set an Oct | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-giuliani/giuliani-associates-parnas-fruman-face-oct-5-trial-before-u-s-election-idUSKBN1ZX2PP | 2020-02-04 |
| Closing arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump were completed on Monday in the U.S. Senate as the Republican president appeared headed to an acquittal on Wednesday | Negative | Closing arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump were completed on Monday in the U.S. Senate as the Republican president appeared headed to an acquittal on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-whatnext-factbo/factbox-trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZX15M | 2020-02-04 |
| WASHINGTON Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski will vote against a motion allowing witnesses to testify in the Senates impeachment trial of President Donald Trump according to CNN and other media reports on Friday as proceedings resumed | Negative | WASHINGTON Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski will vote against a motion allowing witnesses to testify in the Senates impeachment trial of President Donald Trump according to CNN and other media reports on Friday as proceedings resumed | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-murkowski/u-s-senator-murkowski-to-vote-against-trump-impeachment-trial-witnesses-cnn-idUSKBN1ZU2PN | 2020-02-02 |
| WASHINGTON Barring a dramatic development President Donald Trump appears almost certain to be acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial | Negative | WASHINGTON Barring a dramatic development President Donald Trump appears almost certain to be acquitted in his Senate impeachment trial | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-timeline/the-long-road-to-trumps-impeachment-and-trial-idUSKBN1ZU2NW | 2020-02-02 |
| Democrats had said the news illustrated the need for the Senate to put Bolton under oath | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate voted on Friday against calling witnesses and collecting new evidence in President Donald Trumps impeachment trial clearing the way for Trumps almost certain acquittal next week | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/u-s-senate-rejects-witnesses-in-trump-impeachment-trial-clearing-way-for-acquittal-idUSKBN1ZU1D2 | 2020-02-01 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski suggested she may break with her party and vote in favor of calling additional witnesses including former national security adviser John Bolton in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski suggested she may break with her party and vote in favor of calling additional witnesses including former national security adviser John Bolton in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-question/republican-senator-suggests-she-may-vote-for-more-impeachment-witnesses-idUSKBN1ZU05T | 2020-01-31 |
| The future of the legislation was uncertain in the Republicanled Senate where an effort to pass an Iranrelated war powers resolution has been stalled during Trumps impeachment trial | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives passed two pieces of legislation on Thursday seeking to rein in President Donald Trumps ability to deploy U.S. forces to fight abroad as some lawmakers fume over his failure to fully inform them about his strategy toward Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress-iran/u-s-house-passes-measures-seeking-to-pull-war-powers-back-from-trump-idUSKBN1ZT2SD | 2020-01-31 |
| On Friday each side is expected to present closing arguments before the Senate moves to the question of whether to call witnesses | Neutral | WASHINGTON Democrats appeared to have fallen short on Thursday in their bid to garner the votes needed to call witnesses in President Donald Trumps impeachment trial clearing the way for his likely acquittal as early as this weekend | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/democrats-bid-for-new-trump-impeachment-witnesses-likely-to-fall-short-idUSKBN1ZT18E | 2020-01-31 |
| WASHINGTON The head of the U.S. House Judiciary panel said it might be a good idea for the House of Representatives to subpoena President Donald Trumps former national security adviser John Bolton if the Senate does not call him as an impeachment trial witness CNN reported | Positive | WASHINGTON The head of the U.S. House Judiciary panel said it might be a good idea for the House of Representatives to subpoena President Donald Trumps former national security adviser John Bolton if the Senate does not call him as an impeachment trial witness CNN reported | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-nadler/nadler-says-house-could-subpoena-bolton-if-senate-doesnt-cnn-idUSKBN1ZT2KO | 2020-01-31 |
| Schiff the trials lead Democratic prosecutor in the trial proposed both sides conduct closeddoor witness depositions for a week while the Senate returns to normal business | Positive | WASHINGTON Democrats appeared to have fallen short on Thursday in their bid to garner the votes needed to call witnesses in President Donald Trumps impeachment trial clearing the way for his likely acquittal as early as this weekend | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/democrats-bid-for-new-trump-impeachment-witnesses-likely-to-fall-short-idUSKBN1ZT18E | 2020-01-31 |
| DES MOINES Iowa U.S. President Donald Trump campaigned on Thursday in Iowa the state that kicks off the presidential nominating race next week basking in the support of his base while the U.S. Senate trial considering his impeachment continued in Washington | Neutral | DES MOINES Iowa U.S. President Donald Trump campaigned on Thursday in Iowa the state that kicks off the presidential nominating race next week basking in the support of his base while the U.S. Senate trial considering his impeachment continued in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump/trump-mocks-democrats-revives-border-wall-promise-in-iowa-campaign-speech-idUSKBN1ZU0B4 | 2020-01-31 |
| He was impeached over the scandal in December 1998 and later acquitted in the U.S. Senate | Negative | NEW YORK An Elle magazine advice columnist who is suing Donald Trump for defamation for denying he raped her approximately 24 years ago wants the U.S. president to provide a DNA sample to see if he came into contact with the dress she said she wore | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-defamation-lawsuit/trump-rape-accuser-seeks-dna-sample-from-u-s-president-idUSKBN1ZT350 | 2020-01-31 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
| WASHINGTON A Democratic push to force Republicans to accept witnesses at President Donald Trumps impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate appeared to be flagging on Wednesday raising the possibility he could be acquitted as early as Friday | Negative | WASHINGTON A Democratic push to force Republicans to accept witnesses at President Donald Trumps impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate appeared to be flagging on Wednesday raising the possibility he could be acquitted as early as Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/republicans-hopeful-senate-will-acquit-trump-in-impeachment-trial-as-early-as-friday-idUSKBN1ZS19Q | 2020-01-30 |
| My gut tells me were making progress progress said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer | Positive | WASHINGTON A Democratic push to force Republicans to accept witnesses at President Donald Trumps impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate appeared to be flagging on Wednesday raising the possibility he could be acquitted as early as Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/republicans-hopeful-senate-will-acquit-trump-in-impeachment-trial-as-early-as-friday-idUSKBN1ZS19Q | 2020-01-30 |
| WASHINGTON Lev Parnas an indicted businessman who says he worked to pressure Ukraine to investigate one of President Donald Trumps political rivals traveled to Washington to press the Senate to allow him to testify in Trumps impeachment trial only to be turned away at the U.S. Capitol | Negative | WASHINGTON Lev Parnas an indicted businessman who says he worked to pressure Ukraine to investigate one of President Donald Trumps political rivals traveled to Washington to press the Senate to allow him to testify in Trumps impeachment trial only to be turned away at the U.S. Capitol | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-parnas/parnas-former-ukraine-fixer-turned-away-from-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZS2KP | 2020-01-30 |
| I would like to discuss it under oath in the front of the Senate | Positive | WASHINGTON Lev Parnas an indicted businessman who says he worked to pressure Ukraine to investigate one of President Donald Trumps political rivals traveled to Washington to press the Senate to allow him to testify in Trumps impeachment trial only to be turned away at the U.S. Capitol | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-parnas/parnas-former-ukraine-fixer-turned-away-from-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZS2KP | 2020-01-30 |
| WASHINGTON Amid uncertainty over the question of whether to call witnesses in President Donald Trumps Senate impeachment trial his legal team wrapped up its opening arguments on Tuesday with an appeal for a quick acquittal | Negative | WASHINGTON Amid uncertainty over the question of whether to call witnesses in President Donald Trumps Senate impeachment trial his legal team wrapped up its opening arguments on Tuesday with an appeal for a quick acquittal | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/as-vote-on-witnesses-looms-trump-legal-team-tells-impeachment-trial-time-for-this-to-end-idUSKBN1ZR14R | 2020-01-29 |
| At the end of the day nothing is sufficient if the Senate doesnt decide to have a fair trial | Positive | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps lawyers wrapped up their arguments in his impeachment trial on Tuesday with a plea for acquittal and sought to marginalize former national security adviser John Boltons explosive allegations as | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-quotes-factbox/the-nerve-and-the-gall-quotes-from-day-7-of-trumps-senate-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZS029 | 2020-01-29 |
| Senator Ted Cruz a staunch Trump defender said the Bolton book would not impact the legal issue before this Senate | Positive | impeachment trial while his defense team largely ignored disclosures from a former White House adviser | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/what-bolton-book-trump-impeachment-lawyers-skirt-new-disclosures-idUSKBN1ZQ13H | 2020-01-28 |
| If the Senate subpoenas witnesses they would be deposed privately before the Senate decides on public testimony | Negative | Lawyers representing U.S. President Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment trial launch a second day of defense arguments on Monday as the proceedings on whether to remove him from office enter a critical week | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-factbox/trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZQ16U | 2020-01-28 |
| No president has ever been convicted by the Senate on impeachment charges | Negative | WASHINGTON Kenneth Starr the lawyer whose investigation led to the impeachment of former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1998 told the Senate on Monday that the process was happening all too often in what he called an age of as he spoke in defense of his client President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-starr/starr-lawyer-who-pursued-clinton-and-now-defends-trump-rails-against-impeachment-idUSKBN1ZQ2I3 | 2020-01-28 |
| Every few days something comes out and Americans are saying they want witnesses Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Twitter | Neutral | impeachment trial while his defense team largely ignored disclosures from a former White House adviser | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/what-bolton-book-trump-impeachment-lawyers-skirt-new-disclosures-idUSKBN1ZQ13H | 2020-01-28 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Republican Senator Mitt Romney said on Monday that it was increasingly at least four Republican senators would join Democrats in calling for John Bolton the former White House national security adviser to testify in the Senate impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Republican Senator Mitt Romney said on Monday that it was increasingly at least four Republican senators would join Democrats in calling for John Bolton the former White House national security adviser to testify in the Senate impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-romney/increasingly-likely-republican-senators-to-back-call-for-bolton-to-testify-romney-idUSKBN1ZQ1Q2 | 2020-01-28 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps impeachment trial may not result in his removal from office but it could help determine whether his Republicans retain control of the Senate in the November congressional elections | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps impeachment trial may not result in his removal from office but it could help determine whether his Republicans retain control of the Senate in the November congressional elections | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-politics/theres-something-else-at-stake-in-trump-impeachment-control-of-u-s-senate-idUSKBN1ZQ16H | 2020-01-28 |
| Times said in a report that could raise pressure on Republicans to call Bolton as a witness in Trumps Senate impeachment trial | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump told a thentop aide in August he wanted to freeze security aid to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including former Vice President Joe Biden the New York Times reported on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/trump-wanted-aid-to-ukraine-frozen-until-it-helped-on-probes-of-political-rivals-new-york-times-idUSKBN1ZP0K6 | 2020-01-28 |
| His acquittal is seen as likely in the Senate because at least 20 Republicans would have to vote for his removal | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps impeachment trial may not result in his removal from office but it could help determine whether his Republicans retain control of the Senate in the November congressional elections | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-politics/theres-something-else-at-stake-in-trump-impeachment-control-of-u-s-senate-idUSKBN1ZQ16H | 2020-01-28 |
| WASHINGTON Prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz and two former independent counsels Ken Starr and Robert Ray will be among those defending President Donald Trump when they make their case to the U.S. Senate on Monday | 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 they make their case to the U.S. Senate on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-team-factbox/factbox-the-members-of-trumps-impeachment-defense-team-idUSKBN1ZQ17K | 2020-01-28 |
| WASHINGTON Jerrold Nadler one of the U.S. House lawmakers leading efforts to remove President Donald Trump from office said on Sunday he would miss some of the Senate impeachment trial after his wife was diagnosed with cancer | Negative | WASHINGTON Jerrold Nadler one of the U.S. House lawmakers leading efforts to remove President Donald Trump from office said on Sunday he would miss some of the Senate impeachment trial after his wife was diagnosed with cancer | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-nadler/u-s-house-judiciary-head-nadler-to-miss-some-impeachment-proceedings-after-wifes-cancer-diagnosis-idUSKBN1ZP0S2 | 2020-01-27 |
| U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Friday wrap up their arguments in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the U.S. Senate | Negative | U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Friday wrap up their arguments in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the U.S. Senate | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-quotes-factbox/constitutional-crime-quotes-from-the-fourth-day-of-trumps-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZN28A | 2020-01-25 |
| The impeachment trial is unlikely to end with a vote that removes Trump from office as Republicans who control the Senate have voiced support for the president | Negative | The U.S. television audience for Democrats arguments that President Donald Trump should be impeached declined on Thursday to roughly 7 | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-ratings/trump-impeachment-trials-u-s-tv-audience-slips-during-democrats-arguments-nielsen-idUSKBN1ZN2LC | 2020-01-25 |
| Biden also tells crowds about his relationships with foreign leaders from his time as vice president and decades in the U.S. Senate | Neutral | FORT DODGE Iowa Iowa resident Carolyn Miller had long harbored doubts about Joe Bidens candidacy believing the former vice president was too old and too fumbling to beat President Donald Trump in Novembers election | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden/how-joe-biden-went-from-slumping-to-surging-in-democratic-presidential-race-in-iowa-idUSKBN1ZN15Q | 2020-01-25 |
| WASHINGTON Representative Adam Schiff making his closing argument in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday seemed to have the Senate chamber more or less rapt with lawmakers listening respectfully whether they agreed with his arguments or not | Positive | WASHINGTON Representative Adam Schiff making his closing argument in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday seemed to have the Senate chamber more or less rapt with lawmakers listening respectfully whether they agreed with his arguments or not | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-threat/head-on-a-pike-republican-senators-object-after-schiff-cites-impeachment-threat-idUSKBN1ZO067 | 2020-01-25 |
| WASHINGTON Top officials from the U.S. State Department will conduct a classified briefing next week on Iran policy for members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the committee said on Friday amid a push for legislation to restrict President Donald Trumps ability to wage war on Iran | Negative | WASHINGTON Top officials from the U.S. State Department will conduct a classified briefing next week on Iran policy for members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the committee said on Friday amid a push for legislation to restrict President Donald Trumps ability to wage war on Iran | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-congress/trump-administration-officials-to-brief-senators-on-iran-next-week-idUSKBN1ZN253 | 2020-01-25 |
| The resolution faces an uphill battle in the Republicancontrolled Senate which has been conducting Trumps impeachment trial this week | Negative | WASHINGTON Top officials from the U.S. State Department will conduct a classified briefing next week on Iran policy for members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the committee said on Friday amid a push for legislation to restrict President Donald Trumps ability to wage war on Iran | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-congress/trump-administration-officials-to-brief-senators-on-iran-next-week-idUSKBN1ZN253 | 2020-01-25 |
| Trumps impeachment trial poses a challenge for the Senate Democrats seeking their partys presidential nomination who are stuck in Washington while early voting approaches in Iowa and New Hampshire | Negative | WASHINGTON The 100 U.S. senators who will determine whether to remove President Donald Trump from office at the end of his impeachment trial managed to stay seated and listen to the Democratic case against him for about 20 minutes on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-restlessness/how-long-can-the-u-s-senate-sit-still-twenty-minutes-idUSKBN1ZM33J | 2020-01-24 |
| There was plenty of laughter among Democratic senators at this but it was not shared on the Republican side of the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON There have been few chuckles during U.S. President Donald Trumps impeachment trial in the Senate | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-russia/trump-made-a-religious-man-out-of-vladimir-putin-jokes-schiff-idUSKBN1ZM36Z | 2020-01-24 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump would have a tough time blocking John Boltons testimony in his U.S. Senate impeachment trial by invoking the legal doctrine called executive privilege if his former national security adviser is subpoenaed as a witness according to legal experts | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump would have a tough time blocking John Boltons testimony in his U.S. Senate impeachment trial by invoking the legal doctrine called executive privilege if his former national security adviser is subpoenaed as a witness according to legal experts | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-bolton-analysis/trump-will-have-hard-time-blocking-potential-bolton-trial-testimony-idUSKBN1ZM1PA | 2020-01-24 |
| WASHINGTON There have been few chuckles during U.S. President Donald Trumps impeachment trial in the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON There have been few chuckles during U.S. President Donald Trumps impeachment trial in the Senate | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-russia/trump-made-a-religious-man-out-of-vladimir-putin-jokes-schiff-idUSKBN1ZM36Z | 2020-01-24 |
| Starting on Wednesday seven members of the House of Representatives will try to convince the U.S. Senate that President Donald Trump should be removed from office | Negative | Starting on Wednesday seven members of the House of Representatives will try to convince the U.S. Senate that President Donald Trump should be removed from office | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-managers-factbo/factbox-heres-the-team-arguing-for-trumps-removal-in-the-senate-idUSKBN1ZL2AX | 2020-01-23 |
| Despite their expressed interest in the trial Americans were divided over giving the press more access to the Senate proceedings which the Senate has largely restricted for the trial | Negative | A bipartisan majority of Americans want to see new witnesses testify in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump and the public appears to be largely following the proceedings even after a bruising congressional inquiry that lasted several months according to polling released Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-poll/let-them-speak-most-americans-want-witnesses-in-trump-impeachment-trial-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1ZL33O | 2020-01-23 |
| Markets took Republican U.S. President Donald Trumps impeachment trial in stride as he is widely expected to be acquitted in the Republicancontrolled Senate | Negative | TOKYO Asian shares and U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as investors remained anxious about the spread of a new flulike virus in China just as millions prepared to travel for the Lunar New Year | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets/asian-shares-wilt-oil-tumbles-as-china-virus-spreads-idUSKBN1ZM090 | 2020-01-23 |
| About agreed that journalists should be allowed to enter the Senate chamber with cameras and cover the trial | Positive | A bipartisan majority of Americans want to see new witnesses testify in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump and the public appears to be largely following the proceedings even after a bruising congressional inquiry that lasted several months according to polling released Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-poll/let-them-speak-most-americans-want-witnesses-in-trump-impeachment-trial-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1ZL33O | 2020-01-23 |
| Roberts is doing double duty afterward presiding over President Donald Trumps impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Wednesday in a major legal battle over taxpayer funds going to religious schools with Chief Justice John Roberts emerging as the potential pivotal vote in a Montana case that could open the door to more public aid for faithbased institutions | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-court-religion/roberts-pivotal-as-u-s-supreme-court-tackles-public-aid-to-religious-schools-idUSKBN1ZL1CA | 2020-01-23 |
| 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 | 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 Here are some key quotes from Wednesday the first day the U.S. Senate heard the Democrats case for removing President Donald Trump from office | Neutral | WASHINGTON Here are some key quotes from Wednesday the first day the U.S. Senate heard the Democrats case for removing President Donald Trump from office | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-quotes-factbox/factbox-they-dont-have-the-material-quotes-on-trumps-senate-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZM00B | 2020-01-23 |
| The bill was passed 160116 in the Senate where Macrons centrist party is outnumbered by rightwing Republicans | Neutral | PARIS Frances Senate voted on Wednesday in favor of a bill that would allow single women and lesbian couples access to invitro fertilization the first major social reform of President Emmanuel Macrons term | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-france-ivf/french-senate-approves-bill-allowing-ivf-for-single-women-lesbians-idUSKBN1ZL33Y | 2020-01-23 |
| The poll showed that Republicans and Democrats want to see people like Bolton and Pompeo tell the Senate what they know about the administrations policies in Ukraine | Positive | A bipartisan majority of Americans want to see new witnesses testify in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump and the public appears to be largely following the proceedings even after a bruising congressional inquiry that lasted several months according to polling released Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-poll/let-them-speak-most-americans-want-witnesses-in-trump-impeachment-trial-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1ZL33O | 2020-01-23 |
| He is almost certain to be acquitted by the Republicancontrolled 100member Senate where a twothirds majority is needed to remove him from office | Neutral | About 11 million TV viewers watched the start of the U.S. Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Tuesday when lawmakers sparred for hours over witnesses and records for the historic proceedings according to Nielsen ratings data | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-ratings/opening-of-trump-impeachment-trial-draws-11-million-tv-viewers-idUSKBN1ZL321 | 2020-01-23 |
| About of Americans said they had a favorable view of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell while said they have an unfavorable view of him | Neutral | A bipartisan majority of Americans want to see new witnesses testify in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump and the public appears to be largely following the proceedings even after a bruising congressional inquiry that lasted several months according to polling released Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-poll/let-them-speak-most-americans-want-witnesses-in-trump-impeachment-trial-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1ZL33O | 2020-01-23 |
| Some of you are upset because you should be in Iowa Trumps White House lawyer Pat Cipollone said during his opening remarks in the Senate on Tuesday | Neutral | Bernie Sanders scrapped Iowa campaign appearances Amy Klobuchar sent campaign representatives to hot dinners and Elizabeth Warren planned a remote video speech as the Democratic U.S. senators running for president got stuck in Washington for Donald Trumps impeachment trial | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-impeachment/stuck-in-washington-2020-democratic-senators-send-family-ocasio-cortez-to-barnstorm-iowa-idUSKBN1ZK295 | 2020-01-22 |
| WASHINGTON Democrat Adam Schiff leading the U.S. House of Representatives team charged with arguing that President Donald Trump must be removed from office on Tuesday said that the process being considered for the upcoming Senate impeachment trial is not fair | Negative | WASHINGTON Democrat Adam Schiff leading the U.S. House of Representatives team charged with arguing that President Donald Trump must be removed from office on Tuesday said that the process being considered for the upcoming Senate impeachment trial is not fair | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-schiff/schiff-says-senate-impeachment-process-will-not-lead-to-a-fair-trial-idUSKBN1ZK1YD | 2020-01-22 |
| Trump who is expected to be acquitted by the Republicancontrolled Senate says he is innocent of the charges | Negative | DAVOS Switzerland U.S. President Donald Trump touted the success of the U.S. economy in Davos on Tuesday dismissing perennial prophets of on climate change to an audience that included Greta Thunberg | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-davos-meeting-trump/trump-touts-u-s-economy-dismisses-climate-prophets-of-doom-as-greta-looks-on-idUSKBN1ZK161 | 2020-01-22 |
| Candidates who are not in the Senate including Biden and former South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg will be able to keep campaigning as usual | Positive | Bernie Sanders scrapped Iowa campaign appearances Amy Klobuchar sent campaign representatives to hot dinners and Elizabeth Warren planned a remote video speech as the Democratic U.S. senators running for president got stuck in Washington for Donald Trumps impeachment trial | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-impeachment/stuck-in-washington-2020-democratic-senators-send-family-ocasio-cortez-to-barnstorm-iowa-idUSKBN1ZK295 | 2020-01-22 |
| WASHINGTON The White House rejected a request from Democrats that President Donald Trumps lawyer Pat Cipollone disclose any firsthand knowledge he had of the withholding of aid to Ukraine which is at the crux of the Senate trial over whether Trump should be removed from office | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House rejected a request from Democrats that President Donald Trumps lawyer Pat Cipollone disclose any firsthand knowledge he had of the withholding of aid to Ukraine which is at the crux of the Senate trial over whether Trump should be removed from office | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-impeachment-white-house/white-house-rejects-democrats-push-for-trump-lawyers-information-idUSKBN1ZK2F2 | 2020-01-22 |
| WASHINGTON The septuagenarian members of the U.S. Senate could get a little more sleep during President Donald Trumps impeachment trial after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell backed off a plan for 48 hours of arguments over four days a schedule that had raised the specter of sessions lasting well past midnight | Positive | WASHINGTON The septuagenarian members of the U.S. Senate could get a little more sleep during President Donald Trumps impeachment trial after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell backed off a plan for 48 hours of arguments over four days a schedule that had raised the specter of sessions lasting well past midnight | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-midnight/senates-mcconnell-eases-marathon-late-night-impeachment-schedule-idUSKBN1ZL013 | 2020-01-22 |
| Besides pesky reporters the senators who will serve as jurors in the impeachment trial will be on the lookout for aggressive protesters in Senate office buildings adjacent to the Capitol | Negative | WASHINGTON With the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump under way U.S. senators have polished their talking points about upholding the Constitution | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-security/please-do-not-touch-me-u-s-senate-on-security-alert-for-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZK2M4 | 2020-01-22 |
| Please excuse me I am trying to get to the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON With the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump under way U.S. senators have polished their talking points about upholding the Constitution | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-security/please-do-not-touch-me-u-s-senate-on-security-alert-for-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZK2M4 | 2020-01-22 |
| Votes to present final arguments could occur if no subpoenas are issued and if witnesses are not approved by a majority of the Senate | Negative | Jan | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-whatnext-factbo/trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZJ1FZ | 2020-01-21 |
| The Republican president who is expected to be acquitted by the Republicancontrolled Senate says he is innocent of the charges | 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 |
| When McConnell takes a stand he is difficult to budge said Dick Durbin the Senates numbertwo Democrat | 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 |
| Seven members of the House of Representatives will act as prosecutors in the Senate impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump which begins in earnest on Tuesday | Negative | Seven members of the House of Representatives will act as prosecutors in the Senate impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump which begins in earnest on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-managers-factbo/factbox-seven-house-democrats-to-argue-impeachment-case-against-trump-in-senate-idUSKBN1ZJ14H | 2020-01-21 |
| McConnell has had frosty relations with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and his predecessor Harry Reid | Neutral | 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 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps lawyers argued on Monday that the impeachment case against him is a product of a rigged process by Democrats and must be in the Senate trial that gets under way in earnest on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps lawyers argued on Monday that the impeachment case against him is a product of a rigged process by Democrats and must be in the Senate trial that gets under way in earnest on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-brief/trump-urges-senate-to-reject-impeachment-as-affront-to-u-s-constitution-idUSKBN1ZJ1VV | 2020-01-21 |
| The trade pact was approved by the U.S. Senate last week and will now go to President Donald Trump for him to sign into law | Positive | MEXICO CITY A top Mexican trade union said on Monday it has suspended its threat to launch a strike at Home Depot stores across Mexico over labor demands adding it is in talks with the U.S. home improvement chain to improve pay and benefits for workers | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-homedepot/mexican-union-suspends-strike-threat-against-home-depot-idUSKBN1ZJ2AD | 2020-01-21 |
| 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 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts is poised to serve a highly visible though largely ceremonial role in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump due next month | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts is poised to serve a highly visible though largely ceremonial role in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump due next month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-chiefjustice/spotlight-will-be-on-u-s-chief-justice-in-trump-trial-and-in-major-cases-idUSKBN1YO1GU | 2020-01-21 |
| 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 | 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 |
| McConnell the top Republican in Congress says Americas founders created the Senate for moments such as this to block the factional and runaway of the House of Representatives | 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 country is watching to see how the Senate the seven House impeachment managers said in a statement | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. lawmakers managing the impeachment case against Donald Trump filed a brief on Saturday laying out their arguments supporting charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress against the president | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-brief/u-s-house-files-brief-laying-out-impeachment-case-against-trump-idUSKBN1ZH0N2 | 2020-01-19 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump and his Republican allies plan to launch a massive effort to limit damage to his chances of reelection as the Senate trial to determine whether to remove him from office gets under way in earnest next week | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump and his Republican allies plan to launch a massive effort to limit damage to his chances of reelection as the Senate trial to determine whether to remove him from office gets under way in earnest next week | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-whitehouse/trump-allies-draw-up-plan-to-limit-damage-from-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZG2AD | 2020-01-18 |
| Her potentially illegal surveillance could be an important element of the Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove Trump from office that formally began on Thursday | 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 |
| The market was also lifted by the U.S. Senates approval of changes to the U.S.MexicoCanada Free Trade Agreement | Positive | NEW YORK Oil prices steadied on Friday as sluggish economic growth in China the worlds biggest crude importer raised concerns over fuel demand and countered optimism from the signing of a ChinaU.S. trade deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-steadies-as-chinese-economy-offsets-trade-optimism-idUSKBN1ZG05P | 2020-01-18 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump turned to some legal heavyweights to help defend him in his Senate impeachment trial with the addition on Friday of former independent counsel Ken Starr who paved the way for former President Bill Clintons 1998 impeachment and prominent lawyer Alan Dershowitz | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump turned to some legal heavyweights to help defend him in his Senate impeachment trial with the addition on Friday of former independent counsel Ken Starr who paved the way for former President Bill Clintons 1998 impeachment and prominent lawyer Alan Dershowitz | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/trump-adds-legal-heavyweights-starr-dershowitz-to-impeachment-team-idUSKBN1ZG1TR | 2020-01-18 |
| The U.S.MexicoCanada trade agreement that was passed by the U.S. Senate today modernizes the 26yearold North American Free Trade Agreement that has been blamed for hollowing out the U.S. manufacturing sector | Positive | The U.S.MexicoCanada trade agreement that was passed by the U.S. Senate today modernizes the 26yearold North American Free Trade Agreement that has been blamed for hollowing out the U.S. manufacturing sector | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-trade-usmca-changes-factbox/factbox-how-the-north-american-trade-deal-will-affect-autos-digital-trade-drugs-idUSKBN1ZF2P0 | 2020-01-18 |
| 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 | Positive | 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 |
| to respond in writing to a summons from the Senate notifying him of the trial and the charges against him | Negative | 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 |
| Jacksons term expired in June but commissioners can continue to serve for 18 months after their term expires and before their replacement is confirmed by the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON Rob Jackson a Democratic commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday he will step down from the agency on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-sec-jackson-resignation/u-s-sec-democratic-commissioner-jackson-to-step-down-next-month-idUSKBN1ZF147 | 2020-01-17 |
| Schiff indicated that the House prosecutors are considering calling Lev Parnas an associate of Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani if the Senate permits testimony in the trial | Neutral | 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 |
| That document is to be submitted to the secretary of the Senate | Neutral | The Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove U.S. President Donald Trump from office formally began on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-nextsteps-factb/trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZF2TU | 2020-01-17 |
| 3 while their key rivals will be largely unable to campaign because they must sit as Senate jurors in Republican President Donald Trumps impeachment trial | Negative | DES MOINES Iowa Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg will blitz Iowa before the state kicks off the partys nominating contest on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-impeachment/with-rivals-stuck-in-impeachment-trial-biden-and-buttigieg-to-barnstorm-iowa-idUSKBN1ZF18S | 2020-01-17 |
| The House has until noon to file its reply to the secretary of the Senate | Neutral | The Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove U.S. President Donald Trump from office formally began on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-nextsteps-factb/trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZF2TU | 2020-01-17 |
| The three senators also hope they might also get a visibility boost if the Senate impeachment proceedings are widely watched on national television | Neutral | DES MOINES Iowa Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg will blitz Iowa before the state kicks off the partys nominating contest on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-impeachment/with-rivals-stuck-in-impeachment-trial-biden-and-buttigieg-to-barnstorm-iowa-idUSKBN1ZF18S | 2020-01-17 |
| That likely would prompt Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to demand votes on approving witness testimony rather than leaving that question open until later in the trial | Positive | The Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove U.S. President Donald Trump from office formally began on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-nextsteps-factb/trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZF2TU | 2020-01-17 |
| Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a news conference the GAOs conclusion reinforces again the need for documents and eyewitnesses in the Senate | Neutral | 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 |
| If the full House approves articles of impeachment as expected there will be a trial in the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON The Democraticcontrolled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to impeach Republican President Donald Trump this week for pressuring Ukraine to investigate a potential rival in the 2020 presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-explainer/explainer-how-impeachment-works-and-why-trump-is-unlikely-to-be-removed-idUSKBN1YK16K | 2020-01-17 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff will lead a team of seven Democratic lawmakers who will prosecute the impeachment case against President Donald Trump in the Senate Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff will lead a team of seven Democratic lawmakers who will prosecute the impeachment case against President Donald Trump in the Senate Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-leaders/schiff-to-lead-prosecution-of-trump-in-senate-impeachment-pelosi-idUSKBN1ZE20A | 2020-01-16 |
| But they failed to get the twothirds majorities in both the House and Senate to override Trumps veto | Negative | WASHINGTON Senior Democratic senators said on Wednesday that they would try to force another vote to stop U.S. President Donald Trump from taking billions of dollars from the Department of Defense budget to pay for a wall on the border with Mexico | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-congress-wall/democratic-senators-seek-to-force-vote-to-block-trump-border-wall-funding-plan-idUSKBN1ZE22U | 2020-01-16 |
| WASHINGTON After weeks of rhetorical fire and fury a handful of U.S. House members walked quietly across a hushed Capitol on Wednesday to deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate paving the way for the trial of President Donald Trump | Negative | WASHINGTON After weeks of rhetorical fire and fury a handful of U.S. House members walked quietly across a hushed Capitol on Wednesday to deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate paving the way for the trial of President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-ceremony/with-pomp-and-circumstance-house-democrats-deliver-impeachment-articles-to-the-senate-idUSKBN1ZF03D | 2020-01-16 |
| WASHINGTON The Democraticled House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to send two formal charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate clearing the way for only the third impeachment trial of a U.S. president to begin in earnest next week | Negative | WASHINGTON The Democraticled House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to send two formal charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate clearing the way for only the third impeachment trial of a U.S. president to begin in earnest next week | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/u-s-house-votes-to-send-trump-impeachment-charges-to-senate-for-trial-idUSKBN1ZE1A8 | 2020-01-16 |
| Pelosi again pushed for witnesses and documentation to be allowed in the Senate trial after they were blocked by the Trump administration from the House impeachment investigation | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff will lead a team of seven Democratic lawmakers who will prosecute the impeachment case against President Donald Trump in the Senate Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-leaders/schiff-to-lead-prosecution-of-trump-in-senate-impeachment-pelosi-idUSKBN1ZE20A | 2020-01-16 |
| There was no indication of when the vote Democrats want might take place especially with the Senate expected to be tied up with Trumps impeachment trial in the coming weeks | Negative | WASHINGTON Senior Democratic senators said on Wednesday that they would try to force another vote to stop U.S. President Donald Trump from taking billions of dollars from the Department of Defense budget to pay for a wall on the border with Mexico | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-congress-wall/democratic-senators-seek-to-force-vote-to-block-trump-border-wall-funding-plan-idUSKBN1ZE22U | 2020-01-16 |
| Opening statements in the trial are expected next Tuesday according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell whose fellow Republicans will set the rules for the trial | Positive | WASHINGTON The Democraticled House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to send two formal charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate clearing the way for only the third impeachment trial of a U.S. president to begin in earnest next week | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/u-s-house-votes-to-send-trump-impeachment-charges-to-senate-for-trial-idUSKBN1ZE1A8 | 2020-01-16 |
| U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Wednesday the seven members of the House of Representatives who will act as prosecutors to lay out the impeachment case against President Donald Trump in the Senate | Negative | U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Wednesday the seven members of the House of Representatives who will act as prosecutors to lay out the impeachment case against President Donald Trump in the Senate | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-managers-factbo/seven-house-democrats-to-argue-impeachment-case-against-trump-in-senate-idUSKBN1ZD21G | 2020-01-16 |
| 19 has been delayed in the Senate by wrangling over a Senate trial on impeachment charges against President Donald Trump | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he expected the Senate to vote on final approval of a new North American trade deal on Thursday and send the legislation to President Donald Trump for his signature | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-trade-usmca/u-s-senate-expected-to-vote-on-north-american-trade-deal-thursday-mcconnell-idUSKBN1ZE2ZO | 2020-01-16 |
| 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 | 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 Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he would help acquit his fellow Republican at a trial | Negative | The Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he would help acquit his fellow Republican at a trial | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-nextsteps-factb/trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZE2Y6 | 2020-01-16 |
| The USMCA has yet to be ratified by the U.S. Senate | Neutral | The union also is urging the company to end discrimination sexual harassment and unfair dismissals which it says have been reported to the union and labor councils | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-homedepot/mexico-union-threatens-home-depot-strike-inspired-by-usmca-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZE2DO | 2020-01-16 |
| The ceremony comes just as the U.S. Senate prepares to begin its impeachment trial of Trump only the third U.S. president ever impeached | Negative | WASHINGTON China has pledged to buy almost billion of additional manufactured goods from the United States over the next two years as part of a trade war truce according to a source though some U.S. trade experts call it an unrealistic target | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/china-to-ramp-up-u-s-buys-under-trade-deal-but-skeptics-question-targets-idUSKBN1ZD0FN | 2020-01-15 |
| WASHINGTON Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday they would include new evidence when they send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate on Wednesday seeking to expand the scope of a trial that will dominate Washington for the next several weeks | Negative | WASHINGTON Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday they would include new evidence when they send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate on Wednesday seeking to expand the scope of a trial that will dominate Washington for the next several weeks | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/democrats-add-last-minute-evidence-to-trump-impeachment-case-before-senate-trial-idUSKBN1ZD1AA | 2020-01-15 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they had enough votes in the Republicancontrolled Senate to pass a resolution curbing President Donald Trumps ability to wage war on Iran without congressional approval which would be a rebuke of the president after he ordered a strike that killed an Iranian commander in Iraq | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they had enough votes in the Republicancontrolled Senate to pass a resolution curbing President Donald Trumps ability to wage war on Iran without congressional approval which would be a rebuke of the president after he ordered a strike that killed an Iranian commander in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-congress/democrats-say-measure-to-rein-in-trump-on-iran-will-pass-senate-idUSKBN1ZD24K | 2020-01-15 |
| Those as they are formally known will likely be appointed on Wednesday when House Democrats transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate | Negative | When the U.S. Senate begins the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump a handful of lawmakers from the House of Representatives will act as prosecutors to lay out the case against the president | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-managers-factbo/who-might-argue-the-case-against-trump-in-the-senate-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZD21G | 2020-01-15 |
| Senate leaders are working out the timing of a Senate vote likely next week which is complicated by Trumps Senate impeachment trial starting within days | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they had enough votes in the Republicancontrolled Senate to pass a resolution curbing President Donald Trumps ability to wage war on Iran without congressional approval which would be a rebuke of the president after he ordered a strike that killed an Iranian commander in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-congress/democrats-say-measure-to-rein-in-trump-on-iran-will-pass-senate-idUSKBN1ZD24K | 2020-01-15 |
| Warren and Klobuchar put on their juror hats during the debate saying they werent concerned about the impending Senate impeachment trial against Trump keeping them off the campaign trail | Negative | 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 |
| Republicans hold 53 seats in the 100member Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they had enough votes in the Republicancontrolled Senate to pass a resolution curbing President Donald Trumps ability to wage war on Iran without congressional approval which would be a rebuke of the president after he ordered a strike that killed an Iranian commander in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-congress/democrats-say-measure-to-rein-in-trump-on-iran-will-pass-senate-idUSKBN1ZD24K | 2020-01-15 |
| Warren Klobuchar and Sanders were going to have to leave Iowa quickly as the House of Representatives was expected to send the charges to the Senate on Wednesday | Negative | 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 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Wednesday on a resolution to send articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate according to a Democratic lawmaker and a Democratic aide | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Wednesday on a resolution to send articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate according to a Democratic lawmaker and a Democratic aide | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-vote/house-to-vote-wednesday-to-send-impeachment-articles-to-senate-idUSKBN1ZD1ZJ | 2020-01-15 |
| McConnell has yet to say definitively how the Senate will conduct the trial | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republican members of the U.S Senate poised to begin an impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the coming days voiced opposition on Monday to any attempt to dismiss the charges against him without a trial | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/republican-senators-say-they-will-not-vote-to-dismiss-charges-against-trump-ahead-of-trial-idUSKBN1ZC0YT | 2020-01-14 |
| House Democrats will discuss on Tuesday morning how to move forward Pelosi said on Sunday with the chamber possibly voting to send the charges to the Senate later that day | Positive | WASHINGTON Republican members of the U.S Senate poised to begin an impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the coming days voiced opposition on Monday to any attempt to dismiss the charges against him without a trial | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/republican-senators-say-they-will-not-vote-to-dismiss-charges-against-trump-ahead-of-trial-idUSKBN1ZC0YT | 2020-01-14 |
| The Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate this week where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he would help acquit his fellow Republican at a trial | Negative | The Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate this week where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he would help acquit his fellow Republican at a trial | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-nextsteps-factb/factbox-trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZC27W | 2020-01-14 |
| Pelosi has already directed House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler to be ready to bring forward a resolution that would formally transmit the charges against Trump to the Senate | Neutral | The Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate this week where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he would help acquit his fellow Republican at a trial | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-nextsteps-factb/factbox-trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZC27W | 2020-01-14 |
| Some Trump allies worry that new witness testimony televised live from the Senate floor could undermine his defense that he did nothing wrong | Negative | WASHINGTON John Bolton meet Monica Lewinsky | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-clinton/trump-impeachment-trial-fight-for-bolton-testimony-echoes-monica-lewinsky-idUSKBN1ZC11G | 2020-01-14 |
| The exact timing of the trial will depend on when the House moves the impeachment papers to the Senate | Negative | The Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate this week where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he would help acquit his fellow Republican at a trial | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-nextsteps-factb/factbox-trump-impeachment-what-happens-next-idUSKBN1ZC27W | 2020-01-14 |
| A companion measure has been introduced in the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump fueled controversy on Monday over his decision to kill Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani by saying it doesnt really whether Soleimani posed an imminent threat to the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-trump/trump-timing-of-threat-from-soleimani-doesnt-really-matter-idUSKBN1ZC1QA | 2020-01-14 |
| There has been no announcement of when the measure might come up for a vote in the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Democratic chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Monday he was disappointed and that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had declined to testify at a committee hearing on Iran set for Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-congress-hearing/u-s-house-chairman-frustrated-pompeo-refused-to-testify-on-iran-idUSKBN1ZC1US | 2020-01-14 |
| Bolton has said he would be willing to testify if subpoenaed by the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said House Democrats will determine on Tuesday when to send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate and warned that Republicans will pay a political price for denying a trial with witnesses | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/pelosi-says-republicans-will-pay-price-for-denying-impeachment-witnesses-idUSKBN1ZB0K8 | 2020-01-13 |
| December 11 story deletes reference to Chief Justice Roberts being pressured on Senate trial procedures and clarifies in paragraph | Negative | December 11 story deletes reference to Chief Justice Roberts being pressured on Senate trial procedures and clarifies in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-players-factbox/factbox-key-players-in-u-s-senate-trial-if-house-impeaches-trump-idUSKBN1YF2HZ | 2020-01-13 |
| If the Democraticcontrolled U.S. House of Representatives passes articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump the Republicancontrolled Senate would hold a trial to determine whether he should be found guilty of the charges and removed from office | Negative | December 11 story deletes reference to Chief Justice Roberts being pressured on Senate trial procedures and clarifies in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-players-factbox/factbox-key-players-in-u-s-senate-trial-if-house-impeaches-trump-idUSKBN1YF2HZ | 2020-01-13 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said House Democrats will determine on Tuesday when to send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate and warned that Republicans will pay a political price for denying a trial with witnesses | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said House Democrats will determine on Tuesday when to send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate and warned that Republicans will pay a political price for denying a trial with witnesses | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/pelosi-says-republicans-will-pay-price-for-denying-impeachment-witnesses-idUSKBN1ZB0K8 | 2020-01-13 |
| Could there still be witnesses in the Senate | Neutral | U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he has enough support from his fellow Republicans to begin the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump even though lawmakers have yet to agree whether to call witnesses | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-rules-explainer/explainer-what-is-mcconnells-proposed-impeachment-trial-format-idUSKBN1Z9148 | 2020-01-11 |
| Those as they are formally known will likely be appointed next week when House Democrats unveil legislation to formally transmit the impeachment articles to the Senate | Negative | When the U.S. Senate begins the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump a handful of trial lawmakers from the House of Representatives will act as prosecutors to lay out the case against the president | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-managers-factbo/factbox-who-might-argue-the-case-against-trump-in-the-senate-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1Z9260 | 2020-01-11 |
| Trump is unlikely to be removed from office however because under the U.S. Constitution that would require the support of twothirds of the Senate | Negative | U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he has enough support from his fellow Republicans to begin the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump even though lawmakers have yet to agree whether to call witnesses | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-rules-explainer/explainer-what-is-mcconnells-proposed-impeachment-trial-format-idUSKBN1Z9148 | 2020-01-11 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday announced that she will advance legislation next week that would formally trigger a Senate impeachment trial for President Donald Trump | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday announced that she will advance legislation next week that would formally trigger a Senate impeachment trial for President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-pelosi/u-s-house-speaker-pelosi-says-will-submit-trump-impeachment-to-senate-idUSKBN1Z91XC | 2020-01-11 |
| The measure now goes to the Senate which is controlled by Trumps Republican Party and faces an uphill battle | Negative | Trump remarks on planned embassy paragraphs | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security/wrapup-7-u-s-house-votes-to-rein-in-trumps-war-powers-as-u-s-iran-tensions-stay-high-idUSL8N29E5D7 | 2020-01-11 |
| WASHINGTON The Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives will send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate as early as next week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday setting the stage for his longawaited trial | Negative | WASHINGTON The Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives will send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate as early as next week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday setting the stage for his longawaited trial | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/trump-impeachment-charges-may-go-to-senate-as-early-as-next-week-idUSKBN1Z91R5 | 2020-01-11 |
| The answer to this question depends on whether U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi transmits the articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate said Wolfensberger | Negative | U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he has enough support from his fellow Republicans to begin the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump even though lawmakers have yet to agree whether to call witnesses | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-rules-explainer/explainer-what-is-mcconnells-proposed-impeachment-trial-format-idUSKBN1Z9148 | 2020-01-11 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate will move forward with its own legislative agenda next week unless it receives articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate will move forward with its own legislative agenda next week unless it receives articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-mcconnell/mcconnell-says-u-s-senate-to-move-forward-unless-house-sends-impeachment-articles-idUSKBN1Z81V9 | 2020-01-10 |
| House Democrats said they have seen no indication from Pelosi on when the articles could move to the Senate | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Democrats on Thursday vowed to keep fighting to hear witnesses at President Donald Trumps pending impeachment trial in the Republicancontrolled Senate even as their drive to exact a guarantee ahead of the proceedings appeared futile | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/u-s-democrats-to-press-for-impeachment-witnesses-throughout-trial-idUSKBN1Z820J | 2020-01-10 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Democrats on Thursday vowed to keep fighting to hear witnesses at President Donald Trumps pending impeachment trial in the Republicancontrolled Senate even as their drive to exact a guarantee ahead of the proceedings appeared futile | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Democrats on Thursday vowed to keep fighting to hear witnesses at President Donald Trumps pending impeachment trial in the Republicancontrolled Senate even as their drive to exact a guarantee ahead of the proceedings appeared futile | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/u-s-democrats-to-press-for-impeachment-witnesses-throughout-trial-idUSKBN1Z820J | 2020-01-10 |
| Without witnesses Democrats fear Senate Republicans could move quickly to dismiss the charges against Trump | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Democrats on Thursday vowed to keep fighting to hear witnesses at President Donald Trumps pending impeachment trial in the Republicancontrolled Senate even as their drive to exact a guarantee ahead of the proceedings appeared futile | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/u-s-democrats-to-press-for-impeachment-witnesses-throughout-trial-idUSKBN1Z820J | 2020-01-10 |
| McGovern said he expected a compromise bill would move forward in 2020 hopefully in both the Senate and House and he expected Trump would sign it | Positive | WASHINGTON A U.S. congressional report released on Wednesday called for sanctions against China over human rights abuses and for U.S. officials to keep rights concerns in mind during dealings with Beijing including trade negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-congress-report/u-s-congressional-study-urges-sanctions-on-china-over-crimes-against-humanity-idUSKBN1Z71ZM | 2020-01-09 |
| The resolution will likely sail through the House of Representatives where the Democrats hold the majority but its passage in the Senate controlled by Trumps fellow Republicans is less assured | 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 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday the Senate would not haggle with the House of Representatives over procedures for President Donald Trumps impeachment trial adding that the Senate would make a decision on calling witnesses for the trial at the appropriate time | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday the Senate would not haggle with the House of Representatives over procedures for President Donald Trumps impeachment trial adding that the Senate would make a decision on calling witnesses for the trial at the appropriate time | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-mcconnell/u-s-senates-mcconnell-wont-haggle-with-house-over-impeachment-trial-plan-idUSKBN1Z728C | 2020-01-09 |
| McConnell has said that Senate rules prevent it from starting the trial until the House sends it the articles of impeachment | Negative | WASHINGTON Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday there would be no haggling with the Democraticled House of Representatives over the rules for U.S. President Donald Trumps impeachment trial | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/no-sign-of-end-to-standoff-over-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1Z72MY | 2020-01-09 |
| McConnell did not specifically answer Pelosis demand but lambasted her actions as and said she could not dictate the Senates trial proceedings | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday the Senate would not haggle with the House of Representatives over procedures for President Donald Trumps impeachment trial adding that the Senate would make a decision on calling witnesses for the trial at the appropriate time | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-mcconnell/u-s-senates-mcconnell-wont-haggle-with-house-over-impeachment-trial-plan-idUSKBN1Z728C | 2020-01-09 |
| Lopez Obrador said he expected foreign investment to increase in Mexico once the U.S. Senate approves the United StatesMexicoCanada Agreement trade deal | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday his government was not contemplating reopening oil and gas auctions this year ending hopes his leftleaning government will soon spur private investment in the energy sector | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-oil-auctions/mexicos-president-doubles-down-on-nationalist-line-no-oil-auctions-idUSKBN1Z729H | 2020-01-09 |
| The resolution is expected to easily pass the House but would face a more difficult time in the Senate which is controlled by Trumps fellow Republicans | Negative | WASHINGTON Trump administration officials failed to convince Democratic U.S. lawmakers and some Republicans on Wednesday that an imminent threat had justified the killing of a top Iranian military commander and congressional Democrats scheduled a vote on legislation to rein in the presidents ability to wage war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-congress/u-s-lawmakers-divided-over-trump-iran-argument-set-war-powers-vote-idUSKBN1Z71SM | 2020-01-09 |
| Congressional investigators believe Bolton objected to Trumps decision to delay million in military aid to Ukraine and could elaborate on that a Senate aide told Reuters this week | 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 |
| 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 |
| WASHINGTON Republicans in the U.S. Senate have enough votes to proceed on rules for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump that would delay a decision on whether to allow witness testimony Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday | Negative | WASHINGTON Republicans in the U.S. Senate have enough votes to proceed on rules for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump that would delay a decision on whether to allow witness testimony Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-mcconnell-witne/mcconnell-republicans-can-launch-trump-impeachment-trial-without-decision-on-witnesses-idUSKBN1Z62CL | 2020-01-08 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Finance Committee overwhelmingly approved the U.S.MexicoCanada Agreement on Tuesday moving the revamped North American trade deal a step closer to a final Senate vote in the coming days or weeks | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Finance Committee overwhelmingly approved the U.S.MexicoCanada Agreement on Tuesday moving the revamped North American trade deal a step closer to a final Senate vote in the coming days or weeks | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-trade-usmca/u-s-senate-panel-advances-north-american-trade-deal-final-vote-timing-uncertain-idUSKBN1Z61M8 | 2020-01-08 |
| Pompeo is among top administration officials who will conduct closeddoor classified briefings on Iran policy for the House and Senate on Wednesday | Neutral | 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 |
| Congressional investigators believe Bolton objected to Trumps decision to delay million in military aid to Ukraine and could elaborate on that a Senate aide told Reuters | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps former national security adviser John Bolton said on Monday he is willing to testify in the expected Senate impeachment trial of the president a surprise development that could potentially strengthen the case that Trump should be removed from office | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/bolton-says-he-is-willing-to-testify-in-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1Z510V | 2020-01-07 |
| I have concluded that if the Senate issues a subpoena for my testimony I am prepared to Bolton said in a statement | Negative | WASHINGTON Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Monday that he is prepared to testify in a possible Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump if he receives a subpoena | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-bolton/bolton-prepared-to-testify-in-u-s-senate-impeachment-trial-statement-idUSKBN1Z51PA | 2020-01-07 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday he does not plan to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas in 2020 two people close to McConnell said | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday he does not plan to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas in 2020 two people close to McConnell said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-pompeo/secretary-of-state-pompeo-not-planning-2020-senate-run-sources-idUSKBN1Z528Y | 2020-01-07 |
| Democrats seized on Boltons announcement saying it bolstered their argument that he and three current administration officials should testify when the Senate begins its impeachment trial | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps former national security adviser John Bolton said on Monday he is willing to testify in the expected Senate impeachment trial of the president a surprise development that could potentially strengthen the case that Trump should be removed from office | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/bolton-says-he-is-willing-to-testify-in-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1Z510V | 2020-01-07 |
| Speculation has swirled for months over whether Pompeo 56 a former Republican congressman from Kansas would run for the Senate seat in his home state | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday he does not plan to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas in 2020 two people close to McConnell said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-pompeo/secretary-of-state-pompeo-not-planning-2020-senate-run-sources-idUSKBN1Z528Y | 2020-01-07 |
| A conviction on the actual impeachment charges requires a twothirds majority vote in the Senate | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps former national security adviser John Bolton said on Monday he is willing to testify in the expected Senate impeachment trial of the president a surprise development that could potentially strengthen the case that Trump should be removed from office | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/bolton-says-he-is-willing-to-testify-in-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1Z510V | 2020-01-07 |
| McConnell had urged Pompeo to run for the seat to help keep the partys Senate majority after Republican Senator Pat Roberts said last year he would retire | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday he does not plan to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas in 2020 two people close to McConnell said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-pompeo/secretary-of-state-pompeo-not-planning-2020-senate-run-sources-idUSKBN1Z528Y | 2020-01-07 |
| The Republicans control the Senate and theyre not asking said Daryl Kimball executive director of the Arms Control Association | 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 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps former national security adviser John Bolton said on Monday he is willing to testify in the expected Senate impeachment trial of the president a surprise development that could potentially strengthen the case that Trump should be removed from office | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps former national security adviser John Bolton said on Monday he is willing to testify in the expected Senate impeachment trial of the president a surprise development that could potentially strengthen the case that Trump should be removed from office | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/bolton-says-he-is-willing-to-testify-in-trump-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1Z510V | 2020-01-07 |
| WASHINGTON Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Monday that he is prepared to testify in a possible Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump if he receives a subpoena | Negative | WASHINGTON Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Monday that he is prepared to testify in a possible Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump if he receives a subpoena | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-bolton/bolton-prepared-to-testify-in-u-s-senate-impeachment-trial-statement-idUSKBN1Z51PA | 2020-01-07 |
| 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 | 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 |
| We need the Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Twitter | Neutral | 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 |
| We do not need this president either bumbling or impulsively getting us into a major added Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on ABCs This Week | Negative | WASHINGTON Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended President Donald Trumps decision to kill Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani as Democratic lawmakers questioned whether the action was justified and the United States braced for retaliation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa/pompeo-defends-u-s-killing-of-iranian-as-democrats-ask-why-now-idUSKBN1Z40GM | 2020-01-06 |
| He is due to preside over a Senate impeachment trial while the Supreme Court he leads will rule on a titanic clash over the presidents attempts to keep his financial records secret | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts will be a central figure in the ongoing drama of the Donald Trump presidency in coming months | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-chiefjustice/emerging-from-the-shadows-the-u-s-chief-justice-who-will-preside-over-trumps-trial-idUSKBN1Z01PH | 2020-01-02 |
| The Republican political operative from Manchester New Hampshire had weighed a Senate bid after his work running Trumps presidential campaign in 2016 for a time | Positive | Corey Lewandowski a close ally of President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not run for the U.S. Senate seat in New Hampshire now held by Democrat Jeanne Shaheen | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-lewandowski/trump-ally-corey-lewandowski-rules-out-senate-run-in-new-hampshire-idUSKBN1YZ17A | 2020-01-01 |
