Author: KATHERINE DOYLE, Washington Examiner
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Harris likens Jan. 6 riots to Pearl Habor and 9/11, renews call for voting overhaul
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Vice President Kamala Harris compared last year’s Capitol riot to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terrorist attacks in an anniversary speech pitching the Democrats’ bills to overhaul federal elections as tools essential to preserving American democracy. “Will [Jan. 6] be remembered as a moment that accelerated the unraveling of the oldest, greatest…
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White House spending bill pressure campaign on Manchin backfires
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The White House came out hard against Sen. Joe Manchin after its talks with him on President Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar spending bill collapsed, but the West Virginia Democrat says officials should look in the mirror. Manchin has said that Biden was poorly served by his staff, who did not listen to his concerns about the…
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Buttigieg heads to New Hampshire to boost Biden as 2024 rumors fly
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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was in New Hampshire to promote the White House’s infrastructure agenda, but trips to the first-in-the-nation primary state evoke a different kind of campaign blitz. At a roundtable Monday, Buttigieg was joined by Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster, an early supporter who endorsed the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor before New…
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Biden cuts low profile in media interviews compared to predecessors
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President Joe Biden is setting records for his sparse outreach to the press, notching a fraction of the face time with journalists that his recent predecessors scored. Reporters scored 18 media interviews with Biden by the start of the month, a small sliver of the 89 conducted by former President Donald Trump and the 141…
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Kamala Harris takes aim at Russia, not China, in Space Council role
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Vice President Kamala Harris railed against last month’s Russian anti-satellite missile test at the inaugural National Space Council meeting on Wednesday but made no direct reference to China. “We must demand responsibility from all spacefaring nations,” Harris said after raising Russia’s hazardous actions. “We must expand rules and norms on safety and security, on transparency…
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Kamala Harris-led Space Council faces challenges from Russia and China
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The Biden administration faces national security challenges in space as Vice President Kamala Harris prepares to chair her first Space Council meeting. Harris said early on that she wanted to emphasize issues such as climate change, cybersecurity, and education while chairing the council, according to Sarah Mineiro, an adjunct senior fellow with the Center for…
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Biden feels the heat from all sides on ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy
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President Joe Biden’s attempt to shed immigration and asylum policies he denounced as “inhumane” and “dangerous” on the campaign trail has become the most persistent operational and diplomatic crisis facing his administration, leaving him with few palatable options to handle a migration surge and adverse court rulings. Among the Trump administration policies Biden has sought…
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Biden slams new Georgia voting law as ‘designed to keep people from voting’
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President Joe Biden slammed a new law in Georgia that changed the state’s election requirements, calling it a “blatant attack on the Constitution” and “nothing but punitive.” Speaking to reporters outside of the White House on Friday, Biden said the new law is an “atrocity” that is “designed to keep people from voting.” The law…
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‘The apprentice’ Kamala Harris carves out growing diplomatic role under Biden
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As vice president, President Biden came to the role with a deep well of experience, particularly on foreign policy. Under Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris’s role is “more an apprentice position” than a Biden or Walter Mondale-like consigliere, according to Jack Lechelt, author of “The Vice Presidency in Foreign Policy: From Mondale to Cheney.” There…
