Electoral Count Act: Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, endorsed a bill to overhaul the 135-year-old law, enhancing the prospects of enacting the most substantial legislative response yet to the Jan.Spending Bill : Congress gave final approval to a short-term spending package to keep the government open through mid-December, staving off a shutdown and sending about $12.3 billion in aid to Ukraine.He had already planned to retire when his term ends in 2022.
Burr, 65, insisted throughout that he had acted within the law, but preemptively stepped down from his Intelligence Committee post to avoid distractions and adopted a low profile in the Senate. seized his cellphone - a highly invasive tactic for a sitting member of Congress that required signoff by Attorney General William P. Burr’s case proved far more complicated and included grand jury subpoenas and a search of his electronic storage accounts. Burr, then the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, had acted based on nonpublic information about the contagion that he received at senators-only briefings.Ī handful of other senators drew similar scrutiny for their trades over the same period and were cleared in the spring and summer. Burr since the sales were first disclosed in March. The decision by the department effectively cleared a cloud of legal jeopardy that has loomed over Mr. Burr, Republican of North Carolina, on Tuesday that it would not pursue insider trading charges against him, quietly ending a monthslong investigation into his dumping of hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock in the turbulent early days of the coronavirus pandemic. WASHINGTON - The Justice Department informed Senator Richard M.
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