In 2011, VP Joe Biden led the Obama administration’s negotiations with Republicans to raise the debt limit and prevent a disastrous default on the nation’s debt. Now, a decade later, President Biden's administration is preparing for the sequel.
Speaking in Tulsa today to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Biden noted that: “The events we speak of today took place 100 years ago and yet I’m the first president to come to Tulsa.”
Part of this is because the Tulsa Race Massacre has attracted new attention from historians and racial justice advocates in recent years. But Biden has also beenwho, as the first Black president, was wary of the reaction that his involvement would generate from white voters.
WestExec paid Inglis $15,000 to consult for CrowdStrike and the encryption company Virtru, according to his personal financial disclosure. Inglis also consulted for other clients on his own, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the defense contractor ManTech International., Biden’s nominee to be the Energy Department’s general counsel, also revealed two dozen of his legal clients at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis.
Walsh pledged in his ethics agreement not to participate “in any particular matter involving specific parties in which I know a former client of mine is a party or represents a party for a period of one year after I last provided service to that client,” unless authorized to do so.
In a statement following the speech, Harris indicated she would be getting more involved in the Hill negotiations over the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. “We must protect the fundamental right to vote for all Americans regardless of where they live. There are two important bills in Congress that would do just that.
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