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According to TASS news agency, the Argentine Senate passed a motion with 46 votes in favor and 15 votes against, asking the government to provide reports on the LIBRA scandal. At the same time, the Senate rejected the proposal to establish an investigative committee. Although 47 senators supported it, it did not meet the 48-vote threshold for initiation and ultimately failed to pass. Meanwhile, a proposal to set up a parliamentary committee to investigate the scandal was rejected. The proposal w...
On January 28, the market news: The US Senate confirmed Scott Bessant as Treasury Secretary by a vote of 68 to 29.
Market news: The U.S. Senate confirmed Scott Bessant as Treasury Secretary by a vote of 68 to 29.
On January 21 local time, the US Senate Finance Committee voted 16 to 11 to approve the nomination of Scott Bessent to serve as Secretary of the Treasury in the Trump administration, and submitted the nomination to the Senate for a final confirmation vote. If approved, Bessent will become one of the important spokespeople of the new US administration on economic policy, with huge influence on fiscal policy, financial regulation, international sanctions and overseas investment.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill with 236 votes in favor and 173 against, which plans to add 66 federal judges nationwide to ease the shortage of federal court staff.
The US House of Representatives voted unanimously on September 20 local time with 405 votes in favor and 0 votes against a bill aimed at strengthening the protection of the US Secret Service for major US presidential and vice presidential candidates. The bill is called the Enhanced Presidential Security Act. The bill directs the director of the US Secret Service to adopt uniform standards to protect the president, vice president, and major presidential and vice presidential candidates of the Uni...
