Washington Today (12-6-23): Senate GOP blocks Ukraine aid, saying more U.S. border security needed
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48:33Now PlayingWashington Today (12-6-23): Senate GOP blocks Ukraine aid, saying more U.S. border security needed
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as posted by the channelPresident Joe Biden makes a last-minute appeal to Senate Republicans not to hold up a bill providing military aid to Ukraine because the bill does not have changes they want to U.S. immigration and border security laws, telling them, "This cannot wait" and "we can't let Putin win."
The Senate voted not to advance the bill 49-51, short of the 60 votes needed. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says his party is insisting on what he calls "meaningful changes to the border."
Attorney General Merrick Garland announces the first use of a U.S. war crimes law, with charges brought against four Russian military personnel for torturing an American citizen in Ukraine after Russia invaded.
U.S. House passes bill to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from going forward with new vehicle emissions regulations that are aimed at reducing the number of gas-powered cars and trucks on the road, and increasing the number of electric vehicles.
CEOs of the largest banks in the United States tell the Senate Banking Committee that new, proposed minimum big bank capital requirements would harm the economy.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) says he will resign from Congress at the end of the month. He was voted out of the speakership in October, the first House speaker in U.S. history to lose that job mid-session.
Supreme Court hears a case about job discrimination under the Civil Rights Act, asking the question – is it enough that worker be involuntarily transferred because she is a woman to trigger a claim, if the new position pays the same and is generally the same working conditions?
Norman Lear, legendary TV producer and founder of People For the American Way, has died at 101 years old. We will hear him from a 2014 BookTV appearance on C-SPAN about the controversial political issues on his 1970's sitcoms.
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