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“They may treat you like you’re expendable, but you are essential workers,” Sen. Sherrod Brown said as dining employees picketed.

Senate Banking Republicans provided the quorum the panel needed Wednesday to vote on Fed Chair Jerome Powell and other nominees.

Sarah Bloom Raskin’s nomination to be Federal Reserve vice chair of supervision has taken another hit as key Senate Democrat Joe Manchin suggests President Joe Biden’s other four central bank nominees move forward without her.

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) published a letter to the U.S. labor secretary on Feb. 15 arguing against the outsourcing of facial recognition and identity verification for unemployment insurance benefits to the private sector.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will be hit personally with sanctions by the United States, a Bloomberg reporter said on Twitter, citing Senator Sherrod Brown.

Senate Republicans have flexed their minority power to stop the confirmation process for several of President Joe Biden’s nominees.

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