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The U.S. Senate passes 62–33 a non-binding resolution barring the Biden administration from removing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
2022-05-6

U.S. President Joe Biden condemns Belarus for the hijacking and the arrest of Protasevich, and he says that his administration will "develop appropriate options". U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) urge Biden to ban flights to the country.
2021-05-24

U.S. Senator and 2008 presidential nominee John McCain (R–AZ) dies at the age of 81.
2018-08-25

The Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives votes in favor of the repeal of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and passage of the House's 2017 American Health Care Act, by a narrow, 217–213 vote. Twenty Republicans and all Democrats opposed the bill, which now heads to the United States Senate for its legislative action.
2017-05-4

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders wins the Indiana Democratic primary.
2016-05-3

Further suspicious letters are found addressed to President Barack Obama and to members of the United States Senate.
2013-04-17

A proposal to tighten gun control in the United States fails in a Senate vote.
2013-04-17

Moody's downgrades the credit rating of 15 major world banks: UK (The Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and HSBC), US (Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan), Rest of world (Credit Suisse, UBS, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Société Générale, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Morgan Stanley).
2012-06-21

The United Kingdom's largest bank HSBC doubles its profits to $19bn (£11.8bn) in 2010.
2011-02-28

U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican from Texas, announces she will not seek re-election in 2012.
2011-01-13