David Sherfinski

Rep. Mikie Sherrill: Members hosted groups in Capitol for ‘reconnaissance’ the day before attack

Rep. Mikie Sherrill, New Jersey Democrat, says there were members of Congress who provided "reconnaissance" missions to people inside the U.S. Capitol the day before rioters attacked the building.

January 13, 2021

Rep. Jason Crow: GOP colleagues are scared they’ll be killed if they vote for impeachment

Rep. Jason Crow, Colorado Democrat, said Wednesday that Republican members of Congress are scared they'll be killed if they vote to impeach President Trump.

January 13, 2021

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘I thought I was going to die’ in Capitol siege

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she feared "White supremacist" colleagues would put her in harm's way during the siege of the Capitol and other House Democrats suggested the rioters had inside help from members of Congress.

January 13, 2021

Joe Biden names Samantha Power as pick to lead USAID

President-elect Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday named Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Obama administration, as his pick to lead the U.S. Agency for International Development.

January 13, 2021

Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO president, hopes Joe Biden most ‘pro-worker’ president since Lyndon Johnson

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Tuesday prodded President-elect Joseph R. Biden to champion labor union expansion and spend trillions of dollars to prop up the coronavirus-ravaged economy.

January 12, 2021

Kamala Harris says impeachment is up to Congress

Vice President-elect Sen. Kamala D. Harris declined to weigh in on whether she personally supports impeaching President Trump for inciting a violent mob at the U.S. Capitol last week.

January 12, 2021

Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO chief, says impeachment push can’t delay labor agenda

Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, said Tuesday that Congress can't let the impeachment push delay other early priorities of the incoming Biden administration and allies of labor.

January 12, 2021

Trump is ‘most masculine’ president ever, campaign spokesman says

President Trump is the most "masculine" person to ever hold the office, a spokesman for Mr. Trump's campaign said Monday.

January 11, 2021

Joe Biden hoping Senate can split impeachment with other priorities

President-elect Joseph R. Biden on Monday said he is looking for ways that the Senate could hold an impeachment trial for President Trump while working on the new administration's agenda.

January 11, 2021

Joe Biden gets second dose of coronavirus vaccine

President-elect Joseph R. Biden received a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at a Delaware hospital Monday.

January 11, 2021

House Democrats reveal new impeachment resolution

House Democrats failed Monday in their first bid to punish President Trump after his supporters' attack on the Capitol, but they plan to spend the rest of this week attempting to make him the first president ever to be impeached twice.

January 11, 2021

Joe Biden, former presidents to lay wreath at Arlington after swearing-in

President-elect Joseph R. Biden will lay a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery with several of his predecessors as one of his first acts after being sworn into office on Jan. 20.

January 11, 2021

William Burns, Joe Biden CIA director nominee, named

President-elect Joseph R. Biden on Monday announced William Burns as his pick for CIA director, turning to a career diplomat for his choice to lead the intelligence agency.

January 11, 2021

Joe Biden: Good that Trump isn’t coming to inauguration

President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Friday he's glad President Trump won't be attending his inauguration on Jan. 20.

January 8, 2021

Joe Biden: Trump impeachment up to Congress

President-elect Joseph R. Biden said it's up to Congress whether lawmakers pursue impeaching President Trump.

January 8, 2021

Joe Biden: Bernie Sanders and I agreed we need him in the Senate after Georgia elections

President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Friday that Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont agreed that he should stay in the U.S. Senate rather than join Mr. Biden's administration as labor secretary.

January 8, 2021

Ted Cruz: Donald Trump bears some responsibility for Capitol siege, ‘angry rhetoric’ was reckless

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said Thursday that President Trump bears some responsibility for the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

January 8, 2021

Joe Biden taps Marty Walsh for labor secretary, Gina Raimondo for commerce

President-elect Joseph R. Biden is expected to name Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as his pick for labor secretary and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo as his pick for commerce secretary, according to multiple reports Thursday.

January 7, 2021

Joe Biden: Police would have treated BLM protesters more harshly than pro-Trump forces at Capitol

President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Thursday that police would have cracked down harder on the mob storming the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday if it had been Black Lives Matter protesters rather than a pro-Trump crowd.

January 7, 2021

Joe Biden: Assault by ‘domestic terrorists’ a culmination of Trump’s attacks on democracy

President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Thursday that the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was the culmination of President Trump's yearslong assault on U.S. democratic institutions.

January 7, 2021