Today, McConnell and his wife have an estimated net worth of $35 million. McConnell is one of the longest serving Senators, and his wife Elaine has also had a successful career in politics.
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For months, Capitol Hill has been debating the passage of both the Infrastructure bill and the Biden Build Back Better Spending plan. Democratic moderates Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) have shown a lack of support for the spending bill, while in the House, members of the Progressive Caucus have vowed not to vote for the infrastructure bill unless it was tied to passage of the Build Back Better spending plan.
As gas prices have reached a national average of $3.42 per gallon, consumers debate whether the United States was ever energy independent. Former President Trump argued in early 2020 that America had finally attained the goal of energy independence, while pundits on the left argued that America has never met this criteria. So, were we ever truly energy dependent?
On Monday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made a statement that has left conservatives reeling. Initially, Buttigieg, who drew criticism amid the supply chain crisis when the public learned he had been on family leave for two months, made a comment along the lines that "racism" was built into the nation's highways.
On Tuesday, the embattled Loudoun County School Board held its regular meeting, and the Board heard from enraged parents once more. In the past few months, the Loudoun County School District has been under fire from parents. At the Tuesday evening meeting, parents presented a petition that would recall current school board chairperson Brenda Sheridan.
Who is Bjorn Lomborg? Is he a climate change denier? His frequent appearances on Fox News has earned him a reputation for being "anit-climate change," but, Lomborg is actually someone who believes in climate change. He is the head of a think tank organization, the Copenhagen Consensus Center; through his think tank, Lomborg promotes common sense solutions to environmental issues.
After September's disappointing jobs report, the October jobs report offered some hope as employers added 531,000 jobs and unemployment fell from 4.8 percent in September to 4.6 percent. Job creation is roaring back, and nearly every industry demonstrated strong hiring in areas from restaurants to healthcare to retailers.
Consumers are already upset over the skyrocketing fuel prices; however, on Monday, talk regarding possibly shutting down yet another pipeline fueled even more concern regarding the economy at this time. Politico originally released a story stating that the Biden Administration "is currently exploring the possibility of taking action to terminate the operation of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline."
As the Biden Administration as well as the Fed's Chairman Jerome Powell continue to blame the current economic inflation crisis on supply chain "bottlenecks" and pandemic-induced shortages, the trucking industry warns that a looming vaccine mandate could decimate the trucking industry. If so, then this could only add to the supply chain crisis.
Joe Biden was sworn into the office of President of the United States on January 20, 2021. He is the 46th and current president of the United States. Biden was a Senator representing the state of Delaware for nearly four decades.