Congress has left for the Easter/Passover break; but not before the Senate took the historic action of confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court.  The final vote was anticlimactic as several weeks ago swing Democratic Senator Joe Manchin had announced his support for Judge Jackson, and in recent days Republicans Collins, Romney and Murkowski announced their support.  The final vote was 53 to 47.

In a rare moment of genuine bipartisanship the House and Senate passed resolution stripping Russia of the trade advantages gained by being granted Most Favored Nation (MFN) or Normal Trade Relations (NTR) in bilateral trade.  The House vote was 420 to 3 and the Senate vote was 100 to 0.  The three NO votes in the House were cast by Marjorie Taylor Greene (R,GA), Thomas Massie (R, KY) and Matt Gaetz (R, FL).

In a Congress that is deeply divided on nearly every issue Vladimir Putin has done the impossible by getting a substantive bill through the Senate on a vote of 100 to 0!  The vote demonstrates the broad support the Biden Administration’s Ukraine policy has in the Congress, and that nearly all Republicans are walking away from former President Trump’s embrace of President Putin. 

The week also saw...

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