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The SEC is reportedly looking into a senator and his brother-in-law dumping stock ahead of the COVID-19 market crash
The SEC's filings come as the agency seeks to compel Fauth to comply with a subpoena that he has do…
Matthew Fox
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Top senators propose bipartisan panel to investigate COVID's origin and the US response
If passed into law, there would be another investigation into the pandemic's origin.
Brent D. Griffiths
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The SEC could be the last, best hope to keep members of Congress from insider trading. The agency already has one Republican senator on its radar.
The agency's investigation of Sen. Richard Burr presents a test of the SEC's appetite for keeping m…
C. Ryan Barber
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'Shocking and disappointing': North Carolina GOP slams Burr for voting to convict Trump in impeachment trial
Burr, a reliable conservative, was one of 7 Republicans who crossed party lines on Saturday to conv…
John L. Dorman
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2 top Republicans slam Biden for relying on student-loan relief to 'save Democrats from a disastrous midterm election'
GOP Rep. Virginia Foxx and Sen. Richard Burr wrote an opinion piece criticizing broad student-debt …
Ayelet Sheffey
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Congress isn't satisfied with Biden's extension of the student-loan payment pause — Democrats want more, and the GOP wants less
The GOP said the extra relief would cost taxpayers and hurt the economy. Democrats don't see why Bi…
Ayelet Sheffey
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GOP Sen. Richard Burr is opposing Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson over 'court packing,' which she has no control over
The question of expanding the Supreme Court is up to Congress, not the federal judiciary, to decide.
Oma Seddiq,C. Ryan Barber
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4 Republican lawmakers ask how much student debt costs taxpayers and slam Biden's 'complete incompetence' in disclosing that
Top GOP lawmakers Virginia Foxx and Richard Burr cited Biden's "lack of transparency and cooperatio…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Top Republican says Biden's pandemic team has 'lost' Americans' trust
"I'm at the end of my rope," Sen. Richard Burr said, adding that the Biden White House has "squande…
Brent D. Griffiths
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The DOJ has closed its investigation into Senator Burr's $1.7 million stock trades during the pandemic
No charges have been brought against Sen. Burr by the DOJ over his stock trades, reports say. He sa…
Kevin Shalvey
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The North Carolina GOP rebuked its senator who voted to convict Trump, the latest in a backlash from the MAGA-loving grassroots
"My party's leadership has chosen loyalty to one man over the core principles of the Republican Par…
Tom Porter
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Sen. Richard Burr will step down as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee while the FBI investigates his stock trades
On Wednesday, The Los Angeles Times reported that the FBI had seized a cell phone belonging to Burr…
Grace Panetta,Sonam Sheth
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Why 2 top Republicans are 'deeply concerned' about the student-loan payment restart in 4 months
Rep. Virginia Foxx and Sen. Richard Burr said Biden's "lack of clarity" on the payment restart "is …
Ayelet Sheffey
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The DOJ is closing its insider trading inquiries into 3 senators but is still investigating GOP Sen. Richard Burr
Burr stepped down as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee last week after it surfaced that…
Sonam Sheth
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The DOJ has dropped its probe into 3 US senators who dumped stock work millions shortly before the coronavirus market crash
Sens. Kelly Loeffler, James Inhofe, and Dianne Feinstein have said money managers sold the stock wi…
Tom Porter
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Lindsey Graham calls Lara Trump 'the biggest winner' in father-in-law second impeachment trial
Graham said Richard Burr, who voted to convict Trump, "just made Lara Trump almost the certain nomi…
Taylor Ardrey
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We lost the war in Afghanistan — time to come home
The US has suffered thousands of losses and spent trillions of dollars in Afghanistan and has nothi…
Henry Blodget,David Plotz
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The FBI seized Republican Sen. Richard Burr's cell phone as part of an investigation into potential insider trading related to coronavirus
Sen. Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, sold off much of his portfoli…
Charles Davis,Sonam Sheth
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GOP Sen. Richard Burr's brother-in-law, a Trump appointee, dumped up to $280,000 in stocks the same day Burr did before the market plunged
Burr is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has access to the federal governme…
Sonam Sheth
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GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz may have violated House rules by shelling out $184,000 in taxpayer funds to rent office space from a longtime friend and donor
Rep. Matt Gaetz's rental agreement with the donor, Collier Merrill, appears to violate House rules.