Washington Week-ly News Quiz: February 23, 2017

Democrats prepared to elect a new leader, while CPAC got underway and Washington Week turned 50! Catch up on all of it with our news quiz:

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Law enforcement officials testify on security failures during siege at U.S. Capitol

February 24, 2021

The men who were in charge of security during the U.S. Capitol assault told their stories in public on Tuesday for the first time. Their testimony at a Senate hearing was a tale of bad communications, bad intelligence and blame-laying.
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Trump’s politics hurt his businesses. Will he sell as he looks to a potential 2024 campaign?

February 24, 2021

Donald Trump’s new office is the Mar-a-Lago Club’s old bridal suite. There — exiled from Washington, avoiding New York, working from a repurposed dressing room in Florida — the former president faces a choice.
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How the White House botched the Neera Tanden nomination

February 24, 2021

Just about everyone in Washington, D.C., could see that Neera Tanden’s nomination to head the Office of Management and Budget was beleaguered from the beginning — everyone, that is, except the White House.
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Biden Marks Covid Milestone in Emotional White House Ceremony

February 23, 2021

President Biden urged the nation on Monday night to “resist becoming numb to the sorrow” that the novel coronavirus had inflicted, marking the staggering milestone of more than a half-million Americans dead from the pandemic in a solemn ceremony at t
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Merrick Garland tells senators Capitol riot investigation will be his first priority as attorney general

February 23, 2021

Attorney general nominee Merrick Garland said Monday that, if confirmed, his first order of business will be the sprawling investigation into the U.S.
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Republican senators who voted to convict Trump face political peril at home

February 23, 2021

It is a time of political peril for the seven Republican senators who voted to convict the dominant figure of their party. State and local Republican parties have censured -- or are thinking about censuring -- several of those senators.
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President Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Push

February 19, 2021

President Joe Biden said America is back during a speech at a virtual Munich Security Conference. The panel discussed Biden’s plans to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran, and re-committing the country to NATO.
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Biden sets deadlines for the COVID response as the GOP debates its future

February 19, 2021

President Joe Biden held his first town hall this week, answering about the vaccine rollout and his plans to get the country through the pandemic. The panel discussed where the Biden administration stands on the push to reopen classrooms, the government's response to Texas’s debilitating winter storm, and the cold war between Sen. Mitch McConnell and former President Donald Trump. CBS Senior White House Correspondent Weijia Jiang guest moderates.
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President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Agenda

February 12, 2021

As the Senate grapples with impeachment, President Joe Biden kept the pandemic at the forefront of his agenda this week. While COVID-19 case numbers fall, new contagious variants of the virus could undo the progress.

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Washington Week-ly News Quiz: February 23, 2017

Law enforcement officials testify on security failures during siege at U.S. Capitol

Trump’s politics hurt his businesses. Will he sell as he looks to a potential 2024 campaign?

How the White House botched the Neera Tanden nomination

Biden Marks Covid Milestone in Emotional White House Ceremony

Merrick Garland tells senators Capitol riot investigation will be his first priority as attorney general

Republican senators who voted to convict Trump face political peril at home

President Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Push

Biden sets deadlines for the COVID response as the GOP debates its future

President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Agenda

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