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President Biden calls on Congress to move quickly on his COVID relief package to mitigate the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and get the economy moving again. "We're in a national emergency. We need to act like we're in a national emergency, " he says. The president makes the remarks prior to signing two executive orders expanding food stamps and beginning the process to require federal agencies to pay a $15 minimum wage.

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White House Press Secretary Psaki says President Biden ordered a threat assessment to include analyzing the threat of domestic violent extremism following the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

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The Senate votes 93-2 to confirm Retired General Lloyd Austin as secretary of Defense.

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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he has proposed to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that the article of impeachment not be sent over to the Senate until next Thursday and that that former President Trump have an opportunity to prepare a defense for a trial to begin on February 11. Senator Schumer has said that the article will be sent over from the House on Monday, which would likely mean that the impeachment trial would start on Tuesday instead.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) informs his colleagues that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will send over the article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump. The majority leader says there will be a trial and that it will be a fair one.

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The Senate votes 67-23 to approve a waiver for Retired General Lloyd Austin to serve as secretary of Defense.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, says that based on the information at hand, it doesn't appear the South African COVID strain is in the U.S. However, he says that the level of sequence surveillance hasn't been where the administration would like it to be and that they will be looking for it very closely in the weeks and months ahead. He also says the goal of 100 million vaccines in the first 100 days is "quite a reasonable goal" and that if 70 to 85 percent of the population is vaccinated by the summer, "then the country will have a degree of normality that will take a lot of pressure off the American public."

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The House debate and approves (326-78) a waiver for Retired General Lloyd Austin to serve as Defense secretary in the Biden administration.

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President Biden says that the public can expect the death toll from the coronavirus to top 500,000 in February and warns that it will take some time to fight the pandemic and bring it to an end. "Things are going to get worse before they get better... But help is on the way," he says.

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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy responds to a question about his Senate counterpart, Senator Mitch McConnell blaming President Trump for the mob attack on the Capitol, saying, "I don't believe he provoked it if you listen to what he said at the rally."

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