Democrats had already scaled back the proposal to four weeks from 12 weeks as they worked to shrink the cost of the bill amid resistance from centrist holdouts.
Over the past two years, nine states have enacted laws to bar transgender girls and women from competing in girls’ and women’s sports. Another relied on an executive order for a ban.
Some U.S. lawmakers say they have not given up on the idea of a tax on planet-warming carbon dioxide pollution, which would help meet the president’s meet promise to sharply cut U.S. emissions.
Black women achieved a historic milestone as mayors of eight major American cities this year. Political analysts say the record number points to “the age of Black women in politics.”
The Biden administration included schools, hospitals and places of worship on a list of areas off limits to immigration arrests or other types of enforcement.
The heads of Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron and BP will testify Thursday in the first congressional inquiry into industry efforts to hinder action on climate change.