Senator Dick Durbin, the chamber's No. 2 Democrat, said the goal was to reach an agreement on Wednesday and have it ready for voting beginning on Thursday.
Lighthizer defended the Trump administration's record in shredding the status quo on trade and imposing unilateral tariffs on $370 billion worth of Chinese goods.
Biden, who served as vice president under the nation's first Black president, Barack Obama, has vowed to build a government that reflects the country's diversity.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump said the diplomats were attacked by some sort of secret weapon. Cuba has repeatedly said there is no evidence for that and denied...
The defense bill has passed both houses of the U.S. Congress by veto-proof margins, meaning any veto by Trump would likely be overridden as he faces the end of his...