Tennessee lawmakers pass state budget with $1B for two key bills yet to win approval The spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year includes money for a massive franchise tax cut and a statewide school voucher program. 04/18/2024 - 11:37 am | View Link
US aid to Ukraine moves closer to possible passage The U.S. Congress moved closer on Thursday to ending a months-long stalemate and voting on legislation to provide billions of dollars in security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, despite ... 04/18/2024 - 7:32 am | View Link
Arizona Republicans splinter over repeal of 1864 abortion ban The state has been in turmoil since its Supreme Court upheld a near-total abortion ban dating back to the Civil War. 04/17/2024 - 11:55 am | View Link
On the Hill: April 8-12 Legislative Roundup On Thursday, Gov. Bill Lee signed SB2576/HB2124 into law. It aims to require local police work with ICE whenever an undocumented person is detained. The law was the subject of a recent protest from ... 04/15/2024 - 3:50 am | View Link
Hot inflation may put Fed rate cut in thick of election season Hot U.S. inflation data has put the Federal Reserve's debate over a first interest rate cut on a potential collision course with the presidential election calendar, although a parade of top-level ... 04/11/2024 - 7:36 am | View Link
Former President Donald Trump railed against the gag order Judge Juan Merchan put in place that bars Trump from talking about witnesses, jurors, prosecutors' staff, court staff and the family members of court staff and prosecutors.
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to reporters after a bipartisan group of lawmakers voted to advance a bill that provides aid to Ukraine and Israel. Several hardline Republicans, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, were opposed to the bill. Republicans may move to oust him as House Speaker for allowing the vote.
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Rare is the member of Congress who represents a district that voted for the other party’s nominee for President. Gerrymandering has rendered those political survivors harder to find than unicorns while reducing the truly competitive House districts to so few they fit on a single whiteboard in strategists’ offices.
The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration.
The new provisions are part of a revised Title IX regulation issued by the Education Department, fulfilling a campaign pledge by President Joe Biden.
Colorado lawmakers have again rejected a bill that would have allowed supervised drug-use sites to open in willing cities — the third time in a year legislators have killed the proposal.
On Thursday night, two Democratic senators joined with the Senate Health and Human Service Committee’s three Republicans in voting to kill House Bill 1028, two weeks after it passed the House.