Democratic Senator Introduces First Federal Bill to Regulate Amazon’s Labor Practices and Quotas Democratic Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts introduced new rules for warehouse employers like Amazon, who often push their workers to work faster without enough breaks, which can lead to more ... 05/3/2024 - 10:13 am | View Link
Senator Roger Marshall's statement on Senate Democrats Farm Bill framework U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D., a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, issued the following statement after the Chairwoman, Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), released the ... 05/3/2024 - 6:29 am | View Link
Minnesota sports betting bill runs afoul of partisan rancor over state senator's burglary arrest A bill to legalize sports betting in Minnesota is in serious trouble, running afoul of the partisan rancor over the arrest of a state senator on a felony burglary charge ... 05/2/2024 - 10:42 am | View Link
Democratic senator aims at Amazon's labor practices with first federal bill regulating quotas Democratic Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., on Thursday introduced new legislation to regulate the use of productivity quotas by warehouse employers like Amazon, a tool critics have said encourages employees ... 05/2/2024 - 8:00 am | View Link
Gun safety bills may hinge on one senator's fate despite House support, likely passage Gun-safety measures were slated for votes on the Minnesota House floor late Monday although it wasn't clear if or when the Senate would consider the bills. "We are the House. We are going to continue ... 04/30/2024 - 2:04 am | View Link
Despite Biden and Trump now saying they will debate, neither party has contacted the Commission on Presidential Debates, says co-chair Frank Fahrenkopf, and likely won't until after their Conventions. After September 6, the last day any state determines who qualifies for the ballot, "we'll then know who meets the requirement of being on enough ballots to conceivably get 270 electoral votes."
Americans' mental health issues are not identified and treated as readily as physical symptoms, especially among children - in part due to a shortage of clinicians. "We're looking for ways to integrate mental health into settings where children and families are every day," says Dr. Tami Benton, President of The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
"The big issue in '68, it turned out, was not Vietnam - it was law and order," says historian James Traub. And for Biden, "The electoral danger is [protesters] offending the much larger group of voters to Biden's right." And his "narrow path" is to "take action in regard to Israel that will show that he shares some of their concernsin a way that does not identify him with the demonstrators."
Without cameras on Hope Hicks' testimony, media outlets were left with only a transcript to analyze why she broke down in tears. "It's a mistake to say Hope Hicks cried because she knew she just ended Donald Trump's career," says Elie Honig, "or she cried because she had just collapsed on cross-examine.
Why did SD Governor Kristi Noem decide to publish her story about killing her allegedly 'untrainable' dog? Her state's Senate Minority Leader offers three theories: Inoculation from others telling it; lifting her national profile - and distraction from her governing record.