Court-ordered redistricting is factor in exits of two GOP state lawmakers Their decisions have one thing in common – redistricting ... raising roughly $160,000 before the start of the legislative session. He’s now up to $180,300. The judge’s decision put him ... 04/26/2024 - 10:32 am | View Link
Iowa lawmakers gaveled out the session Saturday, here’s how leaders’ priorities fared Lawmakers started the session with a bold directive from Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, lawmakers accomplished the majority of the policy proposals laid out in her Condition of the State Address earlier this ... 04/19/2024 - 12:59 pm | View Link
Unpacking 2024: How Nebraska lawmakers avoided the dysfunction of the 2023 session How a bill becomes a law in the Nebraska Legislature LINCOLN — After the rancor of last year’s session of the Nebraska ... the Legislature will face a new set of challenges because of turnover. 04/18/2024 - 6:44 pm | View Link
Nebraska lawmakers will head to special session after Gov. Jim Pillen's property tax bill fails NOW HE’S TELLING SENATORS THEY’LL BE BACK SOON TO TRY AGAIN IN THE LAST DAY OF THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION, SENATORS COULD NOT AGREE ON THE TAX PACKAGE. GOVERNOR PILLEN TOLD SENATORS THAT WAS ... 04/18/2024 - 12:08 pm | View Link
Virginia lawmakers agree to extend budget talks as they take up Youngkin amendments, vetoes Lawmakers were meeting in Richmond for a one-day session to consider Youngkin’s ... a move that would have set up a likely budget veto, leaving lawmakers facing the looming prospect of a ... 04/17/2024 - 11:36 am | View Link
“The Federal Reserve voted to keep interest rates at a 23-year high on Wednesday, as the central bank tries to curb stubborn inflation,” NPR reports.
“Investors now think it could be September at the earliest before borrowing costs start to come down.”
Wall Street Journal: “Last year, as Mike Pompeo’s memoir, Never Give an Inch, made the rounds among China’s leaders, one passage in particular enraged Xi Jinping. The secretary of state under former President Donald Trump wrote that the U. S. should ‘grant full diplomatic recognition’ to Taiwan.”
“Xi’s anger at the remark foreshadowed a broader worry coursing through Beijing: What awaits China should Trump and his inner circle regain power?”
Florida’s six-week abortion ban took effect today.
That means abortion is now either banned or severely restricted in nearly the entire southern United States.
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Donald Trump will speak at the Libertarian National Convention on May 23rd in D. C., where the third party will gather to nominate its presidential ticket, Semafor reports.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s increasingly frequent appearances on conservative media platforms are beginning to raise alarms at Mar-a-Lago,” Politico reports.
“It’s another sign of the rising threat that Kennedy, the independent presidential candidate, poses to Trump.”
“In recent months, Kennedy has become a regular on Fox News and Newsmax, and he is now a staple on the conservative podcast circuit — being interviewed by the likes of Ben Shapiro, Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said that he has started drafting a censure resolution against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) following her comments that suggested some Jewish students at Columbia University are “pro-genocide,” the New York Times reports.