Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch Amid rising tensions and an approaching hard deadline, the U.S. House and Senate ended their work week on Thursday without a deal to fund the federal government past the end of the month. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who has been struggling to build consensus among …
Read More »Rep. Veronica Escobar Leads Push To Keep Guns From Those Convicted Of Hate Crimes
Matthew Choi, The Texas Tribune U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, led a group of lawmakers in introducing a bill Wednesday that would bar those convicted of violent misdemeanor hate crimes from obtaining guns. The bill, dubbed the Disarm Hate Act, comes four years after a gunman shot and killed …
Read More »Democrats Push To Extend Child Care Grant Program
Samantha Dietel, Florida Phoenix Congressional Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday to extend funding for five years for a pandemic-era child care subsidy program set to expire at the end of the month. The legislation would extend the child care stabilization grant program, which Congress established in 2021 to help child …
Read More »White House Slams ‘baseless’ House GOP Impeachment Inquiry As ‘political stunt’
Ashley Murray, South Dakota Searchlight The White House is lambasting the House GOP’s decision to open an impeachment inquiry into unproven allegations that President Joe Biden profited from his son’s international business scheme during his time as vice president in the Obama administration. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy announced …
Read More »Fulton DA Argues For October Start Of Trial Of 19 Charged With Georgia 2020 Election Interference
Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office remains committed to its longshot plans of prosecuting former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants at the same time next month in the broad racketeering 2020 election interference case. District Attorney Fani Willis argued on Tuesday that the 2024 …
Read More »US Child Poverty Rate More Than Doubled in 2022 Thanks to Manchin and GOP
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and congressional Republicans faced fresh backlash on Tuesday after the U.S. Census Bureau released new data showing that the nation’s child poverty rate more than doubled in 2022 compared to the previous year, thanks in large part to the expiration of the boosted Child Tax Credit. …
Read More »U.S. Senate Judiciary Republicans: Book Bans Aren’t Bans
Piper Hutchinson, Louisiana Illuminator Editor’s note: The following article includes explicit language Republicans on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee argued thousands of book bans across the country were not bans at all during a hearing Tuesday. Most of the Republicans on the committee took the stance that taxpayer-funded libraries removing …
Read More »House Conservatives Balk At Short-Term Funding Patch That Would Avert Shutdown
Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch The most conservative Republicans in the U.S. House announced Tuesday they won’t support the short-term spending bill that’s needed to stop a partial government shutdown from beginning on Oct. 1. Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, said the group is not interested in …
Read More »Speaker McCarthy Tells Committees To Launch Biden Impeachment Inquiry
Ariana Figueroa, Georgia Recorder U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday announced that he has directed several House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into unproven GOP allegations that President Joe Biden profited from his son’s business dealings when he was vice president in the Obama administration. “These allegations …
Read More »VP Kamala Harris Hosts Hip Hop 50th Anniversary Event At Her Residence
Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip-hop on Saturday with over 400 guests and a lineup of artists at her home. In this unique celebration, Harris acknowledged the profound impact of hip-hop on the world and its significance within the Black community. Harris emphasized that hip-hop is …
Read More »Trump Demands Recusal of Judge Chutkan in Federal Jan. 6 Case for ‘Doing Her Job’
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal team on Monday asked the judge overseeing his federal election interference case—stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 results and him provoking the January 6, 2021 insurrection—to recuse herself, citing comments she made during cases involving some of his …
Read More »Food and Drug Administration Approves COVID Boosters For Upcoming Season
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the latest round of COVID-19 boosters, as public health officials brace for another cold and flu season. An advisory panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is scheduled to vote on recommendations Tuesday, the final step in the process …
Read More »US Has Faced a Record 23 Billion-Dollar Extreme Weather Disasters in 2023
As a historically hot summer nears its end, U.S. government scientists on Monday announced that the nation endured 23 separate weather and climate disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage from January to August—setting a new annual record with four months of the year left. The previous record …
Read More »New Mexico Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Gun Violence
Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an executive order saying gun violence in the state “constitutes a statewide public health emergency of unknown duration.” The order issued on Sept. 8 encourages local mayors and sheriff’s offices to ask for “an emergency proclamation and implementation …
Read More »What Congress Still Has To Do To Fund The Government
Amanda Becker Originally published by The 19th When the U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate back in Washington this week, both chambers will be racing to complete the annual government-funding process and avoid a shutdown at the end of September. Among the major sticking points are proposals offered by …
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