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As mandated by the US Constitution, on January 3rd at noon, a new Congress was convened. A global pandemic couldn’t stop one of the United States oldest traditions, and as the clock struck twelve, the 117th Congress was brought to order. For many, the process will be familiar territory. But …

President Donald Trump may be in hot water after his recorded call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger became public. House Representatives Ted Lieu (D.Calif) and Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y) called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to launch a criminal investigation into Trump’s Saturday call. The Washington Post broke the …

Nancy Pelosi won her fourth term as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Pelosi, who has led her party since 2003, won by a 216-109 vote. With little margin for error, Pelosi suffered only a handful of Democratic defections in her latest display of her ability to line up support, and …

In an extraordinary phone call on Saturday, President Donald Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes to overturn his loss in the November election to President-elect Joe Biden. First reported by The Washington Post, the stunning one hour call saw Trump repeating baseless conspiracies and …

On Friday, the Senate voted to override President Trump‘s veto of the $741 billion annual defense bill. In a rare bipartisan rebuke to the President, Senators voted 81-13 to enact the National Defense Authorization Act, well above the two-thirds majority needed to overturn the presidential veto. The bill initially passed both …

Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley plans to object when Congress meets to certify the Electoral Votes on January 6, which will force Congress to debate and then vote on the results of President-elect Joe Biden‘s win. Hawley’s objection will not determine if President-elect Joe Biden will become President; it will …

Lawmakers and senior staffers are mourning the loss of Representative-Elect Luke Letlow, who died of complications from COVID-19 on Tuesday. The 41-year-old Louisiana Republican was slated to succeed retiring Representative Ralph Abraham, whom he previously served as chief of staff.  The rising Republican star was passionate about having the opportunity …

The race to control the Senate is heating up. Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner ordered two counties to reverse a decision that removed more than 4,000 voters from the voting system. Judge Gardner says that the counties improperly relied on unverified change-of-address information to remove voters’ information. The majority of the …

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations has concluded their signature audit in Cobb County over the November election. Channel 2 Action News investigative reporter Justin Gray spoke with Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Tuesday evening and learned that only two mismatched signatures were discovered out of the 15,000 plus votes …

Donald Trump once said, “My whole life is about winning. I don’t lose often. I almost never lose.” and that mindset has led him to win by any means necessary. President Trump’s obsession with losing the 2020 presidential election has pushed him and the Republican National Committee into making questionable …

Congress has passed a new bill that requires carbon monoxide alarms in public housing. Last year, an NBC News investigation found that at least 13 public housing residents had died from carbon monoxide poisoning since 2003. The bill was part of the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package. “No family should worry …

Donald Trump has committed to a rally in Georgia next week to support the reelection campaigns of Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. During a normal election cycle, this would not be news, but 2020 has been everything but ordinary. Days before Trump reluctantly decided to continue to support the …

President Trump is still up to his selfish ways. Over the holiday weekend, Trump was the only person the nation could call on to stop a government shutdown from happening. The government’s fate, the unemployment benefits for millions of laid-off workers, and the future state of our economy rested in …

Virginia Sheriff’s deputy Aaron Hoffman was fired for advocating violence against Chief Justice John Roberts and several lawmakers and officials on social media. Hoffman denies the claims and says that his account was hacked. According to reports, in a post on Parler, he said that Roberts’s life “needs to be …

In a busy night in the Capitol, the House voted Monday to approve increasing the amount of the direct checks going out to many Americans from $600 to $2000. After calling the Covid relief bill a disgrace and signaling he may not sign it, President Trump signed the bill that includes the $600 payments on Sunday but continued to …