Legislative Topic: Congress

House passes H.R. 4 election takeover bill restoring DOJ preclearance authority over all state and local election laws, including redistricting and absentee ballots

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The House of Representatives on Aug. 24 passed H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, by a vote of 219 to 212, legislation that would give preclearance authority over any change to state or municipal election laws, including redistricting and absentee ballots, to the U.S. Attorney General or alternately, to the U.S. District Court … Continued

Republicans pressure Biden to flex military might in evacuating Americans

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Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican, called Sunday for “flexing our military muscles” to bring Americans home from Afghanistan as pressure built for the Biden administration to get tougher on evacuating the thousands left stranded. “We should be doing everything possible to get Americans safely to the airport for evacuation,” said Ms. Ernst on ABC’s “This Week.” “We are the … Continued

Biden’s ‘transformative vision,’ Democrats’ plans unfazed by meltdown in Afghanistan

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The chaos in Afghanistan may have changed global headlines, but it has done little to shake Democrats from their course at home. House members return to Capitol Hill on Monday to begin advancing the party’s $3.5 trillion makeover of the American social safety net. Debates about welcoming tens of thousands of Afghan migrants did nothing to derail Democrats’ hopes … Continued

Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Funds Removing Carbon Dioxide From the Air

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If the driver of climate change is too much carbon dioxide, then one solution is to remove that gas from the air. The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate on Aug. 10 includes massive investments in direct air capture technologies to do just that. These technologies have elicited interest from the private sector and other governments as … Continued

GOP lawmaker aims to block Taliban from accessing international funds

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A Republican congressman on Friday introduced legislation aimed at blocking the Taliban in Afghanistan from accessing the International Monetary Fund. Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.), the ranking member of the House Financial Services subcommittee on national security, authored the bill as an effort to build on early steps that seek to cut off the Taliban from accessing the … Continued

Wittman, Stefanik Announce Bill to Establish Afghanistan Commission

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Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA) and Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), senior members of the House Armed Services Committee, today announced legislation to establish the National Commission on the United States’ Involvement in Afghanistan. This Commission, modeled after previous national commissions such as the 9/11 Commission, would be tasked with conducting a full review and report on … Continued

Senate Moderates Joining With House Moderates, Imperiling Biden’s Agenda

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Troubles continue among congressional Democrats’ loose coalition of members as moderates in both chambers try to pull the party towards the center and progressives try to push it further left. Recently, Democrats have squabbled over whether Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) $3.5 trillion budget resolution and the $1.2 trillion Senate-passed infrastructure bill should be considered together. … Continued

44 Senate Republicans Demand John Durham Report Be Made Public

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The pending report from special counsel John Durham, who was tasked with investigating the origins of the FBI’s Trump–Russia probe, should be released to the public, Senate Republicans argued in a letter this week. More than 40 Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), signed a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking that Durham, a … Continued

Crenshaw Debunks the ‘Endless Wars’ Fallacy . .

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Dan Crenshaw may be a rising Republican star thanks to his ability to speak with uncommon pointed clarity on the issues of the day. But his latest op-ed on Afghanistan is the fruit of his intellect and his experience: “He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2012 as a member of the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team … Continued

House hearing on Afghan chaos to start early next week, Pelosi says

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The House Foreign Affairs Committee’s hearing on the disaster in Afghanistan will begin early next week with testimony from “the highest level” administration officials, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. “That is Congress’s role, the role of oversight, and that will take place early next week — at least it will begin then,” the California Democrat told … Continued

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