A bipartisan Senate vote late Wednesday means senators will begin debate on an infrastructure package endorsed by members of both parties. The Senate voted 67–32 to break the filibuster and trigger debate on the package, which is listed as a House bill as Senate negotiators hammer out the package’s language. Republicans backing the package were: Sens. Roy Blunt (Mo.), Richard Burr … Continued
Nearly 230 Republican members of Congress told the Supreme Court on Thursday that it should overturn Roe v. Wade and release its “vise grip on abortion politics.” The new brief is the latest filing in a dispute that will be heard next term and represents the most significant abortion-related case the justices have taken up in nearly … Continued
A pro-energy group launched ads Thursday in West Virginia urging Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III to vote against Bureau of Land Management nominee Tracy Stone-Manning over her involvement in a 1989 tree-spiking plot. Power the Future’s six-figure ad buy focused on her decision as a graduate student to retype and mail an anonymous letter to authorities warning of spiked trees in Idaho’s Clearwater … Continued
The U.S. House of Representatives is reimposing a mask mandate after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) again altered its COVID-19-related guidance telling fully vaccinated people to wear masks in some indoor areas. In a memo issued late Tuesday, Brian Monahan, the Capitol’s attending physician, said that masks will once again be required … Continued
Members of Congress who have been pressing federal law enforcement officials unsuccessfully for months about the conditions and treatment of hundreds of Jan. 6 Capitol detainees will take their case to the doors of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday. They also want to know why federal law enforcement authorities were warned weeks before the breach, yet … Continued
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) is blocking a piece of Israel-related legislation over concerns that the measure’s language waters down support for the Jewish state, congressional sources confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon on Monday. Cruz will also introduce an amendment to the legislation that strips the contested language and replaces it with a statement enshrining American … Continued
Members of the House Freedom Caucus threw down the gauntlet, ostensibly challenging Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-12) with the motion to vacate the chair or oust the California Democrat from her perch, but the real challenge was to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23). “We, the House Freedom Caucus, respectfully request that you pursue the authorization of … Continued
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Sunday he regrets that his party opened the door to changing the filibuster, even as he sounded open to changing it further to exempt voting rights legislation from the 60-vote legislative threshold. When asked whether President Biden should support eliminating the filibuster, Warner pointed out that Democratic leadership in the Senate was … Continued
U.S. population growth is slowing, approaching zero, and even reversing in half of all states in 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported. Early estimates are the U.S. population amid COVID-19 grew by just 0.35% for the year ending July 1, 2020, and more people died than were born in half of U.S. states, up from just … Continued
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., on Sunday slammed President Joe Biden for further dividing the nation. In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Johnson railed at administration policies that have emphasized spending and weakened the military. “You talked about a divided nation, he should stop dividing the nation and he’s done nothing to unify … Continued
Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t backing off her plan to hold up a bipartisan infrastructure package until the Senate delivers a larger, Democratic-only plan expected later this year, prompting a rebuke from Senate Republicans. Pelosi said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” she was “enthusiastic” about the $579 billion bipartisan package and hopes the Senate passes it. … Continued
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday sent a criminal referral of Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice, in the aftermath of their contentious back-and-forth during a congressional hearing. The letter urges Attorney General Merrick Garland to probe Fauci over comments he made during a May congressional hearing. Fauci during the hearing claimed that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) … Continued
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