Ken Buck to Retire Next Week, Narrowing GOP’s House Majority
Political News
Ken Buck to Retire Next Week, Narrowing GOP's House Majority
2024-03-12 22:04:37
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., stunned many of his colleagues on Tuesday, announcing that he’d moved up his pending departure from the House from the end of his term to the end of next week. Buck’s decision was the... Read More

Congress Warned US Competition for Biotechnology Creates Promises and Perils
Congress
Congress Warned US Competition for Biotechnology Creates Promises and Perils
2024-03-07 20:37:21
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — New scientific discoveries mean the future is bright for biotechnology but laced with many dangers in the competition with China, according to expert witnesses at a congressional hearing Wednesday. China’s military dominance of its industries means its biotechnology... Read More

Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Protect Americans Against Foreign Adversaries
Technology
Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Protect Americans Against Foreign Adversaries
2024-03-07 20:28:49
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan bill in the House seeks to protect Americans from the prying eyes of foreign adversaries by tightening their reins on ByteDance applications, including TikTok. The bill, introduced by Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and... Read More

Action on PBMs Not Likely Before Post-Election Lame Duck Session
Health
Action on PBMs Not Likely Before Post-Election Lame Duck Session
2024-03-05 21:58:27
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Congress last week abandoned plans to try to reform how pharmacy benefit managers operate, casting aside bipartisan proposals many had hoped would be included in the package being taken up this week to fund the federal government. Drugmakers... Read More

House Passes Short-Term Spending Bill to Avert Shutdown
Federal Budget
House Passes Short-Term Spending Bill to Avert Shutdown
2024-02-29 21:22:58
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a two-tiered short-term spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown this weekend. The measure now moves to the Senate, where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has said it could pass as... Read More

House Republicans Raise Questions About EV Charger Program
Energy
House Republicans Raise Questions About EV Charger Program
2024-02-27 18:53:27
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are raising questions about the implementation of the Biden administration’s electric vehicle charger subsidy program. In a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, a trio... Read More

Government Begins Preparing for Partial Shutdown
Federal Budget
Government Begins Preparing for Partial Shutdown
2024-02-23 16:27:30
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Federal agencies got their first concrete indication the threat of a looming government shutdown is getting serious on Friday, as the White House Office of Management and Budget began circulating its guidance to those who will be impacted... Read More

Congress Seeks Stronger Response to Chinese Cyberthreat
Congress
Congress Seeks Stronger Response to Chinese Cyberthreat
2024-02-15 21:19:13
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — Defense policy analysts described data vulnerabilities for a congressional panel Thursday they said China could exploit to shut down broad segments of U.S. infrastructure. They said China’s lead in manufacturing high-tech equipment has exposed the United States to... Read More

James Clyburn Steps Down From House Leadership Role
Congress
James Clyburn Steps Down From House Leadership Role
2024-02-14 22:30:48
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., whose influence during the 2020 South Carolina Democratic primary helped propel President Joe Biden to the White House, said Thursday he is stepping down from his party leadership position in the House. In a... Read More

Rep. McMorris Rodgers Not Seeking Reelection
Congress
Rep. McMorris Rodgers Not Seeking Reelection
2024-02-08 20:53:21
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., a well-respected establishment Republican who rose to chair the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee in a career spanning two decades, announced Thursday that she will not seek reelection this year. The stunning... Read More

Conservatives Tell Congress ‘Zuckerbucks’ Threaten the Integrity of Elections
Political News
Conservatives Tell Congress ‘Zuckerbucks’ Threaten the Integrity of Elections
2024-02-07 21:40:58
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — A conservative public policy advocate told a congressional panel Wednesday that charitable grants to fund local elections pose a risk of shifting votes toward liberal special interests. “We have allowed the private takeover of government election offices by... Read More

Crash, Bang, Boom: Mayorkas Impeachment Vote Goes Down in Stunner
Congress
Crash, Bang, Boom: Mayorkas Impeachment Vote Goes Down in Stunner
2024-02-07 18:03:55
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — For the second time in two years, House Republicans delivered unto C-SPAN one of the best cliffhangers on television. After vowing for weeks that they would impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his — and the Biden... Read More

Fair Housing Advocates Ask Congress for Protection From AI Abuses
Housing
Fair Housing Advocates Ask Congress for Protection From AI Abuses
2024-01-31 21:20:01
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — Computer engineers have controlled artificial intelligence in the financial sector so far but now lawyers and regulators need to oversee the emerging field to avoid injustices, according to housing industry experts at a congressional hearing Wednesday. Otherwise, algorithms... Read More

Policy Advisor Warns Against Strong US Military Response in Red Sea
Congress
Policy Advisor Warns Against Strong US Military Response in Red Sea
2024-01-30 21:30:57
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — An international policy advisor told a congressional panel Tuesday the United States appears to be walking into a trap with its military strategy in the Red Sea, possibly causing long-term economic and foreign relations damage. The U.S. military... Read More

Longtime Maryland Congressman to Retire
Congress
Longtime Maryland Congressman to Retire
2024-01-26 22:33:38
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., is retiring from Congress after serving the constituents of Maryland’s 2nd Congressional District for 11 terms. In a video released Friday, Ruppersberger, who legally adopted his nickname, “Dutch,” after realizing it would fit... Read More

Government Officials Advocate for Nuclear Energy During Congressional Hearing
Energy
Government Officials Advocate for Nuclear Energy During Congressional Hearing
2024-01-18 23:27:02
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — Government energy officials told a congressional panel Thursday that emerging technologies could make nuclear power a safe and cost-efficient way of helping the United States achieve energy independence. “We have an opportunity to reestablish U.S. global nuclear leadership... Read More

Scalise Undergoes Stem Cell Transplant
Congress
Scalise Undergoes Stem Cell Transplant
2024-01-05 20:17:54
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., announced Friday that he has successfully completed chemotherapy treatments for a form of blood cancer known as multiple myeloma, and is undergoing a stem cell transplant today. The statement released by Scalise’s... Read More

Colorado’s Lamborn Won’t Seek Reelection to Congress
Congress
Colorado’s Lamborn Won’t Seek Reelection to Congress
2024-01-05 20:11:49
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., a nine-term congressman representing one of the most Republican-friendly districts in the state, said Friday that he won’t run for reelection in 2024. His announcement means that all three seats in Colorado’s congressional delegation... Read More

Former Capitol Police Officer Who Defended Capitol Running for Congress
2024 Elections
Former Capitol Police Officer Who Defended Capitol Running for Congress
2024-01-05 19:55:48
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who heroically defended the building against insurrectionist rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, and whose harrowing account of that day riveted the House select committee investigating the siege, is running for Congress.... Read More

Ohio Gov. Sets Special Election to Fill Bill Johnson’s Seat
In The States
Ohio Gov. Sets Special Election to Fill Bill Johnson’s Seat
2024-01-04 22:35:41
by Dan McCue

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine set the special election dates for the vacancy in the state’s 6th Congressional District caused by the earlier-than-expected departure of Republican Rep. Bill Johnson. The scheduled upcoming elections will include a partisan primary... Read More

For NewDEAL’s Bultan Good Government Is All About Encouraging Voters to Vote Their Aspirations
Political News
For NewDEAL’s Bultan Good Government Is All About Encouraging Voters to Vote Their Aspirations
2024-01-04 21:56:31
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — In an era when many lawmakers seem happier to sow chaos than to actually pass meaningful legislation, the members of NewDEAL, a Democratic Party-affiliated network of pro-growth and progressive state and local elected officials, are a marked contrast.... Read More

Boebert Quits Race for Current Seat, Will Seek Reelection in GOP-Friendly District
2024 Elections
Boebert Quits Race for Current Seat, Will Seek Reelection in GOP-Friendly District
2023-12-28 19:54:13
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., said Wednesday she is no longer seeking reelection to her current congressional seat and will instead run for office in the more Republican-friendly 4th Congressional District. In a nearly five-minute video posted on her... Read More

Appeals Court Tosses Fortenberry Conviction
Law
Appeals Court Tosses Fortenberry Conviction
2023-12-26 21:27:39
by Dan McCue

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out the 2022 conviction of former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., after concluding federal prosecutors brought the charges in the wrong location. Fortenberry, who represented Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District from 2005... Read More

Congress Urged to Fully Fund WIC Program, Avert Crisis
Congress
Congress Urged to Fully Fund WIC Program, Avert Crisis
2023-12-13 20:42:35
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Biden-Harris administration on Wednesday urged Congress to fully fund the WIC nutrition assistance program come January, warning that the failure to address a much-anticipated budgetary shortfall would jeopardize the health and safety of millions of mothers, babies... Read More

Republicans Critical of Biden Strategy to Confront Iranian-Funded Terrorism
In The News
Republicans Critical of Biden Strategy to Confront Iranian-Funded Terrorism
2023-12-13 20:23:47
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — A congressional panel on Wednesday examined whether the Biden administration should do more to stop the flow of money Iran secretly uses to support terrorists. Top of the list was the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas against unsuspecting... Read More

Court Sets Off ‘MapQuake’ in New York, Orders Redistricting Do-Over
Redistricting
Court Sets Off ‘MapQuake’ in New York, Orders Redistricting Do-Over
2023-12-12 23:11:39
by Dan McCue

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s highest court ordered the state to redraw its congressional map on Tuesday, ruling in favor of the plaintiffs in a Democratic lawsuit, and potentially increasing the odds that Democrats will take back control of the... Read More

Specter of Plea Deal Accompanies Santos to Court
Law
Specter of Plea Deal Accompanies Santos to Court
2023-12-12 22:50:15
by Dan McCue

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — There were no hecklers outside the federal courthouse in Central Islip on Tuesday as George Santos and attorney Joseph Murray arrived for a morning status hearing on his 23-count federal fraud trial. And the only question... Read More

Congress Reconsiders Maryland Site for New FBI Headquarters
Congress
Congress Reconsiders Maryland Site for New FBI Headquarters
2023-12-12 22:46:46
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — A congressional panel took another look Tuesday at the choice for a new FBI headquarters that critics of the site selection describe as suspicious. “The American people smell a rat here,” said Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., during the... Read More

Rep. Bob Good Elected Freedom Caucus Chair
Congress
Rep. Bob Good Elected Freedom Caucus Chair
2023-12-12 18:34:56
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The House Freedom Caucus has elected Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., to serve as its next chairman, despite the concerns of at least one board member that his take-no-prisoners style may not augur well in a future House where... Read More

NewDem Action Fund Unveils Latest Endorsements
Political News
NewDem Action Fund Unveils Latest Endorsements
2023-12-12 16:26:11
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Rudy Salas, Derek Tran and Mondaire Jones, each of whom is running in a key battleground district in the 2024 congressional elections, received the endorsement on Tuesday of the New Democrat Coalition Action Fund. The fund is the... Read More

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