Can AM Radio Be Saved? Should It Be?
Media
Can AM Radio Be Saved? Should It Be?
2023-06-02 17:28:03
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Nearly 60 years after an edict by the Federal Communications Commission inadvertently began the long, slow decline of AM radio, Congress suddenly appears to be besotted with a broadcast band many radio listeners left largely for dead decades... Read More

With Senate Passage, Nation on Cusp of Having First Climate Law
Climate
With Senate Passage, Nation on Cusp of Having First Climate Law
2022-08-08 21:48:49
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — “It wasn’t on the scoreboard one month ago,” Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., marveled when talking to reporters over the weekend, but in just a matter of days a budget reconciliation bill long presumed dead was suddenly a “historic”... Read More

Senate Passes Bill to Make Daylight Saving Permanent
U.S. Senate
Senate Passes Bill to Make Daylight Saving Permanent
2022-03-15 22:02:24
by Reece Nations

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed legislation that would permanently extend daylight saving time nationwide by unanimous consent on Tuesday. The bill, entitled the Sunshine Protection Act, was sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and cosponsored by a bipartisan group of... Read More

‘Juneteenth National Independence Day Act’ Would Make June 19 Federal Holiday
In The News
‘Juneteenth National Independence Day Act’ Would Make June 19 Federal Holiday
2020-06-19 18:38:02
by Reece Nations

WASHINGTON - New legislation would commemorate June 19 as a federal holiday 155 years after Major Gen. Gordon Granger issued the order signifying the end of slavery in the United States. In accordance with the Emancipation Proclamation, in 1865 Granger... Read More

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