Oregon U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley says he did not vote for the new national security supplemental funding bill. This bill has many elements, including supplying aid to Ukraine and helping fight the influx of fentanyl into the states. It was signed into law by President Biden Wednesday. Another section of the bill gave funding for […]
Ministers have come under fire for failing to “run votes through the night” as peers blocked Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill for a fourth time on Wednesday, threatening further delays to the first deportation flights.]]>
A bill that gives counties the clear authority to regulate short-term vacation rentals, including the power to ban them, unanimously passed out of a joint House-Senate conference committee today ahead of a vote by the full House and Senate next week.
Rishi Sunak said there will be no more delays to his asylum plan and Parliament will sit and "vote until it's done".
It appears Republicans are going to give it another shot. Several GOP lawmakers have introduced bills to defund National Public Radio (NPR) after
Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment.
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators advanced bills Monday to give voting rights back to 32 people convicted of felonies. The move comes weeks after a Senate leader killed a broader bill that would have restored suffrage to many more people with criminal records. The bills are necessary
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators advanced bills Monday to give voting rights back to 32 people convicted of felonies. The move comes weeks after a Senate leader killed a broader bill that would have restored suffrage to many more people with criminal records. The bills are necessary
The House GOP Caucus seems on the verge of open civil war as the House Rules Committee debates the rule for voting on the foreign aid bills Speaker Johnson has pledged to bring to a vote on Saturday.
MPs have rejected all the Lords’ Rwanda Bill amendments, after the Government was accused of “flogging a dead horse” with the policy.The seven amendments included those that sought to require local authorities to complete age assessments for migrants before their removal, and to exempt Afghan staff who worked alongside the UK armed forces.The Bill will return to the Lords tomorrow, when it is expected that Labour and crossbench peers may seek to reinstate three or four amendments.The votes came...
Lawmakers and privacy experts on both sides of the political spectrum are sounding the alarm on a provision in a spy powers reform bill that one senator described as one of the "most terrifying expansions of government surveillance" in history.
Rep. Jason Crow (D) Colorado joins The Weekend to discuss Iran’s recent attack on Israel and where Congress stands on legislation surrounding Ukraine funding.