Majority leader Chuck Schumer says bill, which House approved last week, is ‘important part of our national security toolkit’The US Senate has reached an agreement to approve the reauthorization of a controversial surveillance program and plans to vote on it on Friday night, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said.If the Senate votes to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which the House approved last week, it would secure what supporters call a key element of the United...
Senate Democrats plan to vote on Thursday on a controversial bill that would prohibit competitive electric suppliers from signing up new residential customers.
Yuval RosenbergApril 22, 2024After the House on Saturday approved a $95 billion, four-bill bundle of foreign aid legislation, the Senate is set
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to reauthorize a powerful surveillance tool the U.S. government describes as critical to combating terrorism, after defeating efforts by civil liberties advocates on the left and right to rein it in. The vote of 60-34 sends the bill to President Joe Biden, who has championed it. The legislation extends Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, for two more years. The final vote came after the Senate defeated six amendments from progressive...
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has predicted that former President Donald Trump will lose supporters if he backs the foreign aid proposals being pushed in the House chamber."If Trump supports this monstrous, unpaid for foreign aid debt buster, he will lose the very supporters who comprise his vanguard. Mark my words," Paul tweeted. — (@) President Joe Biden has backed the proposals, saying in a statement, "I strongly support this package to get critical...
The House has 27 suffrage bills pending a vote in the full chamber.
To the editor: Twenty-five years after the Columbine High School mass shooting in Colorado, gun violence is the leading cause of death among children and teens. This is truly an abomination. Our children should grow up feeling safe. ("It's been 25 years since Columbine. This is what we're still getting wrong about school shootings," Opinion, April 19) I grew up in the United Kingdom, where gun violence was, and still is, very rare. I believe it's time to amend the 2nd Amendment. When people put...
Former President Donald Trump endorsed Trent Staggs, a Republican mayor seeking to replace retiring Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, in Utah's GOP primary race for the Senate. "Trent Staggs is 100% MAGA, and is running to fill The Mitt Romney, a Total Loser, Seat as the next Senator from the Great State of Utah," Trump wrote in a Saturday morning post on Truth Social. "A Highly Successful Entrepreneur, who has served brilliantly as Mayor of Riverton for the past six years, Trent knows how to Create...
In what could have been initially viewed as an act of partisanship in Minnesota's Senate, a Rochester Republican legislator voted for a DFL-backed elections bill last week. However, it turns out that the vote was by accident.
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Twenty years ago, I published Taking Back the Vote: Getting American Youth Involved in Our Democracy. The book grew out of a personal passion: Once my oldest child was able to cast a ballot, I became fascinated with the potential and obstacles facing our youngest voters. I delved into the lengthy and messy midcentury struggle to pass the 26th Amendment, extending the franchise to 18-year-olds. The first bill to lower the voting age was introduced in Congress during World War II—why should young...