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.
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the head of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, is spearheading the upper chamber’s internal debate on what to do about the popular China-owned app
In an unlikely alliance, a hardened conservative and a self-described
Legislation forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the US has passed the House and is headed for a vote in the Senate Source
The House has 27 suffrage bills pending a vote in the full chamber.
The skin toasted Australian Minister of Defence, Richard Marles, who resembles, with each day, the product of an overly worked solarium, was adamant. Not only will Australians be paying a bill up to and above A$368 billion for nuclear powered submarines it does not need; it will also be throwing A$100 billion into the coffers of More
A bill that could ban TikTok is now all but certain to become law. The Senate approved a measure that requires ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban, in a vote of 79 - 18. The “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” will next head to President Joe Biden, who has said he would sign the bill into law. While it’s far from the first effort to force a ban or divestment of the social media app, the bill managed to draw far more support than previous attempts. The...
The Senate approved a measure that will require ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban, in a vote of 79 to 18. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act next goes to President Biden. The president has already said he’ll sign the bill into law. (Yes, as predicted, I'm writing about this again.) TikTok has faced the ire of US politicians for a few years now, but this bill has picked up support across both political parties. It sailed through the House of...
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The full Hawaii Senate today killed a bill that would have “decriminalized” marijuana possession after an earlier effort to legalize adult recreational use this session also died.
A bill requiring law enforcement to make police bodycam footage public record was voted down Wednesday by lawmakers, a decision met with disappointment among supporters of the bill.
Pennsylvania senators have introduced a bill to let victims of the East Palestine train derailment keep money they’ve received from Norfolk Southern Railroad.