A renewed push to bring back abortion to Louisiana failed in a legislative committee Monday, March 25. A bill authored by State Rep. Aimee Freeman, D-New Orleans, would have enshrined into the state’s constitution a person’s right to make decisions on reproductive health care without the government stepping in.
Funding for large portions of the federal government technically expired at
(The Center Square) – Universal education savings accounts for families with schoolchildren could get a vote on the floor of the Louisiana Senate as soon as Monday. Legislation to create the accounts advanced from the Education Committee in the chamber this week. Giving All True Opportunity to Rise Scholarship Program, authored by Sen. Rick Edmonds, R-Baton Rouge, passed 5-2. It would replace an existing voucher program for students in low-performing school...
The proposed amendment was sold as attempting to protect doctors in medical emergencies, but would have gone much, much further.
The U.S. Senate passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill in the early hours of Saturday morning, with numerous Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues in approving the bill to avert a government shutdown.The vote, 74-24, in the Senate was concluded at approximately 2 a.m. on Saturday, after the funding bill passed in the House of Representatives late Friday morning. Voting continued after the midnight funding deadline and will now go to President Joe Biden's desk for a signature to avert a...
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White House national security communications adviser John Kirby stated in a new interview that it wants the US Senate to "move swiftly" to vote for a bill that could ban TikTok in the US.
The proposal, as it passed the Senate committee, is not considered traditional “expansion” under the Affordable Care Act, and therefore would not qualify for the enhanced federal funding the law grants to newly-expanded states.
The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a sprawling $1.2 trillion package to fund large swaths of the government, capping off a dramatic negotiation in the upper chamber and an intense months-long spending fight. The chamber approved the mammoth package, which spans more than a thousand pages, in a 74-24 vote, sending the []
The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a sprawling $1.2 trillion package to fund large swaths of the government, capping off a dramatic negotiation in the upper chamber and an intense months-long spending fight. The chamber approved the mammoth package, which spans more than a thousand pages, in a 74-24 vote, sending the []
The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a sprawling $1.2 trillion package to fund large swaths of the government, capping off a dramatic negotiation in the upper chamber and an intense mon
A cap on Georgia’s film and television production tax credit looks much different now in the latest version of a bill that’s passed from the House to the Senate. The annual limit on tax credit transfers, the prospect of which gave the entertainment industry some agita, was actually lowered to 2.3% of the state budget […]