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.
NBC news reported under the headline "Tammy Baldwin fights to maintain appeal in rural Wisconsin amid Democratic slide." The subhead is "The senator has outrun other members of her party in rural areas before. This November, she'll have to manage being on a ballot with Donald Trump." Here's the gist of the story: Baldwin is bracing for a tough re-election race against likely Republican nominee Eric Hovde, a multimillionaire and bank owner who loaned $8 million of his own money to his campaign...
An elections handicapper moved its rating of the Arizona Senate race from “toss-up” to “leans Democratic” in response to a state Supreme Court ruling reinstating a 19th-century abortion ban.
President Biden scored a major victory on Tuesday when the Democrat-led Senate heeded his long unanswered foreign aid request by passing the House’s $95 billion foreign-aid package.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that, once signed into law by President Biden, will give TikTok's parent company ByteDance nine months to divest the app or face a national ban, reflecting significant bipartisan concern over the app's Chinese ownership and potential data security risks. read more
Satanists came to the Arizona Senate to oppose the Reject Escalating Satanism by Preserving Essential Core Traditions (RESPECT) Act.
A bill that would ease student voting access and reallocate prisoners in the Census could affect St. Cloud, which has 10,000 college students and about 1,000 state prisoners, in future elections.
(The Center Square) – Republican U.S. senators are sounding the alarm over a purported plan by Senate Democrats to dismiss House impeachment charges against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The House was expected to deliver impeachment charges this week after voting to impeach Mayorkas in February. They rescheduled for next week after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, changed scheduling on the Senate calendar. Schumer has called...
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...
What, they didn’t like ‘Who TF Did I Marry?’
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.