• House Approves Bill to Safeguard Americans' Personal Data from Foreign Adversaries

    This legislation specifically targets data brokers, seeking to bar them from selling Americans' personally identifiable information to nations.

  • Medicaid expansion hearing fuels heated debate; House plans to work bill

    TOPEKA (KSNT) - Kansas lawmakers are taking up Medicaid expansion at the statehouse for the first time in four years. People from across the state packed committee rooms, lining up to discuss the issue on Wednesday. "I need your help filling the gap," said Erica Christie, who testified as a proponent on behalf of the []

  • House passes bill that would bar data brokers from selling Americans' personal information to 'adversary' countries

    The House of Representatives approved a measure targeting data brokers’ ability to sell Americans’ personal data to “adversary” countries, like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. The Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act passed with a unanimous 414 - 0 vote. The bill, which was introduced alongside a measure that could force a ban or sale of TikTok, would prohibit data brokers from selling Americans’ “sensitive” data to people or entities in “adversary” countries. Much like a...

  • Labour MP Clive Lewis warned of 'severe consequences' after being accused of swearing at House of Commons doorkeeper as he is heard shouting 'sh ' during Rwanda Bill debate

    Mr Lewis, the MP for Norwich South, could be heard loudly saying 'sh ' before he walked out of the chamber as MPs voted on the Government's Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.

  • House finally passes budget bill

    The bill calls for a 9.3% rise in spending from fiscal 2023, with a budget deficit to 693 billion baht, down 0.3% from the previous year.Its passage followed a three-day debate, with 298 lawmakers in favour and 166 against, with one abstention and one absent.Pending Senate approval and royal endorsement next week, long-awaited disbursement of state investment funds is expected to begin in early April.Rapid disbursement in the remaining months of the fiscal year is seen as crucial to efforts of...

  • Bills propose more housing on smaller lots

    Single-family neighborhoods in Hawaii could become much more dense under two heavily debated bills pending at the state Legislature.

  • Bill could clear way for farmworker housing

    Tallahassee - Florida’s agriculture industry hopes a newly passed bill that would limit local regulations on farmworker housing will bolster efforts to bring in more non-immigrant foreign workers.

  • Victim of American Fork house explosion identified

    AMERICAN FORK, Utah, March 25, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — American Fork police have identified the woman killed in a duplex explosion last week. The woman found in the rubble was 78-year-old Kathy Harrison. Despite life-saving efforts, she died of her injuries. The cause of the explosion is still under investigation. At about 5:50 a.m. Wednesday, […] The post Victim of American Fork house explosion identified first appeared on Gephardt Daily.

  • A Debate About the Cost Is Dogging a Renewable Energy Bill

    Accelerating Vermont’s transition to cleaner electricity is going to be costly — on that, most can agree. Less certain is how much it will cost if utilities are required to sell only renewable electricity by 2035. That's the goal of H.289, a bill that raises the state’s renewable energy requirements. Cost estimates have ranged from as little as $150 million to as high as $1 billion. The uncertainty about the bill’s true impact on ratepayers is fueling a political firefight in Montpelier,...

  • House sends Senate bill to avert shutdown

    The House approved a $1.2 trillion government funding bill Friday, sending the sprawling package to the Senate hours before the deadline and officially capping off the fiscal 2024 appropriations process in the lower chamber. The legislation — which includes six funding bills — cleared the House in an 286-134 vote, hours before a slew of agencies and []

  • Green or Black: House of the Dragon Drops Two Trailers

    House of the Dragon ended with the war just beginning, and now two years later we’re going to see the continuation of what is dubbed in-canon as The Dance of Dragons. House of the Dragon is set to return this June, and we have two new trailers dropped, each focusing

  • US House passes bill to avoid government shutdown

    The US House of Representatives has passed a government funding bill with more support from Democrats than the majority Republicans, leading to a fresh threat by a hardline conservative lawmaker to oust the Speaker. The House’s 286-134 vote sends the $US1.2 trillion ($A1.8 trillion) bill to the Democratic-majority Senate, which has hours to act ahead […]