The House on Monday settled its procedural business on a bill to reform the nation's warrantless surveillance powers, kicking the controversial reauthorization over to the Senate. The Monday vote came after a tie in the chamber on an amendment that would have added a warrant requirement to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
The White House said Tuesday that separate aid bills set for a vote in the US House this week appear to meet the long-delayed military needs of Ukraine and Israel.But US President Joe Biden needs to study the proposals by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson more closely before making a final decision, it added.Johnson said Monday that his Republican-controlled chamber would vote this week on the bills after after stalling for months over pressure from his party's right-wing. Whether Johnson...
The Alabama House and Senate have passed sharply different gaming bills this legislative session.
Commerce Committee chairs in the House and Senate released a bipartisan bill Sunday evening that aims to protect Americans’ personal data online. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) unveiled the American Privacy Rights Act Sunday that would set “clear, national data privacy rights and protections for Americans.” It will preempt states’ data privacy
On Wednesday, the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ended not with a bang but with a whimper, when the Senate under Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) dismissed both impeachment articles without a trial. Sen. Schumer stated that the House of Representatives had sent to the Senate “the least legitimate, least substantive and most politicized impeachment trial ever in the history of the United States.” Oh, the irony!
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A bill unanimously passed in the Senate this week for more restrictions on pornography websites has advanced in the House.
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.), the head of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee whose former senior aides work for TikTok, is throwing cold water on the bipartisan House bill targeting the Chinese-owned app, saying she thinks it is likely to be struck down in court if it becomes law. Sen. Cantwell told reporters Monday night […]
"Brutal" Brittany Sheehan is a Las Vegas based mother, policy advocate and grassroots leader. From her roots in California's medical freedom movement, she worked to defeat vaccine legislation in Nevada. Brittany was strong and early opposition to CA's AB5, co-authoring an Assembly ethics complaint and going on to write an economic bill for independent contractors in Nevada. Brittany organized one of the first pandemic shutdown protests in the nation on Easter Sunday 2020 and was instrumental in...
The Oct. 25 mass shooting in Lewiston sharply changed the dialogue on guns, but this Democratic proposal faces an uncertain path in the State House.
House lawmakers are expected to pass the bundled bills this weekend, setting up a vote in the Senate that could take place next week.
A starry guest list — including Robert De Niro, Jeff Bezos, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi — descended on the White House for the state dinner