Washington stands ready to fix all our problems. This week, the Senate will consider what the House already did — how to excise hate from the human heart with a quick vote (and hopefully as little debate as possible).The Jewish faith might be the most persecuted in history. From Babylon to Egypt and Greece to Rome, and from the czar to the führer and the king to mufti, the Jews have borne a heavy share of murder. That is, until Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) solved it with a bill last...
Three committees in the Vermont House have signed off on a bill intended to speed up the search process for a secretary of education and ensure the search had enough money to be properly carried out. The proposed changes in state law come after the most recent search for an education secretary took nearly a year. That process ended in controversy this week when the Senate rejected Florida administrator Zoie Saunders, Gov. Phil Scott's pick for the post. Immediately after the vote, the...
The Senate Finance Committee wants to create a new program to incentivize better practices. Critics say there’s an easier way: end kickbacks between suppliers and bulk purchasers.
A dayslong filibuster in the Missouri Senate ended Thursday after a Republican faction allowed a vote on a more than $4 billion Medicaid program they had been holding hostage. Senators gave initial approval in a voice vote to a bill that will renew a longstanding tax on hospitals and other medical providers. The measure needs a second vote of approval in the Senate. Money from the tax is used to draw down $2.9 billion in federal funding, which is then given to providers to care for low-income...
The Region of Peel will see many impacts from the Province’s Bill 185, the “Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act”. In a staff report submitted to Regional Council at its April 25 meeting, staff said through Bill 185, Peel’s planning responsibilities under the Planning Act will be transferred to its lower tier municipalities and the Province by July 1. “As the date for implementation has now been identified, staff are working with Regional Council, the Transition Board and local...
Amid discussions of delayed accountability, the DOJ IG investigations of Bill Barr's DOJ plod along even as the Presidential election approaches.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz and Rep. Mike Lawler speak with CNN’s Jake Tapper
Riot police in Georgia fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds protesting against a bill seen by the opposition as targeting media freedoms. Pro-EU protesters clashed with police outside parliament, denouncing the law. Dozens of people were arrested and an opposition party leader was hurt. Georgian MPs have given their initial backing to …
Riot police in Georgia have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse
As a House committee took up two crypto bills -- co-sponsored by the same senators that pushed through the law last year they're now trying to fix -- one lawmaker summed it up: "This is almost an embarrassing situation."
The Alvin Bragg case has gotten grander at trial, but also more ridiculous.
Georgia’s parliament is set to pass a highly controversial so-called “foreign agents” bill that has triggered widespread protests across the former Soviet republic nestled in the Caucasus Mountains. The vote comes after tens of thousands of people came out to protest the legislation in the capital, Tbilisi. Here’s what you need to know about the proposed law and the uproar it has caused. What’s in the law? The bill would require organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad...