Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., the top-ranking Republicans on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, sent a letter Thursday to the International Olympic Committee, calling for the organization to postpone the 2022…
Texas Republicans approved redrawn U.S. House maps that favor incumbents and decrease political representation for growing minority communities, even as Latinos drive much of the growth in the nation’s largest red state…
A bipartisan group of senators is pushing Secretary of State Antony Blinken to immediately appoint someone to oversee the U.S. response to the Havana Syndrome, The Hill is reporting.
Two senior U.S. lawmakers on Thursday accused the White House of pressuring U.S. airlines to require their employees be vaccinated for COVID-19 by a Dec. 8 deadline for federal contractors or face firing.Reps. Sam Graves,…
Democrat members of Congress from California seized on the oil spill off the state’s coast to call for investigations into why it took several hours before a pipeline operator reported the spill to federal authorities…
Lawmakers pounded Facebook on Tuesday, accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safet,y and they demanded regulators investigate whistleblower accusations that the social media company harms children and…
A Democratic super PAC led by a former president of Planned Parenthood is taking aim at AT&T for donations the company has made to lawmakers who sponsored the bill outlawing most abortions in Texas.
Alabama lawmakers approved a plan Friday to tap $400 million from the American Rescue Plan to help build two super-size prisons, brushing off criticism from congressional Democrats the money was not intended for such projects.
Threats against lawmakers nearly doubled in the first three months of 2021, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Kentucky lawmakers, many not wearing masks, voted Thursday to scrap a statewide mask mandate in public schools and shifted masking decisions to local school boards, acting in a special session as the state’s worst COVID-19…
The cruel rhythms of time have ensured every generation in the mass-media age is subject to the kind of devastating, history-altering tragedy that powerfully binds a broad cross-section of the population, regardless of personal politics,…
The Texas abortion law banning almost all abortions in the state already appears to be having a ripple effect.Republican legislative leaders in Florida indicated Thursday they plan to look at whether their state can enact…
Members of the U.S. Congress, including many of President Joe Biden’s fellow Democrats, said on Tuesday they were increasingly frustrated with events in Afghanistan, vowing to investigate what went wrong.”The events of recent days have…
Republicans in Congress are reportedly looking to amend the National Defense Authorization Act next month to ban critical race theory from military institutions. Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., outlined the strategy in remarks to the Washington…
House staffers will be able to earn higher salaries than most of the chamber’s lawmakers following a new order by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in an effort to help retain top talent. Pelosi on Thursday…