Senate Democrats on Tuesday vowed “to hold a vote on legislation to codify” abortion rights, following the leak of a draft opinion authored by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that would strike down Roe v….
Sen. Bernie Sanders has responded to the publication of a draft majority opinion that the Supreme Court appears ready to overturn Roe v. Wade by demanding that Congress pass legislation making abortion a federally protected…
The House is closing in on passing landmark legislation to legalize marijuana nationwide and significant support in both chambers of Congress gives the longtime effort a chance to become law. House Democrats passed legislation to…
Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky passed bills on Thursday that would ban transgender youth from participating in girls’ sports, the latest in a flurry of state legislation by Republicans on a heated election year issue.In addition…
A group of House Democrats are urging President Joe Biden to work with the Senate in passing the House-passed climate change portion of the Build Back Better Act in the coming weeks, according to CNBC.
Progressive Democrats are urging party leaders in the Senate to pass President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better climate and social spending bill by March 1, The Hill reported.
Willem Jewett, a former state lawmaker from Vermont who had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, died using a prescription he obtained through a medical aid-in-dying law he helped pass nearly nine years…
An asteroid roughly twice the size of the Empire State building will pass within 1.2 million miles of the Earth today while traveling at a speed of 47,344 mph at about 4:51 p.m. EST, according…
U.S. President Joe Biden will seek to rally Senate Democrats in a meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to unite and alter the chamber’s rules to pass voting-rights legislation. Biden and most fellow Democrats…
President Joe Biden is facing calls from more liberal members of his party to use executive actions to bypass Congress and pass his $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan.
President Joe Biden said he supports changing the Senate filibuster rules to pass voting rights legislation. In an interview with ABC News, Biden was asked if he were prepared to accept fundamental changes to the…
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., announced on Newsmax that an identical version of the bill he helped draft would likely pass in the House, blocking President Joe Biden’s executive orders calling for a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Sen. Joe Manchin likely will force President Joe Biden to trim spending with his Build Back Better legislation. Although the House passed a nearly $2 trillion social spending and climate bill on Friday…
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 Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government…