Heard On The Hill · 116th Congress
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Congress · 116th Congress
Campus Notebook: How many complaints have been filed against Capitol Police officers?
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Campaigns · 116th Congress
Former pro wrestler wins Nevada primary to take on Rep. Susie Lee
[jwp-video n=”1″] Rodimer also had support from conservative groups, including the NRA and the National Right to Life.
Policy · 116th Congress
Administration puts ‘hold’ on green card requests from US
[jwp-video n=”1″] The USCIS, which is entirely funded by application fees, has sought $1.2 billion in emergency funding from Congress because of a shortfall it said was caused by a drop in applications
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Democrat seeking Kentucky House seat touts police service amid unrest
[jwp-video n=”1″] Democrats believe the district is winnable, with Barr having won by just over 3 points in 2018 against Democrat Amy McGrath.
Policy · 116th Congress
CDC releases new safety guidance as states lift limits
[jwp-video n=”1″] When asked about the Trump campaign’s planned rallies, Jay Butler, the CDC’s deputy director of infectious diseases and COVID-19 response incident manager, said the guidance
Congress · 116th Congress
House aims to vote on public lands legislation by July 4
[jwp-video n=”1″] In December 2018, Lee helped blow up at the last minute a public lands bill that would have reauthorized the Land and Water Conservation Fund, months after Congress had let
Policy · 116th Congress
Unrest over race dismays US allies, delights enemies
[jwp-video n=”1″] Particularly damaging, say historians and former diplomats, to the reputation of the United States as the Western world’s foremost defender of freedom of speech and rule of
Congress · 116th Congress
Senate chairman vows fight over Confederacy issue
[jwp-video n=”1″] Collision course The GOP-majority Senate panel’s decision on Wednesday to require changing of base names such as Fort Bragg and Fort Benning was seen as a rebuke of President
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Trump campaign asks supporters to waive COVID-19 liability to attend Tulsa rally
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Policy · 116th Congress
Court denies AFL-CIO request to require COVID-19 rule from OSHA
[jwp-video n=”1″] While the most recent coronavirus relief bill passed by the House also would require OSHA to issue an emergency temporary standard, Republican control of the Senate suggests
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Pandemic politics: Ads from health groups target vulnerable senators on House COVID-19 package
[jwp-video n=”1″] Gardner is among the Republican senators who have touted work responding to COVID-19.
Congress · 116th Congress
Senate panel would bar military force against peaceful protesters
[jwp-video n=”1″] Among its provisions, Blumenthal’s proposal would clarify that the Insurrection Act can only be invoked to protect, not restrict, civil rights.
Congress · 116th Congress
Smith unsatisfied with Pentagon answers on protest response
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Congress · 116th Congress
Members eye expunging all traces of Confederacy in military
More than forts [jwp-video n=”1″] The Senate Armed Services Committee included Warren’s language as an amendment to the annual defense policy bill, the NDAA, on Wednesday night.
Heard On The Hill · 116th Congress
‘How are we supposed to survive?’: Black-owned barbershops reopen, but it’s not the same
[jwp-video n=”1″] The sentiment explains the catch-22 many black people find themselves in.
Congress · 116th Congress
McConnell’s push to confirm judges may mean another tradition is dead
[jwp-video n=”1″] “I don’t see the Democrats or the Republicans next year saying, ‘Well, let’s let bygones be bygones,’” said Russell Wheeler, president of the Governance Institute and a visiting
Congress · 116th Congress
Senate aides say there’s work to be done on staffer diversity, after Tim Scott airs criticism
[jwp-video n=”1″] But the final measure, which was wrapped into a larger package of spending bills for floor action, watered down the requirements on Senate compensation comparisons and stripped
Congress · 116th Congress
Senate Armed Services on collision course with Trump over Confederate names
[jwp-video n=”1″] The amendment would require the Defense Department to set up a commission to develop a plan to implement the renaming, according to the source familiar with the text.