Policy · 117th Congress
Employers must require COVID-19 shots or tests by January under federal rule
“We think there are actually a lot of workers who are afraid to come back and be infected at work, and this should ease many of their worries.”
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“We think there are actually a lot of workers who are afraid to come back and be infected at work, and this should ease many of their worries.”
Democrats’ efforts to include immigration relief in their sprawling social spending bill face an uncertain future amid divisions between party progressives and moderates over which policies should be included
But many experts and lawmakers are dubious it is possible to prevent the starvation of millions of Afghan people without tacitly working with the Taliban and thus indirectly stabilizing their rule
parent, Belinda Macauley, told the FDA advisers at last week’s meeting that while she knows her young daughter’s risk of getting COVID-19 is low, she wants her vaccinated so she can see her grandmother without
Voters without a four-year college degree, who made up 51 percent of the electorate this year, went for Youngkin by 19 points. Biden won them by 7 points — a 26-point swing.
The case, which is consolidated from four lawsuits into one, turns on the question of whether EPA has the authority to issue rules of “sweeping economic and political significance” without explicit
As the first deadline under federal vaccination orders hit Tuesday, for active-duty Air Force personnel, the Biden administration said firing those who refuse jabs should not be the first enforcement option
“Maybe Joe Manchin should stop giving press conferences and actually sit down and try to work things out.
But without that, Stone said, other states could use the same type of law to evade judicial review for other rights, even if the potential civil penalty were $1 million.
Without a presidential contest this cycle, federal campaign donors will have only Senate and House races clamoring for their cash.
If companies refuse to share their algorithms with independent researchers, the Federal Trade Commission should compel them, he said. “They have lost their right to secrecy,” Persily said.
roundup: Common Cause is out with a new report on election-related disinformation, especially on social media, and includes numerous recommendations that the group says federal and state governments should
Progressives have said they would not vote for the infrastructure bill, offering $550 billion in new public works money, without a vote on the broader social spending bill.
“We should empower the president to go speak, particularly in Glasgow where [Chinese President] Xi Jinping will be absent and to pull together our allies in a way that will make a lasting difference for
Hoyer, D-Md., separately told reporters that progressives also want assurances that the Senate will be able to pass legislation that emerges out of the reconciliation framework, without changes.
While Republicans could have made Bacon’s 2nd District safer through the redistricting process, the seat remains competitive and the third-term lawmaker should expect yet another serious race.
The NIH’s letter states that EcoHealth violated a provision in its contract requiring a report to government funders should one of the viruses in its experiment produce “a one log increase in growth
Democrats ended the legislative week Friday without a “framework” agreement on their partisan spending and tax package, but leaders said they’d continue negotiating through the weekend on a handful of
“One of the enlightened moments in COP26 should be and will be when the investor sector steps up and says, ‘We believe that climate change presents an extraordinary number of risks and an extraordinary
Power play That’s not the view of Senate Republicans, led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who understands the ruthless power game without regard to the example it sets for the next generations