Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder Campaign season is officially in full swing in Georgia, where President Joe Biden is expected to pay a visit to the Atlanta area March 9, just over a week after First Lady Jill Biden stopped by downtown Atlanta to launch a nationwide effort to engage with …
Read More »A Day Ahead Of Shutdown, Congress Advances Stopgap Spending Bills
Jennifer Shutt, Washington State Standard Congress passed a short-term funding extension Thursday intended to give lawmakers a bit more time to wrap up work on the annual spending bills — dodging a shutdown despite election year politics and narrow margins. The stopgap spending bill, sometimes called a continuing resolution, or …
Read More »Senate Dems Reintroduce Bill to ‘Restore Critical Safeguards’ of Voting Rights Act
Civil and voting rights advocates on Thursday cheered the reintroduction of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, legislation its sponsors say will “update and restore critical safeguards of the original Voting Rights Act.” Introduced by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), …
Read More »Presidential Campaign Moves To The Border, As Biden Urges Trump To Back Immigration Deal
Ariana Figueroa, Georgia Recorder President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon paid competing visits to the nation’s southern border, where Biden called on Congress to reconsider a bipartisan border security deal that Republicans tanked at Trump’s direction. Biden traveled to Brownsville, Texas, while Trump journeyed to …
Read More »Texas Law Allowing Police To Arrest Migrants Suspected Of Being In Country Illegally Blocked By Federal Judge
Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune A federal judge in Austin on Thursday halted a new state law that would allow Texas police to arrest people suspected of crossing the Texas-Mexico border illegally. The law, Senate Bill 4, was scheduled to take effect Tuesday. U.S. District Judge David Ezra issued …
Read More »Senate Republican Blocks Legislation Protecting In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
Jennifer Shutt, Ohio Capital Journal U.S. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi blocked a bill from passing Wednesday that would have preserved access to in vitro fertilization nationwide, stalling a push by Democrats following a landmark Alabama state Supreme Court decision. The court ruled earlier this month that frozen embryos counted as …
Read More »Congress Brokers Deal On Government Spending Deadlines, Trying To Avoid Shutdown
Jennifer Shutt, North Dakota Monitor House Republicans and Senate Democrats attempting to avert a partial government shutdown brokered an agreement Wednesday to extend government funding deadlines for a little while longer. The bipartisan deal will give Congress until March 8 to pass six spending bills lawmakers have finalized and until …
Read More »McConnell, Longest-Serving Senate GOP Leader, to Step Down After In November
Jimmy Williams Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, announced on Wednesday his decision to step down from the GOP leader position after the November elections, concluding a remarkable 17-year tenure. At 82, McConnell reflected on his four decades in the Senate, expressing gratitude for the privilege to serve Kentucky and …
Read More »A Partial Government Shutdown Is Days Away. There’s No Agreement On Federal Funding Yet
Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent President Joe Biden huddled with top congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday amid a crunch over government funding as well as a familiar stalemate over assistance to two major allies — and no solution immediately in sight. Lawmakers leaving the meeting, which lasted about …
Read More »Biden And Trump Win Michigan Presidential Primaries
Jon King, Michigan Advance President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump each won their respective primaries Tuesday in Michigan. The Associated Press made the call about an hour after polls in most counties closed at 8 p.m., with just over 10% of the votes tabulated. Four western Upper Peninsula …
Read More »Senate Democrats Challenge Republicans With Wednesday Vote To Protect IVF
Amanda Becker, Darreonna Davis Originally published by The 19th Senate Democrats on Tuesday highlighted their plan to protect IVF, warning their Republican colleagues they will need to decide by Wednesday whether to block a bill that would preserve access to assisted reproductive technologies. “I warned that red states would come …
Read More »Supreme Court To Decide If Trump Is Immune From Prosecution For Acts As President
Jacob Fischler, Kentucky Lantern The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear former President Donald Trump’s argument that he should be immune from criminal charges related to the 2020 election. In a one-page order, the court set an expedited briefing schedule, with oral arguments to be held the week …
Read More »President Biden Expresses Hope for Cease-Fire in Israel-Hamas Conflict
Jimmy Williams In a recent statement, President Joe Biden shared his optimism for a cease-fire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict by next week. He mentioned that his national security adviser has conveyed that negotiations are close to fruition but not yet finalized. “My hope is by next Monday we will …
Read More »In CPAC Speech, Trump Predicts ‘losing World War III’ If He Is Not Elected
Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder Former President Donald Trump painted a bleak picture Saturday of what would happen to the United States should voters reelect Joe Biden to the Oval Office in November. The front-runner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, who made similar predictions ahead of the 2020 presidential election, …
Read More »Trump, Biden To Visit Texas In Competing Border Trips Thursday
Matthew Choi, The Texas Tribune President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are separately heading to Texas border towns on Thursday in competing visits ahead of the March 5 primary. Biden will meet with U.S. Border Patrol and local law enforcement in Brownsville, while Trump will be about 300 …
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