by Kate Walter | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Longtime progressive lawmakers and labor advocates are hopeful that the Biden administration will be more emboldened to expand overtime pay rules in the coming months after a recent Supreme Court ruling in an employment law case and if the president’s new...
by Kate Walter | Mar 1, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Republican Senators on Wednesday grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland for the Department of Justice’s handling of attacks and arrests on anti-choice protesters, the fentanyl crisis and classified documents. Today’s testimony before the Senate...
by Kate Walter | Feb 16, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON- In response to the Congressional Budget Office’s latest report and President Joe Biden accusing some Republicans of wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits, talk of entitlement program reform has swept across the halls of Congress in recent...
by Kate Walter | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON- Speaking in front of a divided Congress for the first time during his presidency, President Joe Biden rooted his State of the Union address in bipartisan appeals, while also drawing a distinct contrast between Democrat and Republican priorities. The...
by Kate Walter | Jan 30, 2023 | Featured, Politics
SPRINGFIELD, Va. — President Joe Biden touted the progress of his administration’s economic plan and condemned GOP policies, namely House Republicans’ Fair Tax Act proposal, in an address to union workers in Springfield, Virginia, on Thursday. During his first major...
by Kate Walter | Jan 24, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Two months after Ticketmaster drew criticism for its flawed rollout of tickets for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour, the ticketing giant is not yet out of the woods. The Senate Judiciary Committee questioned the effect that Ticketmaster parent company Live...
by Kate Walter | Jan 21, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Two years to the day since he was sworn into office, President Joe Biden spoke to a bipartisan group of 200 mayors to highlight his administration’s accomplishments and the importance of mayoral leadership. The President lauded the work of members of his...
by Kate Walter | Jan 18, 2023 | Featured, Politics
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Wes Moore made history Wednesday after being sworn in as Maryland’s first Black governor. The inauguration took place outside Maryland’s historic State House. Moore, who took his oath of office on Frederick Douglass’s bible, emphasized the need for...
by Kate Walter | Jan 12, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Biden touted a promising inflation report and economic improvement in his remarks Thursday, while also addressing the second batch of classified documents found at his home in Wilmington, Delaware this morning. After delivering his remarks on...
