by Nicole Markus and Jacob Wendler | Feb 2, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON –– House Republicans voted Thursday to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, citing her past remarks about Israel, America’s longtime ally. Omar has been heavily critical of Israel in her position on the committee....
by Davis Giangiulio | Feb 2, 2023 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — After weeks of early conversation about how Congress and the White House will tackle raising the debt limit this year, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Joe Biden met on Wednesday to discuss the issue for the first time. The highly...
by Logan Schiciano | Feb 1, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The House Oversight Committee held its first hearing of the new Congress on Wednesday and its chairman, James Comer (D-Ky.), immediately blasted Democrats for their “lack of oversight accountability” with regard to multitrillion-dollar relief bills passed...
by Joanna Hou | Feb 1, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and his Presidential Competition Council presented ideas to increase economic competition and lower everyday costs for Americans at their Wednesday meeting, targeting a variety of “junk fees” in the travel and entertainment...
by Avani Kalra | Feb 1, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON –– The Republican-led House on Wednesday is pressing through a series of measures aimed at immediately ending the national health emergency issued at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, although the move may be more symbolic after President Biden this week...
by Nicole Markus and Julia Narvaez Munguia | Jan 31, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Congressman George Santos (R-N.Y.) announced Tuesday that he is recusing himself from his two appointed committee positions and the decision to do so was his. The congressman’s brief time in office has been riddled with controversy, the most recent of...
by Brennan Leach | Jan 31, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Ma.), along with other House and Senate Democrats, have introduced legislation to affirm the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. “There is no time limit on equality,” said Pressley on Tuesday at a...
by Davis Giangiulio | Jan 31, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress grappled with the intersection between energy and national and economic security on Tuesday along with the environmental impacts of energy expansion. In the first House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing of the 118th Congress,...
by Logan Schiciano | Jan 31, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Congress is facing growing pressure to reintroduce police reform legislation after body camera footage from the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police officers was released last Friday. “We must have legislation that is effective around this...
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 Logan Schiciano | Jan 28, 2023 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – The release of police body camera footage in the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols sparked protests in cities around the country, including Washington, Friday evening. A crowd of roughly one hundred people gathered across the street from the White House in...
by Logan Schiciano | Jan 27, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – In 2018, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) floated the idea that the Parkland shooting was a false flag operation. In 2019, she suggested former-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be executed for treason. Yet, in 2023, she has a spot on two important...
