by Dan Hu | Oct 6, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – In a surprising move, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered to help Democrats in their effort to raise the debt limit on Wednesday. After stonewalling the issue for weeks, including tanking a similar vote on Sept. 27, McConnell’s last-minute...
by Baylor Spears | Oct 6, 2021 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Some buildings in historically Black colleges and universities are in such bad shape that “when it rains outside, many times it rains inside,” the Tennessee State University president told a House subcommittee on Wednesday. Tennessee State University is...
by Henry Rogers | Oct 6, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s pledge to beef up federal antitrust enforcement made headway Wednesday as the president’s nominee for the Justice Department’s antitrust chief, Jonathan Kanter, fielded questions from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee....
by Rayna Song | Oct 5, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen asked Congress to create regulations to rein in the tech company, which she claims prioritizes financial benefits over public interests, in a Tuesday Senate subcommittee hearing. “I believe in the potential of...
by Jason Harward | Oct 5, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Staring down a possible default on the federal debt in less than two weeks, congressional leaders Tuesday remained firm in their positions on how to raise the debt ceiling, with Senate Republicans refusing to give Democrats any avenue to address the debt...
by Delaney Nelson | Oct 5, 2021 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — One month after Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana, legislators called Tuesday for faster and more effective disaster responses from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which some said has kept their constituents waiting for federal aid for far...
by Zinya Salfiti | Oct 5, 2021 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco told a Senate hearing Tuesday that the pandemic has exacerbated the increased demand for services for survivors of sexual violence as senators consider a bill to strengthen and renew the Violence Against Women Act. ...
by Mary Yang and Dan Hu | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Progressive and moderate House Democrats continued their weeks-long brawl Thursday on the $1 trillion infrastructure act and the $3.5 trillion social spending bill — the Build Back Better Act. Both part of President Joe Biden’s agenda, the two...
by Ali McCadden and Mikayla Denault | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Activists and progressive Democrats including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush protested on the Capitol lawn Thursday, demanding that Congress include immigration reform in the $3.5 trillion social spending bill and connect it to the $1...
by Dan Hu | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Weeks of tension between moderate and progressive House Democrats will continue at least one more day, following the delay of a crucial vote on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. The vote was scheduled for Thursday – but House Speaker Nancy...
by Zinya Salfiti | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Top defense experts said al-Qaida and the jihadist movement are big beneficiaries of the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan at a Senate hearing Thursday, part of a series of congressional hearings aimed at understanding how the 20-year, $2 trillion war...
by Jason Harward | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Congress passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday, averting a government shutdown and maintaining the federal government’s budget at current levels for the next two months. President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bill shortly after 6 p.m. Eastern...
