by Joey Maya Safchik | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, National Security
The House Subcommittee on National Security Tuesday probed the Trump Administration’s actions in Afghanistan, where the United States is currently engaged in its longest-ever conflict. “Obviously we have not succeeded in keeping the bad guys out,”...
by Virginia Langmaid | Jan 28, 2020 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Controlled forest cutting and development of a public-private bank to fund infrastructure changes to respond to climate change were some of the fixes recommended by experts at a House Energy and Commerce committee hearing on Tuesday. Anthony Davis,...
by Olivia Olander | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — A general sense of urgency overshadowed policy details at a Republican-led Senate hearing Tuesday about the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee considered how to reconcile the...
by Angelina Campanile and Evan Ochsner | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday continued to publicly urge Republicans to join Democrats in voting to subpoena witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, saying new revelations should force the GOP lawmakers to get top...
by Janea Wilson | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON–Congress should expand Medicaid to cover a pregnant woman’s prenatal health care as well as the delivery and the baby’s health care, the chairwoman of a House Education and Labor subcommittee said Tuesday. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., said the...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Democrat and Republican members of Congress agreed Tuesday that the federal government should do more to help families after the arrival of a child or when family members are ill — but they couldn’t agree on how to provide that help. At a House Ways and...
by Megan Lebowitz and Cassidy Wang | Jan 25, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — After a mere two hours, President Donald Trump’s defense team concluded their first day of oral arguments in the Senate impeachment trial. The lawyers said they do not believe Democrats met the burden of proof and neglected to cite certain key pieces of...
by Rupa Palla | Jan 24, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Friday marked the 47th annual March for Life rally where pro-lifers from across the country came to Capitol Hill to support the movement. Matt Surdyke was one of the thousands in attendance. He came to represent those who have “no one to...
by Evan Ochsner | Jan 24, 2020 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff closed the Democrats’ three-day opening arguments in the Senate trial of President Donald Trump, pleading Friday for Republican senators to call the witnesses who were prevented from testifying in the...
by Angelina Campanile | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Near freezing temperatures, rain and snow failed to prevent thousands of protesters from gathering in Freedom Plaza on Saturday morning and in several other locations across the country for the fourth annual Women’s March. On the first full day of...
by Sneha Dey, Olivia Olander, James Pollard, Benjamin Rosenberg, Gregory Svirnovskiy and Janea Wilson | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON- House impeachment manger Sylvia Garcia said Thursday that President Donald Trump prioritized his personal interests over the country’s national security in a “gross abuse of power.” “If we allow this gross abuse of power to continue…then this...
by Alex Moore | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The solutions that America’s cities need do not have to come from Washington because nobody can better build communities than America’s mayors, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, told the Conference of American Mayors on Thursday. The...
