by Joanna Hou | Feb 2, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden discussed the legacy of the Family and Medical Leave Act and his own administration’s work supporting labor rights at a White House event marking the act’s 30th anniversary Thursday. The FMLA required eligible employees to receive...
by Kaitlin Bender-Thomas | Feb 2, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON —- Several advocates dressed in groundhog costumes gathered outside the Capitol Thursday morning to urge Congress to expand the Family and Medical Leave Act and ensure paid leave for workers. “We’re tired of being in the shadows,” said Ruth Martin, senior...
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 Shannon Tyler | Feb 1, 2023 | Topics
WASHINGTON – Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee set out during the panel’s first hearing investigating border policies to pin the blame on President Joe Biden and his policies, while Democrats responded by attacking their colleagues on language they said...
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...
