by James Pollard | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats and Republicans attempted to carve up the other side’s opening arguments Wednesday in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on the first day they were allowed to ask questions. After listening to the House impeachment...
by Angelina Campanile | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of protesters swarmed the Capitol steps Wednesday demanding the Senate consider witnesses and documents in the ongoing impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Leaks of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s upcoming book Sunday...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Jan 29, 2020 | Topics
WASHINGTON — The Senate should approve a bill passed by the House earlier this week to give schools more money to teach about the Holocaust, the head of the Anti-Defamation League said Wednesday. Testifying at a House Oversight Committee Hearing, Jonathan Greenblatt,...
by Megan Lebowitz | Jan 29, 2020 | Politics
WASHINGTON – A psychology professor on Wednesday told the House Veterans Affairs Committee that one way to combat the high suicide rate among veterans is to push for a a comprehensive health system approach to treating the causes of depression. A 2019 report by the US...
by Cassidy Wang | Jan 29, 2020 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Democratic members of the House Financial Services Committee grilled Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting Wednesday on his proposal to modernize the Community Reinvestment Act, saying he didn’t collaborate with Congress or provide transparency, and...
by Angelina Campanile, Joshua Irvine, Megan Lebowitz and Evan Ochsner | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s defense team concluded its opening statement Tuesday, warning senators of undermining the Constitution and urging them to acquit the president. “Reject these articles of impeachment for our country and for the American...
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...
