by Caroline Neal | Feb 14, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and John Kennedy (R-La.) called for stricter legislation limiting social media use for minors under 16 years old during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday. The hearing, called “Protecting Our...
by Saul Pink | Feb 14, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden started his career in politics in 1971 as a member of the New Castle, Del., County Council. Over half a century later, he touted his administration’s economic efforts to more than two thousand county officials at Tuesday’s National...
by Nicole Markus | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) led a group of seven House Democrats to introduce a formal resolution Thursday to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) from Congress. It’s the first formal move to remove the embattled freshman congressman, who is the subject of...
by Brennan Leach | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Democrats doubled-down on the label of “extreme MAGA Republicans” in Congress after heckles during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. “I’m confident that the overwhelming majority of the American people found that aggressive,...
by Lucia Barnum | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and community leaders from across the country gathered to talk health, baseball and resiliency at the fifth Annual Dominicans on the Hill event on Wednesday. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), the first Dominican American to serve in the House,...
by Stephanie Markowitz | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee’s hearing on Wednesday over Twitter’s temporary suppression of an article about Hunter Biden’s laptop rapidly devolved into partisan fighting about First Amendment rights, claims of collusion between Twitter and the...
by Brennan Leach | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – In his first State of the Union address to a divided Congress, President Joe Biden emphasized unity. House Democrats, however, spotlight chaos and dysfunction within the GOP that have made that goal nearly impossible. Biden began his speech Tuesday...
by Logan Schiciano | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – As President Joe Biden unofficially kicks off his campaign with a trip to Wisconsin on Wednesday following his State of the Union address, several Democrats aren’t openly encouraging the president to run for reelection. When asked if Biden should run in...
by Saul Pink | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden touted the recent decrease in crossings at the southern border while urging Congress to pass bipartisan immigration reform at the State of the Union address Tuesday. “If you won’t pass my comprehensive immigration reform, at least pass...
by Kate Walter | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON- Speaking in front of a divided Congress for the first time during his presidency, President Joe Biden rooted his State of the Union address in bipartisan appeals, while also drawing a distinct contrast between Democrat and Republican priorities. The...
by Julia Narvaez Munguia | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON— Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-Ark.) denounced President Biden, citing that he is the first president to “surrender to a woke mob” in a Republican response to the State of the Union address on Tuesday. The former White House press secretary in the...
by Nicole Markus | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden focused his second State of the Union address on the need for unity and “finishing the job” to help the U.S. bring down inflation, improve health care access and confront national security threats. Biden started out by promoting his...
