by Shannon Tyler | Feb 16, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Thursday pressed to expand food-stamp benefits to people who have been barred, saying that such a step will help diminish hunger. A Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on the 2023 Farm Bill...
by Kate Walter | Feb 16, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON- In response to the Congressional Budget Office’s latest report and President Joe Biden accusing some Republicans of wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits, talk of entitlement program reform has swept across the halls of Congress in recent...
by Jacob Wendler | Feb 15, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a rumored Republican presidential or vice presidential candidate, touted her own credentials in standing up to the influence of the Chinese government Wednesday during a keynote address in Washington. During her speech at...
by Nicole Markus | Feb 15, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – One hundred faces lined the walls of the Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters in the first week after the fentanyl memorial was created last May. Now, less than a year later, over 4,800 people are memorialized there. DEA Administrator Anne Milgram...
by Logan Schiciano | Feb 15, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Nikki Haley formally launched her 2024 presidential bid Wednesday morning in front of friends, family and supporters in downtown Charleston, S.C., setting the stage for a bout with her former boss, Donald Trump, in the Republican primary. Haley affirmed...
by Emiliana Betancourt | Feb 14, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis created controversy last month when the Florida Department of Education threatened to reject AP African American studies. DeSantis was criticized for the move and accused of pursuing it to further his political agenda. He...
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...
