by Libby Berry & Maggie Harden | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to pass a $1.3 trillion omnibus bill that would fund the government until September. The bill includes several controversial provisions, including increased funding for border security and no long-term fix for DACA...
by Maggie Harden | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Politics
POLITICAL COMMENTATORS are calling 2018 the “year of the woman” based on the record-breaking number of women running for Congress this year. According to estimates from the Center for American Women and Politics, 575 women have declared their intention to...
by Caroline Vakil | Mar 21, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON — House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer said Wednesday he hopes Congress will pass a resolution to protect “dreamers” who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children ahead of the massive annual spending bill that must be passed by Friday to avoid a...
by Ben Trachtenberg | Mar 21, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices had tough questions for both parties Wednesday during oral arguments in a case that could determine judicial jurisdiction over Indian tribes. The case concerns a parcel of land in Washington state purchased by the Upper Skagit Indian...
by Catherine Kim | Mar 21, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON –– Democrat Conor Lamb’s win in the special election for a long-time GOP congressional seat in Pennsylvania does not indicate a more conservative turn for Democrats, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley said at a press conference Wednesday. ...
by Rachel Frazin | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hours after a student shot two classmates in Maryland on Tuesday, a teacher who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting in Florida told House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers that students in her school still are often absent...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The lines between terrorists and organized crime groups have become increasingly blurred, but both are national security threats, members of the House Financial Services Committee said Tuesday. In a memorandum, the committee said that terrorist...
by Stavros Agorakis | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — With Democrats facing a November election in which 24 of their Senate seats are up for a vote, the North Dakota seat, now held by Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, is within the grasp of the Republican Party – and experts expect the battle to get ugly....
by Jakob Lazzaro & Caroline Vakil | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Several Supreme Court justices questioned the constitutionality of a California law requiring crisis pregnancy centers to disclose that they do not provide abortion services and educate women on where those services are available during oral arguments...
by Syd Stone | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Committee members on Tuesday called for the Violence Against Women Act to be reauthorized but with several additions to strengthen protections for diverse communities and speed up analyses of DNA. The original 1994 law provided federal...
by Anna Laffrey | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON— Six months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, 270 schools are operating without power, families are leaving the island and the federal government hasn’t done enough to help children, several Democratic congressional leaders said Tuesday. At least...
by Erica Snow & Syd Stone | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
Jami Averwater called her father during the second week of law school with a dilemma — she couldn’t identify a single other Republican in her classroom. When she did acknowledge she was a Republican, she said, her classmates at Belmont University in Nashville...
