by Heather Zhu | Nov 21, 2024 | Business, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Michael Barr, Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, reaffirmed his intent to serve his full term during a heated House Financial Services Committee hearing on Wednesday. The session was marked by Republican criticism of Biden-era financial regulations and...
by Emma Richman | Nov 21, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Native American tribal leaders urged lawmakers to increase federal funding and implement national reporting systems to help solve the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women on Wednesday. At a House Appropriations Subcommittee meeting, lawmakers...
by Marisa Guerra Echeverria | Nov 20, 2024 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON — In the first House Homeland Security hearing on immigration since Republicans’ decisive 2024 election victory, both sides of the aisle derailed a conversation on migrant children trafficking to debate their administrations’ respective immigration...
by Sonya Dymova | Nov 20, 2024 | Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Nov. 19, Ukraine marked 1,000 days since Russia launched its full-scale invasion with a military milestone—its first use of the U.S.-manufactured Army Tactical Missile Systems to strike into Russian territory. The move came days after...
by Jonas Blum | Nov 20, 2024 | Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — The gallery filled and protesters chanted, but the House Homeland Security Committee hearing entitled “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland” did not start on Wednesday after scheduling conflicts with the witnesses. The hearing, which would be the...
by Eli Kronenberg | Nov 20, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders dodged questions surrounding Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) resolution that would ban transgender women from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol complex, weeks after Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.) became the first ever...
by Marisa Guerra Echeverria and Audrey Pachuta | Nov 15, 2024 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON — Gathered at a podium outside the capitol, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus introduced its newest members from the 119th Congress and highlighted key issues facing Latino voters at a Friday morning press conference. “Every crisis also brings great...
by Audrey Pachuta | Nov 15, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — When House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., took the podium for his first weekly press conference since the election, he became one of the highest ranking Democrats to field questions about his party’s crushing loss. Addressing a crowded...
by Jonas Blum | Nov 14, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Concern, questions and condemnation from veterans and members of Congress have grown since President-elect Trump announced Pete Hegseth, a Fox News contributor and retired Army National Guardsman, as his selection for Secretary of Defense. Hegseth, who...
by Audrey Pachuta | Nov 14, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Republicans gathered Wednesday afternoon at a hotel just blocks from the Capitol to elect their leadership team for the 119th Congress after projections showed that they would retain control of the lower chamber. “We have a very well-designed...
by Eli Kronenberg | Nov 13, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Republican Senators elected South Dakota’s John Thune to be their new Majority Leader on Wednesday morning, marking an end to Mitch McConnell’s 17-year stint atop the Senate Republican Conference. Thune defeated Senator John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) and...
by Caroline Killilea | Nov 13, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – Multiple witnesses criticized the U.S. government for its lack of transparency regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) information and called for greater accountability from the Executive Branch on Wednesday during a House Oversight and...
