by Rafaela Jinich | Feb 1, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on the Senate banking committee on Thursday sought answers on how to spot and shut down financial scams and fraud, especially as new platforms to send money proliferate. Committee Chair Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) underscored the distressing surge in...
by Julian Andreone | Nov 30, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Senators discussed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s role in preventing recessions by regulating banks and financial institutions and debated whether the agency is operating within its jurisdiction in a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and...
by Logan Schiciano | Jan 31, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Congress is facing growing pressure to reintroduce police reform legislation after body camera footage from the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police officers was released last Friday. “We must have legislation that is effective around this...
by Lauren Caruba | Feb 4, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Republicans pushed U.S. surgeon general nominee Vivek Murthy on Tuesday to address whether his support for gun control and the new health care law would affect his objectivity if he becomes the nation’s top doctor during a Senate confirmation hearing....
