The Hitchhiker’s Guide to failing to elect a House speaker quickly
On the first day of the new Congress, representatives will vote for the speaker of the House as Mike Johnson fights to keep the job.
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Analysis: Stalled Kids Online Safety Act pits Speaker Mike Johnson against powerful Republicans
Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn is critical of a House slowdown in passing the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which she ...
As Americans, we can’t let unelected sidekicks like Musk run our country | Opinion
The voters did not hire Elon Musk, and no amount of spin will wipe away the fact he almost drove the government into shutdown ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat1d
Donald Trump threatens to try to take back the Panama Canal. The US relinquished control years ago
PHOENIX — Donald Trump suggested Sunday that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal that the ...
The spending bill that averted a shutdown shrank from more than 1,500 pages to just 100—here’s what was cut
The spending bill that cleared Congress didn’t include pharmacy benefit manager reforms, a pay raise for lawmakers, and a ...
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Government avoids a shutdown, but doesn't address radiation exposure funding
The year-end funding package addresses research for childhood cancers, but there's still no movement on the Radiation ...
Trump’s first year will be filled with fiscal follies
But that year-end legislative battle may foretell further fiscal chaos in 2025, including the risk of another downgrade of US debt. Donald Trump will take office on January 20 with his fellow ...
Trump-endorsed stopgap funding plan goes down to defeat
House lawmakers from both sides of the aisle joined together to reject Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest stopgap funding package ...
"People are starting to forget": 9/11 health care funding stripped from budget deal
A bipartisan bill that would have provided health care for 9/11 first responders was excluded from the budget deal ...
Finger Lakes Times2d
Rep. Claudia Tenney votes to avert government shutdown
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, R-24 of Cleveland, Oswego County, is one of 366 House members that voted Friday for legislation ...
Trump already acting as he’s president as Biden takes lower-key approach
President-elect Trump is seizing the reins of power early and, according to lawmakers in both parties, already acting as ...
As NC Gov. Cooper leaves office, he’s learned from battles with legislature, business
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, worked with and against a Republican-controlled legislature on issues like ...