It was a busy day in the Capitol building as lawmakers gathered for the very first session of Michigan’s 102nd legislature and last week, here’s a look at who’s representing mid-Michigan.
"We're members of Congress. We have a code of ethics of how we should portray ourselves," McCarthy told CNN on Tuesday.
Polling suggests Americans increasingly see the Biden administration as a do-nothing dud. Are they right?
House Republicans read the Constitution on the House floor Tuesday morning, following through — though delayed — on a pledge Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made after the GOP won control of the chamber last year. McCarthy in November — before winning the Speaker’s gavel — wrote on Twitter that lawmakers would “read every single word of the Constitution aloud…
After winning his election in November, the New York representative confirmed that he had lied about countless aspects of his personal biography.
Texas State Sen. Charles Schwertner has been arrested Tuesday on a driving while intoxicated charged after being stopped by the Austin Police Department.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) unveiled Monday a statewide plan to ban TikTok from state government-issued devices and networks, following a December order to crack down on the use of the popular social media app. “The security risks associated with the use of TikTok on devices used to conduct the important business of our state…
The Florida House on Monday proposed an overhaul of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, including a new name and giving power to Gov. Ron DeSantis to choose the people in charge as the Republican governor punishes the company over its opposition to the nicknamed “Don’t Say Gay” law.
(Bloomberg) -- It’s a tough time to be a US senator.Most Read from BloombergQuake Toll Hits 4,000 in Turkey, Syria as Overseas Aid FlowsDell to Cut About 6,650 Jobs, Battered by Plunging PC SalesTrump Charges in Georgia Over 2020 Could Lead to Bigger Fed CaseTech Drives Stock Gains as Traders Weigh Powell: Markets WrapUS Moves to Recover Chinese Balloon While Weighing RetaliationThe Democratic-led Senate, the center of dealmaking for the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency, suddenly is rel
Rep. Liz Harris, one of the Legislature's fiercest election deniers, is turning out to be Gov. Katie Hobbs' most important ally at the state Capitol.
For all the fanfare and the legal rigmarole of Illinois' ban on semiautomatic weapons, it might come as a surprise to learn the legislation was titled “Insurance Code-Public Adjusters.” The ban on dozens of semiautomatic rifles and handguns took effect immediately, but enforcement is under scrutiny after a state appellate court endorsed a temporary restraining order last week in a case filed by thousands of advocates and led by Accuracy Firearms, a dealer in Effingham, 101 miles (162 kilometers) northeast of St. Louis. Less than four weeks old, the provision — now known as the “Protect Illinois Communities Act" — has prompted lawsuits at a rate of more than one every four days.
Democratic Michigan Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin, a rumored Senate candidate, announced she and her husband of 12 years are divorcing.
During a visit to the USS Gabrielle Giffords, first lady Jill Biden said she is going to Arizona to watch the Super Bowl game.
When lawmakers gather for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, the Republican side of the aisle will look slightly different than it did a few years ago. Rather than row after row of white men in suits, the House Republican majority increasingly has added Black, Latino and female elected officials to their ranks, an effort toward bolstering GOP diversity that's helping to make the new Congress the most racially and ethnically diverse ever. “Diversity matters," said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
Republicans introduced legislation Tuesday that would delay federal funds to the president after a failure to meet the deadline to submit a budget to Congress.
Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) on Tuesday ripped the Biden administration’s decision to delay shooting down a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the weekend, saying the delay made the U.S. look weak. Scott said during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Chinese economic competition that he was concerned about the “fast-growing possibility of a China-led…
The New York Times editorial board is calling on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to reform the Senate’s “blue slip” tradition whereby a senator can block a federal judicial nominee appointed to a court in his or her home state as a matter of senatorial courtesy. The Times wrote in an editorial Monday…
The Reedy Creek Improvement District board, name and powers all have been revamped in a new 2023 bill filed Feb. 6.
A fence is being built around the Capitol ahead of President Biden's State of the Union address Tuesday, despite Democratic claims that walls are wrong.
The committee that voted to table each of Rehm’s bills was made up of four Democrats and two Republicans with votes mostly along party lines.
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