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- HuffPost
Democratic Lawmaker Explodes At GOP Colleague Over Gun Violence: 'Cowards!'
New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman lost it at Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky in a congressional hallway after yet another school shooting.
- INSIDER
Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley just teamed up on a bill that would let the government 'clawback lavish pay and bonuses when executives explode their bank'
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- Business Insider
GOP Sen. Mike Rounds suggests schools should use solar panel funding to beef up security since Congress has 'gone about as far as we're going to with gun control'
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- The Fiscal Times
Biden Rejects McCarthy’s Debt Meeting Request
It’s been nearly two months since President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met in the Oval Office to discuss raising the nation’s debt limit. McCarthy, the California Republican, sent Biden a letter Tuesday pressing for another meeting, writing that the president and his team “have been completely missing in action on any meaningful follow-up to this rapidly approaching deadline.” Biden, McCarthy said, is “on the clock.” Biden responded in kind yesterday evening, essentially saying t
- WSOC
NC Senate overrides Cooper’s veto on pistol permits
North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Senate voted Tuesday to override the Democratic governor’s first veto of the session on legislation to loosen gun restrictions.
- AP Finance
Congress approves measure to toss Biden's water protections
Congress on Wednesday approved a resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s protections for the nation’s waterways that Republicans have criticized as a burden on business, advancing a measure that President Joe Biden has promised to veto. Republicans have targeted the Biden administration’s protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, labeling it an environmental overreach that harms businesses, developers and farmers. The Senate voted in favor 53 to 43 Wednesday to give final legislative approval to the measure.
- Kansas City Star
KS House passes ban on trans women in female spaces, labels intersex people as disabled
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- Miami Herald
Will driving in the left lane on Florida highways be banned? What to know about changes
Driving laws may change in the coming months.
- AZCentral | The Arizona Republic
Republicans require majority support to even hear a Democrat bill. That's insane
The Arizona Legislature may be evenly split, but only bills sponsored by Republicans stand a chance of passing. That's not how good government works.
- NBC News
Man arrested over secretly recording Republicans prompts Senate to change security policies
A contract employee was arrested for allegedly recording audio of a Republican lunch meeting in the U.S. Capitol in early March, four sources told NBC News.
- AFP
Biden says most of US thinks owning military style guns 'bizarre'
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- LA Times
As fentanyl deaths surge in California, lawmakers kill bills that would punish dealers
Saying they want to decrease California's prison population, lawmakers kill bills to increase criminal penalties for fentanyl dealers.
- WSOC
Permit requirement to buy pistol scrapped in North Carolina
North Carolina legislators repealed the state’s requirement that someone obtain a permit from a local sheriff before buying a pistol, as the Republican-controlled legislature on Wednesday successfully overrode one of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes for the first time since 2018.
- The Hill
Netanyahu hits back after Biden expresses alarm over judicial overhaul
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- LA Times
Column: How Disney's lawyers brutally manhandled DeSantis over control of Disney World
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- The Hill
House Democrat responds to GOP lawmaker’s comments on school shooting: ‘It is our job to fix it’
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- Lexington Herald-Leader
Here are Kentucky’s newest laws enacted with — or without — Gov. Beshear’s signature
There’s still time for more bills to become Kentucky law as the legislature returns to finally pass more bills and override vetoes, so this story will be updated in the days ahead.
- The Hill
Here is where the debate on Social Security and Medicare stands in Congress
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- Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer
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