Rep. Ralph Norman reintroduced a bill Wednesday aimed at stopping a form of federal spending known as earmarks. “I’ve always said that earmarks are evil,” Norman, R-N.C. told The Daily Signal. “They are sneaky in the way that they get tacked onto big, important spending packages to be automatically passed by the ‘uniparty’ with […]
LONDON — The British government‘s plan for a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from ever smoking cleared its first hurdle in Parliament on Tuesday despite vocal opposition from within Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party. The bill, a key policy announced by Sunak last year, would make it illegal to sell […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee would join the ranks of states where public school employees have to out transgender students to their parents under a bill advancing in the Republican-supermajority Legislature. GOP House lawmakers gave near-final passage to the bill on Monday, putting Tennessee just a few hurdles away from joining states such as Alabama, Arizona, […]
A staunch defender of abortion says that it is essentially murder. Host Bill Maher made the comment Friday on his show “Real Time.” “I can respect the absolutist position, I really can,” Maher said speaking of pro-lifers in a video clip posted to X. “I scold the left when they say, ‘Oh you know what, […]
A bill banning marriage between first cousins passed the Tennessee Legislature Thursday and heads to the desk of Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican. If he signs it into law, the ban will take effect immediately. The bill aims to close a loophole dating back six decades. In 1960, the Tennessee attorney general wrote an opinion […]
The House on Friday advanced a bill to renew the government’s chief spying powers, recovering from a major hiccup earlier in the week when Republicans tanked the legislation. A vote is expected later in the day to pass the reauthorization of the hotly-debated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702 which allows the U.S. to collect […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s Republican-controlled Senate advanced a bill Tuesday that would empower state and local law enforcement to arrest and jail people in the state who entered the U.S. illegally, similar to embattled legislation in Texas. Amid national fights between Republican states and Democratic President Joe Biden over how and who should enforce […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee residents convicted of felonies can apply to vote again without restoring their gun rights under a bipartisan bill that faces some GOP skepticism as it advances late this session. The effort by Democratic Rep. Antonio Parkinson and Republican Sen. Paul Bailey to untangle the two rights has cleared early hurdles but […]
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972—a law guaranteeing equality between the sexes in education—has been on the chopping block from Day One of the Biden administration. But after a lengthy delay, the federal Department of Education has formally announced it will punt on the announcement of its new Title IX sports rule, one […]
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell has participated in a long, tenured career in the Senate, witnessing countless changes, not just to Congress, but the United States as a whole. Unfortunately for the longtime Republican politician, the clock never stops ticking. His clock continues to get closer to running out, prompting him to take his leave from […]
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