A U.S. congressional delegation met Taiwan’s new leader on Monday in a show of support days after China held drills around the self-governing island in response to his inauguration. Source link
Six House lawmakers arrived Sunday in Taiwan to meet with the democratically run island’s new administration despite threats from China urging the U.S. representatives to stay away. Source link
Six House lawmakers arrived Sunday in Taiwan to meet with the democratically run island’s new administration despite threats from China urging the U.S. representatives to stay away. Source link
House lawmakers on Wednesday sparred with one another over a pre-dawn raid by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms which led to the recent death of Bryan Malinowski, who was executive director of Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas. Source link
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said someone should probe whether alcohol caused Thursday night’s oral fracas. Lawmakers speculated that liquor was being consumed before or during the hearing, but it was unclear if members on the Oversight Committee or in the room were imbibing. “I didn’t see the […]
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine lawmakers sustained vetoes of bills to institute a minimum wage for farm workers and to ban so-called bump stocks that allow a gun to mimic a machine gun on Friday as they attempted to dispatch unfinished business including 80 late spending proposals. The Maine Senate failed to muster a two-thirds majority […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers were working to pass a roughly $51 billion state budget Friday that boosts funding for education and infrastructure projects around the state. The House faced a 6 p.m. Friday deadline, set by the state constitution, to give final approval to the budget for the fiscal year that starts […]
U.S. military aircraft in the Indo-Pacific region are vulnerable to missile attacks from China, which has constructed hundreds of hardened aircraft bunkers in apparent preparation for war, a group of Republican lawmakers said in urging stronger aircraft defenses by the Air Force and Navy. American military bases in the Indo-Pacific are under threat,” 13 Republican […]
Leaders of some of the nation’s leading school districts went before Congress to defend their records of combating rising K-12 antisemitism, but lawmakers were skeptical any of them would be making the honor roll. Top school officials from New York City, Berkeley, California, and Montgomery County, Maryland, said they have taken action to stem the […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — Despite pleas from Democrats and gut-wrenching testimony from doctors and rape survivors, a GOP-controlled legislative committee rejected a bill Tuesday that would have added cases of rape and incest as exceptions to Louisiana’s abortion ban. In the reliably red state, which is firmly ensconced in the Bible Belt and where even […]
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