NEWS AND OPINION: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise has shared “Committee Cliff Notes” — a daunting preview of what House Republican committees are up to this week. For one thing, they are holding hearings to address 73 complex legislative matters in 16 different categories — a to-do list that includes ever-popular appropriations to armed services, […]
RICHMOND, Va. — Legislation underpinning a plan to relocate the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals across the Potomac River to northern Virginia easily cleared an early hurdle in the state legislature Friday. Lawmakers on the Virginia House Appropriations Committee voted 17-3 to advance the measure, a top priority of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee legislative staffer has been placed on leave after Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones says the staffer yelled at him in a hallway. Jones, who shot to national fame as one of two Democrats expelled by their Republican colleagues last year for their participation in a protest calling for gun control, […]
Casey Mattox of Americans for Prosperity has a good weekend read for us at the New York Post titled Politicians Can’t Stop Passing Absurd Laws. This has long been a favorite topic in political circles and entire books have been published on the subject. You’re probably already familiar with some of the more famous old […]
DENVER — State legislatures wield little, if any, influence over U.S. foreign policy, but you wouldn’t necessarily know that from the pro-Palestinian demonstrators converging on state capitols. Crowds of anti-Israel activists are spilling from the streets and universities into the chambers and rotundas, greeting lawmakers at the start of the 2024 legislative sessions with noisy […]
ATLANTA — A federal judge on Thursday accepted new Georgia congressional and legislative voting districts that protect Republican partisan advantages, saying the creation of new majority-Black voting districts solved the illegal minority vote dilution that led him to order maps to be redrawn. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, in three separate but similarly worded orders, […]
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