That’s a shame because the bill that would have emerged from House-Senate negotiations would have been better than the bill the Senate has already passed. ① But the Senate bill is much, much better than nothing. And all that has to happen to make it law is for the House to pass the...
At least one Republican in Congress has been bold enough to proposea constitutional amendmentthat would allow Trump to seek another term. It has no chance of going anywhere, given the high bar for amending the Constitution, and has yet to move in the new Congress' first months. W...
The latter approach, which was ultimately passed into law, was a bill proposed in the Senate in early October 2020. This bill was reached through a negotiation process that unified 15 different bills drafted by legislators from different political parties in the years preceding to address unhealthy...
The bill, which has a companion bill in the House and was approved by a Senate committee in late February, applies to Baltimore only. Washington, who introduced a similar bill last year as a member of the House, said momentum has been building. “Water is not just any ...
The president may propose, but Congress disposes, and it is finally about to dispose of President Bill Clinton's five-year deficit reduction package. But in this case, it isn't really Congress that has made the decisions that shaped the package agreed on by congressional leaders Friday. It ...
This improvement in load forecasting data will allow utilities to propose justifiable infrastructure projects to prepare for vehicle electrification and will allow regulators to review such proposed plans for prudency given the expected changes in load. Senate Bill 410, signed into California law this ...
The House of Representatives is "being operated with a dictatorship of the speaker," Reid said on the Senate floor. He attributed Boehner's reluctance to put a version of Senate bill that raised tax rates on incomes above $250,000 for couples to fears he could lose his re-election as spe...
has introduced a bill in congress that would make it illegal to create and share deepfake porn without a person’s consent. another house bill from rep. yvette clarke (d-new york) seeks to give legal recourse to victims of deepfake porn. rep. tom kean, jr. (r-new jersey), who in ...
Emerging from a Friday meeting with President Biden, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she is hopeful the House will send a sweeping COVID-19 relief bill to the Senate within two weeks. Biden and congressional Democrats are under enormous pressure to
He was one of the wealthiest members of the Senate but drove a battered and often dirty white Dodge convertible with a small silver pelican hood ornament.AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander NEWPORT, R.I. – When Claiborne Pell returned from serving in the Coast Guard in World War II,...