“Donald Trump believes a border deal would hurt his campaign, so he ordered his allies in Congress to kill the deal,” Harris said, vowing to bring the deal back and “sign it into law.” But, she added, “we can create a pathway to citizenship and secure our border.”...
They’re the focus of the immigration debate. But across the nation, Latinos are rising to power and offering a glimpse of what’s ahead.
Tester, first elected in 2006, was a special target for fellow Montana Sen. Steve Daines, who chaired the Senate GOP campaign arm this cycle. After two GOP congressmen failed to dethrone Tester in 2012 and 2018, Republicans recruited a political neophyte. She...
Jeanette Rankin was born on a ranch in Montana USA in 1882. In those days Montana was still a frontier state and life there was hard. Men and women shared the difficult outdoor work. But young Jeanette noticed men and women were not equal in many ways. For instance at election time wom...
TheMissouri Compromise, 1821: applied to what are now Iowa, western and southern Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, the part of Kansas then belonging to the US, the northern part of Oklahoma, and the parts of Montana and Wyoming lying east of the Continental Divide; explicitly repealed in 185...
Democrats have many other strong arguments to make this year, from the thriving Biden economy to preserving democracy (thetop voter issuein one recent poll) to the House GOP rejection, at Trump’s urging, of a tough bipartisan border deal that Biden embraced and the Senate was ready to pass...
This is a scholarship and loan forgiveness program that rewards individuals who start a career in the automotive industry. You must work for an employer that is part of the Specialty Equipment MarketAssociation (SEMA). Note:This program is the law, but Congress has failed to allocate money to...
However, banning pornography outright is a complex legal issue. To achieve this, both Congress and the Supreme Court will have to redefine what constitutes pornography. In1973, the Supreme Court made a ruling in a case called Miller v. California, where it set up a test to decide what count...
In two of theSuper Tuesday states— Colorado and Maine — Trump was found to have engaged in insurrection related to the post-2020 election period and disqualified from the primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. But the U.S. Supreme Courtruled on Mondaythat only Congress, not...
In 1973, Congress enacted legislation to addresscost-of-living adjustments (COLAs). COLA adjustments for Social Security andSupplemental Security Income (SSI)benefits were instituted so that the payments keep pace with inflation.6 For example, in December 2022, the COLA was 8.7% due to the high...