119th Congress, By The Numbers The 119th Congress will be the first one in recent years to buck the general trend of more racial, gender, age and ethnic diversity. Aneeta Mathur-Ashton Jan. 13, 2025 Inflation to Dog the Fed and Markets The rise in bond yields at a ...
The Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the subsequent U.S. state laws restricting abortion, put the United States at odds with a global trend toward laws that favor abortion rights, according to theCenter for Reproductive Rights. Despite the overarching...
This history matters for at least two reasons: First, the new standard for judging the constitutionality of modern gun laws under the Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen decision is based on whether they are “consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” A...
Known as Chevron deference, the framework effectively gave federal agencies the authority to enact rules and regulations to fill gaps in the laws passed by Congress. But aftergetting rid of that precedent, it will now be up to courts to decide whether an agency has acted within its authority,...
The Magnuson Act, or Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act, was passed by Congress in 1943 to dismantle exclusionary laws against Chinese immigration and implement an immigration quota to 105 annual visas. The act was passed in large part because the U.S. and China were allies in World War II, and ...
Nearly four decades after its release, the album was deemedworthy of preservationin 2023 by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry based on its "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation's recorded sound heritage...
Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” Turner dismissed “chaos caucus” lawmakers who he said were “seeking attention for themselves and trying to stop all of the important work in Congress.” The threat against Johnson comes after GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz similarly moved ...
Following a law passed by Congress in 1910, the heights of new developments may not exceed 20 feet more than the width of the street in front of it. Because D.C.’s buildings are restricted to roughly 11 stories, housing costs are high: The average home price in the city is several ...
raised periodically. On Dec. 16, 2021, the debt ceiling was raised by $2.5 trillion to $31.4 trillion. This is the largest dollar amount increase in the national debt. In June 2023, the debt ceiling was suspended by Congress until 2025 as the national debt passed the $31.4 trillion mark...
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