Key Minnesota Democrats on legislative tax committees want popular social media platforms to pay a premium for profiting off of consumer data. They believe the approach would be the first of its kind in the cou
The legislation faces an uncertain future at the capitol, though, since in order to pass it will require bipartisan support. The House is tied so Republicans and Democrats will have to work together — along with a DFL-controlled Senate and the governor — to pass the next two-year state b...
While Democrats debate whether the party has moved too far to the left or not far enough, Democratic Socialists of America — the nation’s largest socialist organization — scored its biggest victories in this year’s election cycle. There are currently 71 DSA members ho...
Submitted to Congress, the plan prompted significant blowback from human rights groups and Democrats who say the U.S. has a responsibility to help refugees fleeing famine and war. (MORE: ICE arrests dropped in past year as Trump admin focused on families at the border ) House Judiciar...
s Lavern Gore areall Republicans who ran in mostly urban Democratic districts, but none won on election night. All Black female congresswomen – with the exception ofUtah’s Mia Love, who servedtwo terms in the House– have been Democrats, suggesting that the path to victory...
Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMESWe got a chuckle out of the recent crack by Rep. Spencer Bachus that there are 17 socialist members of the U.S. House of Representatives, but we are puzzled by the Alabama Republican's math. Surely the number of socialists in Congress is much higher than 17...
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the Democrats stole a second term from him. “Why aren’t they investigating November 3, a rigged and stolen election?” Trump asked the group. “Why aren’t they looking at that, and there’s massive evidence that shows exactly what I’m talking about.” He also claimed—falsely, of ...
who’s one of two Democrats trying to oust House Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Mikie Sherrill, a former Navy pilot and federal prosecutor, who hopes to show New Jersey representative Rodney Frelinghuysen the door. (Twenty-three-year congressional veteran Frelinghuysen is descended fr...
the 2018 record of 127 women in Congress has already been shattered. What’s more, the incoming class of women in Congress is not almost exclusively Democrats, aswas the case in 2018); instead, at least 35 Republican women are expected to join the 117th Congress, up from 22 in 2...