That same year, she wrote for a panel that refused to order Louisiana to issue a long-stalled license for a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in New Orleans, saying “there is no free-standing federal right to receive an abortion-clinic license.” In the Texas case involving pandemic r...
Sheila Jackson LeePancreatic cancerHoustonJuneteenthTexasCongressViolence Against Women ActSocial justice issues Longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who helped lead federal efforts to protect women from domestic violence and recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday, has died....
Former Rep. Will Hurd of Texas announced he would be running for president on June 22, which gave him less than two months to qualify. Still, he told CNN last week that he was "pretty confident" his campaign would qualify. Hurd did not answer if thought a candidate should drop out ...
As I draft this, a flurry of new Executive Orders are raining down, and the Senate is scheduled to resume consideration on “S.5” (a.k.a. the Laken Riley Act). It’s a day of import, to say the least. And the first thing on my own mind is detention–specifically, potential att...
Texas-born Matthew McConaughey had no interest in following in his father's footsteps and going into the oil business. He did eventually discover that he wanted to be an actor and appeared in a few student films and commercials.While in a hotel bar in Austin, the future Ac...
Anti-War Rep Jim Ferlo Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0 In 2014, Pennsylvania politician Jim Ferlo came out as gay. The then-63-year old said, "I'm gay. Get over it." James Ferlo (born June 19, 1951) was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate who represented the 38th Senatori...
Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd speaks during the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition Spring Kick-Off April 22, 2023, in Clive, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) The former Texas congressmanjoined the race for the Republican nominationfor president in June. ...
benefit Rep. Mary Peltola (D), who still trails GOP challenger Nick Begich by nearly 10,000 votes with more than 90 percent of ballots in. However, Begich is currently short of the 50 percent threshold to win outright, potentially triggering the state’s ranked-choice voting procedures next...
The party is now leaning into border security instead of running away from it, as they try to take advantage of Donald Trump’s role in killing a bipartisan Senate bill earlier this year. They've also touted Vice President Kamala Harris' record as an attorney general of a border st...
Ten minutes after the speech ended, President Joe Biden is still on the House floor, holding court with lawmakers. He appeared to get into a brief but spirited debate with Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.) about the best part of Pennsylvania and offered to call Rep. Lizzie Fletcher's (D-Te...