(The Center Square) – A stalled congressional effort to update the nation’s five-year Farm Bill hinges on a disagreement over how to calculate food stamp benefits for 42.1 million Americans. In a letter sent to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Tuesday, the Democratic Women’s Caucus urged him to rework the current proposal so […]
(The Center Square) — A proposal for election transparency has one state legislator going against the Department of State. At the center of the split: changes made to Pennsylvania’s elections stemming from the passage of Act 77 of 2019. Rep. Brad Roae, R-Meadville, introduced House Bill 2542 to require the Department to again update precinct […]
(The Center Square) – The California Senate passed a contentious bill to allow for undocumented immigrants to use the state’s zero-down, zero-interest home “loans” program despite national backlash following coverage of the bill’s looming passage. With 23 votes for and 11 votes against — including all nine Republicans and Democratic State Sens. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, […]
More than five weeks after launching her White House bid, Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down for an interview with a major network as the campaign heads into the home stretch. Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), will sit down with CNN’s Dana Bash on Thursday in Georgia after weeks of […]
Iran looms President Joe Biden came into the White House with a foreign policy chip on his shoulder. He wanted to prove his decades in the Senate had equipped him to know more about the world than his former boss, President Barack Obama, ever gave him credit for. While he tried to separate himself from […]
CHICAGO — Democrats are encouraging Vice President Kamala Harris to stick to the political center as former President Donald Trump tries to undercut her as a San Francisco liberal and radical leftist. But as protests continue over the war in Gaza before the conflict’s first anniversary in October, Harris may come under increasing pressure to appeal […]
EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is demanding the Environmental Protection Agency prevent a “Flint water crisis” from occurring inside federal buildings, arguing telework and the agency’s focus on climate policies led to unsafe drinking water. In a letter sent Wednesday to EPA Administrator Michael Regan and provided exclusively to the Washington Examiner, the Iowa […]
CHICAGO — The 2024 Democratic National Convention was Vice President Kamala Harris‘s coronation as the party’s nominee. But it also provided a preview of a potential 2028 primary should Harris lose to former President Donald Trump this November. Democratic leaders who were once considered possible successors to President Joe Biden as head of the party […]
She may no longer be holding the gavel, but former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is relishing her grip on power as Congress returns to Washington in September. At the Democratic National Convention, the two-time speaker gave a brief speech in keeping with her less public position. What went unsaid is the outsize role she […]
CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris’s rise to the top of the Democratic ticket appears to be reenergizing Hispanic and Latino voters, a voting demographic key to her 2024 coalition. It’s a turnaround from a couple of months ago when President Joe Biden saw his lead with Hispanic and Latino voters over former President Donald Trump dwindling. Charles Rodriguez, […]
