ANOTHER STRIKE, SAME RESULT: Thursday in the Red Sea was another day when a U.S.-owned tanker ship was targeted by Houthi missiles. It was the third this week, and it came several hours after the fifth U.S. strike on missiles in Houthi-controlled Yemen that were “aimed into the Southern Red Sea and were prepared to […]
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) kicked Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) out of a House committee hearing about relations between the United States and Cuba, accusing the California Democrat of spreading “communist propaganda.” On Thursday, Lee attended a hearing of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which she is not a member […]
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) likened House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) spending deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to something that would have been passed under former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). An additional continuing resolution passed the House on Thursday to push the laddered deadlines for appropriations bills into March. The House voted 314-108 in […]
(The Center Square) – The state of Illinois spared no expense in taking part in this year’s Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. According to documents obtained by The Center Square, the cost of constructing the Enjoy Illinois float, the performances and the entry fee cost taxpayers $560,000. The 24-foot-tall float took three months to build using about 22,000 […]
(The Center Square) — The House Budget Committee passed a bill Thursday to create a bipartisan fiscal commission designed to keep the federal government from going broke. The Committee passed H.R. 5779, the Fiscal Commission Act of 2023, with bipartisan support. Passage of the bill marked the first time the House Budget Committee had passed bipartisan legislation outside […]
(The Center Square) – A long-awaited report from U.S. Department of Justice released Thursday found widespread problems with law enforcement officers’ response to the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. A gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. The Justice Department report provided the most thorough examination […]
(The Center Square) – A former state legislator has formed a group that is launching a statewide effort to put parents’ rights on Illinois’ November 2024 ballot. The Parents Matter Coalition has said that minor children in Illinois should require the guidance of their parents when faced with life-altering medical decisions like abortions or gender identity procedures. […]
(The Center Square) — Florida lawmakers want to alleviate the state’s growing affordable housing shortage by fixing some of the shortfalls in the Live Local Act of 2023. The bill passed unanimously with the Senate Committee on Community Affairs on Jan. 9 and was due before the Senate Committee on Fiscal Policy on Thursday, however, […]
(The Center Square) – House Republicans have the votes to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Rep. Mark Green, MD, R-Tenn., said Thursday. Green, who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, said all 18 Republican committee members support impeaching him. Three articles of impeachment have been filed against Mayorkas alleging he is derelict […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) choice to refocus his campaign operation on building support in South Carolina, effectively accepting a third-place finish in New Hampshire, could end up assisting former President Donald Trump as he looks to fend off former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s rise in the Granite State. The DeSantis campaign, under pressure from a […]
