Apr. 30—WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan was named the most bipartisan member of the U.S. Senate, according to the ranking from a nonpartisan organization. The Common Ground Committee said Hassan was the first federal elected official to receive a perfect score since it began in 2020 keeping an annual scorecard on the voting and […]
Illinois Congressman Eric Sorensen (D-Illinois) is back from a bipartisan trip to the border. The delegation of Democrats and Republican lawmakers went to Nogales, Arizona, last week for a fact-finding mission. Illinois Congressman Eric Sorensen (D-Illinois,) left, is back from a bipartisan trip to the border. (contributed photo) “This can’t be a partisan or political […]
Kansas lawmakers have passed a bipartisan budget for K-12 public education that includes an increase in special education funding. Senate Bill 387 passed the House 115-2 and the Senate 35-2 on Friday. Legislators saved the school budget for veto session after not finding a compromise until the last night of regular session. The budget is […]
The Senate has passed 95 billion dollars (£76.2 billion) in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden after months of delays and contentious debate over how involved the United States should be in foreign wars. The bill passed the Senate on an overwhelming 79-18 vote late on Tuesday […]
Speaker Mike Johnson earned praise from both a top Republican and a progressive Democrat on Sunday for allowing votes on a $95 billion foreign aid package, suggesting he’ll be able to hold onto his job if conservative hard-liners make good on their threat to force a vote to remove him as the leader of the […]
WASHINGTON — As the country faces a shrinking supply of child care workers and higher costs of care, a bipartisan duo of senators is taking steps to address the shortage, specifically targeted at helping service members who face unique challenges trying to access reliable child care. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, will […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran’s attack against Israel over the weekend has spurred a flurry of bipartisan legislative action in Congress, uniting lawmakers against the country even as the risk of a larger regional war looms. Several measures introduced and passed in the House and Senate seek to both publicly condemn Iran and punish the Islamic […]
By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – On the eve of a trilateral summit between the United States, Japan and the Philippines, two prominent U.S. senators on Wednesday introduced a bipartisan bill to provide Manila with $2.5 billion to boost its defenses against Chinese pressure. The bill, put forward by Republican Bill Hagerty, a former ambassador […]
Commerce Committee chairs in the House and Senate released a bipartisan bill Sunday evening that aims to protect Americans’ personal data online. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) unveiled the American Privacy Rights Act Sunday that would set “clear, national data privacy rights and protections for Americans.” It will preempt states’ data privacy […]
The No Labels group said it will not field a presidential candidate in November after strategists for the bipartisan organisation were unable to attract a candidate willing to seize on the widespread dissatisfaction with US president Joe Biden and Donald Trump. “No Labels has always said we would only offer our ballot line to a […]
The bipartisan measure to avert a government shutdown includes a provision that would effectively ban LGBTQ Pride flags from flying over U.S. embassies. Although the $1.2 trillion, 1,012-page-package does not explicitly mention barring Pride flags from flying at U.S. embassies, its text embraces a Republican-led effort to prohibit the display of the LGBTQ Pride flag […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House Thursday would require the identification and labeling of online images, videos and audio generated using artificial intelligence, the latest effort to rein in rapidly developing technologies that, if misused, could easily deceive and mislead. So-called deepfakes created by artificial intelligence can be hard or even impossible […]