WASHINGTON (AP) — Don Beyer‘s car dealerships were among the first in the U.S. to set up a website. As a representative, the Virginia Democrat leads a bipartisan group focused on promoting fusion energy. He reads books about geometry for fun. So when questions about regulating artificial intelligence emerged, the 73-year-old Beyer took what for […]
Bill Gunter – a former Florida congressman, state treasurer and insurance commissioner – died at his Tallahassee home Monday afternoon. He was 89. Gunter’s death was confirmed by funeral director Rocky Bevis, who said he will be handling funeral arrangements. Bill Gunter, former Congressman and State Treasurer & Insurance Commissioner. Gunter, who had been in […]
Apr. 6—Former Maine Gov. Joseph Brennan, a Portland native who served as the state’s 70th governor from 1979 to 1987 as part of a lengthy career in politics, died at his home Saturday. He was 89. In a statement confirming Brennan’s death, fellow Maine Democrat and former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell said that Maine has […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Democrat Joseph E. Brennan, whose hardscrabble childhood shaped his working-class views in a political career that included two terms as Maine’s governor and two terms in the U.S. House, died Friday evening at his home in Portland. He was 89. Brennan died with his wife at his side a few blocks […]
With more than 1,200 jobs on the line, Congressman Mike Kelly is calling on the Department of Energy to repeal a proposed rule that threatens the future of the Cleveland-Cliffs Butler Works plant in Butler County. “We’re not sitting back and ever losing this steel, this town, this country,” said the Butler County Republican. At […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A runoff election Tuesday in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District will determine the Republican nominee to face longtime Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson in the Nov. 5 general election. Republicans Ron Eller and Andrew Scott Smith advanced to the runoff after a three-person primary three weeks ago. They’re competing in a majority-Black district […]
Former Massachusetts Congressman and Norfolk District Attorney Willliam Delahunt has died. Family spokesman, George Regan Jr., chairman of Regan Communications Group, said Delahunt, 82, died in his Quincy home with his family by his side. A statement was shared on behalf of the Delahunt family. “William D. Delahunt – our cherished father, fiancé, grandfather, and […]
Key Republican leaders in Georgia this week continued calls to harpoon proposed federal regulations aimed at protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales off the state’s coast. At an event in Savannah on Monday, Gov. Brian Kemp and U.S. Rep. Mike Collins blasted draft rule changes by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries division that […]
Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) on Thursday criticized President Joe Biden for calling on Congress to pay for the cost of fixing the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore after it was struck by a ship and collapsed this week, leaving six people presumed dead and a major shipping port closed for the foreseeable future. “It […]
A Kansas man is suing a US congressman after he was falsely identified as a shooter at the Kansas City Chiefs’ celebration parade. Denton Loudermill Jr, 48, filed a suit against the Republican US representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee on Monday in the US district court in Kansas City. Loudermill accused Burchett of calling him […]
Congressman Darren Soto secures $2M in funding to end stop flooding in St. Cloud Flooding in St. Cloud has been a problem for years, it caused more funding to be needed when it comes to cleanup and economic losses. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS Congressman Darren Soto worked to secure nearly 2 million in […]
A Kansas man on Monday filed a lawsuit against a Tennessee congressman who falsely claimed on social media that he was in the United States illegally and a shooter in the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally shooting. Denton Loudermill, a Johnson County resident, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District […]