The Senate is on track to clear a $1.2 trillion spending package early Saturday morning, ensuring Congress will fully fund the government just after a partial lapse kicked in at midnight. Senate leaders announced an agreement late Friday night to pass the six-bill package, with less than 20 minutes to spare before the deadline for […]
A Republican bill to form a group tasked with ensuring Kentucky’s coal plants “aren’t retired too quickly” by creating a series of regulatory hurdles for companies aiming to close those plants got a step closer to final passage Thursday. Senate Bill 349 from Sen. Robby Mills, R-Henderson, would create an 18-member Energy Planning and Inventory […]
Republican Nebraska state Sen. Steve Halloran faces calls to resign after he inserted a colleague’s name into a passage he read during a floor debate from a book’s rape scene, which included graphic detail. Halloran apologized on the Senate floor Tuesday morning, defending his decision to read the passage but saying it was a “mistake” […]
A newer, heftier version of a Republican bill to block diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that endorse “discriminatory concepts” at Kentucky’s public colleges and universities, as well as defund their DEI offices and staff positions, was fast-tracked through the House on Friday. After approval from a special House Education Committee Thursday night, Senate Bill 6, […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republicans powered a voucher plan funding private school tuition and home schooling through the state House on Thursday, nearing a goal that has long eluded the state’s school choice advocates as GOP leaders overcame longstanding skepticism from some rural members of their party The House voted 91-82 for Senate Bill 233, […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana, a state grappling with one of the highest rates of incarceration and violent crime in the country, is on the cusp of overhauling parts of its criminal justice system as the state’s GOP-dominated legislature barrels ahead with a package of bills — ranging from expanding death row execution methods, […]
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday ruled that a $1.7 trillion government funding bill was unconstitutionally passed in 2022 through a pandemic-era rule that allowed lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives to vote by proxy rather than in person. U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix in Lubbock reached […]
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By David Morgan, Richard Cowan and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Democratic-led U.S. Senate on Monday set the stage for final passage of a $95.34 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, amid growing doubts about the fate of the legislation in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. The Senate voted 66-33, exceeding a 60-vote […]
Feb. 3—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Daniel Perkins recalls growing up in a Greater Johnstown of the 1950s and 1960s that felt safe and friendly to him, but also divided, with areas he knew to avoid because of the color of his skin. It wasn’t usually confrontational, violent or institutional racism, which existed elsewhere in the United […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate negotiators on Friday reached a deal on a proposal to overhaul the asylum system at the U.S. border with Mexico, clearing the way for Democratic and Republican Senate leaders to begin the difficult task of convincing Congress to pass a national security package that will include tens of billions of dollars […]
Jan. 10—Warner students could ride new school buses by the start of the 2024-25 school year, Warner Public Schools Superintendent David Vinson said. Transportation was part of a two-proposition bond issue totaling $1.2 million Warner voters passed on Tuesday. Voters passed a $365,000 bond issue proposal for four new 72-passenger buses with 140 votes (79.1 […]