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House Minority Leader kevin-mccarthy” target=”_blank”>Kevin McCarthy< with the help of his GOP colleagues. McCarthy’s Energy Innovation Agenda comes as House Democrats on Tuesday reintroduced the progressive plan to fight climate change in the U.S.: the green-new-deal” target=”_blank”>Green New Deal< corps and funding for cities. “Our goal with the Energy Innovation Agenda is to show the country how our solutions-oriented policies…

Sen. Tom Cotton of us-regions is heading to the first-in-the-nation caucus state of us-regions in late June to help support fellow senate running in the elections. The trip by Cotton, who is considered a potential 2024 GOP presidential hopeful, will spark more speculation about his likely national ambitions in the elections. COTTON, AT CPAC, TELLS CONSERVATIVES ‘WE…

The Senate narrowly approved the nomination of Vanita Gupta as associate attorney general on Wednesday, despite widespread GOP concern that she was unfit for the No. 3 spot at the Justice Department. The vote was 51 to 49. Alaska GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the only Republican to join with all Democrats to support Gupta’s confirmation….

FIRST ON FOX: Reps. Lauren Boebert and Chip Roy launched an effort Wednesday to force a House vote on reversing joe-biden” target=”_blank”>President Biden< Boebert continued: “I wanted to take a stand. We’ve got to stop putting hardworking Americans last.” Among his first actions in office, Biden revoked the permit of the long-disputed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil…

executive press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday denied that the United States was involved in an alleged plot to assassinate contested belarus” target=”_blank”>Belarusian< Lukashenko later alleged that the U.S. was behind the alleged plot. He said he was “surprised” that “the Americans behave this way” and that “no one can set the task of eliminating the president,…

White House press secretary Jen Psaki called the us-regions police shooting of a teenage girl who appeared to be wielding a knife “tragic” and said it will fuel the executive to continue addressing “systemic racism.”  “Let me just say, since you gave me the opportunity, the killing of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant by the Columbus police…

A provision in House elections voting reform bill H.R. 1 that would require the government match congressional candidates’ small-dollar donations would amplify polarization and reward candidates at the extreme ends of their parties, like Reps. alexandria-ocasio-cortez” target=”_blank”>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez< “It doesn’t do away with special interests. It just changes the special interests and how they go about it,” he…

Some house-of-representatives seethed privately. They heard the remarks of maxine-waters” target=”_blank”>House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif. Waters< comments threatened to unspool the very tightly wound Democratic coalition of moderates and progressives. Some rank-and-file Democrats found maxine-waters” target=”_blank”>Waters< That disgust metastasized further after Hennepin, MN County Judge Peter Cahill criticized Waters from the bench on…

Mark McCloskey, the vacation-destinations attorney who along with his wife grabbed national headlines last year for pointing guns at Black Lives Matter protesters, says a elections run for us-regions‘s open senate” target=”_blank”>Senate<. “I think there’s a general outpouring of concern for what’s going on currently with the erosion of the Constitution and our basic rights,” McCloskey said. MISSOURI SENATE…

Arizona’s Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly are both backing the governor’s decision to deploy the National Guard to the southern border in response to the surge in migrants that has overwhelmed authorities. “I welcome the Governor’s action to provide logistical support to Arizona communities, and look forward to hearing more details about how…