July 31, 2020 House adds amendment shielding state-legal marijuana businesses from DOJ The House of Representatives on Thursday added an amendment to a spending package that would protect state-legal marijuana businesses from the Department of Justice.
July 31, 2020 AOC’s ‘Twitch’ amendment, to limit US military ads, fails: reports In a 292-126 vote Thursday night, the U.S. House rejected an amendment by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., that would have placed limits on U.S. military recruitment ads, according to a report.
July 30, 2020 Mulvaney pans House Democrats' coronavirus stimulus bill as '$3 trillion absurdity' Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told "Your World" Thursday Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin "is right to be fighting" back against a coronavirus stimulus bill passed by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, which Mulvaney called a "$3 trillion absurdity."
July 30, 2020 Trump, family of slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen to meet over sex-misconduct bill The family of slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen were scheduled to meet with President Trump at the White House on Thursday to discuss the new “#IAmVanessaGuillen” bill, a proposal aimed to help victims of sexual harassment.
July 29, 2020 Rubio says short-term unemployment extension 'may need to happen' amid coronavirus bill negotiations Rubio, R-Fla., while exiting a closed-door meeting with many of the top Republicans in the Senate and members of the Trump administration, cast doubt on whether there would be a deal on the $1 trillion-plus coronavirus package by Friday.
July 29, 2020 Trump calls GOP coronavirus proposal 'semi-irrelevant' as deal appears far off President Trump on Tuesday called the Senate Republicans' coronavirus relief package "semi-irrelevant" when asked whether he supported the legislation at a news conference, underscoring the deep divides between the White House, congressional Republicans and congressional Democrats as lawmakers scramble to pass something in the coming days.
July 25, 2020 Brian Brenberg: Coronavirus stimulus serving as a 'vehicle' for Dems' progressive agenda Democrats are using coronavirus stimulus negotiations as an opportunity to push their big-government liberal agenda, The King's College Professor Brian Brenberg warned Saturday.
July 25, 2020 Brian Brenberg: Democrats are using coronavirus stimulus as opportunity to push their big-government agenda The pandemic presented a need for temporary government help, not an invitation to re-brand progressive economics as crisis relief.
July 24, 2020 Newt Gingrich: School reopenings — 3 things we can do to return focus to children and their education If we debated education by putting the students and learning first, these are the kind of policies we would develop in response to bureaucratic, unionized self-centeredness.
July 23, 2020 Counties ask Congress for 'surge' of federal aid: 'We literally have to process the dead bodies' Leaders from the National Association of Counties (NACo) on Thursday made an urgent call for "direct and flexible" federal funding to help the local governments deal with the economic impacts of the coronavirus crisis as Congress negotiates another relief package.