The House on Tuesday ignored opposition from President Joe Biden and voted to end the public health emergency related to COVID-19, winning some support from House Democrats on a second bill that would end the government’s requirement that federal health care workers must be vaccinated against COVID. The two Read More

President Biden was on the road for a second straight day Tuesday highlighting the benefits of the bipartisan infrastructure law, one of the top domestic achievements of his tenure so far in the White House. ‘This law is the most significant investment in rail… since we created Amtrak,’ the president Read More

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills plans to address a joint session of the Maine Legislature on Valentine’s Day. The governor will use the address on the evening of Feb. 14 to highlight her budget proposal and outline actions she is taking to strengthen the economy. ‘I strongly believe that if we Read More

What Congress tackles or fails to accomplish often boils down to ‘the math.’ But a potential crisis over the debt ceiling later this year could really be about the math, even more than other things that are about the math on Capitol Hill. It’s also about the process. Congress Read More

Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party has voted to endorse an appellate court judge from Philadelphia, Daniel McCaffery, to be the party’s nominee for an open state Supreme Court seat in this year’s election. Party committee members voted at their meeting over the weekend in suburban Harrisburg to endorse McCaffery Read More

The Virginia House of Delegates advanced a bill on Monday that would ban transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports at any level in Virginia schools.  ‘The purpose of House Bill 1837 is to protect our girls and young women from being forced to compete against biological males,’ Read More

A Democratic lawmaker in Nebraska is being accused of ‘anti-religious bigotry’ by Republicans after she proposed to ban children from attending church youth groups or vacation Bible schools. State Sen. Megan Hunt says her amendment, which would ban children under 19 years of age from attending a ‘religious indoctrination camp,’ is Read More

Vermont lawmakers are taking testimony on a pair of bills that aim to protect health care workers who provide abortions and gender-affirming health care in Vermont from legal and disciplinary action from states that limit or ban those practices. The bills were introduced seven months after the U.S. Supreme Read More

FIRST ON FOX – Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is heading next month to the state that has kicked off the presidential nominating calendar for half a century. Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, will address Polk County Republican Party’s Lincoln Dinner on Feb. 22 in West Des Read More

Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo., on Monday mocked the Cincinnati Bengals for losing to his Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday night by calling them the ‘Bungles’ and thanking a Bengals defensive player for a costly penalty that helped give the Chiefs the win. ‘Like many Missourians, Read More