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Texas lawmaker calls out Chuck Schumer for blocking ‘bipartisan’ school safety bill
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REP. BETH VAN DUYNE: It's something that could have helped. That's the most frustrating part. If you look at all the policies that have been thrown out there — you look at the ones that work, without a doubt, having ...
Burn-pit bill gives veterans healthcare to overcome ongoing crisis
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When America’s military service members willingly risk their lives for their country overseas, they do so with the understanding that they will be cared for when they come home. However, that does not always happen a...
LGBTQ advocate demands Bill Maher’s cancellation by HBO, says comedian has ‘gone too far’
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Advocate magazine published a piece on Wednesday headlined, "Bill Maher Has Gone Too Far With Anti-LGBTQ+ Comments," with a subhead declaring, "David Kilmnick of the LGBT Network says Maher's HBO show, Real Time With...
Schumer blocks Senate GOP school safety bill, angering Republicans
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After the horrific mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., asked for the Luke and Alex School Safety Act to be passed by unanimous cons...
Biden police order ‘is embracing’ parts of GOP reform bill Dems filibustered in 2020, Tim Scott says
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"After the radical ‘defund the police’ movement helped create the current crime wave, President Biden is pursuing a partisan approach to many of the exact same policy solutions I proposed in the JUSTICE Act just two ...
Millions from Biden’s COVID relief bill went to museum, university programs pushing social, climate justice
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The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act, which the Democrats passed in March 2021 without any Republican support, was billed by the Democratic Party as an economic necessity for getting the country through the COVID-19 pa...
Ernst bill would give unused border wall materials to states who want to finish project
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The BUILD IT Act would require the federal government to transfer any border wall materials that were contracted for but have not been used, to border states like Arizona and Texas, for construction of barriers and w...
Bill Maher says Biden isn’t mentally ‘that different’ than before, insists he’s ‘actually better’
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On Friday's "Overtime" segment on YouTube, Maher read a viewer question directed to former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile, who was asked who was going to be the Democratic candidate in 2024. Brazil...
Marco Rubio says bill aiding police homeownership will ‘help the people who help us’
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"It's a law designed to help the people who help us," Rubio told Fox News. Rubio and Sen. Jon Ossoff, who introduced the bill alongside the Florida Republican, held a press conference during National Police Week to h...
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announces he’s running for Congress
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Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday that he will run for Congress in a newly drawn district that includes parts of Manhattan and his home borough of Brooklyn. De Blasio left office less tha...
Oklahoma abortion bill is ‘extreme,’ ‘absurd,’ ‘ultra MAGA,’ White House says
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The bill, H.B. 4327, would ban all abortions after the moment of conception except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the mother's life. The bill bans any procedures that "cause the death of an unborn child," which...
Oklahoma Legislature sends governor anti-transgender bathroom bill
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Washington Oklahoma's legislature gave final approval Thursday to a bill that would require students at public schools and public charter schools in the state to use restrooms and locker rooms that match the sex list...
Oklahoma bill banning nearly all abortions goes to governor’s desk
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Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt has indicated that he will sign the bill, which will immediately go into effect. The bill bans any procedures that "cause the death of an unborn child," which it defines as a "human fetus...
Pelosi, Senate Dems weigh in on DHS memo, slow walk of House bill to protect justices
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Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., seemingly expressed opposition to providing protection for justices and their families, insisting that law enforcement officials should be the o...
Senate passes bill to create panel to study making a national museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture
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The Senate unanimously passed a bill Thursday to establish a commission to study the creation of a national museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture in Washington, sending the measure to President Joe Bi...