Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said he believed lawmakers would continue debating the SAVE America Act until it "damn well passes," despite heavy Democratic opposition.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom made several fantastical claims — one could use the word “dishonest” — during the latest stop on his book-tour-cum-exploratory presidential campaign. But none of the outlandish claims he made in Austin this weekend is more false than his claim that Texas is a “higher-tax state” than California. “We have the most […]
House Democrats are putting their energy policy priorities forward in a new bill that’s being co-sponsored by more than half of their caucus. The measure, led by Democratic Reps. Sean Casten (Ill.) and Mike Levin (Calif.) would restore climate-friendly energy tax credits repealed by Republicans and prevent the Trump administration from imposing burdens on renewables....
Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton (D) won Illinois’s marquee Senate primary on Tuesday, defeating two House lawmakers and all but assuring she’ll succeed Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in the upper chamber. Voters in Illinois headed to the polls to weigh in on primary races that underscored Democratic divides, drew significant outside spending, advanced one former lawmaker’s comeback bid and, in Statton’s race, posed a key test...
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., defended his controversial social media post comparing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim, to the 9/11 terror attacks.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee saw mixed results in the first major test of its political muscle in the midterms, drawing fresh recriminations...
CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker emerged as the kingmaker in deep-blue Illinois after pouring millions of dollars and staking his political reputation to deliver...
Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton won Tuesday's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, edging out two sitting members of the U.S. House to advance to a November general election against Republican nominee Don Tracy, former state party chair.
The race to replace U.S. Sen Dick Durbin is shaping up in Illinois after Don Tracy won the Republican nomination in Tuesday's primary. The former chairman of the state Republican Party was among the best-known in the six-candidate race.
The Trump administration is opening a fraud probe in Florida as it expands its nationwide crackdown on state Medicaid programs, according to the Associated Press. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz appeared to confirm the move in a Tuesday post on the social platform X, claiming that the state had...
