Congressional leadership is set to hold a Menorah-lighting ceremony Tuesday afternoon. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are all set to attend the event, commemorating the eight-day festival of Hanukkah. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who has said he will serve out his term...
A bipartisan working group on Tuesday released two drafts aimed at providing more families with more paid family leave. “The American people have waited too long for us to solve a major issue that vexes nearly every family in the nation, and in dropping our discussion bills today, we’re putting Congress on notice that we...
The outgoing chair of the Senate Banking Committee is throwing in the towel on trying to confirm two key Biden administration appointees with just days before the upper chamber is set to leave for the year. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who lost his reelection bid last month, set up Banking panel votes for Caroline Crenshaw,...
“Pod Save America” host Jon Favreau said in a Tuesday episode of the podcast that the President Biden “seems to be disappearing from the public stage.” “So, the purpose of [President-elect] Trump’s appearance at Mar-a-Lago Monday morning was to announce a $100 billion investment from SoftBank, the hugely influential Japanese bank in American [artificial intelligence...
President Biden in a new interview published Tuesday said there should be a ban on members of Congress trading stocks, taking a position on an issue that has entered the spotlight in recent years. “I don't know how you look your constituents in the eye and know because the job they gave you, it gave...
Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are threatening sanctions against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unless Ankara forces Syrian opposition fighters into a ceasefire with U.S-backed Kurdish partners in the northeast of the country, as the country roils from the fall of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The senators said...
About 1-in-5 voters have invested in, traded or used cryptocurrency, according to a Tuesday poll. The survey from Emerson College Polling found that 19 percent of respondents have traded, invested or used crypto like Bitcoin or Ethereum. About 81 percent have not. Among the respondents who have used crypto, 39 percent used it to make...
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) threw cold water on speculation that he would serve in President-elect Trump’s administration as the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Tuesday. “I appreciate the speculation but I am staying in Congress and running for re-election. It’s an honor to serve the people of Florida’s 23rd district,” Moskowitz...
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which works to advance LGBTQ equality in the House, on Tuesday slammed “idiots” who claimed without evidence that the shooter at a Wisconsin private school a day earlier was transgender. Two people — one teenage student and a teacher — were killed and another six...
The incoming Trump administration is looking at potentially expanding the number of illegal immigrants on GPS monitoring, while also extending the amount of time they are monitored.