The Senate will vote this week on a standalone measure to expand and reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) after amendments to expand it failed to pass, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told reporters on a call Monday afternoon. The bill will come up for a vote by Friday under the terms of a unanimous...
Fox News host and former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) urged former President Trump not to take a victory lap after the Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot bar him from the ballot in this fall's presidential election. "I would encourage him to do something that he doesn’t often do, which is show humility because...
The congressional funding bills unveiled Sunday do not include bipartisan reforms to the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry, as lawmakers and the Biden administration look for a path forward. Lawmakers rolled out six full-year spending bills to fund a slew of agencies until early fall, including the departments of Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, Housing and Urban...
Maine's secretary of state on Monday withdrew her determination that former President Trump should be blocked from the state's ballot under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause after the Supreme Court ruled in Trump's favor. "The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that individual states lack authority to enforce Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment with respect...
Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the conservative political action committee backed by Charles Koch, launched an eight-figure ad campaign Monday attacking President Biden over his economic policy. The campaign hits the president over “Bidenomics,” arguing the president's policies have led to high prices and a bad ecnonomy. “President Biden will try to paint a rosy picture...
I have great faith in our democratic process and the will of the American people at the ballot box, but the emerging threat of technological misinformation campaigns consistently used by our adversaries seeks to interfere with that will.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) called out companies for “shrinkflation” Monday after Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster expressed frustration with the practice in a social media post. “Me hate shrinkflation! Me cookies are getting smaller,” Cookie Monster said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Brown, who serves as the chair of the...
A group of passengers on the Alaska Airlines flight that was grounded after a midair door blowout in January have filed a lawsuit against Boeing and the airline, accusing the companies of negligence as Boeing investigates manufacturing defects in its 737 Max 9 aircraft. The suit, filed Feb. 20 in Oregon, adds to legal trouble...