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| Sep 29, 2026 | Whitehouse Widens Investigation into Financial Mismanagement and Maintenance Failures at Kennedy Center Under Trump-Appointed Leadership | Internal Kennedy Center documents obtained by EPW Committee show dwindling cash reserves, a fully drawn line of credit, and capital repairs put on hold New whistleblower disclosure through Government Accountability Project alleges Center le... |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Whitehouse Widens Investigation into Financial Mismanagement and Maintenance Failures at Kennedy Center Under Trump-Appointed Leadership | Internal Kennedy Center documents obtained by EPW Committee show dwindling cash reserves, a fully drawn line of credit, and capital repairs put on hold New whistleblower disclosure through Government Accountability Project alleges Center le... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Whitehouse Renews Demand for Kennedy Center Financial Documents and Fiduciary Responsibilities | Previous requests for information have gone unanswered by Center leadership and Trump-appointed Board of Trustees
Washington, D.C. – Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and an ex-o... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Whitehouse, Warren Urge SEC to Abandon Proposed Rescission of SEC Climate Disclosure Rules | Partisan attacks on SEC rule were part of coordinated, fossil-fuel-funded effort to block investors from understanding major financial risks of climate change
Washington, D.C. – Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Sena... |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Whitehouse, Heinrich Urge Inspector General to Probe Trump DOI Deception Amid Reflecting Pool Saga | Last week, USAO-DC dropped failed criminal case against former Olympic athlete citing incomplete and faulty information provided by DOI
Washington, D.C. – Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environ... |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Whitehouse, Heinrich Urge Inspector General to Probe Trump DOI Deception Amid Reflecting Pool Saga | Last week, USAO-DC dropped failed criminal case against former Olympic athlete citing incomplete and faulty information provided by DOI
Washington, D.C. – Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environ... |
| Jul 27, 2026 | Russia Sanctions Vote Nears as Democrats Split Over Trump Tariff Authority | By Ryan Cook
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| Jul 22, 2026 | Citizens United provision allowing foreign campaign contributions draws Democratic bill | Legislation introduced Wednesday, and shared first with CNBC, is intended to bar foreign-owned or influenced U.S. companies from making political contributions that have been allowed since the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision.
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| Jul 18, 2026 | Whitehouse Cheers Unanimous Passage of Bipartisan Water Infrastructure Bill Out of EPW Committee | WRDA reauthorization strengthens RI’s environmental resiliency while spurring new water infrastructure projects
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member and Chair of the Sena... |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Todd Blanche says he has ‘full faith’ in Kash Patel as FBI director | Todd Blanche is facing a two-day Senate Judiciary hearing to review his nomination by President Donald Trump to become attorney general.
Blanche has served as acting attorney general since early April, when Trump fired Attorney General Pam ... |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Whitehouse Launches Investigation into Trump Administration’s Nearly $1 Billion Payoff to TotalEnergies to Abandon Offshore Wind Projects | Dubious deal undermines the transition to clean energy at the expense of American families and could violate federal law
Washington, D.C. – Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public ... |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Social Security needs money to fix its shortfall. The question is, who will pay? | As Social Security faces a looming funding shortfall, it’s up to lawmakers to find a way to shore up its financial outlook.
At a recent Senate committee hearing, lawmakers presented their ideas for fixing the program, including creating a n... |
| Mar 17, 2026 | As Trump’s War Surges Gas Prices, Whitehouse and Khanna Reintroduce Big Oil Profits Clawback to Provide Relief at the Pump | Big Oil Windfall Profits bill would protect consumers from giant oil companies exploiting world events to jack up prices
Washington, D.C. – With gas prices skyrocketing in recent days because of President Trump’s war of choice in the Middle... |
| Mar 9, 2026 | Top permitting-reform Republican, Democratic senators meeting as talks thaw: API chief | Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Shelley Moore Capito and ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse are meeting to discuss permitting reform, American Petroleum Institute president Mike Sommers told CNBC.
The talks come after Democrats unf... |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Schumer, Whitehouse: EPA Abandons Its Duty to Protect the American People | Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), issued the following statement after Environme... |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Senators Want To Hold The Open Internet Hostage, Demand Zuckerberg Write The Ransom Note | Not this shit again.
A bipartisan group of the most anti-internet Senators around have released their latest version of a plan to “sunset Section 230.” We went over this last year when they floated the same idea: they have no actual plan fo... |
| Dec 18, 2025 | House backs bill to speed permitting reviews for new energy and infrastructure projects | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved legislation Thursday aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for new energy and infrastructure projects and limiting judicial ... |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Whitehouse, Cassidy Introduce Resolution Designating September 20–27 National Estuaries Week | Washington, D.C.—U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced a bipartisan resolution to designate September 20 through September 27, 2025, as Nati... |
| Sep 5, 2025 | Whitehouse Fires Back After Trump Administration Moves to Destroy American Offshore Wind Power | Washington, D.C.—Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, issued the following statement after the Trump Administration initiated a multi-agency effort to destroy A... |
| Apr 17, 2025 | Trump’s tariffs are ‘inviting corruption,’ Democrats tell Bessent, Lutnick | Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren are criticizing President Donald Trump’s tariffs as a “corrupt scheme.”
The letter, sent to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, ... |
| Jul 12, 2024 | Progressives look to Supreme Court to motivate voters in 2024 race | Washington — On the heels of the Supreme Court's conclusion of its momentous term earlier this month, progressive groups are pouring millions into offensives that seek to make the nation's highest court a galvanizing issue for voters in Nov... |
| Jun 11, 2024 | US industry wants to see the 'Voldemort of administrative law' die | LegalGovernmentChevron
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| May 29, 2024 | Alito tells congressional Democrats he won't recuse over flags | Justice Samuel Alito is flatly rejecting calls to recuse himself in two cases before the Supreme Court involving former President Donald Trump because of two flags that flew outside his homes.
In letters Wednesday to House and Senate Democr... |
| May 25, 2024 | Durbin requests meeting with Chief Justice John Roberts over Alito controversy | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) requested a meeting with U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts "imploring" him to ensure Justice Samuel Alito recuses himself from Jan. 6-... |
| May 24, 2024 | Senate Democrats seek meeting with Chief Justice John Roberts after Alito flag controversy | Washington — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin and subcommittee head Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse are seeking a meeting with Chief Justice John Roberts to discuss ethics issues at the Supreme Court after reports of flags flown outs... |
| May 21, 2024 | Hill interest picks up on doctor pay changes | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Congressional activity around reforming how Medicare pays doctors is picking up steam this year — though the cost and tight legislative calendar make a major overhaul unlikely, sources say.
Why it mat... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Climate trade talks heat up | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
President Biden's climate and trade task force adds new weight to the Hill conversation about carbon tariffs.
Why it matters: Lawmakers see the task force as a sign that the White House is finally get... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Private equity in health care becomes a bigger Washington target | Congress is ramping up oversight of private equity's influence in health care, though lawmakers don't appear ready to give government more power to halt deals.
Why it matters: Health care has been a magnet for private equity deals, even as ... |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Scoop: Senators push to bolster security for state and local judges | A bipartisan group of senators is introducing legislation to provide federal support for state and local judges' security, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Threats against public officials have been on the rise in recent years, with judge... |
| Jan 22, 2024 | Breaking the Cycle: Telehealth Treatment for People in Custody is Key to Recidivism Disruption | It’s no secret that opioids have reshaped the landscape of our nation: Our healthcare system, our policymakers, and our criminal justice system are all grappling with the impact opioids have had on our national story.
As a family medicine d... |
| Jun 26, 2023 | Congress pushes Whistleblower Rewards bill to nab enablers of sanctioned oligarchs | More On: vladimir putin
Biden says US had ‘nothing’ to do with Russian mercenary mutiny Wagner chief will likely be executed after Russia coup attempt: geopolitical expert Bumbling, tumbling Biden needs to be saved from himself Wagner chief... |
| May 12, 2023 | Can an obscure council of judges solve the Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas problem? | Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in 2007. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
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A group of senators complained about Clarence Thomas' dealings with Harlan Crow. The complaint was sent to the US judges' Committee on Financial D... |
| Apr 24, 2023 | Five US senators reintroduce FISH Act to fight IUU fishing | Five U.S. senators have reintroduced the Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest (FISH) Act, which would ban vessels involved in illegal fishing from U.S. ports and waters.
U.S. senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode... |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse demands more transparency on gifts, food, lodging and entertainment that federal judges and Supreme Court justices receive | Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse sent a letter to an agency demanding more information on ethics rules for federal judges.
"Transparency is critical at all levels of government... |
| Jan 6, 2023 | It's still not clear what the Senate Ethics Committee is doing with a 2-year-old January 6 probe into Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley | Seven Democratic senators asked the ethics panel in January 2021 to determine whether Hawley and Cruz had engaged in “improper conduct reflecting on the Senate.” Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images
Democrats lodged an ethics complain... |
| Aug 29, 2022 | US Senate bill aims to blacklist vessels involved in illegal fishing | U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) have introduced a bill that seeks to ban vessels involved in illegal fishing from U.S. ports and waters.
The Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest (FISH)... |
| Jun 30, 2022 | Student Loan Forgiveness: Biden Could Extend Limited Waiver | President Joe Biden (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images) Getty Images |
| Jun 2, 2022 | Senators Propose Major Changes To Student Loan Forgiveness | Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Getty Images |
| May 17, 2022 | What Might a Congressional Counterpart to the Office of Legal Counsel Look Like? | In 1908, when Woodrow Wilson made the case for the vigorous exercise of presidential authority to lead the nation in “times of stress and change,” he sought to calm fears that doing so would upset the Constitution’s careful balancing of pow... |
| Mar 2, 2022 | State of the Union: Joe Biden ignores Congress' push to ban lawmakers from trading stocks | Biden did not call for a congressional stock trading ban during his State of the Union address.
The issue is becoming more heated on the Hill and has broad bipartisan support from voters.
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| Feb 3, 2022 | With Climate Bill Stalled, Whitehouse Delivers 280th ‘Time to Wake Up' Speech | 02.02.22 With Climate Bill Stalled, Whitehouse Delivers 280th 'Time to Wake Up' Speech Climate speech series returns after year-long hiatus
Washington, D.C. - With Build Back Better's historic climate provisions stalled in the Senate, U.S. ... |
| Nov 20, 2021 | This member of Congress wants everyone to know about the ‘dark money scheme’ that’s ‘captured’ the Supreme Court | Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) speaks as Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on October 14, 2020. Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Im... |
| Oct 9, 2021 | Whitehouse Applauds Global Deal to Address Offshore Corporate Tax Avoidance | 10.08.21
Washington, DC - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chair of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, applauded the major reform of the international tax system led by the Biden administration and signed today... |
| Sep 24, 2021 | National Plastic Tax Proposal Follows The Enactment Of New State Level Plastics Fees | Recycle trash bin for bottles and cans in front of the United States Capitol Buildinggetty |
| Sep 3, 2021 | Whitehouse, Durbin, Van Hollen, Warren & Reed Urge Adoption of Key Biden International Tax Reforms | 09.03.21
Washington, DC - Today, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Jack Reed (D-RI) responded to an invitation to comment on the draft plan authored by Senate Finan... |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Sen. Ted Cruz blocked Democrats’ late-night efforts to take up voting and democracy reform bills before August recess | Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, blocked Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s efforts to bring up voting and democracy reform measures by unanimous consent AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Republicans blocked a last-minute effort by Democrats to consider vot... |
| Jul 29, 2021 | Two retirement bills would create 51 million new savers and $6.2 trillion in savings | Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning.
Lawmakers recently rolled out two new pieces of legislation that could have a game-changing impact on the number of Americans saving for retir... |
| Jul 21, 2021 | Why Current Botnet Takedown Jurisprudence Should Not Be Replicated | On June 17, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators reintroduced the International Cybercrime Prevention Act. If passed, this bill would grant federal prosecutors access to new tools in their fight against cybercrime. A section of the legislati... |
| Jun 18, 2021 | Save Our Future Act Wins Support of Climate Activists, Union Workers, Environmental Justice Advocates, and Business Leaders | 06.17.21
Washington, D.C. - A broad coalition of climate activists, union workers, environmental justice advocates, and business leaders have thrown their support behind the Save Our Future Act, new legislation introduced yesterday by Senat... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | Whitehouse & Schatz Introduce Save Our Future Act to Charge Big Polluters for Emissions, Redirect Trillions to American Families and Communities Harmed by Pollution | 06.16.21
Washington, D.C. - As Congress deliberates a once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure and green energy, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) are introducing legislation to drastically drive down the h... |
| Mar 31, 2021 | Trump-era stimulus let corporations claim $14 billion in tax refunds, watchdog says | Tax breaks included in the CARES Act let corporations receive $14 billion in refunds, the GAO said.
Roughly 1,200 firms received refunds worth more than $1 million, according to the Wednesday report.
The CARES Act won bipartisan support, bu... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | Whitehouse, Booker, Schatz Unveil Methane Fee to Clamp Down on Potent Driver of Climate Change | 03.09.21
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Brian Schatz (D-HI) today introduced new legislation to curb the potent methane emissions-especially from the oil and gas sector-that are responsib... |
| Feb 12, 2021 | What’s Congress Doing in Response to the Capitol Assault (Besides Impeachment)? | On Jan. 6, when a mass of rioters confronted a group of law enforcement officers in the U.S. Capitol, they shouted a simple message: “You’re outnumbered. There’s a … million of us out there, and we are listening to Trump.”
Shortly before, t... |
| Jan 30, 2021 | National Labor Relations Board Becomes Business-Labor Battleground That Could Define The Future Of Work | Peter Robb, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), speaks during a House ... [+] Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The hearing will center on the... |
| Jan 23, 2021 | Democrats to target IRS in probe of tax-exempt pro-Trump groups that organized rally before Capitol riot | Senate Democrats are taking aim at the IRS in a probe of dark money groups involved with the rally leading up to the deadly riot on Capitol Hill.
Several nonprofit groups were involved in planning and organizing the rally, including Women f... |
| Jan 22, 2021 | Democratic senators formally request investigation of Hawley and Cruz after deadly Capitol insurrection | Seven Democratic senators filed a complaint urging the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate GOP Sens. Ted Cruz’s and Josh Hawley’s efforts to overturn the presidential election results.
The complaint comes more than two weeks after the de... |
| Jul 20, 2020 | The looming end to the telehealth boom | |
| May 27, 2020 | Is It Time To Reconsider Judges' Role As Members Of The American Law Institute? | STATUE OF BLINDFOLDED LADY JUSTICE HOLDING SCALES OF TRUTH AND FAIRNESS AND DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD OF ... [+] REASON AND JUSTICE (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)Getty |
| Apr 28, 2020 | Who Gets The Million Plus Stimulus Checks? | According to a report in the Washington Post earlier this month, the bulk of the second largest tax cut in the CARES Act ($170 billion) stood to be shared among about 43,000 returns. The Joint Committee on Taxation has backpedaled a little ... |
| Feb 18, 2020 | Opinion: Len Montgomery and Zoe Rotenberg: Bennet shows Gardner the way on climate action | By Len Montgomery and Zoe Rotenberg
Americans of all stripes watched on Feb. 4 as President Donald Trump delivered his third State of the Union address. And despite the fact that he talked for 78 minutes, he failed to mention one of the mos... |
| Nov 26, 2019 | Biased capacity markets accelerating gas over solar, storage | Politicians are taking a stand for state-level renewable mandates, aiming to change the capacity markets that favor fossil generation in several grid regions. Those capacity markets are biased against renewables and storage, and are costly,... |
| May 4, 2019 | Thoughts on Barr and the Mueller Report | I’ve been in a cave for several weeks crashing to complete my new book and am only now emerging to read Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report and the commentary on it. I’ll hopefully have more to say on the report, especially on its legal... |
| Feb 25, 2019 | Coming together to resolve tensions in capacity markets | By Dick Brooks
It seems that everywhere we look today, across the energy industry landscape, we find tensions rising. Wholesale Capacity Markets, operated by Independent System Operators (ISO’s – i.e. PJM, NYISO and ISO New England), are gr... |
| Oct 25, 2018 | New Hampshire 'AquaFort' among 22 projects earning NOAA Sea Grant | Researchers in New Hampshire have received federal funding to create an offshore aquaculture program that will be used to recruit fishermen in northern New England interested in raising steelhead trout and blue mussels.
Officials from the U... |
| Nov 8, 2017 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Interview with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse | In our 190th episode, Stewart Baker has a chance to interview Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who has a long history of engagement with technology and security issues. In this episode, we spend a remarkably detailed half-hour with him, cove... |
| Oct 16, 2017 | Ten Questions that the Senate Judiciary Committee Should Ask Jeff Sessions | On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first time since his confirmation hearing in January. To say his tenure since taking office has been rocky would be an understatement. In... |
| Sep 22, 2017 | Meet the 16 Speakers at TEDxProvidence 2017 | TEDxProvidence, an independently organized event that's an offshoot of the popular TED Talks, will host its sixth-annual, day-long event on Saturday, September 30 at The Vets in Providence.
It will feature 16 different speakers, chosen afte... |
| Aug 4, 2017 | A new bill wants to incentivize psychiatrists, hospitals to adopt EHR for mental health patients | It would authorize Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center to give incentive payments to behavioral health care providers to adopt EHRs.
Although $37 billion was distributed to healthcare providers as incentives to shif... |
| May 10, 2017 | Statements on the Firing of FBI Director James Comey | We’re rounding up key public statements addressing President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey. Watch this page; we'll update as new statements are issued.
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI):
The President’s firing of the FBI Direc... |
| Dec 9, 2014 | Released: SSCI Detention and Interrogation Study, Along With Minority Views and the CIA's Response | Here is the long-awaited Executive Summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program. The latter includes in a single file a foreword authored by Senator Feinstein, as well as the Study's ... |
| Aug 29, 2014 | Is It Torture Now? ISIS Apparently A Fan Of CIA's Waterboarding Techniques | Among the many, many, many problems with running a torture program (beyond being morally problematic and with no history of effectiveness) is the fact that it makes it easier for others to justify torture programs as well. It’s now come out... |
| Jul 3, 2009 | Congressional health committee gets reform bill down to $611 billion. Could Medicare reform add billions? — MedCity Morning Read, July 3, 2009 | Sen. Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democrat, joined fellow committee members Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) in a press conference call Thursday to announce the revised bill. Despite the Congressional Budget Office’s n... |
| McConnell suggests ‘discipline’ for Dem senators pressuring Supreme Court over Alito flags | Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., suggested that the Supreme Court should “discipline” Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
Those senators and other lawmakers have called for Justice Samuel Alito to... |
| Senators seek special counsel probe of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas | Two Democratic Senate committee leaders are seeking a special counsel investigation into whether Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas broke federal tax and ethics laws.
Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Sheldon Whi... |
| EGEB: Wind/solar saving lives/$billions; Miami spending $1B wrong; SolarEdge +Eclipse; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Health benefits of wind and solar offset all subsidies – Berkeley environmental engineer Dev Millstein and his colleague... |
| The Senate Finance Committee is gearing up to take on billionaires and dark money groups, Wyden says | Democrats running the powerful Senate Finance Committee are preparing to take on the uber-wealthy, dark money groups and various special interest groups now that their party has taken control of Congress.
The chairman of the committee, Sen.... |
| This member of Congress wants everyone to know about the 'dark money scheme' that's 'captured' the Supreme Court | Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) speaks as Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on October 14, 2020. Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Im... |
| A new bill could make it easier for passengers to get cash refunds if their flight is canceled | Travelers wait at Newark Liberty International Airport. Jeenah Moon / Stringer / Getty
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US fliers may be able to request full-cash refund if their flight is canceled, under a new bill.
The proposal, titled Cash Refunds for Flight ... |
| State of the Union: Joe Biden ignores Congress' push to ban lawmakers from trading stocks | President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of California, loo... |
| Supreme Court to close term with rulings on voting rights, donor disclosure | On Thursday, the Supreme Court is set to hand down the last opinions of the term.
After a flurry of rulings in recent days, only two cases are left to be decided: closely watched disputes over the Voting Rights Act and California’s nonprofi... |
| Congressional health committee gets reform bill down to $611 billion. Could Medicare reform add billions? — MedCity Morning Read, July 3, 2009 | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democratic leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee unveiled their second health care reform bill on Thursday. Cost? $611 billion over 10 years. Coverage? 97 percent of Americans — and that a... |
| The Federalist Society: Architects of the American dystopia | Last week was one of the most consequential weeks in the history of the United States Supreme Court – and perhaps that of the country itself.
In a matter of days, the court shielded police officers from being sued for Miranda violations; fu... |
| A new bill wants to incentivize psychiatrists, hospitals to adopt EHR for mental health patients | Earlier this week U.S. Rep Tim Murphy from the 18th district in Pennsylvania introduced a bill to integrate medical records for addiction treatment with the rest of the patients’ electronic medical record. Today, two senators announced bipa... |
