![VIDEO: The Return of the Congressional Women’s Softball Game]()
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Oct 28, 2021 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — After last year’s game was canceled due to the pandemic, the Congressional Women’s Softball Game returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday night. The game is held annually to raise money for the Young Survival Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to...
![House May Take up Infrastructure Bill as Soon as Thursday Night]()
by Ariel Gans | Oct 28, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House may move on the long-delayed infrastructure bill as soon as this evening after President Biden on Thursday released the text of the massive spending bill that progressives had been waiting to see. “The text is up for review, for consideration,...
by Courtney Degen | Oct 28, 2021 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Two years of tuition-free community college did not make the cut in the Democrats’ multi-trillion spending bill, leaving many lawmakers and advocates frustrated over what was one of President Joe Biden’s signature campaign promises. “No one got...
![Connecticut Enacts First ‘Baby Bonds’ Legislation]()
by Jay Shakur | Oct 28, 2021 | Education
WASHINGTON — Earlier this month Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., joined his democrat colleagues for a press conference celebrating the enactment of Connecticut’s new ‘Baby bonds’ legislation. Booker called on Congress to immediately take up a federal version of...
by Katherine Huggins, Isabel Miller and Hannah Schoenbaum | Oct 28, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill gained two new senators on Wednesday — furry versions of Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. and Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. The pair are Sen. Thom Tillis’, R-North Carolina, dogs — Theo, a 6.5-month old Bernese Mountain Dog-Poodle mix and Mitch,...
by Cristobella Durrette | Oct 28, 2021 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Big Oil executives on Thursday denied under oath any inconsistency between their companies’ public messaging on climate change and their scientists’ internal findings on the role of fossil fuels as a leading cause of global warming. “ExxonMobil has...
