by Courtney Degen and Julia Mueller | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
How Florida members of Congress described the country ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night. WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will give his State of the Union speech Tuesday at 9 p.m. EST amid a Russian invasion of Ukraine and a...
by Julia Mueller | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., is leading a congressional charge for an equal rights amendment to enshrine gender equality in the U.S. Constitution as lawmakers in New York push for a broader measure on the same issue in the state Constitution. The...
by Allison Novelo | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
Shedrick Pelt remembers the endless waves of flags and red hats on Jan. 6, 2021, as a crowd moved along Pennsylvania Avenue after President Donald Trump urged his supporters to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election. As he was jostled along...
by Michael Korsh | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Officials on Capitol Hill have lifted a requirement that masks be worn on the House floor, eliminating what could have been a point of contention with some Republican lawmakers at Tuesday’s State of the Union speech. The now-rescinded mask...
by Annie Klingenberg | Feb 22, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — The Senate National Parks subcommittee met earlier this week to review the implementation of the bipartisan Great American Outdoors act which was signed into law almost 18 months ago. This law created a national fund intended to tackle...
by Emily Anderson Stern | Feb 21, 2022 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A bill intended to hold social media platforms accountable for posts that exploit children, but has been criticized for its potential to harm online privacy, has passed its first hurdle to getting a future vote in the Senate. The EARN IT Act, first...
