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Congressional negotiators agree to add $1 billion for 9/11 health fund in end-of-year spending bill
A last-second deal in the massive government funding bill will add $1 billion to the World Trade Center health program and buy several years before it runs into a budget...
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries officially announces bid for Democratic House leader
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) officially announced his bid on Friday to succeed Speaker Nancy Pelosi as Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. Just a day after Pelosi stepped down,...
After ‘a lot of doors shut in our face,’ crusading couple celebrates passage of burn pit bill
The battle was just beginning for Le Roy Torres and his wife, Rosie, when the Army captain returned to Texas in 2008, already starting to suffer from the toxic substances...
Bill granting full benefits to veterans exposed to burn pits faces opposition in Senate
When Gina Cancelino's veteran husband Joe died in 2019 of cancer linked to toxic exposures in Iraq, he was still fighting for benefits at his home in Seaford, Long Island....
‘You’re ranting again’: Fauci slams Rep. Jim Jordan’s complaints about COVID restrictions
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday angrily shot back at GOP Rep. Jim Jordan for repeatedly asking when COVID-19 restrictions would be lifted so Americans could "get back their liberty back."...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tries — and fails — to stall ‘woke progressive’ COVID stimulus passage with roll-call vote
She's stalling again! Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday mounted a last-ditch procedural effort to delay passage of the $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus package, which she denounced as a...
Legislador republicano llama ‘maldita p–a’ a Ocasio-Cortez
Cuidado con lo que dices, floridano. Según los informes, un congresista republicano del Estado del Sol llamó a la representante Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez un desagradable epíteto misógino en los escalones del...