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Mar 06 2021
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Senate Approves $1.9 Trillion COVID Relief Bill Without Any Republican Support
The Senate ended a 27-hour marathon overnight session Saturday by narrowly passing a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. Senators voted 50-49 along party lines with one Republican—Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska—absent. The approval got Democrats one step closer to fulfilling one of the biggest early priorities for President Joe Biden. Now the bill must go back to the House of Representatives.
SlateMay 24 2021
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Republican Governors Cutting Federal Unemployment Benefits For 4 Million
Four million workers will start losing unemployment benefits next month as Republican governors opt out of federal benefit programs enacted in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Florida announced Monday it would drop the extra $300 that the federal government has been adding to weekly benefits so that workers would be more willing to accept lower-wage jobs.
“Transitioning
HuffPostNov 08 2022
Perspectives Blog
Which Midterm Election Issues Are Searched More in Your State?
Election Day is upon us, and there are many issues that are top-of-mind for voters: inflation, abortion, and crime to name a few.
According to Google Trends, here are some of the top issues and their relative search term popularity compared to the total number of Google searches performed on that topic.
Note that the highest search interest in each map is “100,” and “50” is
Andrew WeinzierlJul 24 2021
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Civil Rights Groups to Biden: Abolish Filibuster to Protect Voting Rights
In a CNN town hall on Wednesday, President Joe Biden called the wave of new laws restricting voting access “Jim Crow on steroids.” Despite that, he made clear he was not in favor of abolishing the filibuster—a relic of Jim Crow—in order to pass federal legislation that would counter GOP voter suppression efforts.
Biden said in Cincinnati it would “throw the entire Congress into chaos
Mother JonesAug 06 2020
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U.S. Lifts Travel Advisory Even as World Remains Skeptical of Americans
The Trump administration lifted an advisory against overseas travel put it place because of the coronavirus, though the impact may be limited since many countries currently restrict Americans due to high rates of infection in the U.S.
“With health and safety conditions improving in some countries and potentially deteriorating in others, the department is returning to our previous system
BloombergJul 25 2014
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Senate Hopeful Joe Miller Calls For Obama's Impeachment, Blasts Mark Begich Over Border
Joe Miller, who is running in the Republican primary for the opportunity to challenge Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), has called for President Barack Obama's impeachment, his campaign said this week.
"Sarah Palin is right; it’s time to impeach this President for dereliction of duty, selectively enforcing the law, and usurping powers that the Constitution does not authorize," he said in a
HuffPostOct 26 2020
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GOP Senate confirms Trump Supreme Court pick to succeed Ginsburg
The Senate confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday, providing President Trump with a last-minute political victory just days before November 3.
The 52-48 Senate vote on Barrett's nomination capped off a rare presidential election year Supreme Court fight sparked by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18. GOP Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was the
The HillMar 31 2019
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Court Blocks Trump Effort to Open Arctic Waters to Oil Drilling
A federal judge in Alaska has reinstated a ban on oil-and-gas drilling in vast swaths of the Arctic Ocean, potentially undermining a central part of the Trump administration’s effort to expand offshore drilling. Mr. Trump will need congressional authority, according to the ruling, to reopen drilling in Arctic areas and smaller parts of the Atlantic Ocean that the Obama administration put off
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 31 2021
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‘Democracy will be in shambles’: Democrats in last-ditch effort to protect voting rights
Democrats are pushing what may be their last chance to hold off voter suppression efforts by Republicans, and say that their control of both the House and Senate is at risk if they do not pass their new legislation to protect elections.
Their bill, which cleared the US House on a party-line vote last week, has now been taken up by a bitterly divided Senate. It would ensure that states
The GuardianAug 17 2019
News
An Alaskan Women’s Shelter Is Sued for Turning Away a ‘Man in a Nightgown’
It was a cold Friday night in January when Sherrie Laurie, director of the Hope Center — a Christian homeless shelter in downtown Anchorage, Alaska — was called down to the floor to deal with a disruptive “man in a nightgown” who was “very inebriated, with a big gash down his face.” Laurie recognized the man, whom she had seen in men’s clothing before, she tells me by phone. Though the
National Review (News)