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WASHINGTON — Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. House votes PRISONER COMMUNICATIONS: The House has passed the Effective Assistance of Counsel in the Digital Era Act (H.R. 546), sponsored by Rep. Hakeem S. Jeffries, D-N.Y., to bar the Justice Department from monitoring privileged electronic communications between an incarcerated person and that person’s lawyer. Jeffries said the prohibition “would enable incarcerated individuals to com...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson (NC-08) has introduced an amendment to provide an additional $2 billion for vaccines in the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2021.

Letters: Should Tennessee be a gun sanctuary?

In all, 316 legislative proposals have made it to the second half of the session out of the 1,031 measures introduced back in January. Items that passed the House now

President Biden has challenged those who oppose the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion bill disingenuously dubbed “COVID relief,” or the more deceitful “American Rescue Plan.”

Bad roads hurt our most vulnerable residents It is no secret that our roadways are becoming increasingly unsafe and dangerous here in Grand Junction. Potholes, deteriorating roadways, outdated bridges — some of Colorado’s transportation infrastructure hasn’t been updated in nearly half a century. More than 20% of Colorado’s roads and highways are in poor condition, according to TRIP, and in a separate report, the Reason Foundation ranks Colorado No. 47 for worst roads in the...

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SHREVEPORT, La. -- Big moments in history shed a spotlight on historically Black colleges and universities. One of those moments includes the election to vice president of the first Historically

PAYETTE COUNTY — With week seven of the 2021 Idaho Legislative Session in the history books, the stack of bills and resolutions being addressed or in the queue has grown

On Jan. 19 the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to the International Code Council (ICC), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that develops model building