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A subcommittee chair wrote in a letter to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas that the grid’s failures were “costly” and disproportionately affected low-income communities and communities of color.

Can Republicans and Democrats finally address the national debt? Perhaps the most surprising outcome of the 2020 elections is the narrowness of the governing margins in Congress. While Joe Biden was expected by most observers to be the next president, it was unexpected to many that Republicans narrowed the gap in the House. The Senate, meanwhile, has the narrowest margin possible (a 50-50 split with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaking vote) — the first time the Senate has been eve...

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are urging Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat, to subpoena New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to testify before the panel about the numerous coronavirus-related deaths in his state's nursing homes.

A District of Columbia bill would keep medical information from children’s parents and family physicians. Congress has 30 days to change that.

ADVERTISEMENT “No president has ever taken such action in recent memory,” said Burr, the top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, at last week’s confirmation hearing for Marty Walsh Presidents traditionally let the NLRB general counsel finish out their term. Former President Trump An NLRB general counsel hasn’t been asked to resign since 1950, when President Truman asked for the resignation of Robert Denham because of an anti-union bill. Denham resig...

Congressman Ronny Jackson has been named Co-Chair of the Texas Agriculture Task Force.

House Republicans Seek White House Documents on ‘Unprecedented’ Firings of NLRB Lawyers Four House Republicans want to see all official documents from President Joe Biden’s White House and one of his Cabinet-level transition teams related to the firing of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) two top lawyers. Biden fired NLRB general counsel Peter Robb near the end of the president’s first day in the Oval Office, then fired Robb’s acting successor, deputy general counsel Alice...

Rep. Cloud: Biden Should Allow States to Exclude Abortion Providers From Medicaid Funding Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) said the Biden administration should support the Republican bill he and Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced, which would prevent taxpayer dollars from funding abortion providers. “What we haven’t seen is that middle-of-the-road approach so far. I hope we make a turn from that but that’s not what we’re seeing right here off the bat. We need to return to that; we ne...

McCarthy seeks shift from partys civil war Scott Wong and Juliegrace Brufke © Greg Nash McCarthy seeks shift from partys civil war House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is desperately looking to change the subject from his own partys civil war to a common opponent: President Biden. McCarthy and other GOP lawmakers will travel to Houston on Tuesday to rail against what they call Bidens "job-killing" energy policies. The GOP leader previously spent several days accusi...

Texas educators call for full investigation of fascistic coup plotters! . The Texas Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee calls on educators and other workers to create and join rank-and-file committees across the United States in preparation for a general political strike to remove and investigate all of the coup plotters involved in the January 6 coup attempt, which was planned in advance and coordinated by Republican officials as well as fascist sympathizers within the military-intelligen...