Representative Payne News Today

Rep. Donald Payne Jr., a Democrat from New Jersey, dies at 65. He was hospitalized for a cardiac episode. Condolences from House leaders and the CBC.

Donald Payne Jr., a six-term congressman from Newark who followed his father's footsteps onto Capitol Hill, died Wednesday at the age of 65.

The age limit has been 21 for five years. The proposed bill would lower the age to 18.

Congress returns from recess this week, and as we reported earlier, the first stop for a bipartisan group of lawmakers was the White House — invited by the president as he works to sell his American Jobs Plan on infrastructure and climate. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins joins us for an update.

Arizona legislator compares transgender people to farm animals Jo Yurcaba An Arizona state representative is facing an ethics complaint after he compared transgender people to farm animals at a Wednesday committee hearing. The hearing was for House Bill 2725, which would require state identification documents to contain only a male or female gender marker. The bill pre-emptively bans nonbinary people, who are neither exclusively male nor female, from using gender-neutral X marke...

State Reps. John Fillmore and Kevin Payne are facing ethics complaints for their remarks.