House Democrats revive bill to ban colleagues from carrying guns on Capitol grounds
By Meagan Flynn Washington Post,Updated January 28, 2021, 4:52 p.m.
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Representative Jared Huffman, Democrat of California, during a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing in July 2020. Huffman filed the No Congressional Gun Loophole Act on Thursday.Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press
WASHINGTON â Representative Jared Huffman, Democrat of California, has revived a years-long effort to ban members of Congress from carrying guns on the Capitol grounds, a move likely to rankle Republicans who, in some cases, have refused to cooperate with security screenings put in place in the wake of the violent siege of Jan. 6.
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Washington D.C., Jan 26, 2021 CNA.- Nearly 200 members of Congress have signed a letter supporting bans on taxpayer funding of abortions.
On Tuesday, 197 House Republicans sent a letter to House and Senate leaders of both parties, in support of the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life “riders” that are attached to federal budget bills and which prohibit funding of abortions.
“We write to express our unified opposition to Congressional Democrats’ efforts to repeal the Hyde Amendment and other current-law, pro-life appropriations provisions,” the letter stated, which was led by House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), chair of the Republican Study Committee.
Published: Monday, January 25, 2021
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President Biden at the White House last week. Pool/CNP/InStar/Cover Images/Newscom
The Biden administration has yet to act on its campaign promise to bar oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands, but the political battle has already begun.
Rumors that the Biden administration will announce a one-year oil and gas moratorium this week have marshaled oil-friendly Republicans to a fight reminiscent of the Obama era.
But progressives, too, are galvanized and plan to press for an even more aggressive action to retire the U.S. government s vast federal mineral estate.