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And moments before this week’s vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer “As my friend the leader knows, we haven’t had all the resolutions that have been introduced on my side of the aisle,” Hoyer said as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy “This makes it harder, however, not to proceed on numerous resolutions on my side of the aisle,” he added. The threat underscores how lawmakers have fewer qualms about imposing punishments as severe as censure or expulsion against each other as they continue to harbor fury over the insurrection more than three months ago. It’s also a reflecti...

The war on drugs in the United States has been a failure that has ruined lives, filled prisons and cost a fortune. It started during the Nixon administration with the idea that, because drugs are bad for people, they should be difficult to obtain. As a result, it became a war on supply. As first lady during the crack epidemic, Nancy Reagan tried to change this approach in the 1980s. But her “Just Say No” campaign to reduce demand received limited support. Over the objections of the supply-focused bureaucracy, she told a United Nations audience on Oct. 25, 1988: “If we cannot stem the ...

Louisiana congresswoman takes office, replacing late husband by Alan Fram, The Associated Press Posted Apr 14, 2021 12:42 pm EDT Last Updated Apr 14, 2021 at 12:44 pm EDT Louisiana Republican Julia Letlow was sworn into the House on Wednesday, claiming the seat her late husband was elected to but never filled after dying of COVID-19 in late December, days before taking office. Letlow easily won a special election last month to represent the heavily Republican district in northeastern Louisiana. A university administrator making her first run for public office, she won the backing of former Pr...

Louisiana Republican Julia Letlow was sworn into the House on Wednesday, claiming the seat her late husband was elected to but never filled after dying of COVID-19 in late December, days before taking office.

The mom-of-two was joined by daughter Jacqueline and son Jeremiah as Nancy Pelosi welcomed her to Congress after she easily won a special election last month.