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Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) said Wednesday President Joe Biden “just sort of stared at me,” when Jones told Biden to be more involved in federalizing elections, where Democrats seek to cancel state voter ID laws and publicly fund political campaigns. Jones “told President Joe Biden their party needed him more involved in passing voting legislation on the Hill,” the Associated Press reported about an event last week in which the two met. “In response? Biden ‘just sort of stared at me,’ Jones said, describing an ‘awkward silence’ that passed between the two.”

Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday said he will support a Democratic show-vote on an election reform bill after getting fellow Democrats including Stacey Abrams to voice support for voter ID rules that they had previously denounced as racist. The vote will fail and a final bill wasn’t even drafted ahead of a doomed 5 p.m. motion to invoke cloture, which requires 60 senators to agree to proceed. Democrats hold just 50 seats and the only major unknown was whether they would stick together in the base-rallying gesture designed to show pushback on Republican state election reforms that President Biden claims...

Former President Obama said Monday that Congress needs to pass voting rights legislation before the 2022 midterm elections, or American democracy could be at risk. "We can't wait until the next election because if we have the same kinds of shenanigans that brought about Jan. 6, if we have that for a couple more election cycles, we're going to have real problems in terms of our democracy long-term," said Obama. Speaking on a call with grassroots supporters alongside former Attorney General Eric Holder, Obama said debate over the voting rights bill, known as the For the People Act, was worth...

Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) has introduced legislation that seeks to ban critical race theory from being taught in public schools in Washington, D.C. Grothman, who announced the measure on Friday, is accompanied by four GOP co-sponsors, including Reps. Ralph Norman (SC), Pat Fallon (TX), Bob Gibbs (OH) and Ronny Jackson (TX). According to a press release from Grothman, the bill, dubbed the Ending Critical Race Theory in D.C. Public Schools Act, proposes that public and charter schools in D.C. be prohibited from requiring instruction on “ideas that promote race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating,” or that a person “bears responsibility...

Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled a $928 billion infrastructure proposal that includes $506 billion for roads, bridges and major projects and $98 billion for public transit systems. The latest offer is substantially more than the $568 billion infrastructure framework the group led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) introduced in April, but it’s still far short of the $1.7 trillion counteroffer that White House officials came back with last week.

Senate Republicans appear to be backing down from a threat to block legislation aimed at combating China’s competitiveness. The bill, a top priority of Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), was garnering threats from top Republicans that they would block the bill from getting the 60 votes needed to advance and ultimately pass amid frustration about the slow pace of amendment votes. But a handful of amendments happening Tuesday night, and more expected on Wednesday and Thursday, appears to be alleviating some of the pressure and helping clear a path for the bill.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Tuesday became the second Senate Republican to say she will support a House-passed bill to establish a bipartisan commission on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which could come to the floor for a vote this week. “I’m going to support it,” Murkowski told reporters when asked about whether she will vote for the bill that passed with 35 Republican votes in the House last week.

Maryland is the latest to join a growing number of states looking to cash in by legalizing sports gambling, as Governor Larry Hogan prepares to sign a bill opening the state to sports bettors. The governor plans to sign a bill that would grant in-person sports betting licenses to several prominent Maryland sporting and gambling venues such as casinos, Pimlico Downs, Laurel Park, and the stadiums for the Baltimore Orioles, the Baltimore Ravens, and the Washington Football Team.

Rep. Briscoe Cain lays out and then takes questions from Rep. Jessica Gonzales on SB 7 in the House Chamber on May 6, 2021.

The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would make Washington, D.C. the country's 51st state, in a party-line vote of 216-208, sending the legislation to the U.S. Senate. The House's vote was the second in a year to make Washington, the District of Columbia a state - Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, composed of most of D.C.'s current territory, with a federal district around the White House, National Mall and Capitol kept out. While Democrats, en masse, argued for giving the 712,000 residents of D.C. representation, Republicans shared a number of ideas of how to fix the problem without adding...

Earlier Monday Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB1, a new bill from the Florida legislature that establishes new criminal definitions under the anti-riot law. The House and Senate worked on the legislation for a year after Governor Ron DeSantis led the initial effort.[HB1] “defines a “riot” as a public disturbance involving three or more people “acting with the common intent to assist each other in violent and disorderly conduct” that results in injury to another person, damage to property, or danger of injury or damage.The law grants civil immunity to people who drive into protesters who are blocking a road,...

The Senate is working to wrap up an anti-Asian hate crimes bill this week as senators near a deal on changes to the legislation. The bill, introduced by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), will likely come up for a vote as early as Wednesday, a Senate Democratic aide confirmed to The Hill. "I'm optimistic we can finish our work on the anti-Asian hate crimes bill later this week in the same manner we started it, with an overwhelming bipartisan vote. And let me say it's needed," Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said from the Senate floor on Monday.

FNC White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked the White House press secretary on Thursday about some details of the $2.6 trillion infrastructure spending bill proposed by the Biden administration. Q: And one of the most colorful examples that the President used yesterday -- he asked if people remembered a bridge going down. But only 5 percent of the spending in this package goes towards roads and bridges, and I'm curious why that number is so low in something that is being sold as an infrastructure package. MS. PSAKI: We're actually selling it as a once-in-a-century or once-in-a-generation investment in partly...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Wednesday the Biden’s administration’s infrastructure bill is “like a Trojan horse.” “It’s called infrastructure, but inside the Trojan horse, it’s going to be more borrowed money and massive tax increases on all the productive parts of our economy,” McConnell reiterated. “It’s like a Trojan horse.”

The House passed the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill Wednesday, sending it to President Joe Biden to sign. The House passed H.R. 1319, The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, by a vote of 220-211.

Democratic leaders are cheering the imminent final passage of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill, with the White House calling it the “most progressive” bill in US history and Republicans using the same claim to bash it. The partisan posturing over the bill and its legacy is shaping up ahead of anticipated final passage in the House of Representatives on Tuesday.

A bill advancing out of a Kentucky Senate committee on Thursday would make it a crime to insult or taunt a police officer to the point where the taunts provoke a violent response. Senate Bill 211 passed by a 7-3 vote, according to reports. The proposal was a response to riots throughout the country last summer, said the bill's sponsor, Sen. Danny Carroll, R-Benton, a retired police officer. "In these riots, you see people getting up in officers' faces, yelling in their ears, doing everything they can to provoke a violent response," Carroll said, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. "I'm...

GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) - A South Carolina committee passed a bill Tuesday called the “Open Carry with Training" Act, putting the state one step closer to allowing the open carry of guns. Right now, residents in the Palmetto State can only apply for a concealed weapons permit. Under this new law, people with those permits could carry freely. The bill would require citizens to complete training to do this. Proponents of the bill say it’s “common sense" and that 2nd Amendment rights need to be recognized now. Those against the bill say they are not opposed to the concept...

House lawmakers passed President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package early Saturday morning without a single Republican vote in support. The bill passed the lower chamber with a 219-212 vote even after a key Senate official ruled that the final version will not include a minimum wage hike, allowing the U.S. Senate to take up the legislation. Two Democrats Kurt Schrader of Oregon and Jared Golden of Maine broke ranks and voted against the bill.

President Trump at Arlington CemeteryThey are completely unhinged and consumed by hate.House Democrats introduced legislation on Thursday to prevent twice impeached US Presidents from being buried in Arlington Cemetery.They called their bill the “No Glory for Hate” bill.JUST IN: House Dems have introduced a bill to ban “twice impeached presidents” from burial at Arlington National Cemetery and federal funds from going to buildings displaying their names or acknowledging their achievementsThis bill is called the “No Glory For Hate Act” pic.twitter.com/o3Y9n7qJUi— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 18, 2021