Republican erupts at Democrat during shutdown hearing: ‘My people aren’t getting paid thanks to you’
Tensions flared at a House hearing to advance legislation aimed at ending the government shutdown on Tuesday night, with two senior lawmakers on opposite sides of the aisle trading barbs over the fallout. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., clashed with Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee repeatedly at the outset of the ...
Dominik Lett On November 9, Senate Republicans reached a deal with eight Democratic senators to end the government shutdown. Although Congress and the president have yet to formally approve the package, it seems likely that the longest shutdown in US history will soon end. Predictably, the deal is a mixed bag that punts most of the hard decisions to the coming months. Democrats agreed to pass full-year appropriations ...
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is shutting down some of his final remaining business ventures, including Pitch@Palace Global Ltd, once seen as a potential source of private income after the King withdrew financial support. Pitch@Palace began as a Dragon’s Den-style initiative allowing entrepreneurs to pitch start-up ideas to investors, backed by the then Duke of York. It attracted global attention and corporate sponsors ...
More than six million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the globe are calling on world leaders to take urgent and coordinated action to support business-led climate progress, warning that the path to net zero will stall without their inclusion. In an open letter released ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil, the SME Climate Hub and ...
Senators believe that after reaching a deal to end the longest shutdown on record, they won’t be in the same position early next year. The bipartisan package that advanced from the Senate late Monday night would, if passed by the House this week, reopen the government until Jan. 30. Lawmakers believe that extension would give them enough time to fund ...
Jeffrey A. Singer Last night, the Senate passed a continuing resolution along with three appropriations bills, one of which, an agriculture appropriations bill, effectively shut down the US hemp industry. Growers use the plant Cannabis sativa to produce both hemp and marijuana. Under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, Congress classified “marihuana” (spelled that way in the statute) as a Schedule I ...
Frustration is boiling over among Democratic ranks against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., after walking away from the longest government shutdown on record largely empty-handed. Some argue that Schumer squandered key leverage and failed to steer his caucus through the chaos to victory. ‘I think that people did what they could to get us out of the shutdown, but ...
Matthew Cavedon In 2016, Ashtian Barnes was killed by Harris County, Texas, Deputy Constable Roberto Felix, following a traffic stop for unpaid tolls. As Barnes apparently tried to drive away, Felix jumped onto the moving car and indiscriminately opened fire, killing Barnes instantly. The Fifth Circuit initially sided with Felix, applying its narrow “moment of threat” test that only focused ...
Mike Fox When fellow Husky owner Michelino Sunseri broke the Grand Teton speed record, his athletic achievement should have been cause for celebration. Instead, it fueled a lengthy legal battle with the United States Department of Justice. Today, thanks to a full and unconditional pardon from President Trump, Sunseri can finally put the ordeal behind him. Sunseri—who made an honest mistake—was ...
The House of Representatives appears to be on a glide path to ending the longest government shutdown in history, with lawmakers racing back to Capitol Hill after six weeks out of session. The House Rules Committee will meet to consider the Senate’s amended federal funding plan sometime after 5 p.m. Tuesday, two sources told Fox News Digital. In other words, ...