According to the apportionment results announced by the Census Bureau on Monday, the total US population as of April 2020 stood at 331,449,281. This was a 7.4% increase from 2010, but the second-slowest in history after the 1930s, Census officials said. State results translated into a shift of seven seats …
Read More »Matt Gaetz, prominent Trump ally in Congress, says ‘sex trafficking’ claim is extortion by former DOJ prosecutor & political smear
Citing “three people briefed on the matter” but not a single official on the record, the Times said Gaetz was being investigated by the Justice Department “over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him.” Congressman Ted Lieu (D-California) has already …
Read More »Proud Boys members charged with conspiring to block Congress from certifying Biden victory during January 6 riot
The charges were revealed in a superseding indictment unsealed on Friday, according to multiple reports. Federal investigators continued their crackdown on those involved in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol and identified members of the Proud Boys as being chief instigators in the day’s events, which led to …
Read More »US Congress passes long-awaited $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill, Biden to sign it by end of week
The final vote on Wednesday saw 220 representatives in favor and 211 opposed, breaking mostly along party lines. Republicans who opposed the bill were joined by one Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine). President Joe Biden is expected to sign the ARP sometime on Friday. While the House adopted a stimulus …
Read More »Pfizer and Moderna pledge to Congress to ramp up Covid-19 vaccine production as US death toll tops 500,000
The companies’ executives are scheduled to speak before the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce on Tuesday. According to Pfizer Chief Business Officer John Young’s written testimony, the company will have 120 million doses of the vaccine available for shipment by the end of March and an …
Read More »Biden signals green light for reparations study as Congress press bill to examine slavery & discrimination from 1619 to present
Biden “certainly would support a study of reparations” and the “continuing impacts of slavery,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday. “He continues to demonstrate his commitment to taking comprehensive action to address the systemic racism that persists today,” and the reparations study is …
Read More »Biden asks Congress to ban ‘weapons of war on our streets’ as he uses 3rd anniversary of Parkland shooting to demand gun control
“Today, I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms,” Biden said in his Sunday statement. The timing matched the third anniversary of the Parkland shooting, which saw a gunman open fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 and wounding another 17. Biden …
Read More »Congress holds taxpayer-funded group therapy session for AOC and pals, who were totally traumatized by Capitol raid
Ocasio-Cortez and a number of prominent Democratic lawmakers, including Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts) and Rashida Tlaib (Michigan), will speak in the House of Representatives on Thursday evening in a session “with the goal of creating space for members to talk about their lived experience” of the Capitol Hill riot last …
Read More »‘US Capitol is now a military base’: Photos of National Guard sleeping on Congress floor go viral ahead of Trump impeachment 2.0
Journalists in the Capitol took to Twitter to post the images, which showed the armed troops camping out in hallways by fire extinguishers, educational displays, and even a bust of Abraham Lincoln. “Well this is something I thought I’d never see,” declared the Daily Telegraph’s US editor Ben Riley-Smith, while CBS …
Read More »‘Fraud Squad’? US Congress has more socialists than ever but some leftists don’t think AOC & Co. fit the bill
The 117th Congress includes four members of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) have been joined in the House this year by Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) and Cori Bush (D-Missouri). Previously only two avowed socialists managed to secure House seats simultaneously. It …
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