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The Failure To Enact Marijuana Banking and Crack Sentencing Reforms Is a Window on Congressional Dysfunction

Although both bills have broad bipartisan support, they never got a vote in the Senate and were excluded from the omnibus spending bill.

Reason

Emmett Till and his mother honored with congressional medal

Congress awards Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till, the Chicago teen murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

Chicago Sun-Times

US Congress to posthumously honour slain teenager Emmett Till

The unanimous vote awarded Till and his mother, both civil rights icons, the Congressional Gold Medal.

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Chuck Schumer Scrambles To Save the Marijuana Banking Bill He Blocked Last Year

The Senate majority leader is suddenly keen to pass legislation that he portrayed as a threat to broader reform.

Reason

Dems try new child tax credit tactic

Progressives threaten to block Republican tax break for companies unless they can lift more kids out of poverty

Salon

Judicial security measure catches ride on defense policy bill - Roll Call

A provision allowing federal judges to have personal information scrubbed from the internet was included in a must-pass defense policy bill.

Roll Call

Senate Democrats: Reduce harm of drug laws to open cannabis banking

Negotiations over provisions that would allow cannabis companies to access banking services were among the sticking points holding up the release of the fiscal 2023 defense reauthorization bill text Tuesday, senators said.

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Lawmakers exclude cannabis language from defense authorization text

Senate Democrats will let banks work with cannabis businesses but only for fairer treatment for those caught up in the war on drugs.

Roll Call

CFTC chairman urges strengthening conflict-of-interest part of Senate crypto bill

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Rostin Behnam urged senators to strengthen conflict of interest and financial disclosure provisions for cryptocurrency entities in a key piece of legislation in light of the collapse of the FTX exchange.

Tribune News Service

CFTC chief urges strengthening conflict-of-interest part of Senate crypto bill

Rostin Behnam urged senators to strengthen conflict-of-interest and disclosure language in a bill to regulate cryptocurrency.

Roll Call

Cory Booker and Jeff Van Drew agree on one thing: Bring back New Jersey’s sassy highway signs

Roadway safety messages with a sassy New Jersey flair began appearing on Garden State roadways last month, but last week they disappeared as suddenly as they arrived.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years for defrauding investors

The harsh ruling sends a message to Silicon Valley that the government will hold founders accountable for what’s promised

The Guardian - US

It's judgment day for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes

The fallen Silicon Valley star faces up to 15 years in prison for defrauding investors in her blood-testing company. A U.S. senator is among those who have written letters asking for mercy.

WEKU

Elizabeth Holmes prosecutors seek 15-year sentence and $800m in restitution

Theranos founder faces maximum of 20 years in prison after she was found guilty of fraud and conspiracy

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Republicans and Democrats make last arguments as midterms loom

Joe Biden lambasts Republican normalising of political violence in appearance in New York, as Donald Trump targets culture war issues in Florida

The Independent UK

Kentucky's Rand Paul relishes outsider role in 3rd term run

With two terms in office, Rand Paul still relishes the role as a political outsider

Benzinga

Psyched: DEA Boosts Research Production, Booker's Psychedelics Reform, Kanye West's George Floyd Comments And More

DEA Boosts Production Of Cannabis & Psychedelics For Research In 2023 The DEA is proposing that 6.7 million grams (14,770 pounds) of marijuana be grown for research, more than double the amount suggested for 2022 (3.2 million grams).

Benzinga

Cory Booker Is Optimistic Cannabis Reform Can Pass During Lame-Duck Session, Here's Why

In a recent interview, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) told NJ.com's Dave D'Alessandro that cannabis reforms are on the right path and that Congress has a "good shot" of passing them during the lame-duck session after the midterm elections.

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Beasley widens money advantage over Budd in NC Senate race

North Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley's fundraising advantage over Republican rival Ted Budd widened during the past three months and entering the campaign’s final weeks

Benzinga

Sen. Booker Presents TEST Act Challenging Schedule 1 Drugs & Pushing For Research Into Overdose-Reversing Meds

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Sen. Booker Says Cannabis Decriminalization Could Happen Soon, After Biden's 'Significant' Pardons

President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he will pardon all pr

Benzinga

Booker Comments On Biden Pardons: 'Now It's Time For Congress And States' To Take The Next Step

President Joe Biden announced he will pardon

Tribune News Service

At conference short on GOP voices, Biden says US can end hunger

President Joe Biden told several hundred people Wednesday that he envisions a U.S. with fewer deaths from diet-related diseases and parents better able to put food on the table.

Roll Call

At conference short on GOP voices, Biden says US can end hunger - Roll Call

President Biden also appeared to forget that a Republican lawmaker who backed the hunger conference was killed in a car accident last month.

Benzinga

Dems Push For Marijuana Legalization With Focus On Justice, Booker & Fetterman Speak At Cannabis Event

Democrats Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) continue to push hard for cannabis policy reform.

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