Staffers for Rep. Melanie Stansbury vote to unionize - Roll Call “We are witnessing a historic moment right now on Capitol Hill,” the New Mexico Democrat said, as her office joined a small but growing list. Roll Call · Oct 11, 2022
Essay: The education and disillusionment of a young Texas reporter in D.C. I moved to Washington in 2006 to work for a senator. I left in 2022 in the prime of my journalism career. I had seen enough. The Texas Tribune · Oct 11, 2022
Sam McDowell: Kansas football is in new territory. But what’s the future for KU and Lance Leipold? LAWRENCE, Kan. — By 4 p.m. Saturday, the field inside Kansas Memorial Stadium had been cleared, vacated by all but a couple of workers packing up items from the team benches. To the southwest, outside the stadium, a cleanup crew paced over what students here simply refer to as The… Tribune News Service · Oct 10, 2022
Arizona Court of Appeals Temporarily Blocks Old Arizona Abortion Ban The Hill (Jared Gans) reports: The Arizona Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked the state's more-than-a-century-old abortion ban [which bans all abortions "unless it is necessary to save [the woman's] life"] from being enforced after a judge had previously ruled it could be…. The abortion ban was originally enacted in… Reason · Oct 8, 2022
Biden's marijuana pardons limited, but spark legalization talk on Hill - Roll Call President Joe Biden’s pardon for thousands of people convicted of possessing marijuana may have a limited impact on its own but pushes debate. Roll Call · Oct 6, 2022
Top House staffers are still overwhelmingly white, study finds Only 18 percent of high-level aides are people of color — a boost from 2018, but not enough for Congress’ staff to look like America. Roll Call · Oct 6, 2022
Grattan on Friday: Jim Chalmers plays the tease as he pushes to change Stage 3 tax cuts When Scott Morrison was treasurer he flew the kite for an increase in the GST. The debate ran a while, before then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull shut it down. It was all too hard. The Conversation · Oct 6, 2022
Fishermen caught cheating with weights in catches won tens of thousands of dollars in other competitions Jake Runyan and Chase Cominsky credited their previous success entirely to their skills The Independent UK · Oct 5, 2022
Liz Cheney is sole Republican voice calling Trump out for ‘racist’ attack on Mitch McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao “Nobody in my party will say that’s unacceptable,” says the January 6 committee vice chair The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2022
Meet the Republican team behind the House’s newest Democrat WASHINGTON — Alex Ortiz thought he was done with Capitol Hill. After a decade as a staffer for “the representative for all Alaska,” Ortiz carried out the sad duty this spring of packing up Don Young’s office after the Republican’s sudden death — even at 88 years old, it still… Tribune News Service · Sep 30, 2022
This congressional staff became the first in U.S. history to form a union The Congressional Workers Union announced Monday that the office of Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., has won their union election — the first one to do so on the Hill. WEKU · Sep 27, 2022
Trump On Mar-A-Lago Debate Says A President Can Declassify Documents By Just 'Thinking About It' Donald Trump said in a recent interview that there doesn’t have to be a process to declassify sensitive documents if the person doing so is the president of the United States. Benzinga · Sep 22, 2022
Greg Norman to visit Capitol Hill to discuss LIV Golf, address Saudi Arabia concerns The series is on a two-week break before hosting consecutive events in Bangkok, Thailand, and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. USA Today Sports Media Group · Sep 19, 2022
Trump Vs. Biden: Who Would Americans Vote For If 2024 Election Was Held Right Now? New Poll Finds Out A majority of Americans do not want Donald Trump to run for President again in 2024, according to a new poll, while another indicates he’s behind President Joe Biden in a hypothetical contest. Benzinga · Sep 8, 2022
The Conversation · Sep 2, 2022 View from The Hill: Summit triggers immediate action and elevates gender equality This article is part of The Conversation’s series looking at Labor’s jobs summit. Read the other articles in the series here.
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Tribune News Service · Sep 1, 2022 Survey: Budget boost raised Hill pay, but disparities remain WASHINGTON — A majority of staff in both the House and Senate got raises after lawmakers boosted office budgets this year, but disparities in pay for people of color and women remain a concern, a new survey found.
Roll Call · Sep 1, 2022 Survey finds pay disparities among Hill staff who got raises this year A majority of staff got raises after lawmakers boosted office budgets, but disparities in pay for people of color and women remain a concern.
The Times of India · Aug 27, 2022 Trump's son-in-law distances himself from Jan 6 Capital Hill's insurrection in his book 'Breaking History' Former President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has sought to distance himself from the January 6 Capitol Hills insurrection, the focus of the Congressional committee's investigations on Trump's alleged dereliction of duty to call off the mob, in his latest book "Breaking History".
Dynamite News · Aug 26, 2022 International: Marsha Blackburn becomes latest US lawmaker to visit Taiwan, defies Beijing "Regular high-level visits to Taipei are long-standing US policy," Blackburn said, adding that she will not be bullied by China into turning her back on the island. Full story on Dynamite News:
The Independent UK · Aug 23, 2022 Ivanka Trump tried to set up ‘peacemaking’ dinner with Hillary Clinton at father’s request Trump ‘genuinely wanted to help the country unite’, writes the former president’s son-in-law in his new memoir, Breaking History
Salon · Aug 20, 2022 Life after Trump: When he's gone, what? Do Republicans understand that Trump's time is running out? What's their plan after following him into the abyss?
Benzinga · Aug 19, 2022 Federal Framework For Cannabis Could Be The Answer, Says Former Senate Majority Leader Sharing His Evolution On Marijuana Thomas Daschle, (D-SD) who served as the Senate Majority Leader from 2001 to 2003 and in the Senate from 1987-2005 is now a co-chair for the Coalition for Cannabis Policy, Education and Regulation. In an opinion piece for The Hill, Daschle
The Conversation · Aug 18, 2022 Grattan on Friday: The Scott Morrison horror show has a way to run yet It’s not breaking news that Scott Morrison has trouble with women. His “woman problem” was one factor in his election defeat.
The Conversation · Aug 17, 2022 View from The Hill: Morrison reverts to type in an unconvincing defence One of the more bizarre things Scott Morrison said in his hour-long, sometimes combative, Wednesday news conference was that he’d had a “wonderful” conversation with Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday.