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Senate advances resolution to suspend senators' pay during government shutdowns
Senators' pay would be put into an escrow account, meaning there would be no loss in pay. The senators just wouldn't receive any of it until the shutdown ends.
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Microsoft-owned professional networking site LinkedIn plans to cut 5% of its staff: report
The Microsoft-owned professional social-networking site is expected to inform staff of the cuts on Wednesday.
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Comer announces task force on DEI policies, abuse of immigrant, social programs, Taps Gill to lead
Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, will chair the task force.
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House Armed Services Democrat: Biden's defense budget 'doesn't build the force we need'
"I'm very, sort of, very discouraged by what I've seen so far this year in the process of the NDAA," said Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.).
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Rep. Austin Scott warns of 'global food shortage' as railroads limit U.S. fertilizer shipments
"I'm concerned about the lower-income countries not having anything to eat," the congressman said.
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Pre-planned parachuters cause Capitol Police to issue evacuation alert
The plane reportedly carried a parachute team for a baseball game.
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Matt Gaetz calls illegal immigration an 'attack' on American sovereignty
"It would take 14.5 years to deport just the aliens DHS has released under the Biden Administration," Gaetz wrote.
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McCarthy set to lead delegation to southern border before Title 42 is lifted
The lawmakers will meet with community leaders "whose safety and livelihoods continue to be jeopardized due to the Democrats’ refusal to secure the border."Â
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Elizabeth Warren warns of Democratic midterm disaster
"Time is running short," she said.
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Grassley urges Biden to move from anti-gun stance to focus on violent crime; questions ATF nominee
Violent crime in cities across the country increased in 2020 and 2021
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Pelosi: Wealthy Republicans aren't all racists, anti-Semites, but 'that's how they vote'
Fueled by "endless money," Republicans rose to power in Congress in the '90s "to protect the financial assets of the rich," the House speaker claimed.
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Rep. Claudia Tenney says Biden is 'enriching the cartels' with accelerated Title 42 exceptions
"It's really incredible," the New York Republican said, that "they don't realize what a negative this is for the Democrats."
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Democrats use Tax Day to push taxing 'liquid and illiquid assets' of millionaires and billionaires
Babies Over Billionaires bill would "annually tax 30% of unrealized gains of ultra-millionaires from publicly traded capital assets at the prevailing long-term capital gains rate," according to Rep. Jamaal Bowman's office.