(Anchorage) – Thursday, Governor Mike Dunleavy expanded his special session to include two pieces of legislation that will strengthen the state’s ongoing response to the recent COVID surge. Thursday, the Governor will transmit a new bill which will expand the use of telemedicine and telehealth services and provides additional tools to expand our health care […]
The Republican from Maine “will forever be the U.S. senator who gaslit a nation and her constituents and voted to install Brett Kavanaugh,” said one critic. In a 2018 speech announcing her decisive vote in favor of confirming right-wing judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine insisted—despite the abundance of evidence to the contrary—that […]
The strong overall support for the landmark package stands in stark contrast with opposition from Republicans and right-wing Democrats. Underscoring what critics call the out-of-touch nature of Republican and right-wing Democrats’ opposition to the Build Back Better bill supported by the Biden administration and progressive U.S. lawmakers, new polling published Wednesday confirmed that a majority of […]
“Every congressperson who voted for this should be ashamed,” said Win Without War’s Erica Fein after 14 Democrats joined with Republicans to approve the amendment. With public awareness of U.S. war spending elevated in the wake of American troops exiting Afghanistan, a House of Representatives panel on Wednesday approved a $37.5 billion increase to the Pentagon budget from last year, angering […]