“There is no factual predicate for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act at the southern border or anywhere else in the United States,” said the congressman and constitutional scholar. After being “flooded with messages,” the U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin issued a lengthy Friday statement about mounting rumors that Republican President Donald Trump “may invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 […]
One conservation campaigner accused the president of “trying to drive a knife through the heart of the Endangered Species Act.” The Trump administration on Wednesday published an anticipated proposal that one green group warned “would rescind nearly all habitat protections for endangered species nationwide” by changing the regulatory definition of a single word in the country’s cornerstone […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC), celebrated the passage of the Protecting Regular Order (PRO) for Veterans Act in the Senate. Sen. Sullivan, along with 10 of his Senate colleagues, introduced the legislation to establish greater accountability and oversight of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) after a stunning multi-billion-dollar budget […]
Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joined 27 colleagues in calling for the immediate implementation of the Social Security Fairness Act to provide full Social Security benefits for thousands of Alaskan public servants impacted by Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). The Social Security Fairness Act, which fully repeals the […]