WHITE HOUSE — Amid stalled progress on gun control legislation in the U.S. Congress, President Joe Biden announced the creation of a new federal office for gun violence prevention, tapping Vice President Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor of gun homicide cases, to lead it. “Guns are the number one killer of children in America,” Biden said […]
“Every Democrat should follow President Biden’s lead and slam this commission for what it is: A scheme to slash the American people’s hard-earned benefits.” Progressives on Tuesday sounded alarm over a proposal tucked into a new House GOP budget blueprint that would establish a bipartisan commission to review and propose legislative changes to Social Security […]
(Big Lake, AK) – Senate Bill 87, sponsored by Senator Jesse Bjorkman (R-Nikiski), was signed into law Wednesday. The bill creates a local lumber grading program for Alaska sawmill operators to become certified to grade and sell certain types of dimensional lumber that they have produced for residential construction. “Local lumber grading in Alaska will […]
Two-and-a-half years after the insurrection, said one advocate, “these poison pills are an attempt to stymie our democracy by other means.” A coalition that has been monitoring Republican lawmakers’ crafting of appropriations bills in the U.S. House in recent weeks warned on Wednesday that more than a dozen policy riders have been added to spending legislation with […]