[dropcap]J[/dropcap]uneau – Today, Representative Matt Claman (D-Anchorage) pre-filed legislation that supports the health of Alaskan women and their families by providing greater access to reproductive health care and prescription contraceptives. House Bill 21 requires health care insurers, including Medicaid services, to provide coverage for prescription contraceptives and medical services necessary for those products or […]
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional leaders are scheduled to meet late Friday morning at the White House to discuss how to end the government shutdown that has entered its third week. The meeting comes a day after a new group of lawmakers was sworn into office in what is now a Democratically […]
2018 has been a chaotic year at the U.S.-Mexico border, where desperation collided with politics, and children bore the brunt of a debated threat – all of this in the shadow of the still unfunded border wall. The year did not begin with “a national emergency,” at the border, as Trump claimed or as his […]
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]HITE HOUSE — The Democratic leadership and U.S. President Donald Trump publicly clashed in the Oval Office on Tuesday with the president threatening to shut down the government if lawmakers do not provide adequate funding for his promised wall along the border with Mexico, declaring it a response to “a national emergency.” “I am proud […]
