Maxine Waters Says She May Not Vote for 'Shameful' Inflation Reduction Act, Citing Lack of Housing Spending
The new reconciliation bill also nixes a zoning reform program that had been included in the more expansive Build Back Better bill.
The new reconciliation bill also nixes a zoning reform program that had been included in the more expansive Build Back Better bill.
The Senate majority leader has repeatedly blocked a bill that would address the robbery threat to state-licensed pot shops.
If you believe that moving most of our chip production onshore is good for national security, you should labor for regulatory reforms rather than subsidies.
No, these rifles are not "the weapon of choice in most mass murders."
Making the U.S. semiconductor industry dependent on subsidies is not the way to stick it to China.
The Senate majority leader’s marijuana bill would pile on more taxes and regulations, despite years of complaints about the barriers they create.
The senator urged the Department of Transportation on Monday to regulate airline consolidation and levy heavy fines for canceled flights.
Plus: Arizona prisons censor The Nation, Facebook's feed changes, and more...
Plus: The editors each consider a book they might secretly want to write one day.
The bipartisan Senate bill would be a major improvement over the status quo, and has attracted widespread support from experts in the field.
Plus: Electoral count reform, freeing baby formula from useless regulation, and more...
Government often proves to be biased against large, successful companies that legislators don't understand well but customers love.
Former President Trump's attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election relied on three potential pressure points. This bill addresses all three.
The Senate majority leader's 296-page bill would compound the barriers to successful legalization.
Plus: Supreme Court approval drops drastically, truckers protest California gig-work law, and more...
A prominent academic expert on both same-sex marriage and full faith and credit weighs in.
Adding progressive justices to the bench would eventually backfire.
Rubio says states should decide marriage laws, but DOMA is a federal law that overruled state regulation.
Does the bipartisan act protecting same-sex marriage run afoul of constitutional federalism principles? The answer is definitely not with respect to one of its provisions, and probably not with respect to the other.
That new crime, which is punishable by up to 15 years in federal prison, includes receipt of firearms by "prohibited persons."
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act increases the penalties for violating arbitrary firearm bans.
If the National Emergencies Act goes without reform, presidents will continue to misuse emergency declarations as leverage to shift Congress.
Passing an actual law is a good and proper way of enshrining recognition.
The Senate is considering legislation that would improve the visa program for temporary agricultural workers and help relieve labor shortages that push food prices higher.
Plus: Judge blocks Title IX guidance, Amazon admits turning over Ring surveillance footage to cops, and more...
Just as you don't attract bees with vinegar, you don't attract corporations by promising to tax them heavily.
"We've crafted the legislation necessary to avert climate catastrophe. It's time for you to pass it," proclaim staffers in a letter to Congressional leaders.
A ballot access law meant to block Communists has become an obstacle to third-party politics.
A 1942 decision about the Commerce Clause takes on new importance post-Roe.
The "waiver" opens the door for Bannon to testify before the congressional January 6 Committee. But former presidents are not entitled to executive privilege, and especially not when it comes to testimony by private citizens.
Here's hoping we don't wind up with more of the spending and favoritism that's become so common.
The former president's recklessness is beyond dispute, but that is not enough to convict him while respecting the First Amendment.
National legislation and extraterritorial application of state laws are inconsistent with the local leeway that the Constitution protects.
Members of Congress keep saying they want to allow state-legal pot businesses to have access to the banking system, but they keep refusing to actually do it.
The inconvenient truth behind all the COVID-19 relief fraud and waste is that these government programs never should have been designed as they were.
Prominent Democrats including Joe Manchin oppose a bad idea whose time has seemingly not yet come.
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act fulfills the political need to do something but probably won’t help.
Plus: Purity politics, the end of the "millennial consumer subsidy," an unhappy outcome for folks seeking to free Happy the elephant, and more...
The government should loosen laws, reduce conflict between government and the public, and let people defend themselves.
If Congress decides to encourage them, it should not overlook the importance of due process protections.
Most of those open to evidence already know that Trump tried to reverse the outcome of an election he legitimately lost. Reaching the rest is likely to be extremely difficult, at best.
Plus: Competing stories about antitrust reform, capitalism didn't cause the formula crisis, and more...
Plus: Families sue over Texas directive on care for transgender kids, teleworker taxes will come before Ohio Supreme Court, and more...
Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
An analysis of such crimes suggests the president’s policy prescriptions are unlikely to have a meaningful impact.
Presidents once treated congressional authorization as a requirement for the U.S. to enter conflicts. What went wrong?
The president's argument is amazing for its tone-deafness, inconsistent thinking, and sheer economic ignorance.