2020 Election: Democrats endorsing Taylor Swift’s Change.org petition for LGBTQ rights
Presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar became the seventh major politician to sign and share Taylor Swift’s viral Change.org petition asking the U.S. Senate to pass the Equality Act. Beto O’Rourke, Edward More...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacks Senate vote on Green New Deal, warns we’ll ‘drink oil in 30 years when all our water is poisoned’
McConnell’s plan got a scathing rebuke from the key author of the movement, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal and a progressive star in the Democratic Party. “The Senate More...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacks Green New Deal critics, ‘I’m the boss’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., dismissed critics of her Green New Deal on Friday, saying to any critic who has yet to offer their own bold environmental ideas: “Until you do it, I’m the boss.” The More...
Universal Flu Vaccine: Senators ask NIAID for update
About one year ago, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health announced the details of a strategic plan for addressing the research areas essential More...
Trump Nominee For Director at the Council For Environmental Quality Accused of Plagiarizing Her Answers
Ten Democratic Senators are accusing President Trump’s nominee for Managing Director at the Council for Environmental Quality of copying and pasting her answers from other nominees. photo/ Pete Linforth via More...
Democrats ‘lost the shutdown’ but attack the GOP with requests for more spending
While the polling on the government shutdown suggested that Democrats were poised to benefit politically from the latest battle in Washington, it was the American people who spoke and sent a different tune to More...
USA RIGHTS Act introduced in the Senate to protect Americans’ security and liberties
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and a total of 11 senators today introduced the USA RIGHTS Act, which reforms a sweeping, secretive government spying program to protect the Constitutional rights of More...
Bernie Sanders announces the ‘Raise the Wage Act’ to raise federal minimum wage to $15 an hour
On Wednesday, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour to a crowd of hundreds of low-wage More...
Amazon drone delivery program creates a divide over privacy and Jeff Bezos
The announcement of Amazon using drones to deliver packages has riled privacy watchdogs, some journalists and even certain members of Congress. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos discussed the so-called “Octocopters” More...
