The legislation is less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic goals, but it embodies deep-rooted party dreams of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing big corporations.
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In an era of ugly legislative gridlock, it's easy to forget that progress isn't necessarily pretty.
As a Vietnam veteran, I followed with interest the recent failure of the U.S. Senate to enact legislation that would help veterans stricken wi…
The Senate has given final approval to a bill enhancing health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Some negative people think that getting old is something to be feared, but there are advantages when you pass the 75-year mark.
Frustrated by the inability of the present two-party system to function, more folks are talking about the creation of a third party thinking t…
The Respect for Marriage Act would ensure that same-sex marriages are legally recognized nationwide if the Supreme Court were to overturn its 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision. Here's a look at the bill.
"I'm used to lies. I'm used to hypocrisy. I'm used to their cowardice. I'm not used to the cruelty," Jon Stewart said after Republicans stalled the bill.
North Dakota's top Senate Democrat is calling on the governor and attorney general to initiate an investigation into a $1.8 million constructi…
North Dakota's top Senate Democrat is calling on the governor and attorney general to initiate an investigation into a $1.8 million constructi…
In a rare surprise for official Washington, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced a deal to expand the planned health bill in the Senate to include provisions raising taxes and addressing climate change. The measure would include a third year of expanded subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, but not health care coverage for people left out of Medicaid in states that failed to expand the program. Meanwhile, the ACA goes back to court, and the Biden administration restores anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people that were rolled back by the Trump administration. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Dr. Céline Gounder of KHN about the latest on the monkeypox outbreak.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg responded Sunday to Republican opposition to codifying same-sex marriage, criticizing House Republicans for opposing a bill to do just that hours after he was in a room with them talking about transportation policy.
Because history repeats itself (nobody was listening the first time) our young people ought to be learning about their roots so they can avoid…
The wall-to-wall coverage of progressive carping about Joe Biden has been interrupted by reruns of progressive carping about West Virginia Sen…
In one of Rob Port’s May writings, he indicated that former state Sen. Roscoe Streyle was running for a seat in the Legislature on the strengt…
Democrats' first legislative response to the Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion has little chance of becoming law.
Abortion is practically none of my business except to observe that the rhetoric has escalated to a point that it has divided the country. But …
Even though he doesn’t stuff the envelopes, North Dakota Tax Commissioner Brian Kroshus deserves credit for the efficient manner in which his …
In overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court delivered the right's biggest single victory ever, and it may spell the end of the conservative …
Walsh County Record Editor W. Todd Morgan reminded us last week that June observed the 80th anniversary of the closing of the Civilian Conserv…
For congressional Republicans, the election can’t come soon enough. In the modern era, it’s hard to think of a time when the party out of powe…
U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer is recovering after a hand injury that he suffered in an incident involving a boulder at his Bismarck home over the wee…
U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer is recovering after a hand injury that he suffered in an incident involving a boulder at his Bismarck home over the wee…
House Republican leaders are lining up in opposition to a recently unveiled bipartisan gun safety bill and plan to urge their members to vote "no," even as the Senate moves toward passage of the bill this week.
