The Department of the Interior announced plans to expand offshore drilling, upsetting environmentalists and members of Congress alike. Congressman Donald McEachin, a democrat representing Virginia's fourth district, serves on the Natural Resources Committee. He believes the move shows the Trump Administration is "tone deaf" on the issue of offshore drilling.
Congressman McEachin says protecting the "We don't want any environmental issue, really, to fall down between Democrats and Republicans," the Congressman said.
The Congressman has also co-sponsored the Military Spouse Employment Act. If passed, the bill will provided resources for military spouses struggling to find jobs as their loved ones serve in the military.
The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says she was sexually assaulted by an obstetrician while she was pregnant with the couple's first child.
Here are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Friday, January 17, 2020.
A Capitol Hill hearing on cannabis legislation Wednesday underscored the regulatory straitjacket that restricts research and scheduling of cannabis in the United States.
In the aftermath of earthquakes, one of the U.S. territory’s top architects is making the case for short-term assistance combined with long-term vision.
When President Bill Clinton was impeached more than 20 years ago, the Senate leaders who controlled his fate say they sought to appear neutral and separate from the White House and wanted to make the trial a bipartisan process. At least that’s how Trent Lott and Tom Daschle remember it today.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Facebook’s behavior “shameful” during her weekly press conference Thursday.
The federal government's watchdog agency said Thursday a White House office violated federal law in withholding security assistance to Ukraine.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Thursday, January 16, 2020.
The House delivered the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate Wednesday hours after Speaker Nancy Pelosi named seven managers to handle prosecute the trial.
“[Trump] would win right now because the Democrats have not succeeded in making this election a referendum on Trump,” longtime Republican and political strategist Rick Wilson told Cheddar on the eve of another sort of referendum — the president’s impeachment trial.
