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Senators unveil bipartisan plan to ban president, lawmakers from buying stocks

Senators on Wednesday unveiled a bipartisan plan to ban the president, vice president and members of Congress from buying stocks and a wide range of other financial assets. The proposal from Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is scheduled to be considered at a hearing in the […]

Election Integrity Should be Bi-Partisan

Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Election integrity is something everyone should be concerned about. Both parties have an interest in ensuring the public has confidence in the process. If not, it is destructive to the very core of the democratic process. The reason: if elections are not “honest”, what is the point of elections and without elections […]

Bipartisan lawmakers urge Biden to declare July as ‘American Patriotism Month’

First appeared on FOX: A bipartisan group of House members plans to introduce a resolution urging President Biden to declare July “American Patriotism Month.” The resolution, which aims to recognize the United States as the “greatest nation on earth” and affirm the House’s support for July’s special designation, is expected to be introduced Friday by […]

Elise Stefanik Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Unravel Part of Biden’s War on Milk

House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik of New York introduced legislation on Wednesday to undo some of President Joe Biden’s milk wars. Stefanik introduced bipartisan legislation, the Protecting Access to Maternal and Infant Milk Act, to block Biden Administration rules that would restrict access to milk for women, infants, and families under the Women, Infants, […]

Bipartisan act seeks end to ticket scalping bots

(The Center Square) – A new “Taylor Swift” bill proposed in Michigan would combat ticket resale schemes seen during the artist’s recent Erasu tour, but ticket bot operators could face problems. House Bill 5661-5662 would allow the Attorney General’s Office to impose fines of $5,000 per ticket on anyone who violates the ticket purchase limit. […]

Senate hearing previews emerging bipartisan consensus on reining in gain-of-function research

In a surprisingly substantive hearing today, members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee seemed to signal an emerging consensus that gain-of-function research that some believe is a likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic requires significant additional government oversight, or even a complete halt. The hearing, chaired by Democratic Senator Gary Peters (Mich.), […]

Bipartisan concerns surround Michigan’s SOAR program

Both parties have expressed concerns about Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s $250 million overhaul of the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve Fund. The fund was first established in 2021 as a response to Ford Motor Co. relocating its major manufacturing operations to Kentucky and Tennessee, and has since doled out $1.7 billion to both Ford and […]