GovTrack Insider staff writer Jesse Rifkin Vice President Kamala Harris Since Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) with his famously informal wardrobe was sworn into Congress this year, the Senate cert...
GovTrack Insider staff writer Jesse Rifkin Could this be the first year in 18 years that Congress doesn’t vote to bestow anyone the Congressional Gold Medal? The last year when Congress a...
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ALMOST UNANIMOUS, 2023 EDITION: WHY THESE LONE DISSENTERS WITHHELD THEIR VOTES ON CONGRESSIONAL BILLS GovTrack Insider staff writer Jesse Rifkin Sometimes, when everybody else zigs, one perso...
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA7) The lead House sponsor concluded a roundtable discussion about the bill by reading aloud the Langston Hughes poem “Harlem.” CONTEXT Book challenges and remo...
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ12)Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) The Guinness World Record for longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom is held by the alpine salamander of the Swiss Alps, at up to...
AFTER ART VANDALISM PROTESTS, CONSEQUENCES FOR CLIMATE VANDALS ACT WOULD DOUBLE MAXIMUM PUNISHMENT FROM FIVE TO 10 YEARS PRISON Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) Jackson Pollock paintings already look ...
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL10) After the Rapid City, South Dakota school system removed the Dave Eggers novel The Circle, Eggers provided hundreds of free copies to the city’s high school senio...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA14)Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) Republicans say the last time a pilot was treated this unfairly was when the 1969 sketch comedy show Turn On was cancelled after ...
NO TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR COMMUNIST CHINESE COVID TESTS ACT WOULD BAN PUBLIC FUNDS FOR COVID TESTS MADE IN CHINA Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN1)Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) Covid tests: how a Turkish...
NO PLEA DEAL WITH TERRORISTS ACT WOULD BAN PLEA DEALS FOR 9/11 CO-CONSPIRATOR TRIALS, TO PRESERVE DEATH PENALTY POSSIBILITY Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL17) They were responsible for almost 3,000 de...