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House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) confirmed Monday night that his committee was preparing to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr for his testimony, despite saying earlier this month that such a move was unlikely. “We have begun the process to issue that subpoena,” Nadler told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in an interview. On June …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) told reporters on Thursday that Democrats were readying a possible $1.5 trillion infrastructure spending bill. There have already been various proposals to tie infrastructure spending to a coronavirus economic relief bill, although those efforts have so far not borne fruit. President Trump has stated that he would support an …

While unveiling the Republican police reform bill on Wednesday, Senator Tim Scott said that the U.S. is “not a racist country” and criticized Democrats for what he saw as their relentless focus on race, advocating a discrete approach to policy solutions designed to address police brutality. Scott, the Senate’s only black Republican, remarked in a …

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee raised more than $80 million in May, a record monthly fundraising haul for the former vice president this campaign season. The presumptive Democratic nominee along with the DNC pulled in $80.8 million in May, surging past April’s fundraising haul of slightly more than $60.5 million. In April, the Biden …

A New Hampshire state Democrat argued that only “well-educated” parents should be allowed to exercise choice over their children’s education, and that affording the same right to the less-educated would result in “a huge amount of trouble.” State Senator Jeanne Dietsch (D., Peterborough) told a House Education Committee hearing on Tuesday that “this idea of …

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to give committee Chairman Senator Lindsey Graham the power to subpoena dozens of Obama and Trump administration officials as part of the Republican-led committee’s probe of the 2016 Russia investigation. The committee voted 12 to 10 along party lines to green light possible subpoenas for at least 53 people for …

Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) broke from progressive counterparts in calls to defund the police, saying instead that the country needs “well-trained, well-educated, and well-paid professionals in police departments.” Sanders addressed progressive critics who viewed him as an obstacle to growing calls for defunding the police in the wake of national unrest following the death …

House Democrats announced a sweeping police reform bill on Capitol Hill Monday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) claims will provide the “transformative structural change” the nation requires after weeks of unrest in the wake of the death of George Floyd. The “Justice in Policing Act 2020”, orchestrated by the Congressional Black Caucus, was …

Actor Dean Cain appeared on Fox and Friends on Saturday to weigh in on a petition to “Defund the Police” which many Hollywood celebrities including Lizzo, John Legend, and Jane Fonda had signed. Cain, a conservative, pointed out the sheer hypocrisy of a group that hires former police officers to provide security for themselves. This …

Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday called for legislation to force federal law enforcement officers to identify what department they represent. The calls come after federal law enforcement officers clashed with demonstrators outside the White House, but wore no identifying insignia on their uniforms. While Army and National Guard personnel are required to wear uniforms with insignia, …