Tag: Congress
The 3 big ways Democrats’ social plan would expand health coverage
President Joe Biden on Oct. 29, 2021 in Rome, Italy.Antonio Masiello | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesInsurance subsidiesThe measure would expand [...]
Oil Executives to Face Congress on Climate Disinformation
Executives of some of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies — Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP and Shell — are set to appear before a congressional com [...]
Virginia’s Governor Race Holds Clues for Control of Congress in 2022
Terry McAuliffe, the Democrat running for governor of Virginia, distilled the election into a single sentence.“It all adds up to the same thing her [...]
Virginia’s Governor Race Holds Clues for Control of Congress in 2022
Terry McAuliffe, the Democrat running for governor of Virginia, distilled the election into a single sentence.“It all adds up to the same thing her [...]
DeFi on the Ballot: Yearn Developer Matt West Is Running for Congress
First a MakerDAO lobbyist, now a Yearn candidate.As regulatory stormclouds gather over Washington and crypto advocates seek to obtain a louder voic [...]
Lawmakers question whether Amazon executives, including Jeff Bezos, misled Congress.
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers pressed Amazon’s chief executive on Monday to respond to allegations that its executives provided a co [...]
Steve Bannon, the January 6 committee, and contempt of Congress, briefly explained
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol will vote Tuesday on whether to hold Steve Bannon, an adviser to [...]
Concerns About Diversity as Black Staff Members Leave Congress
Congress pays its interns, but more than two-thirds were white in 2019, according to a report by Pay Our Interns, a nonprofit that advocates paid i [...]
Money Floods the Race for Control of Congress, More Than a Year Early
“You’re a traitor …” began one such House G.O.P. text earlier this week. “You abandoned Trump.”The text gave a false deadline of 17 minutes to dona [...]
Meet the DeFi Delegate Knocking on the Doors of Congress
On the other hand, “LexpunK,” another effort, is a “Builder Defense DAO” with the stated intent of waging “guerilla lawfare” against the enemies of [...]
How Two Bills in Congress Could Have a Major Impact on Climate Action
WASHINGTON — President Biden has framed this moment as the country’s best chance to save the planet.“The nation and the world are in peril,” he sai [...]
Lurching from Crisis to Crisis, Congress is Addicted to Cliffs
Take Representative Kevin Cramer, Republican of North Dakota. Approached by reporters, Mr. Cramer launched into extended praise of the short-term d [...]
Gensler confirms SEC won’t ban crypto … but Congress could
Gary Gensler, the head of the U.S. The Securities and Exchange Commission has confirmed that his agency does not have the authority or intention to [...]
Facebook’s whistleblower tells Congress how to regulate tech
WASHINGTON, DC — US lawmakers have been angry at Facebook for years. Since as early as 2011, they have raised alarms about Facebook’s failures t [...]