September 23, 2024
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By: Sarah Hunt and Amelia Powers Gardner
As the United States prepares for the upcoming November election, partisan divisions are hardening. However, according to recent Rainey Center polling, there is a rare bipartisan opportunity in tackling issues related to artificial intelligence (AI) policy: a majority of Americans agree that sensible regulation is needed.
September 19, 2024
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Michigan is ground zero in the battle over electric vehicle mandates this November, and polling obtained exclusively by the Washington Reporter shows that a mandate for consumers to purchase electric vehicles is unpopular among likely general election voters in a House district described by strategists as “pivotal” to both parties’ efforts to win the Great Lakes State’s electoral votes and open Senate race.
September 19, 2024
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Both Rep. Steve Scalise (R., La.) and President Donald Trump have taken bullets for their party and their country. In 2017, a Bernie Sanders-supporting gunman, asked a group of congress members practicing softball if they were Republicans or Democrats, and then opened fire on the GOP team, firing 60 rounds and wounding Scalise. Now, Scalise is calling on the left to tone down the rhetoric around Trump to prevent future assassination attempts because “this is not a game.”
September 16, 2024
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A bipartisan national security coalition is urging Congress to embrace the “whole of society” approach America took to winning the Cold War, and to “align around policies that both counter China’s ambitions and accelerate innovation here at home,” following the House’s week of legislation designed to counter the Chinese Communist Party.
September 3, 2024
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September 3, 2024
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Brendan Carr, one of two Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioners Donald Trump appointed who is still in office, has long been one of the most vocal opponents of President Joe Biden’s initiatives, such as the $42 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, which is an “absolute failure,” he told the Washington Reporter.“
August 26, 2024
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By: David Cook
In 1976, Ronald Reagan campaigned for president against the idea of giving away the Panama Canal, telling the American people that “we built it, we bought it, we should keep it.” Today, the Middle East is in flames. Well, we built what’s now burning, we bought the turmoil with American blood, and still, we should keep a presence there.
August 26, 2024
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Despite the hype surrounding last week’s Democratic National Convention (DNC), the GOP has developed a “slight lead” over the Democratic Party going into election season, Republican National Convention (RNC) chairman Michael Whatley told the Washington Reporter in an extensive interview.
August 19, 2024
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August 19, 2024
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Sen. John Boozman (R., Ark.) used to have a “respectable profession,” as an eye doctor. And since 2001, he’s moved from medicine to serve Arkansans in the House and now in the Senate, where he may soon chair the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
