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Progressive congressional staffers withdraw 32-hour week proposal
Progressive congressional staffers withdrew their 32-hour week proposal just a day after receiving widespread blowback from both sides of the aisle about the plan.  “The letter failed to make two
Crackdown Bill Exposes Democratic Rift on Immigration as Trump Takes Power
A G.O.P. measure to deport immigrants accused of minor crimes has spotlighted a divide among Democrats over how to position themselves on immigration, with some already shifting to the right.
Senate’s Laken Riley vote has Democrats fleeing Biden’s border madness
Democrats aren’t very good at learning lessons. But there are some things even they can figure out. One lesson that seems to have sunk in for most of the party’s elected officials is that its insane immigration positions were a giant self-inflicted wound that sank them at the polls in 2024.
Progressive Hill staffers ask for shorter workweek
Progressive staffers on Capitol Hill are proposing an idea to shorten their workweek to 32 hours. The Congressional Progressive Staff Association sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate,
Senate Democrats Change Course on an Immigration Bill
More Senate Democrats have indicated they plan to vote to advance the Laken Riley Act in a procedural vote this Friday. The bill — which is named for the Georgia nursing student who was killed by an immigrant from Venezuela who crossed the border illegally — cleared the House on Tuesday with support from all…
House passes bill to deport illegal immigrants with history of sex offenses
The House passed the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, with 61 Democrats voting in support of the bill.
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"Open-air drug markets" continue to plague the Bronx, leaders say. Here's what a congressman wants done.
"There are syringes everywhere, because you have drug addicts injecting themselves with fentanyl in the presence of every day people, and it's unacceptable," Congressman Ritchie Torres said.
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Rep. Torres: 'ICC should be sanctioned for distorting law beyond recognition'
US Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) announced on Wednesday that he intends to vote in Congress for sanctions against the International Criminal Court after it issued arrest warrants for ...
House passes bill named after slain nursing student Laken Riley that allows states to sue DHS for harms from illegal immigration
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed its first major piece of legislation of the new Congress, the Laken Riley Act, to mandate immigration officials detain illegal immigrants who
House passes Laken Riley Act in first legislative act of new Congress
The Laken Riley Act, named for a Georgia nursing student killed by an illegal immigrant, is heading to the Senate as the GOP prioritizes border security.
The Laken Riley Act Reminds Us: If a Law Is Named After Someone, It's Probably Bad
Riley's murder was an atrocity. But the law bearing her name is a grab bag of authoritarian policies that have little to do with her death.