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July 29, 2021

Carl Levin, Michigan’s longest-serving senator, dead at 87

Carl Levin, Michigan’s longest-serving senator, has died at the age of 87, Fox News confirmed late Thursday.

July 29, 2021

Dozens of House Republicans, staffers march maskless to Senate floor to protest mask mandate

Texas Rep. Chip Roy motioned to adjourn the House in protest against the mandate that Republicans have said came down from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

July 29, 2021

GOP senators meet with female athletes to discuss physical, mental risks of competing with biological males

Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., discussed preserving women's sports with three-time Olympic cyclist Inga Thompson, Team USA World Masters track athlete Cynthia Monteleone and her daughter, high school track athlete Margaret Oneal.

July 29, 2021

228 GOP lawmakers urge SCOTUS to overturn Roe v. Wade

The plea to overturn abortion law was signed by top GOP leaders like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

July 29, 2021

Democrat with best shot at winning Missouri's 2022 Senate race not running

The Democrat considered by many pundits to be his party’s best shot at flipping one of Missouri’s two Republican controlled Senate seats blue says he’s not running. Former two-term Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced on Thursday that “I am not running for U.S. Senate” in the 2022 race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Roy Blunt.

July 29, 2021

Climate crisis ‘will be worse than COVID’: Schumer

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that the climate crisis will be worse than the coronavirus pandemic and that Democrats are ready to respond with "big, bold action" unlike anything the U.S. and "this world has ever seen before."

July 29, 2021

Tom Cotton vows to block Biden US attorney nominee Rachael Rollins, who has lengthy do-not-prosecute list

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Thursday vowed to block President Biden's nominee to lead the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts, saying her soft-on-crime approach as a district attorney would only add to the rising crime wave across the country.

July 29, 2021

Biden BLM nominee called to 'wage war on overpopulation'

Tracy Stone-Manning, the president’s nominee for BLM director, wrote an essay published by the High Country News in February 1991 on how to preserve the grizzly bear population in the US.

July 29, 2021

Democrat infighting threatens to derail spending bills

'Squad' members criticize the lack of diversity in the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure group as two bills hang in the balance; Chad Pergram reports.

July 29, 2021

Rand Paul's 2016 presidential campaign committee fined $21,000

The Federal Election Commission penalty follows a 2016 complaint made by J. Russell Lloyd, the former chairman of the Louisville Democratic Party.