A group of Republican lawmakers is demanding that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provide evidence to justify the administration’s support of what they describe as “dangerous” transgender medical procedures for minors. “We are increasingly alarmed that HHS’ advocacy has led health professionals to prescribe dangerous and experimental drugs and surgeries to troubled children,”…
GOP Lawmakers Ask Top Health Official to Provide Evidence for Policy Supporting Gender-Transition Treatment for Minors
Pelosi Says Trump Needs to ‘Prove Innocence’ After Indictment Announced
Former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is drawing criticism for claiming former President Donald Trump must prove his innocence after an indictment was announced. A grand jury in New York opted to indict Trump. Details remain under seal. “The Grand Jury has acted upon the facts and the law. No one is above the…
Manchin Threatens to Sue Biden Admin If It Alters Electric Vehicle Credit System
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is threatening to sue President Joe Biden’s administration if the Treasury Department moves to expand the electric vehicle tax credit system beyond the limits he agreed to when he agreed to support Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) legislation last year. On Wednesday, Manchin published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal,…
House Committee Probes ‘Voter Suppression’ in Pennsylvania County
After a three-hour congressional hearing and the testimony of two panels of witnesses, nobody seems to know for sure who failed to order enough ballots for the 2022 midterm election in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. One thing is certain. Republicans are still hopping mad about it. Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) opened the hearing by stating…
GOP Candidate Responds to Trump Indictment: ‘Dark Moment in American History’
Vivek Ramaswamy described the indictment of Donald J. Trump as a “dark moment in American history” on March 30, warning that “we’re skating on thin ice as a country.” “It is un-American for the ruling party to use police power to arrest its political rivals.,” said Ramaswamy in a post on Twitter. Ramaswamy, a biotech…
House Minority Leader Accuses ‘Extreme MAGA Republicans’ of ‘Hiding’ Stance on Gun Control
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) accused “extreme MAGA” House Republicans of “hiding” their position on gun control on March 30, challenging them to bring related legislation to the House floor. “We have a gun violence epidemic in America that is unacceptable, unconscionable, and un-American,” Jeffries asserted at his weekly press briefing. “Children being slaughtered…
North Carolina to End Pistol Purchase Permit System After GOP Lawmakers Override Democrat Governor’s Veto
Republican North Carolina lawmakers overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill repealing the state’s pistol purchase permit system, enabling the repeal effort to proceed. The Republican-controlled North Carolina House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 41 earlier this month. The bill, which passed in both the House and Senate on party-line votes, repeals a…
Experts Advocate Eventual End to Single-Use Plastics, but Composites May Be Safe
A Senate hearing on March 30 underscored the widespread concern about single-use plastics, as experts and lawmakers discussed plastics pollution, plastic recycling, and the potential hazards of outsourcing plastics production to China. Hota GangaRao, a composites specialist and professor at West Virginia University, and Chelsea Rochman, an ecologist and professor at the University of Toronto,…
White House Won’t Say Whether Biden Supports Gun Confiscation
In a press briefing on March 29, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre would neither confirm nor deny that President Joe Biden’s proposed “assault weapons” ban could involve gun confiscation. The comments came two days after a 28-year-old woman shot and killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville,…
Former GOP Candidate Wants Answers After Air Force Improperly Released His Military Records
In J.R. Majewski’s telling, the conditions were perfect for a mixup. “I was in the car on my way home from Washington, DC, driving with one of the folks who worked for me,” he said in a March 23 interview with The Epoch Times. It was late September 2022, and the Republican running to fill…
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