U.S. House pushes through Israel-only aid bill with dim future in Senate
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., center, holds his first press conference as speaker at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Left, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., right, GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and far right, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La. Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Thursday approved…
U.S. Senate GOP colleagues fight Tuberville hold as top military nominees trickle through
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing for Monica Bertagnolli to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Oct. 18, 2023. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are pushing back on Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade…
Georgia to appeal order to add Black districts to state’s political maps, but special session still set for Nov. 29
Sen. John Kennedy, who chaired the Senate Redistricting Committee, argued during a 2021 special session that the GOP-drawn maps are fair to all Georgians. State lawmakers have been directed by a federal judge to draw new maps. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder State officials will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that struck down Georgia’s 2021 political maps…
Georgians gather at King Center to hold interfaith demonstration for ceasefire in Israeli-Hamas War
Rep. Ruwa Romman calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder As the conflict in Gaza continues to roil, Georgians representing more than 30 faith-based groups met at the King Center in Atlanta Thursday morning to call for a ceasefire, an end to restrictions on aid convoys and a dismantling of what they called…
U.S. House turns aside attempt to censure Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib over Israel remarks
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 9, 2023. Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to quash an effort to censure Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib after Rome Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene accused her of “antisemitic activity.” The motion to table the…
Georgia GOP senators put elections lawyer, Dominion Systems exec on 2024 elections hot seat
A student casts his ballot at Georgia Tech’s McCamish Pavilion in the 2021 Senate runoff. John McCosh/Georgia Recorder Georgia Senate Republicans on Wednesday grilled state election officials and a Dominion Voting System representative over the election equipment security protocols that will be implemented in time for the 2024 election. A number of unfounded conspiracy theories…