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House Democrats on Wednesday launched a task force on aging designed to shine a light on Republican plans to cut Medicaid as part of President Trump’s “big beautiful bill” of domestic priorities.
A fresh medley of threats to American communications are posing new challenges for Congress in 2025, and a House hearing on Wednesday highlighted some of the biggest issues catching lawmakers’ attention.
The House voted 409-2 Monday night to approve the Senate-passed Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act (S-146), which President Donald Trump is likely to sign into law.
A new report from the UC Berkeley Labor Center, a program that advocates for working families, estimates California could lose between 109,000 to 217,000 jobs if U.S. leaders make anticipated cuts to Medicaid health insurance for very-low income people. Medicaid is called called Medi-Cal in California.
Sutter Health broke ground Wednesday on a $67.8 million specialty care center that will expand access to a range of services in one of the region's fastest-growing cities.
Before Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) became a politician, he was an AmeriCorps member.
Thirty years ago, fresh out of college, Fetterman was sent to Pittsburgh’s Hill District as part of the program’s second class. He spent his days helping young mothers and fathers earn their GEDs in the predominantly Black community, where he also built the area’s first computer lab.
In a call with The Washington Post, the senator said the experience was “transformative.”
President Trump’s decision to move a step closer to imposing tariffs on imported medicines poses considerable political risk, because Americans could face higher prices and more shortages of critical drugs.
With President Trump’s latest tariffs underway, a group of House Democrats are calling on the administration to try to protect medical supply chains from the “devastating consequences” the
House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Doris Matsui, D-Calif., said Monday that she, Vice Chairman Rick Allen, R-Ga., and Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., refiled the Future Uses of Technology Upholding Reliable and Enhanced Networks Act. The measure, which passed the House in past Congresses, would direct the FCC to establish a 6G task force that provides recommendations about ensuring U.S. leadership in developing that technology’s standards.
Three congressional Democrats sought documents on Monday from the head of the Federal Communications Commission as part of a probe into what they called "sham" investigations into media outlets including CBS, NBC and ABC launched by the agency under President Donald Trump to try to intimidate the news media.