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The Medicaid Whistleblower Bill Born From Minnesota's Fraud Scandal Doesn't Kick In Until 2028
Minnesota state workers say they were surveilled, investigated and fired for flagging Medicaid fraud, and House Republicans have answered with the Medicaid Whistleblower Protection Act. The bill...
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The Judiciary Asked for 'What Opposing Experts Might Say.' The Climate Chapter's Authors Offered to 'Debunk Common Myths.'
House Judiciary Republicans released a 61-page report Wednesday accusing a climate group of coaching judges who hear lawsuits against American energy producers. Buried in the committee's own...
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Senate Democrats Block Trump's Fraud Division Bill. The Bill's Own Text Answers Their Main Objection.
Senate Democrats blocked a bill Wednesday night that would make President Trump's new Justice Department fraud unit permanent. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse objected after calling the division a...
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Hegseth's New Drone Command Needs Congress. The Senate Already Wrote It, and Democrats Are Blocking the Bill.
Pete Hegseth told 600 troops at Quantico on Wednesday that the Pentagon is building a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command to lead America's drone war. His own memo...
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Schumer Says the Stock Trading Ban Is "Built to Fail." The Bill's Fine Print Says Voter ID Can't Touch November Anyway.
The Senate votes Wednesday on H.R. 7008, the House-passed bill that bars members of Congress from buying individual stocks and requires photo ID to vote in federal...
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Democrats Called the Data Center Bill a Fraud. Their Own Version Skips Data Centers Under 150 Megawatts and Most of Texas.
Senate Democrats blocked a 417-3 House bill to make giant data centers pay for their own grid upgrades, calling it too weak. Now Majority Leader John Thune...
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The Senate's June Iran Rebuke Needed Two Absent Republicans. With Every Seat Filled, Trump Wins.
The Senate voted 49-50 Thursday against a House resolution ordering President Trump to pull U.S. forces out of hostilities with Iran. The Senate's own roll calls show...
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Padilla Blocked the Photo ID Bill With 41 Days to Go. The Bill's Own Text Shows What Both Sides Left Out.
Sen. Mike Lee asked the Senate on Wednesday to pass a national photo ID requirement for federal elections, and Sen. Alex Padilla of California blocked it with...
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Kash Patel Confirms the FBI Tracks Legal Gun Buyers. A Senator Asked the Same Question 17 Months Ago.
"GOA discovered a secret FBI program called NICS Monitoring, used to track firearm purchases of Americans who were legally eligible to buy a gun but were suspected...
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Leon Black Stonewalled Congress Over Epstein's NDAs. Comer's Bill Would Void Every One of Them.
A billionaire private equity founder just told Congress no. Leon Black skipped a deposition, refused to hand over nondisclosure agreements tied to Jeffrey Epstein, and sued the...
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Four More Killed in Caribbean Strike as Trump's Cartel War Turns One, Still Without a Vote From Congress
U.S. forces killed four more suspected drug traffickers in a Caribbean strike Saturday, the latest hit in a military campaign against cartels that just passed its first...
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Massie Forces a Vote to Impeach Hegseth, and Republicans Make It Disappear
Rep. Thomas Massie stood on the House floor for more than an hour on Sept. 15 and read all 34 pages of a resolution to impeach Defense...