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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said he’d sign Republican legislation barring the government in Washington, D.C., from making changes to its own criminal code, reversing his earlier position in a move that will surely anger statehood advocates and others in the heavily Democratic city.

“We have to be smart about it,” says the freshman congressman from New Mexico, who once worked for Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich.

In response to House Republicans’ plans to use their new majority to investigate the ESG movement, three Democratic senators penned an op-ed accusing their GOP colleagues of overstepping. The three senators—Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)—also accused Republicans who oppose ESG of being anti-capitalist:

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The Senate voted 69-27 Wednesday to approve the Kigali Amendment, a treaty that would limit highly potent greenhouse gases.

Security-sealed rooms and lock bags are some of the ways Capitol Hill keeps classified documents secured

String of GOP lawmakers accused of double standard after defending Trump’s at-home storage of classified docs

Despite the federal government allowing the legalization of cannabis on a state level, there remains a lack of federal guidance for tribal marijuana programs. As a result, bureaucratic, investing, and scalability hurdles continue to persist.

Sen. Joe Manchin is “intentionally sabotaging” President Joe Biden’s agenda, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday in the latest left-flank blast at Manchin for sinking Democrats’ climate plans.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday endorsed a plan hatched by two key Senate Democrats to pass a budget reconciliation package that would help lower the cost of prescription drugs and protect millions of households from health insurance premium spikes, even if it leaves out important clean energy priorities.

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