Legislation

The conservative Democrat expressed his concern over new data that showed inflation worsened in October.

As Biden prepared to sign the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, his predecessor fumed at GOP lawmakers who helped secure its passage.

Passed by Congress Friday, the $1.2T package won't give America "enough vitality to compete with China," states a Global Times op-ed.

The bill will cap out-of-pocket spending at $2,000 per year and lower the price of insulin from $600 to $35, the Senate Majority Leader said.

"It's a big vision—a bigger vision than we've seen in a very long time. It's a transformative agenda," the House Speaker said.

The White House released an outline of a $1.75 trillion social-spending and climate package aimed at winning over congressional Democrats on Thursday.

The proposal protects advice "so long as the physician exercised independent medical judgment and believes the medical treatment is in the best interest of the patient."

The Arizona lawmaker, a critical vote in the Senate, has said little publicly about her positions on key policies amid the ongoing negotiations.

Social media companies that do not comply with the new guidelines could face fines of 10 million Australian dollars, comparable to $7.5 million.

The new laws include a requirement for gender-neutral toy sections in retail stores and a ban on removing condoms during sex without consent.

President Joe Biden said his legislative agenda was necessary as a response to September's staggering jobs report.

"I just keep thinking that if Collin had received education on hazing that students now will be receiving because of Collin's Law, that he would be alive today," Collin's mother Kathleen Wiant said.

The unions called out Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Joe Manchin to move quickly on national gun control measures.

In New York state, someone dies from gun violence every 11 hours and gun violence is the third leading cause of death for children.

Top Democrats have argued that Biden can cancel student debt on his own through executive action and without the help of Congress.

The goal of zero traffic death by 2050 has gained traction around the country prompting the introduction of a Vision Zero resolution into Congress.

New legislation will provide better working conditions and better pay for those working in app-based food delivery.

"No student should live in fear of being who they are at school," Senator Tammy Baldwin said in a statement.

The spending package includes funding to raise the government's debt limit, which the treasury secretary said is crucial to avoid a historic financial crisis.

"It's kind of like having your hands tied in the middle of a boxing match," said Kelley Vollmar, Jefferson County (Mo.) Health Department executive director.

"Republicans have formed a total wall of opposition against progress on voting rights," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

"We must do everything we can to protect these gentle giants and Florida's official marine mammal," U.S. Representative Vern Buchanan said.

The new legislation is intended to mitigate some of the learning disruption and loss incurred by the COVID-19 pandemic

The Democrat said she would be "embarrassed" if she made comments showing she hadn't read bills she was discussing.

In a press release issued by Andrew Cuomo's office on Tuesday, the New York governor characterized the law as "archaic and meaningless."

Sheffield Lake, Ohio's new decibel limit of 40 is barely over the level of a soft whisper and about 20 decibels lower than the noise of a normal conversation.

The congressman conceded to The Verge last week that he was wrong to believe "the market will take care of" creating competition within Silicon Valley.

The new law rests on the idea that lobsters—as well as other sea creatures, like crabs and octopi—are sentient beings capable of suffering.

The former U.S. chief justice was once a legal advisor to former president Andrew Jackson, and the first cabinet nominee to be rejected by the Senate.

The legislation, introduced to the country's parliament on Thursday, would strictly prohibit school children from being exposed to content that encourages gender change or homosexuality.