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Pelosi says Biden’s infrastructure plan has bipartisan support ‘among the people’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday she isn't sure if the administration's $2.25 trillion infrastructure package headed to Congress will win much Republican support in the House, but she asserted it has "bipartisan support among the American people."

April 7, 2021

Education Department moves to unravel Trump-era rule on campus sexual assault cases

The Education Department moved forward Tuesday with plans to revise a Trump administration policy aimed at counteracting what Trump officials considered to be colleges going overboard in punishing those accused of rape or sexual harassment on the nation's campuses.

April 6, 2021

Critics blast Biden’s community-run Internet service plan as inefficient, costly

President Biden is proposing to transform how Americans get online by encouraging more cities to offer Internet service like any other utility, under a little-noticed provision in his mammoth $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan that is raising concerns about government competing with the private sector.

April 4, 2021

U.S. Capitol Police officer killed after suspect rams vehicle into security barricade

A Capitol police officer was killed when a driver rammed his vehicle into him and another Capitol Police officer Friday at a main security checkpoint at the complex, site of a deadly riot on Jan. 6, acting Capitol Police chief Yogananda Pittman said.

April 2, 2021

Pelosi backs removing deduction cap on state and local taxes

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she supports and is "sympathetic" to a push by some Democrats to remove a controversial $10,000 federal cap on deducting state and local taxes, an issue in high-tax blue states such as New York and New Jersey.

April 1, 2021

Progressives keep pressure on Joe Biden to wipe away student debt

Democrats kept the heat on President Biden on Thursday to wipe away $50,000 from the debt of all people with student loans.

April 1, 2021

Biden cancels another $1.3 billion in student loan debt

The Biden administration announced Monday that it let tens of thousands of people with disabilities off the hook for their student loans at a cost to the taxpayers of $1.3 billion.

March 29, 2021

Joe Biden pressed to cancel more student loan debt

Democratic lawmakers and their allies on the left aren't nearly satisfied with President Biden's moves to forgive Americans' mountain of student debt, even though the administration has wiped away $1 billion from tens of thousands who had been scammed by for-profit colleges.

March 28, 2021

Carolyn Maloney demands Capitol riot documents, look to connect Trump to attack

House Democrats want more information from the federal investigations into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

March 25, 2021

Nancy Pelosi: Bipartisanship will take back seat in Joe Biden infrastructure plan

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said bipartisanship will take a back seat to what's needed to save the Earth in President Biden's massive infrastructure plan.

March 25, 2021

Pelosi prods Senate to help close wage gap between women and men

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday vowed to close the pay gap between women and men and urged the Senate to act quickly to pass measures her Democrats will send to the upper chamber as soon as next month.

March 24, 2021

Democrats roll out 18 bills to bolster Obamacare

House Democrats celebrated the 11th anniversary of Obamacare on Tuesday by rolling out 18 bills they say would further improve the nation's health care system by cracking down on what they called "junk plans."

March 23, 2021

Democrats push states to expand Medicaid under Obamacare

President Biden's COVID-19 relief law is dangling $16.4 billion in front of the 12 states that haven't expanded Medicaid under Obamacare to get them to join up, saying the pandemic is a bad time for their residents to be going without health coverage.

March 22, 2021

Black lawmakers fight hairstyle discrimination, prod Kamala Harris to join cause

Five Black Democratic congresswomen want discrimination against people based on their style of hair to be considered racial discrimination -- and they are seeking support from Vice President Kamala Harris.

March 22, 2021

Nancy Pelosi boasts Obamacare boost in COVID-19 relief package

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday boasted that the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package helped Obamacare take "bold steps forward" despite Republican attempts to gut the law.

March 19, 2021

Pelosi splits with progressives over expelling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi split was with progressives in her caucus Friday by opposing their resolution to expel Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress.

March 19, 2021

House passes bill provides citizenship to ‘Dreamers,’ farmworkers in U.S. illegally

The House approved two bills Thursday that could grant citizenship rights to about half of the 11 million immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, with Democrats saying the current surge of migrants at the border shouldn't stand in the way of rewarding those who've already been here for years.

March 18, 2021

Movement for Black Lives opposes Democrats’ bill to overhaul policing

A major Black Lives Matter group is opposing congressional Democrats' bill to overhaul policing, which is named after George Floyd, saying it does not do enough.

March 18, 2021

Kevin McCarthy blasts Dems’ immigration bills: ‘It worsens the problem’

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday said House Democrats' pro-illegal immigration legislation would make worse the crisis at the border.

March 18, 2021

Pelosi says citizenship for illegals sends message to world: ‘We value the diversity of America’

House Democrats on Thursday hailed the expected passage of two bills that would grant citizenship rights to millions of illegal immigrants already in the U.S.

March 18, 2021