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Democrats promise to lower gas prices if voters grow their majorities in Congress

Congress' far-left Democrats have an answer for runaway inflation and painfully high gasoline prices: more Democrats.

July 14, 2022

Democrats delay action to tackle weakened EPA authority to combat climate change

Congressional Democrats have put on the back burner new climate change legislation to work around a recent Supreme Court ruling that dealt a major blow to President Biden's green agenda.

July 14, 2022

Senate Dems’ negotiations on party-line spending bill complicated by record-high inflation number

Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia hardened his stance on new federal spending Wednesday in the wake of a new federal report showing inflation in June swelled to a new 40-year-high of 9.1%.

July 13, 2022

Biden to meet with OPEC leader as Congress eyes NOPEC bill

Lawmakers in Washington want to give the U.S. more power to confront OPEC for allegedly colluding to hike global oil prices, but the effort faces stiff opposition and also contrasts with President Biden's plan to ask the cartel's Saudi leader this week to increase oil production.

July 13, 2022

Environmentalists laud AOC for helping turn Democratic Party green

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't just yelling from the rooftops about the Green New Deal and combating a warming planet -- she's getting bills passed.

July 11, 2022

Sen. John Barrasso tells Rep. Liz Cheney ‘not enough Democrats’ in Wyoming for her to win primary

Sen. John Barrasso took a swipe Sunday at fellow Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney by saying the ruby-red state lacks enough Democratic voters for her to win her GOP primary election.

July 10, 2022

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin pushes for 15-week abortion ban

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Sunday threw his support behind a 15-week abortion ban following the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

July 10, 2022

Rep. Zoe Lofgren: Ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon willing to testify to Jan. 6 panel

Rep. Zoe Lofgren said Sunday that former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is willing to testify before the House committee investigating the 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol about the ex-president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

July 10, 2022

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says more people ‘speaking out every day’ against Trump

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Sunday that more high-level public figures have joined his ranks and come out against former President Donald Trump.

July 10, 2022

Kamala Harris ducks question on impeaching conservative justices for overturning Roe v Wade

Vice President Kamala Harris avoided saying whether she agrees with some Democrats on Capitol Hill that conservative Supreme Court justices should be impeached for their decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

July 10, 2022

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warns of talking ‘ourselves into a recession’

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the U.S. economy is strong and rebutted talks of an impending recession while acknowledging inflation is hitting Americans hard.

July 10, 2022

Top Dem donors boost Liz Cheney’s campaign for putting ‘country over party’

Democratic donors are helping Rep. Liz Cheney in her struggling reelection campaign, citing her as a Republican example of someone who has stood against former President Donald Trump.

July 9, 2022

Virginia wants to bar the public from hearing on Loudoun County schools lawsuit

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has asked a county judge to prevent the public from attending a hearing next week on the Loudoun County Public School's lawsuit to quash a grand jury probe into how school officials handled past cases of sexual misconduct.

July 8, 2022

Biden wants states to set their own rules for slashing vehicle emissions

The Biden administration proposed a new rule Thursday that would require states to establish carbon emission reductions for vehicles and to track progress.

July 7, 2022

Biden falsely claims GOP is blocking ‘efforts to lower your gas taxes’

President Biden took aim at the opposing party Wednesday by falsely claiming that Republicans -- rather than members of his own party -- are preventing Congress from implementing his proposed federal gas tax holiday to blunt fuel costs.

July 6, 2022

Biden sends 5 million barrels of U.S. oil to Europe, Asia despite soaring gas prices

The U.S. has allowed more than 5 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to be exported to Europe and Asia, a move that contradicts President Biden's statements about trying to bring down the cost of soaring prices at the pump.

July 6, 2022

Biden’s offshore drilling plan stokes ire of climate activists, energy industry

President Biden is being criticized from both sides as he attempts to satisfy the left's climate change goals and Americans who are suffering at the pump.

July 5, 2022

Two police officers shot in Philadelphia during July 4th concert, officials say

Two Philadelphia-area police officers were shot Monday evening while providing security for a July 4th concert, city officials said.

July 5, 2022

Big Oil profits aren’t driving gas prices, experts say, despite Biden’s ‘price gouging’ accusations

Big Oil has been the go-to boogeyman for President Biden and Democrats over alleged "price gouging," with "Putin's price hike" a close runner-up. But profits made by the oil industry -- while at record levels -- ebb and flow with global energy markets, not because the firms are manipulating costs, according to market analysts.

July 4, 2022

Biden scrambles to tackle climate change after Supreme Court limits EPA power

The Supreme Court's decision curbing the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to combat climate change has the Biden administration scrambling to determine how it can still achieve the president's goals to slash greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade.

July 1, 2022