Pelosi refuses to endorse Bernie Sanders’ single payer health care bill
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declined to endorse Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ single payer health care bill Tuesday, insisting on prioritizing Obamacare reform instead.
Gov’t funded scientists plan analysis of global warming’s impact on Irma and Harvey
A government-funded scientist in the Department of Energy said Monday that he intends on conducting an analysis of the extent climate change played on Hurricanes Irma and Harvey.
McClaughry: American politics gone insane
Young Americans may not think politics has become insane, because they have never known what it used to be like.
Federal government spending $138,000 to ask preschoolers about their gender identity
The National Science Foundation is spending $138,000 to gain a deeper understanding of the “internal sense of gender identity” of 4-year-old children.
Trump correct to put ‘dreamers’ in the hands of Congress, GOP lawmakers say
“What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.”
Murderers, rapists and pedophiles got government security clearances
The head of the Pentagon’s Defense Security Service says the troubled and clogged process to grant security clearances has led to criminals receiving access to classified information.
$15 minimum wage advocate from Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund admits job losses likely
Kahler suggested that if Vermont’s small business owners were just smarter and worked harder they could afford the proposed massive increase in wages.
Statehouse Headliners: Pot commission update, court rules on assisted suicide, and new Milton rep fills vacant seat
In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, the pot panel co-chair was an investor and board member for medical marijuana; assisted suicide is ruled unconstitutional by the New York Supreme Court, and the newly appointed representative in Milton begins working with Vermont Minority Leader Don Turner.
Governors urge greater flexibility for states in creating and implementing health care policy
Five governors — representing both parties and from states across the country — told a Senate committee Thursday that inaction on health care is not an option and lawmakers should look to the states for solutions.
The clearest sign yet that Obamacare may be here to stay
Republican and Democratic senators are working on a solution to fix the problems with Obamacare, seemingly dropping all discussions of repealing and replacing the current system.
Federal court’s voter ID law ruling a win for election security
The 5th Circuit had found that since the vast majority of Texas voters could meet the ID requirement, Texas simply had to amend the law to come up with a way for the small number of individuals who couldn’t.
DeVos slams Title IX’s shameful ‘unraveling of justice’ on campus
“Lady Justice is not blind on campuses today … this unraveling of justice is shameful, it’s wholly un-American.”