WASHINGTON, D.C. (NBC) – President Biden will speak to the nation Friday night now that the government has avoided default. In a bipartisan vote, the Senate passed the debt limit bill Thursday night. All that’s needed now is President Biden’s ...
Author: KGW Staff SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — The Oregon Senate voted Thursday to fine state senators $325, starting Monday, for each day their absence restricts the Senate from establishing a quorum. The GOP walkout began May 3 and is currently in ...
Author: Kale Williams (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Hundreds of bills remain stuck in legislative limbo as a Republican walkout in the Oregon Senate stretches into its fifth week. Among the stalled bills are several pieces of high-priority environmental legislation ...
Author: Thomas Shults (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — The debt ceiling agreement in Washington, D.C. could result in big changes for Oregon Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP) beneficiaries. If the agreement passes through Congress, it would create work requirements for childless ...
Author: Kyle Iboshi (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Defendants charged with first-degree bias crime in Oregon will no longer be allowed to walk out of jail the same day. Oregon Chief Justice Meagan Flynn signed an order Tuesday requiring suspects ...
Author: Pat Dooris, Jamie Parfitt SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — During a long legislative session like this one, Oregon lawmakers usually pass hundreds of bills that collectively impact millions of people in ways both large and small. But much of that ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NBC) – President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy have been trying to sell their debt ceiling plan to skeptical lawmakers in both parties, urging them to support the bipartisan deal that would raise the nation’s debt limit while ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNN) – The next step in raising the debt ceiling happens Tuesday. That’s when the House Rules Committee will consider the deal reached over the weekend by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The agreement would ...
Author: Jamie Parfitt (KGW) SALEM, Ore. (KGW) – As a walkout led by Oregon Senate Republicans drags on, grinding legislative business in the chamber to a halt, there’s an increasing risk that hundreds of bills — many of them broadly ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNN) – President Biden has vetoed a Republican-led measure that would overturn a D.C. policing bill aimed at accountability and reform. The measure was passed by the D.C. city council and is called the Comprehensive Policing and Justice ...