New legislation seeks to protect renters from no-cause evictions in Washington
Lawmakers heard testimony today over House Bill 12-36, a new piece of legislation granting more protection to renters.
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Tensions run high as Gov. Brad Little calls out lawmakers, says they're 'playing politics'
Governor Brad Little didn't mince words as he called out lawmakers over proposed legislation concerning COVID-response efforts.
Gov. Inslee signs comprehensive sex ed bill
Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Friday signed legislation requiring public school districts to teach comprehensive sexual health education to all K-12 students.
Gov. Inslee signs Washington plastic bag ban into law
Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill into law that bans the use of plastic grocery bags in the state, he announced Wednesday.
Girl, 11, brings AR-15 to Idaho hearing on gun legislation
An 11-year-old girl toting a loaded AR-15 assault weapon appeared Monday at a legislative hearing with her grandfather, who is supporting a proposal that would allow visitors to Idaho who can legally possess firearms to carry a concealed handgun within city limits.
Pompeo rebukes China and Russia for vetoing UN aid to Syria
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo harshly criticized a veto by Russia and China of a United Nations security council resolution that would allow humanitarian aid to reach Syrian rebels, calling the action "shameful."
US raises legal age for cigarettes, vape
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a sweeping spending bill into law, including a measure that prohibits the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21.
Trump signs spending bills, avoiding another holiday shutdown
President Donald Trump signed sweeping spending bills after he let Washington on Friday that allow the government to operate even as they do little to address the national debt, avoiding the dramatics of a shutdown crisis.
White House threatened shutdown over congressional push on Ukraine aid
The White House insisted that House Democrats drop language in the year-end spending bill establishing a specific and quick timeline for deploying appropriated aid to Ukraine or risk a veto, multiple people involved with the talks told CNN.
Mining company coached Alaska's governor to lobby White House
A mining company secretly collaborated with the governor of Alaska to lobby the Trump administration to move forward with a mining project that Environmental Protection Agency scientists warned could devastate the world's most valuable wild salmon habitat, according to newly released emails obtained by CNN.
Senate removes phrase 'white nationalist' from defense bill
The Republican-controlled Senate quietly cut the phrase
New Jersey bans discrimination based on hairstyle
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new law on Thursday making it illegal to discriminate based on hairstyles associated with race, his office said. It's one year to the day that an African American high school wrestler cut off his dreadlocks so he could compete.
Trump to sign kind of spending bill he vowed to avoid
President Donald Trump vowed last year that he'd never sign another sweeping spending deal to avoid a government shutdown. This year, Congress broke it up into two.
Senate approves $1.4 trillion deal to avert shutdown
The Senate on Thursday approved a nearly $1.4 trillion spending deal to keep the government funded and avert a shutdown at the end of the week.
3 conservative-leaning states sue to block ERA from ratification
Three conservative-leaning states have filed a federal lawsuit in an attempt to stop the Equal Rights Amendment from being added to the US Constitution as it nears potential ratification.
House passes Trump's trade deal with Canada and Mexico
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed President Donald Trump's revised North American Free Trade Agreement, with members sending Trump's foremost legislative priority — just a day after the divided chamber took the historic vote to impeach him -- to the Senate.
Trump administration opposes bill meant to deter Russia
The Trump administration is pushing back on a wide-ranging piece of legislation meant to deter and punish Russian aggression and its interference in the 2016 election.
Nancy Pelosi won't commit to sending articles of impeachment to Senate
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would not commit on Wednesday to sending the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Republican-held Senate, a surprise move that injects new uncertainty into Congress' timeline of the President's trial in the chamber.
McConnell blasts impeachment effort as 'most unfair' in history
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell argued from the Senate floor Thursday morning that the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is "the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair" in modern history.
House of Representatives impeaches President Donald Trump
The deeply divided House of Representatives took the historic step to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday, charging a president with high crimes and misdemeanors for just the third time in American history.
Moderate Democrats confront consequences of impeaching Trump
They've agonized, deliberated and voted. Now, House Democrats have to confront the potential cost of their decision to impeach the President.
McConnell pushed judges through Senate as House votes on impeachment
While the rest of Washington focused on impeachment proceedings Wednesday, Mitch McConnell successfully pressed forward on a subject that has been the one knockout success for the Republican Senate and President Donald Trump: judges.
Trump admin won't call mass killing of Armenians genocide
The Trump administration still does not view the mass killing of Armenians from 1915-1923 as genocide, despite overwhelming bipartisan support by US lawmakers to formally recognize it as such.
How post-Civil War GOP set an impeachment trap for Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson faced overwhelming opposition in the House and the Senate, and he stood in the way of a Reconstruction that would have done more to help former slaves.
