The Senate parliamentarian plays a key role in budget reconciliation, which congressional Republicans are using to advance the president’s policy goals. WASHINGTON—Republicans have set the stage to potentially override the Senate parliamentarian as they move ahead with President Donald Trump’s policy proposals. Republicans are seeking to pass Trump’s entire agenda—including tax cuts, energy policy, border
Conservative think tanks offer House GOP blueprints to develop public land fossil fuels, while Democrats say ’taxpayers are footing the bill for Big Oil.’ If the United States oil and gas industry boosted production by 50 percent over the next 25 years, a new study estimates the ramped-up supply would lower energy costs, create 140
On March 26, 2017, Jeffrey Ansted herded his family into a private plane bound for the Cayman Islands. The owner of an Ohio-based telecommunications company, Ansted had purchased the Cessna 525C jet one year earlier for $8 million. It had since become his go-to method of commuting to Florida, where he owned a condo and
Congressional Republicans are mounting an effort to codify President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign on Tehran via a 10-bill legislative package that would sanction Tehran’s leadership, cut off its access to cash, and strangle the regime’s regional terror proxies, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The campaign includes “the toughest Iran sanctions package ever proposed
With U.S. overseas sales forecast to double by 2030, some ask, ‘Will high-dollar offshore demand lower domestic supply and raise local electricity bills?’ Surging global demand for natural gas and the build-out of three new Gulf of America export terminals will spur a 20 percent boost in 2025, and a 15 percent increase in 2026,
Can human beings ever truly empathize with one another? Or even with ourselves? This is the critical question running throughout Severance, the blockbuster Apple TV+ puzzle-box show that recently wrapped its second season. A global cultural phenomenon whose alleged $20-million-plus-per-episode price tag has dwarfed all other offerings in the streaming era, the Ben Stiller-run series
House Republican leadership has sought to silently table the push to give new parents in Congress 12 weeks to vote remotely. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) announced on April 3 that she and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) have discussed a way forward over the issue of proxy-voting for new parents, an issue that has