All posts tagged "Frank Pallone"

Lawmakers were outraged Wednesday after an ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman driving in Minneapolis and video surfaced differing from the Department of Homeland Security's portrayal of the incident.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz issued a stern warning to President Donald Trump and his administration after weeks of sounding the alarm that the largest deployment of ICE agents in the U.S. was putting Minnesotans in danger. Trump has released a statement blaming "the radical left" and claiming the agent was in danger.

But other officials, including Walz, pushed back on those allegations....

A visibly frustrated lawmaker tried to find out why Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has allegedly avoided legitimate public review of his policy decisions on vaccines.

According to the Harvard School of Public Health, Kennedy's actions on vaccines since taking the helm of HHS, include launching a government study on autism "led by someone who has previously promoted debunked links between vaccines and autism; changing recommendations for COVID vaccines; and pulling back on vaccine research and development, such as canceling a contract with drug company Moderna to develop a new flu vaccine using mRNA technology, which was used to make COVID vaccines."

On Tuesday, Kennedy testified before the the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health....

The National Football League — by far the richest sports league in the world — paid for several U.S. House of Representatives aides to attend last month’s NFL Draft.

The catch?

The aides allowed top NFL officials lobby them on issues of significant financial and political importance to the league....

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers now want the border security deal that they turned down after reports that Donald Trump ordered the leadership he didn't want another "win" under Joe Biden's presidential belt.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is now calling on Speaker Mike Johnson to take up the Ukraine/Israel funding bill, but several GOP House members told Raw Story that they "need" border security in the bill.

Last week, it was so toxic that Republican Sen. James Lankford (OK) became a huge target on the right for helping to negotiate the legislation. ...