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BREAKING: Schumer, Booker And Wyden Unveil Cannabis Legalization Bill - Here's What's In It

A long-awaited U.S. Senate legislation that would decriminalize and deschedule cannabis on the federal level, while also promoting social equity, has finally been unveiled.

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Highland Park mayor testifies before US Senate, calls for assault weapons ban: ‘Today is the day to start saving lives’

Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering testified before members of Congress Wednesday in support of an assault weapons ban as she described the “horrific mass shooting” at the town’s Fourth of July parade that left seven people dead and at least 48 others shot and injured.

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Cannabis Legalization Among Topics For Senate Subcommittee To Address At Next Hearing

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, chaired by Sen.

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Parliamentary procedures and other perplexities — Congressional Hits and Misses - Roll Call

Sens. Josh Hawley and Cory Booker get confused about procedures on the Senate floor, and more in this week’s Congressional Hits and Misses.

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Banks are scaling back overdraft fees, but lawmakers push for federal restrictions

Democrats have renewed their bid to restrict overdraft fees through federal legislation.

Fortune

GOP senator Thom Tillis is pushing back on Trump on guns. Why the North Carolina Republican think it’s time to act

The Republican senator who helped negotiate the first major piece of gun legislation in 28 years talks with Eric Garcia about bipartisanship, why Trump shouldn’t oppose the gun bill and why he supported a primary challenge against Madison Cawthorn

The Independent UK

Senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester tackle each other in slapstick video highlighting agriculture reform

‘Only 4 packers control 82% of the U.S. beef market,’ the senators underscore in new political campaign

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US Congress Calls for Boosting Regional Defense Against Iran

A group of bipartisan US lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday to integrate regional countries' air defense systems to thwart Iran's threats. The "Deterring Enemy Forces and Enabling National Defense Act" would authorize the US Defense Department to cooperate with Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and other regional…

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‘Confronting the trauma of our history.’ Booker campaign video invokes lynching with noose

A striking new digital video by Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Charles Booker uses a noose around his own neck to highlight Sen. Rand Paul’s temporary blockage of an anti-lynching law.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Cory Booker hits out at US’s ‘love of guns and money and power’ in wake of Uvalde: ‘Nothing is gonna change’

Nothing will change on guns until 'redemptive love of our children turns to action', said Sen Booker

The Independent UK

Analysis: Two key words could sink long-shot talks on preventing mass shootings

WASHINGTON — There are many reasons to doubt Congress will send President Joe Biden any legislation to slow a spate of mass shootings, including two key words: “directly related.”

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‘Directly related’: Two key words could sink long-shot talks on preventing mass shootings - Roll Call

Democrats are skeptical about striking a deal with Republicans to help prevent more mass shootings, which are a new American tradition.

Roll Call

‘This is despicable’: Cory Booker slams Republicans for hobbling gun law enforcement at hearing for ATF nominee

‘This is despicable … the same people that tried to accuse us of defunding the police have taken one of the most important law enforcement agencies for protect[ing] Americans ,to protect our children, our churches, or mosques or synagogues or parks or supermarkets [and] it’s not allowed to do their…

The Independent UK

Senators talk gun legislation at hearing for Biden pick to lead ATF - Roll Call

President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the nation’s top gun regulator largely dodged questions on his own views about gun control Wednesday.

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PEN America honors activists, artists and dissidents

From an imprisoned Ukranian journalist to a high school activist in Florida, PEN America paid tribute Monday night to democracy and free expression and warned about the dangers faced in the U.S. and abroad

Tribune News Service

Schumer calls for end to crack cocaine sentencing disparity: ‘Cocaine is cocaine’

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday called on lawmakers to end a sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine that has had a disproportionate effect on Black Americans.

Roll Call

Communication breakdown — Congressional Hits and Misses - Roll Call

This week’s Hits and Misses is all about communication as Sen. Cory Booker shows he doesn't need a mic and House panels have mute troubles.

Reason

Biden's Plan To Link Federal Transportation Spending to Zoning Reform Could Make the Housing Shortage Worse

The administration is encouraging counterproductive "inclusionary zoning" policies that often raise housing prices and reduce supply.

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Why is there a baby formula shortage in the US, and what can parents do?

Many parents are struggling to feed their babies, and the crisis is hitting poorer families disproportionately hard

Benzinga

Senators Cory Booker And Brian Schatz Call On Federal Agencies To Research Psychedelics

Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the FDA whom they called on to study the therapeutic potent

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The fur flies as House, Senate wrangle over ban on mink farming

WASHINGTON — The future of an estimated 100 U.S. mink farms may be decided by House and Senate negotiators resolving differences in a massive research and technology package designed to make the nation more competitive with China.

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The fur flies as House, Senate wrangle over ban on mink farming - Roll Call

The House would ban U.S. mink farming in a competition bill, but the Senate, with support from both parties, is balking.

Benzinga

Sen Steve Daines Says SAFE Banking Act Has Enough Votes To Pass As Standalone, Is This True?

The Senate has been under a lot of pressure from all sides over the last few weeks to pass the cannabis SAFE Banking Act.

Axios

Booker blasts Biden admin’s food justice efforts in closed-door meeting

The heated exchange left some senators stunned.

Tribune News Service

Biden will ask Congress for money to combat global hunger

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s next supplemental spending request for Ukraine will include money to deal with a spiraling global food crisis, the United States’ No. 1 diplomat said in testimony before a Senate panel Wednesday.

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