The Biden admin will provide marketplace navigators with $80 million to help people enroll in the Affordable Care Act during the 2022 open enrollment period.
That's an eightfold increase over last year and the largest amount ever earmarked for navigators. https://t.co/9Tlgs1pbEE
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has signed a bill that legalizes the possession and growth of small amounts of recreational marijuana starting this summer.
Virginia is the first Southern state to legalize recreational marijuana, and the 16th state to do so. https://t.co/1Sr3b6wTPK
The Department of Transportation is appointing a chief science officer, the first time in more than 40 years the role will be filled in the department. https://t.co/ZNnVZr7SSv
Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin has formally requested information from the Justice Department about Trump appointees who "burrowed" into civil service jobs with a crucial immigration department inside the agency. https://t.co/uLkdHE6p1x
Chicago is considering offering guaranteed income to poor residents as it seeks to even out the economic recovery for those who suffered a disproportionate hit from the COVID shutdown. https://t.co/ij8Wr0Sn5G
President Biden has proposed — or is expected to propose — a half dozen education programs that would constitute the largest federal investment in education in at least a half century.
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A bill that would stop some voters from getting a ballot automatically mailed to them each election failed unexpectedly in Arizona's state Senate after a single Republican joined Democrats in voting against the legislation. https://t.co/BU0LiY4W3Z
The Supreme Court's conservative justices, led by Brett Kavanaugh, effectively reinstated juvenile life without parole by shredding landmark precedents protecting the constitutional rights of children.
https://t.co/FqQm41I0Hy
Federal authorities have arrested an upstate New York man and charged him with coordinating with two other members of the far-right Proud Boys to break into the Capitol building on Jan. 6, the latest alleged Capitol rioter to face conspiracy charges. https://t.co/fjEtbpx0lW
Mayor Bowser: "Every member of the House of Representatives who voted in favor of DC statehood made the decision to believe in a stronger, more inclusive democracy. We are especially grateful to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton who has led this cause for over three decades."
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn on CNN: "We hold doctors and lawyers and other professionals accountable. Why is it that we have such a hard job holding police officers accountable?"
Rep. Ritchie Torres last night: "Instead of making the most of our FDR and LBJ moment, we are in danger of inexplicably putting an expiration date on our own legacy. Did FDR put an expiration date on Social Security? Did Lyndon Johnson put an expiration date on Medicare?"
Pelosi: "D.C. statehood in my DNA ... This is a picture of my father and the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. He had a hearing as the Chair of the District of Columbia Appropriations Subcommittee, as chair of that committee, he was known as the unofficial mayor of Washington."
Punchbowl News: For the first time ever, two women — VP Harris and Speaker Pelosi — will be sitting behind the president during an address to Congress.
It was only 14 years years ago that Pelosi was the first woman to sit behind the president for a joint session.