The House sent President Joe Biden the most wide-ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed in decades on Friday, a measured compromise that at once illustrates progress on the long-intractable issue and the deep-seated partisan divide that persists.
A group of South Carolina senators will travel around the state this week holding public hearings on how to draw new districts for South Carolina House and Senate seats as well as the U.S. House.
The Senate is expected to vote tomorrow on a major voting rights bill that passed the House earlier this year. All 50 Senate Democrats appear to have reached an agreement on the legislation, but it still faces tough opposition from Senate Republicans, where 10 votes would be needed for it to pass.
The House is set to vote this week on the nearly $2 trillion COVID relief bill, after it passed the Senate this weekend. If it passes as expected, the White House says Americans could start receiving those stimulus checks within weeks.
President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill will go before the full House for a vote. The House Budget Committee voted to advance the legislation Monday.
South Carolina’s attorney general, Alan Wilson, joined a bipartisan coalition comprised of 56 states and territories, Monday, that’s urging Congress to put an end to private, forced arbitration in workplace sexual harassment cases.
