LGBTQ+ women make 79 cents on the dollar, report finds
Story at a glance LGBTQ+ women make about 79 cents for every dollar earned by a man, new research from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation has found. Bisexual women are among the lowest earners, according to the HRC Foundation, making just $750 a week, or 68 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Lesbian women were among the highest
Read MoreHouse Republican who represents Uvalde backs bipartisan gun safety bill
Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales — whose Texas district includes Uvalde, the site of last month’s school shooting — said Wednesday he will vote for the Senate’s bipartisan gun safety bill. Gonzales’s announcement of support came one day after Senate negotiators released the text of their bipartisan legislation, which includes a number of provisions to respond to the shooting in Uvalde, which killed 19 students and two adults at an elementary school, and last month’s mass
Read MoreCongress should reclaim its say on Iran policy
The Biden administration’s 16-month-long effort to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal has failed. But, appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley showed no willingness to pivot to a realistic containment strategy. The conditions are ripe for Congress to take the lead and set a new direction. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee agrees, and recently
Read MoreHouse panel to debate bipartisan comprehensive data privacy bill
A House panel will debate a bill that would set national standards for how companies obtain and manage data on Thursday. The bipartisan bill, known as the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, was formally introduced in the House Wednesday by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.). The Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection subcommittee will hold a markup on the data privacy bill, along with seven others.
Read MoreAndrew Gillum, 2018 Florida governor candidate, charged with fraud
Andrew Gillum, the 2018 Democratic nominee for Florida governor, and a longtime adviser were indicted in federal court on Wednesday on fraud charges. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida announced the charges against Gillum and Sharon Letterman-Hicks, a longtime Gillum adviser and the chief executive of the National Black Justice Coalition, after a grand jury returned a 21-count indictment. The indictment alleges that between 2016 and 2019, Gillum and Letterman-Hicks illegally solicited funds under false pretenses. It also alleges that the pair
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