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WASHINGTON — South Dakota Sen. John Thune will remain Republican leader next Congress despite the GOP’s loss of the chamber’s majority in this year’s midterm elections. GOP senators voted behind closed doors Tuesday to keep Thune at the helm and reelected Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso as their whip. Neither was…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has survived an impeachment effort, at least for now, after the U.S. House on Tuesday blocked a vote over charges that the Cabinet official oversaw extrajudicial killings and an illegal war against Iran. The House voted 211-204, largely along party lines, to refer articles of impeachment…
Nebraska 2nd Congressional District Rep-elected Denise Powell is ready to make history with her vote for leader.
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans voted behind closed doors Tuesday to elect Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio as their leader after the party’s stunning losses in the midterm elections, the House Republican Conference announced. It was a 106-73 vote, according to a House Republican staff member. “Over the next two years…
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth struck a defiant tone Tuesday as he faces potential impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives this week, casting the effort as an attack on American service members. Hegseth during a rare news conference at the Pentagon called the impeachment effort a “farce” and flatly…
A proposal to overhaul the federal process for permits to construct energy projects passed a procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Monday, though several Democratic supporters said the legislation needed more work. The Senate voted, 73-25, to advance what’s known as the permitting reform bill, despite opposition…
LINCOLN — The Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission pushed back Tuesday on assumptions that cultivators could wait up to two years for testing guidelines, but commissioners offered no new estimate for when such guidance will come. In a news release, the commission said it had not established a timeline for when lab…
As a blue wave washed over much of the nation, Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District saw a smaller splash than the eastern, more urban areas.