Vice President Kamala Harris said she backs eliminating the 60-vote filibuster requirement in order to reinstate Roe v. Wade, which would federalize abortion access nationwide, during a Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) interview Tuesday.  The filibuster is a Senate rule that allows a minority to block legislation pending a supermajority vote, so ending it would make it easier to pass laws related to abortion rights. “I think we should...

House GOP leaders are poised to skirt Republican opposition to their federal funding plan as they race the clock against a partial government shutdown. “We’ve got a lot of people that honestly think a government shutdown is a good idea, or at least don’t want to take responsibility for avoiding one,” House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., said Tuesday. “It’s not good for the American people, it doesn’t...

FIRST ON FOX – House Republicans from Minnesota joined the Republican National Committee (RNC) in demanding that Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz’s administration provide an update on voter roll cleanup efforts, after it was discovered that noncitizens and otherwise ineligible individuals were improperly registered to vote under the state’s automatic voter registration process. Reps. Tom Emmer, Brad Finstad, Michelle Fischbach and Pete Stauber signed onto a...