Congress poised to rescind COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops
The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military would be rescinded under the annual defense bill heading for a vote this week in Congress.
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The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military would be rescinded under the annual defense bill heading for a vote this week in Congress.
The vote was 61-36, with a number of Republican senators choosing not to vote.
Nancy Pelosi was in the car with her brothers when they kept trying to show her the Capitol building for the first time: "And finally, I saw it – a stunning white building with a magnificent dome."
CBS News projects that 25-year-old Maxwell Frost has won Florida's 10th Congressional District race, paving the way for Generation Z to head to Capitol Hill.
After Congressman Tom McClintock's former district expanded, McClintock took the conservative southwestern side, leaving the other up for grabs. Assemblymember Kevin Kiley is the likely winner but will face a tough battle as Dr. Kermit Jones emerges as a viable option for the seat. The winner could contribute to control of congress.
Six in 10 Americans said they preferred making daylight saving time permanent, according to a poll.
Six GOP-led states are suing the Biden administration to try and halt its plan to forgive student loan debt.
The federal budget for buying and distributing COVID-19 vaccines will run out "as early as January."
The bill's passage is a significant achievement for Democrats as they look to maintain their hold on Congress in the November midterm elections.
Candidates for U.S. Congress squared off at William Jessup University on Friday, but this race comes with a twist: it's a newly-designed district with at least one familiar face in the mix and one who was notably absent.
Don Young, a blunt-speaking Republican born in Sutter County and longest-serving member of Alaska's congressional delegation, has died. He was 88.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will not call a special election to fill the unfinished term of U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, who resigned after pleading guilty to a corruption charge, a spokeswoman for the governor said Wednesday.
More than a million Americans are holding out hope that something can be done to keep them from losing the checks they depend on to live before they lose everything else.
The end of unemployment checks for more than a million people on Saturday is driving out-of-work Americans to consider selling cars, moving and taking minimum wage work after already slashing household budgets and pawning personal possessions to make ends meet.
A federal extension passed during the recession added 37 weeks for a total of 63 weeks. That extension was not renewed when Congress left town for the holidays.
They will get back pay for now, but the 450 workers at the Bureau of Land Management, like Kylee Moore, were furloughed for the entire 16 days.
While CBS13 was interviewing Special Agent Scott Mumper, Congress reached an agreement and he would receive an email saying he could be going back to work on Thursday.
And with those workers staying home, businesses like Steve Graham's deli will be hurting. He won't be furloughed, but he's planning on taking a hit when hungry government workers don't come in for lunch.
