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...States including Utah and Arkansas have already passed child social media laws in recent weeks, and similar proposals have been put forward in other states, such as Louisiana, Texas and Ohio....
...Until some kind of compromise is reached, the legislative arm of the world’s most powerful country and largest economy cannot function....
...The voting schedule on the House floor is tightly controlled by its Speaker, Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson, who only assumed the position in October and has said he will not bring the Senate-passed bill...
...Under rules guiding the House, the lower chamber of Congress cannot deal with any legislative business until a new Speaker is elected....
...The news from Texas: Charif Souki, the godfather of US liquefied natural gas, is out at Tellurian as the developer struggles to get its Louisiana export megaproject off ground....
...The high court on Monday also dismissed an appeal filed by Louisiana lawmakers who were seeking to stop the state’s congressional map from being redrawn to enhance black voters’ power....
...Jordan is a former head of the Freedom Caucus, the most rightwing group in the legislative party. But a lot depends on what is meant by conservative....
...The House is constitutionally required to select a Speaker, and cannot move on to any legislative business until someone is handed the gavel....
...Segregationist Louisiana lawmakers first allowed these in the 1880s to oppress blacks, and it was only in 2020 that the US Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional....
...Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, told Fox News: “They sucked Republican votes up like a Hoover Deluxe and then got their votes [on the Chips bill] and then bam, announced this new tax increase...
...Analysts argue legislative inaction is also to blame for an incomplete regulatory crypto framework in the US....
...By contrast, in states including Louisiana and Alabama the average was less than a thousand dollars....
...The breakdown in the infrastructure negotiations highlighted Biden’s struggle to proceed with his ambitious domestic legislative agenda beyond the $1.9tn stimulus plan passed in March against strong Republican...
...The collapse of the negotiations on the eve of Biden’s departure raised fresh questions about how his ambitious legislative proposals on matters including infrastructure, voting rights, gun reform and energy...
...“You don’t want to undermine good cops,” Steve Scalise, a senior Republican lawmaker from Louisiana, told Fox News....
...The deal also puts the Haynesville shale gas basin, which spans the Texas and Louisiana border, in the spotlight....
...“It’s not appropriate for the Fed to be playing a role in these fiscal discussions about particular provisions in particular laws,” Powell told John Kennedy, a Republican senator from Louisiana....
...She was accused of letting the issue distract from the party’s bigger legislative priorities, such as a big anti-corruption bill that is due to be passed on Friday....
...The legislative battle comes as Mr Trump, who won the overwhelming support of white evangelicals in 2016, has governed as firmly pro-life....
...they also prickled at criticism, arguing that any progress requires these initial bipartisan steps, especially when some conservative legislators are already hoping to reel back the reforms in the current legislative...
...The need to find funding for Texas comes as the US Congress already faces a procession of legislative challenges in September, including the need to lift the ceiling on the national debt....
...The Louisiana Senate race will go through to a second round in December, a feature of the southern state’s system....
...It is time for a new legislative paradigm in banking and capital markets.”...
...Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, and David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana, have proposed further limits on the Fed’s ability to give emergency loans to distressed institutions...
...Big bills, such as immigration reform and an overhaul of the tax system, have been stuck in the legislative antechamber for the past four years....
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