STATE AND LOCAL

Sen. Joe Manchin this week called on President Biden to release his budget proposal so that Congress can find a bipartisan compromise that will cut spending.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was the top recipient of political donations from BlackRock, a leading investment firm advocating for environmental, social and governance investing.

New York will double the number of licenses issued to marijuana dispensaries in its first round of applications, though both legal and illegal sales are flourishing statewide.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday appointed five members of the new Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board, which will govern the operations of Walt Disney World.

Two senators urged the Justice Department in a letter this week to continue investigating Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, for alleged anticompetitive conduct.

Of the 10 or so U.S. municipalities considering some sort of reparations program, at least two are mulling the possibility of using COVID-19 relief money to fund their initiatives.

Representatives of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party introduced bills to prohibit sales of non-electric yard equipment and ice resurfacing machines such as Zambonis.

Sen. Maria Cantwell sent a letter to Southwest Airlines on Thursday, seeking a "full accounting" of how the airline is refunding customers after mass holiday cancellations.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz pushed acting Federal Aviation Administrator Billy Nolen on a near-miss collision between two planes at an airport in Austin, Texas, this month.

Federal lawmakers rallied with representatives from the American Federation of Government Employees union on Tuesday to demand Congress pass an 8.7% pay increase for government workers.

IRS commissioner nominee Daniel Werfel is expected to tell a Senate committee that if he gets the job, he will not increase audits on those making less than $400,000.

Sen. John Kennedy spoke Tuesday at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on "Protecting Our Children Online," expressing concern about social media's effects on kids.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has introduced a bill that would implement an age requirement for social media usage and another that would study the harmful impact of social media on children

The Florida legislature has passed a bill that would complete the state's takeover of Walt Disney World's special self-governing district, punishing the company for its public stand against parental rights legislation.

President Biden's beleaguered nominee for the Federal Communications Commission once played a major role in tanking a bipartisan deal on the agency's low-income broadband program.

Southwest Airlines COO Andrew Watterson faced lawmakers at a hearing Thursday, where Southwest Airlines Pilots Association President Cpt. Casey Murray testified that company leadership "failed to listen" to frontline employees ahead of last December's operational meltdown.

The Healthy Homes and Residential Electrification Amendment Act of 2023 would use federal funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to help households earning less than $80,000 make the switch to electric.

A bipartisan duo of senators sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week, questioning him about how much access Russian and Chinese developers had to private user data.

Elon Musk says Twitter will be more accepting of "different values" after reinstating the account of a senator after it was suspended for posting a hunting photo.