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By Brad Raffensperger for RealClearPolitics Even in Georgia, it was hard not to notice the Virginia gubernatorial race this week. As Georgia’s chief elections official, I focus on ensuring that my state’s voters continue to have secure, fair, and accessible elections and implementing common-sense election integrity reforms like ID requirements …

President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda is on the path to a vote next week, according to Speaker Pelosi. Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News tweeted: NEWS: @SpeakerPelosi just came off the House floor and said she’s “hopeful” for a vote next week. She said they’re “on [the] path” to agreement …

The first major family policies, in the early 20th century, were aimed at protecting mothers — certain ones, at least. States offered mothers’ pensions, mostly for white women whose husbands had succumbed to one of the four Ds — death, disability, drunkenness or divorce. Black and Hispanic women were excluded. …

In July, Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee for governor of Virginia, promised to abolish critical race theory on “Day 1” in office. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, facing re-election next year, said recently, “I want to make sure people are not supporting critical race theory.” And in Arizona, Blake Masters, …

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) is a person of interest in the 1/6 Committee investigation. Rep. Banks has also been sending letters to government agencies falsely claiming to be on the committee. Rep. Liz Cheney, who actually is on the 1/6 Committee, entered  a letter from Banks to the Department of …

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has taken some unprecedented steps to stem the illegal immigration crisis engulfing the Texas border – the Texas National Guard is now arresting illegal immigrants who cross the border. It’s a novel approach, both for the forces used – the National Guard – and for the …

Representative Adam Kinzinger warned Donald Trump that the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot would consider issuing him a subpoena, saying he is “not off-limits.” Kinzinger’s comments come after the committee voted to recommend contempt of Congress charges for former Trump aide Steve Bannon, who had defied a subpoena …

Affordable housing is the kind of issue that people love not to think about. It rarely generates a lot of political heat, and in rural areas it’s barely an afterthought. But guess what the top issue in the California legislature is this year.  In California, and increasingly in much of …

WASHINGTON — When a powerful Democratic Senate chairman assembled his Special Committee on Aging to confront what he called a “crisis of affordability” for prescription drugs, he proposed a novel solution: allow the government to negotiate better deals for critical medications. The year was 1989, and the idea from that …

Rahm Emanuel, President Biden’s nominee for ambassador to Japan, told a Senate committee on Wednesday that he would seize the offensive against China if confirmed — even as questions about his conduct as mayor of Chicago have put him on the defensive. The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee took up Mr. …