WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: In response to JD Vance suggesting that repealing the Affordable Care Act would "be a priority" for the Trump-Vance ticket, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: "JD Vance is saying it out loud for all of America to hear: The Trump-Vance ticket is hellbent on pushing an extreme Project 2025 agenda to rip away health care access from millions of Americans. Vance confirm more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R45154) on July 29, 2024, entitled "Lame Duck Sessions of Congress, 1935-2022, 74th-117th Congresses:" (Continued from Part 1 of 2) * * * Comparing the Post-1935 Periods Comparing the two time periods reveals both similarities and differences between the 20th and 21st century lame duck sessions. Table 5 displays data on average calendar length of election breaks and lame duck sessions and num more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued the following news release: New reporting from the VA Dogwood highlights the stark difference between vulnerable Republican Jen Kiggans and Democratic challenger Missy Cotter Smasal. Navy veteran and former small business owner Cotter Smasal is "ready to take on MAGA extremists" like Jen Kiggans to defend and expand Virginia women and families' reproductive rights. Meanwhile, Kiggans has "engaged in the kind of dirty more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following weekly digest: * * * Commission meetings and hearings No open meetings or executive sessions were scheduled this week. * * * Advisory Opinions Request Received Advisory Opinion Request 2024-11 (https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/2024-11/) (Caroline Gleich) On August 1, the Commission made public an advisory opinion request from Caroline Gleich, a 2024 candidate for the U.S. Senate in Utah. The request more PR

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following public funding document on July 30, 2024: * * * The Federal Election Commission has certified a payment of $617,373.99 in federal matching funds to Mike Pence and Mike Pence for President (MPFP). Mike Pence had previously sought the Republican Party nomination for President in the 2024 election. To become eligible for matching funds, candidates must raise a threshold amount of $100,000 by collecting $5,000 in 20 diffe more PR

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: In last week's first and only Republican debate for governor, the only two candidates who showed up Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and state Senator Bill Eigel laid out their plans to continue undermining and attacking Missourians' access to reproductive freedom and IVF, as the Kansas City Star reported. When asked by the moderators if frozen embryos "deserve the same legal protections as a fetus d more PR

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: As Donald Trump's anti-choice running mate JD Vance travels to Arizona for a rally today, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: "Women in Arizona are living under an abortion ban only made possible by Donald Trump's efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade and if given the chance, Trump and JD Vance would go even further and force their extreme anti-choice Project 2025 agenda onto Arizona more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: MAGA Republicans stooped to new lows this week with their extremism, hypocrisy, chaos, and as President Biden would call it malarkey. In case you missed it: Donald Trump pledged to pardon violent January 6 insurrectionists during his disastrous interview at the National Association of Black Journalists conference; Trump doubled down on his promise that his supporters "won't have to vote anymore"; Trump re more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, July 31 -- The North Carolina Republican Party issued the following news release: The Republican Governors Association (RGA) launched a new ad in the North Carolina gubernatorial election, "Soft on Crime," exposing Josh Stein's liberal, soft on crime policies that are a threat to North Carolinians. In the 30-second spot Randolph County Sheriff Gregory Seabolt details Stein's disturbing decision to tout the endorsement of a group run by a defund the police radical just  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- The National Association of Black Journalists issued the following news: NABJ condemns the recent social media attacks targeted toward our dedicated member and stellar political journalist, Tia Mitchell. She has been unfairly harassed for the NABJ leadership's decision to invite the nominee of the Republican Party, though we invite candidates from both parties each presidential election cycle. Tia simply offered her expertise to help organize an event at the request of NA more PR

HELENA, Montana, July 31 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: * * * The 2024 MT GOP Platform calls for "relinquishing" federal lands * * * Transplant Tim Sheehy and the Montana GOP support transferring public lands, which would make it easier to sell off public lands to multimillionaire out-of-staters like Sheehy. The Montana GOP party platform includes a plank that states: "The Montana Republican Party supports relinquishing federally managed public lands to  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The Ripon Society issued the following news release: A crowd of over 130 came together in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress last night for a special reception and dinner hosted by The Ripon Society and the Franklin Center for Global Policy Exchange. The dinner featured a keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham, who discussed his latest book, The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush, and how the life  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: Marking the 59th anniversary of the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid, Georgia Democratic Party Chair Nikema Williams, Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried, Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa, and Mississippi Democratic Party Chair Cheikh Taylor released the following statement: "Despite broad and bipartisan support from voters across the country, MAGA Republicans across the Sout more PR

BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky, July 30 (TNSres) -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news: In the aftermath of J.D. Vance's nomination for the Republican Party Vice Presidential candidate, longtime WKU History professor Anthony Harkins has been sought out to discuss Vance's connections to Appalachia and issues with his representation of the region in Vance's book Hillbilly Elegy. Harkins is co-editor, with Meredith McCarroll, of Appalachian Reckoning- A Region Responds to Hillbilly El more PR