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Thailand’s Senate has announced plans to establish a special committee to examine the potential effects of legalising casinos within entertainment complexes. Senator Pisit Apiwattanapong confirmed that two related motions will be discussed at the next Senate meeting, with the formation of the committee expected to follow. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives is set to resume

Georgia's Senate passed two bills to ban most gender-transitioning treatment for minors and inmates in state prisons, with some Democrats bucking party lines to back the measures...

Topline The Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary Thursday, with Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., representing the lone GOP “no” vote—greenlighting one of Trump’s most controversial nominees after Kennedy won over some skeptical senators wary of his vaccine views. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominee to be Secretary of Health and

The Senate voted 54-46 on Tuesday, largely along party lines, to confirm Pam Bondi as Attorney General of the Department of Justice...

State of the Union: The HHS appointee passed through on a party-line vote. The post Senate Finance Committee Votes to Advance RFK Jr. appeared first on The American Conservative...

Speaker Mike Johnson laid out an ambitious timeline Sunday for a mammoth budget reconciliation package that would enact much of President-elect Donald Trump’s legislative agenda in the first 100 days of his new administration. The House plans to pass a single reconciliation bill as soon as April 3 that would incorporate border security, the extension

The Brazilian Senate has formally initiated its Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) of Bets, which will follow up on the rapid growth and alleged irregularities of online betting businesses that operate in Brazil. The new commission will investigate the financial consequences of online betting on family budgets, possible links to organized crime in the betting

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to advance Julie Su’s nomination to be Labor secretary, with several senators’ floor votes still in question.   The committee voted 11-10 to advance Su, who took over as acting secretary last month after Marty Walsh’s departure...