The bill would require states to automatically register eligible voters and offer same-day registration, but it faces big obstacles in the Senate.
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Legislative panel votes to keep Maine’s ban on plastic shopping bags
Enforcement of the law has been temporarily suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lawmakers want to ban trans girls in sports without citing local examples
Legislators in more than 20 states have introduced bills this year that would ban transgender girls from competing on girls’ sports teams in public high schools
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House cancels session because of ‘possible plot’ to breach Capitol
The threat appears to be connected to a far-right conspiracy theory, mainly promoted by supporters of QAnon, that Trump will rise again to power on March 4.
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Fewer Americans are earning less than $15 an hour; Black and Hispanic women make up a bigger share of them
Before the novel coronavirus sent millions of low earners into unemployment, 1 in 3 workers earned less than $15 an hour.
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Sen. Collins to back Haaland for Interior secretary, sealing her approval
The announcement makes Haaland’s confirmation by the Senate nearly certain and follows Haaland’s endorsement last week by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.
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Biden urges Senate Democrats to rally behind $1.9 trillion virus relief bill
The legislation would provide $1,400 payments to individuals plus hundreds of billions of dollars for schools and colleges, COVID-19 vaccines and testing, mass transit systems, renters and small businesses.
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Bill seeks to ban the use of aerial herbicides in Maine forests
Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, a logger and the bill’s sponsor, said aerial application of glyphosate and other herbicides has caused irreversible environmental damage.
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FBI chief tells lawmakers that Capitol riot was ‘domestic terrorism,’ warns of its growth
FBI Director Chris Wray also described in stark terms the threat from domestic violent extremists and said that, contrary to some Republican statements, there is no evidence that anti-Trump groups were involved in the Jan. 6 riot.
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Senate panel votes to advance Merrick Garland’s nomination to be attorney general
Garland, a federal appeals court judge who was snubbed by Republicans for a seat on the Supreme Court in 2016, is among Biden’s most widely supported nominees.