The rules governing how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers evaluates potential water resource development projects are from the 1980s and need to be updated as soon as possible to include more communities and to take into account the effects of climate change, a trio of Democrats told the agency in a Feb. 10 letter.
President Joe Biden’s administration is already managing expectations ahead of today’s consumer prices report, cautioning that the November data won’t reflect the latest shifts. Lawmakers took a giant step this week toward resolving the approaching debt limit deadline, and in the process have ignited a discussion about the future of the Senate filibust.
Taking line-drawing from the hands of Michigan politicians has set up an incumbent culling, with half of the U.S. House delegation squaring off in citizens mapping the commission’s redistricting proposals.
Larger Latino populations should have spurred line-drawers to create districts that maximize their voting power, according to advocacy groups that have gone to court. At issue: a proposed congressional district map in Colorado and the statehouse map signed into law in Illinois.