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The Respect for Marriage Act passed the House with a 267-157 vote, including 47 Republicans. The legislation, which now goes before the Senate, seeks marriage equality for all genders, including federal rights, benefits and obligations of marriages in federal code.
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The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has announced $3 million in grant funding to protect and preserve sites representing African American history.
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U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger is leading a bipartisan effort with 180 colleagues to encourage the Biden Administration “to prevent reckless prescription drug cost hikes and defend the 340B Drug Pricing Program in the face of illegal actions from several pharmaceutical companies.”
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According to NOAA, summer thunderstorms “are more frequent and directly impact more people and homes in the U.S. than hurricanes.”
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A majority of the U.S. House voted to pass the William Collins Jet Fuel Exposure Recognition Act on Wednesday.
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Donald Trump planned to lead a march of his supporters to the U.S. Capitol as Congress was voting to certify the 2020 election, but didn’t want anybody outside of a few in his inner circle to know.
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Medicare spent more than $324 billion from 2016 to 2018 to advertise drugs, more than half of the organization’s spending during that time period.
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Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Kim Schrier, M.D. (D-WA-08) are leading an effort pressing the Biden administration to ease U.S. tariffs on goods that impact shipping and transportation costs here in America.
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The U.S. House voted last week to pass the Summer Barrow Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Act, legislation authored by Seventh District Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger.
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Not all the news from D.C. on Friday was awful news. The U.S. House voted 234-193 to pass the Safer Communities Act, the first meaningful gun safety legislation to see the light of day in 30 years.
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