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Vallas says he’s running for mayor because ‘our house is on fire’

“Our downtown is half-vacant, a ghost town in the middle of the workweek. Our schools have lost a year of learning or more. Test scores have plummeted. Every public agency is facing a financial cliff,” Vallas told the City Club of Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Trump, Bush tax cuts drive national debt

“The United States does not have a high-spending problem; it has a low-tax problem,” the report concludes

Salon

McConnell opposes as Senate nears repeal of Iraq war powers

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says he opposes repeal of the 2002 and 1991 authorizations of force against Iraq, arguing that that authority “bears directly on the threats we face today in Iraq and Syria from Iran-backed terrorists.”

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Six-week abortion ban in Florida headed for full Senate vote. Law would be the strictest in nation

A proposed six-week ban on abortion cleared its last committee Tuesday and will head to the full Florida Senate for a vote.

Tribune News Service

Mike Pence ordered to testify about conversations with Trump ahead of Jan. 6 attack

Former Vice President Mike Pence has been ordered by a federal judge to testify about conversations with former President Donald Trump ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Tribune News Service

Video shows state lawmaker being arrested after telling police they didn’t have authority

State Rep Dean Davis said the officers didn’t have the power to arrest him because the legislature is in session. The officers felt differently

The Independent UK

McCarthy to Biden on debt limit: ‘You are on the clock’

WASHINGTON — Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday wrote to President Joe Biden asking him to set a date for their next negotiating meeting on the debt limit by the end of the week.

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Who has endorsed Paul Vallas, Brandon Johnson in the Chicago mayoral runoff?

Updating lists of prominent endorsements from key political figures and organizations for each of Chicago’s mayoral runoff candidates.

Chicago Sun-Times

Man charged with firebombing Wisconsin anti-abortion office

Federal prosecutors have charged a man with firebombing a prominent Wisconsin anti-abortion lobbying group's office last year

The Independent UK

Judge orders Pence to spill the beans

A federal judge rejected Pence's bid to dodge a grand jury subpoena in DOJ's Jan. 6 investigation

Salon

Texas Senate approves bill restricting which college sports teams transgender athletes can join

The bill will now head to the Texas House where enough lawmakers have already expressed support to approve a similar bill. Gov. Greg Abbott has also said he supports the measure.

The Texas Tribune

DeSantis to travel to Israel ahead of likely 2024 White House bid

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, expected to be a top contender for the 2024 U.S. Republican presidential nomination, will travel to Israel next month as the country is being riven by a crisis that has led to widespread protests.

Reuters

‘How else can we help you?’ Jurors hear and see Madigan’s vast patronage system inside ComEd

The feds’ key witness, former ComEd Vice President Fidel Marquez, spent hours testifying Tuesday about how he and other ComEd executives fielded constant requests to find jobs for people he said were pushed for employment by Madigan, even when evaluations found their qualifications lacking.

Chicago Sun-Times

Homeland security chief calls Ted Cruz’s comments “revolting” in heated border hearing

“You’re willing to let children be raped to follow political orders,” Cruz told Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas at the hearing. “This is a crisis. It’s a disgrace.”

The Texas Tribune

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Mike Pence must testify before grand jury investigating January 6 – reports

A federal judge ruled the former vice-president must appear in the inquiry into Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election

Tribune News Service

Texas school quits nonpartisan board association over politics

Southlake Carroll ISD school board members renounced the nonpartisan Texas Association of School Boards on Monday, citing the group’s promotion of “divisive political ideologies” largely related to diversity and inclusion.

Tribune News Service

As more Republican states expand Medicaid to all, Florida lawmakers focus on kids

Florida is unlikely to expand Medicaid this year, as North Carolina and other Republican states have done recently, but lawmakers are pushing measures they say will expand health care for more children from low-income families.

The Independent UK

‘Completely inappropriate’: AOC calls out Oversight chairman’s attempt to interfere with Trump probe

The New York lawmaker is the second-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee

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The Independent UK

Biden viewed favourably by most Democrats but 40 per cent want another 2024 candidate, poll finds

Mr Biden is expected to announce a re-election bid in the coming months

Chicago Sun-Times

Wisconsin residents can save the country by voting

This April 4 election will pick the swing vote on the state’s Supreme Court, which is dominated by a far-right majority. The Wisconsin race may even decide the next presidential election.

Ballotpedia

House fails to overturn veto of ESG legislation

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

The Independent UK

Liberal outraises conservative in Wisconsin court race

The Democratic-funded candidate in Wisconsin’s pivotal state Supreme Court contest has raised more than five times as much money as her Republican-backed opponent ahead of the April 4 election

Ballotpedia

Signature submission deadline for initiatives will change in South Dakota to six months before election day

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) signed a bill into law that would change signature deadlines for ballot initiatives to six months before election day. This change would affect ballot initiative campaigns in South Dakota, allowing campaigns more time to collect signatures closer to the election date.

The Independent UK

McCarthy calls on Biden to schedule meeting on debt ceiling

Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’s growing increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s unwillingness to negotiate on lifting the nation’s borrowing authority

The Conversation

When it comes to explaining elections in Congress, gerrymandering is overrated

Over the past decade, a consistent refrain in discussions of politics has been that partisan gerrymandering – the drawing of congressional district lines to disproportionately advantage one party over the other – is unfair and distorts the balance of power in Congress.

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