House Moves to Strengthen Tech & Energy Policies Amid Growing China Concerns

The U.S. House of Representatives took decisive action today, April 24, 2025, with bipartisan bills targeting small business energy efficiency and enhancing government technology. Meanwhile, leadership voiced concerns over foreign influence, as the Select Committee on China escalated its investigation with subpoenas to Chinese telecom giants. These developments reshape U.S. policy on tech, energy, and national security.

By Writer April 25, 2025No Comments

Senate Activities

Senate Confirms Top General, Clashes Over Tariffs & Taxes

Senators accelerate confirmations, challenge trade chaos, and reignite bipartisan battles over tariffs, budgets, and surveillance. From confirming a new top military chief to pushing urgent reforms on daylight saving time and weather forecasting, today’s activity reveals intensifying divisions—and fragile cooperation—within the upper chamber of Congress.

By Writer April 12, 2025No Comments

On This Day in American History

1813 Americans under General Zebulon Pike capture York (now Toronto) from British regulars, militia and Ojibwe natives forcing a British withdrawal to Kingston; Pike is killed
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from Union (US Civil War)
1861 US President Abraham Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus (US Civil War)
1861 Confederate General Robert E. Lee orders Colonel Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson to take command of Harpers Ferry, Virginia [1]
1865 Steamboat “SS Sultana” explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history; most are paroled Union POWs on their way home.
1877 Rutherford B. Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana, Reconstruction ends

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