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On Thursday the Alabama House of Representatives passed three Senate bills that were priority pieces of legislation for the Alabama Republican Party. The Alabama GOP released a statement on Friday thanking the Legislature for addressing the bills which they say "secured significant conservative victories." These bill were: "SB48 - Parents Right to Know: Sponsored by Senate Pro Tem Greg Reed, SB48 champions parental rights through greater transparency in school curricula. This legislation...
This month's Elmore County Human Society pet of the week is Scrappy. Scrappy is a sixteen-month-old male Labrador retriever mix He weighs just 60 pounds. He was found as a stray, kept for a few months, house and crate trained, and then brought to the Elmore County animal shelter. He is great with children, dogs and cats. He is active and playful but not super high energy. The shelter was told that he is more of a couch potato. The adoption fees are only $100 for dogs & $50 for cats under...
On Monday, Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL07) announced that the City of Montgomery has been awarded $36,663,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to improve the Selma to Montgomery Historic Trail. The funding comes from DOT's Neighborhood Access and Equity (NAE) grant program and will be used to develop a greenway trailhead to facilitate zero emissions and ADA accessible transportation options along the Selma to Montgomery Historic Trail. "On the heels of the 59th anniversary of...
On Tuesday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) on Tuesday offered the following statement upon receiving word of the passing of former Congressman Terry Everett. "I am saddened to share word of the passing of longtime Alabama Congressman Terry Everett," said Gov. Ivey. "Congressman Everett passed away peacefully in his sleep this morning at his home in Rehobeth. Terry tirelessly served the people of southeast Alabama and his native Wiregrass with distinction for eight terms in Congress. During his ti...
On Monday, State Representative John Rogers (D-Alabama) pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges for his involvement in a kickback conspiracy that involved former Rep. Fred Plump (D-Fairfield) and Rogers' longtime legislative assistant Varrie Johnson Kindall. Plump and Kindall had already pled guilty to their role in defrauding the children of the Piper Davis Recreational League of $200,000 of tax dollars in a kickback scheme. On Tuesday, the Alabama and Jefferson County Republican Parties r...
On Monday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) spoke at the National League of Cities' (NLC) Congressional City Conference on a panel focused on litigation settlements with major opioid pharmaceutical companies. AG Marshall also addressed the impact the opioid crisis has had on municipalities across the United States. "Alabama's first-in-the-nation approach to individually taking legal action against opioid distributors and manufacturers allowed the state to directly address the...
On Wednesday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey's (R) office announced that the state's networks have been attacked and that the state is working to address the issue. "Beginning Tuesday afternoon, some Alabama state government websites were subject to a "denial of service" attack," a spokesperson for the governor announced. "There was no breech, and the state's computers and information have not been accessed. In conjunction with the state's carrier, the Alabama OIT is actively working to mitigate the...
On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville announced that he has joined Senators Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and Ted Budd (R-North Carolina) in introducing the Senate companion to H.R. 7511, the Laken Riley Act. This legislation would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest illegal aliens who commit theft, burglary, larceny, or shoplifting offenses and would mandate that these aliens are detained until they are removed from the United States so they cannot commit...
The independent campaign for President of Robert Kennedy (I) is underway. The Kennedy campaign announced on Wednesday that he will make the announcement in Oakland, California on Tuesday, March 26. "The time has come for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to announce his running mate for the 2024 presidential election," the Kennedy campaign announced in an email to supporters. "Because of your support, this is now the most successful independent campaign in history. Together, we have shown the world that...
Recently Montgomery District Attorney Daryl Bailey (D) added his voice to those calling for Congress to not cut funding for victim services. Bailey shared a statement from the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) calling on Congress to prioritize continued funding for victim services amidst dwindling funding. The coalition is concerned that without immediate congressional intervention, millions of victims, including abused children, battered women, and survivors of crime, will be left...
On Tuesday, former President Donald J. Trump (R) clinched the Republican nomination for President of the United States after Republicans in the Georgia, Mississippi and Washington held their party primaries, and Hawaii held it's Republican caucuses. This is the third time in a row that Trump has won the Republican nomination for President of the United States. The former President released a statement on Truth Social. "It is my great honor to be representing the Republican Party as its President...
On Wednesday CNN had to retract a story that it had written attacking the truthfulness of a story told by U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) in her Republican response to the state of the union address. On Thursday Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth (R) slammed CNN for the attack on Britt and said that it was because she (and the demographics she represents) scares them. "Its liberal bias is bad enough, but CNN was forced to retract, rewrite, and re-edit a story about @senkatiebritt after its...
Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL07) and Carol Miller (R-West Virginia) celebrated as their Bipartisan Kidney Patient Access to Technologically Innovative and Essential Nephrological Treatments (PATIENT) Act passed 41 to 1 in the House Ways and Means Committee. Reps. Sewell and Miller introduced the legislation to provide access to critical care and affordable oral medicines for chronic kidney disease patients. "It is critically important that we protect access to oral-only therapies for...
On Thursday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) questioned Air Force General Gregory M. Guillot, Commander of the United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, and General Laura J. Richardson, Commander of the United States Southern Command, about what the military is doing to secure the border during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "What about the border?" said Tuberville. "Are you getting any pushback from the border – the northern border? We h...
On Wednesday, Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL07) voted in favor of the bipartisan Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. Sewell (AL-07) released a statement following her vote for the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act: "Throughout my time in Congress, I have fought to ensure that every American can cast their vote in free and fair elections," said Sewell. "Our elections are sacred, and we cannot allow our adversaries to...
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it is reversing course on a preliminary decision that would have reduced the non-market economy (NME) anti-dumping duty from $2.39 per kilogram to just 14 cents per kilogram for all producers controlled by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) had informed the administration that this 94.1% reduction in the tariff would have severe economic impact on U.S. catfish farmers, including those in Alabama....
On Friday embattled Georgia prosecutor, Nathan Wade, has stepped aside from the prosecution of Donald J. Trump (R) on allegations that the former President unlawfully entered into a conspiracy with more than a dozen of his team to overturn the Georgia 2020 election results. "I am offering my resignation in the interest of democracy, in dedication to the American public, and to move this case forward as quickly as possible," Wade wrote in his statement. "I am sure that the case, and the team,...
During the Republican primary one congressional challenger in Alabama used artificial intelligence to create a fake video of Donald J. Trump endorsing him and denigrating his incumbent opponent. The fake was done in jest, was obviously not real, and was not intended to deceive; but there are fears that rapidly improving AI technology could make real election interference a very real possibility and could be very problematic in this election. Congresswomen Terri Sewell (D-AL07) and Shontel Brown...
The U.S. House of Representatives recently unanimously passed Representative Dale W. Strong's (R-Huntsville) bill, H.R. 6174 – the "DHS Biodetection Improvement Act." Strong explained that his legislation will bolster U.S. biodefense by ensuring that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is positioned to combat bioterrorism threats. "I am glad that my colleagues recognized the importance of this legislation and passed it unanimously," said Rep. Strong. "Threats from America's enemies have c...
An estimated 10 million migrants, including 617,000 with known criminal records, have crossed the U.S. southern border since Joseph R. Biden (D) has been in office. That is double the population of the state of Alabama. Congressman Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) voted in favor of H.Res.1065, a resolution sponsored by Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas) denouncing the Biden Administration's immigration policies. Rep. De La Cruz recently highlighted the disaster at our southern border in her Spanish...
On Friday, Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) spoke with Capitol Journal's Todd Stacy about his work in Congress representing Alabama's Fourth Congressional District. Last week Aderholt voted in support of legislation that would require the social media platform, Tik Tok, to find new ownership within six months or be shut down. A majority stake in Tik Tok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese owned corporation with alleged ties to the Chinese military and Chinese Intelligence. Aderholt voted...
Horse racing is the "the sport of kings" and for decades it was the dominant form of legal gambling. For the first seven decades of the Twentieth Century the three biggest sports in this country were boxing, baseball, and horse racing. The Alabama House of Representatives is poised to vote on a constitutional amendment to allow a massive expansion of legal gambling in the state; but Alabama's horse owners say there is nothing in either version of the bill for horse racing. The Alabama Gazette...
On Monday, former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann went to the social media platform now known as X to say that there is "always hope" that former President Donald J. Trump (R) would be assassinated. Olbermann was responding to a post on X by the Biden-Harris campaign flagging a clip of President Trump saying he had been persecuted worse than any president in history, including Abraham Lincoln. "Trump says he has been treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated," the Biden campaign...
The Alabama Republican Party Candidate Committee has selected Elmore County District Judge Patrick Pinkston to be its nominee for the 19th Judicial Circuit, Place 1. The position became open following Governor Ivey's appointment of Judge Bill Lewis to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. Pursuant to state law, the Party is tasked with choosing a nominee to replace him on the General Election ballot. Judge Pinkston is unopposed in the general election, and stands ready to take office for the full...
House leadership from both parties, Senate leadership from both parties, and the White House are working on crafting a bipartisan bill to keep the federal government funded through September 30. Congressman Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) joined 41 of his Republican colleagues in a letter to his colleagues asking for an appropriations deal that does not fund Biden's ongoing border crisis. The letter states that the failure to negotiate a deal that includes H.R.2 means that if Republicans support...
