The Los Angeles Times said that on Thursday, plans to put the $659 million emergency stopgap plan to address the overflow of 57,000 undocumented children has been thwarted reportedly by Senator Ted Cruz, who is said to have been working behind the scenes to stir enough conservative opposition to block it. GOP leaders in the House had to cancel Thursday's vote due to the lack of votes needed to put the plan through.
Pennsylvania State Governor Tom Corbett is the latest politician who has concede defeat after the state's same-sex marriage ban was recently struck down in a court ruling, Bloomberg reported.
Although Kentucky Senator Rand Paul fell short of saying that he denounce the GOP's move to introduce more stringent voting restrictions, he suggested that the Republicans should not push too hard on the matter and risk alienating blacks, The New York Times said.
US Representative Henry Waxman told reporters that it was important that Democrats participate in a GOP-led select committee that will probe on the US government's handling of the Benghazi attacks, Politico reported.
On Monday, Reuters said the state of Maryland has joined California, Hawaii, Connecticut and the District of Columbia in raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by a ratification of a state wage increase.
Representative Jason Chaffetz of the House committee investigating the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya has demanded that the White House release all emails in its true, unredacted form pertaining to the purported terrorist attack that killed a US ambassador and 3 State Department employees, USA Today said.
Roll Call reported that indicted New York Representative Michael Grimm will be meeting with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Wednesday regarding his reelection campaign for the state congressional seat.
The Democrats in the US Senate has lost a bid to increase the minimum wage in the US from the current $7.25 an hour to $10.10 from the Republican-led vote, the Los Angeles Times said.
SFGate said that despite the possibility of the minimum wage measure proposal being used as a talking point for both Republican and Democratic candidates leading to the congressional elections, the issue might produce little more than fodder for both factions to use it for advertising purposes.
Environmental activists have lauded the Obama administration's decision to extend the review of the Keystone XL pipeline, and thought that it was an indication that the project will not push through, USA Today reported.
