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GOP report highlights 2023 energy, oversight wins over ‘unrealistic climate agenda’

FIRST ON FOX: Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee Republicans are releasing a report highlighting their accomplishments on energy and oversight issues over the course of 2023. The report — titled “Countering Biden’s Radical Green Agenda with Rigorous Oversight & Real Solutions” — states that EPW Republicans successfully “opposed President Biden’s regulatory overreach” while Read More

Wisconsin GOP eyes medical pot legalization, with limits

Wisconsin Republicans plan to unveil a proposal soon to legalize medical marijuana in the state and could vote on it sometime in 2024, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said. Republicans have been working behind closed doors for years on a medical marijuana bill. Along the way, they have rejected calls from Gov. Tony Evers and other Read More

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US, China military leaders hold highest-level call since before Pelosi’s Taiwan visit

Top-level U.S.-Chinese communications have been re-established after months of antagonism and pointed silence. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Charles “CQ” Brown Jr. spoke Thursday morning with General Liu Zhenli — chief of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission in the People’s Liberation Army. “We’ve been clear about the importance of opening Read More