On Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Birmingham announced that State Representative John Rogers (D-Birmingham) has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with the scheme to defraud the Jefferson County Community Service Fund. U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Federal Bureau of Investigation […]

Alabama State Sen. David Sessions (R-Grand Bay) and State Sen. Jack Williams (R-Wilmer) announced on Tuesday they are each endorsing Caroleene Dobson in the April 16 GOP runoff election for the 2nd Congressional District. Last week, Republican voters in the newly-drawn district elected to send Dobson and Montgomery-based businessman and former State Sen. Dick Brewbaker […]

U.S. Rep. Dale Strong represented North Alabama to the tune of millions of dollars for Fiscal Year 2024, securing the funding in an appropriations package that was signed into law last week. “I am proud to return $18.5 million in taxpayer dollars back to Alabama’s Fifth District,” Strong said in a statement. “These dollars will […]

U.S. Congressman Robert Aderholt has announced he secured over $42 million in funding for local projects within the 4th District for Fiscal Year 2024. “Members of Congress know the needs of their districts far more than a Washington bureaucrat,” said Aderholt (R-Haleyville), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee. “That’s why I’ve always supported […]

The Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA) voiced its opposition to HB238, which advanced through the Alabama House Insurance Committee last week. The bill, sponsored by State Rep. Phillip Rigsby (R-Huntsville), would reform prescription drug reimbursement by mandating pharmacy benefit managers compensate in-network pharmacies for the actual acquisition costs of medications, in addition to implementing a […]

The League of Southeastern Credit Unions (LSCU) announced that U.S. Senator Katie Britt was named their 2023 Federal Lawmaker of the Year for Alabama and formally honored this week at the America’s Credit Unions Governmental Affairs Conference in Washington, D.C. “Local credit unions play a vital role in supporting Main Street communities across Alabama, from equipping […]

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) hosted a roundtable discussion on Tuesday morning to address the state of college athletics and issues that are fundamentally reshaping the sport like Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) and the NCAA transfer portal. Former Alabama head coach Nick Saban spoke openly to members of Congress and the public to share […]

Last week, I helped pass a bill that has a lot of wins for Alabama’s First Congressional District.  I am excited this bill brings almost $30 million of your tax dollars back home rather than allowing it to go to liberal states like New York and California. Most importantly, this bill cuts more than $200 […]

State Sen. Greg Albritton (R-Atmore) said the Senate gambling bill ended up being markedly different than the version approved by the House. The legislation outlaws electronic bingo, features no Class III casinos, no sports betting, nor any form of electronic gambling. “[W]ith the Senate passed version, what we have is a very, very restrictive allowance […]

A report claiming funding for the FBI’s campus on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville was “wiped out,” is incorrect, according to several members of Alabama’s congressional delegation. The New York Times published a story Friday claiming Republican lawmakers achieved a goal of cutting spending to the Federal Bureau of Investigation by “wiping out the pet project […]

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville has long advocated for the ending of Daylight Savings time. With clocks springing forward once again across the country, Alabamians will have an extra hour of sunlight and it will not be dark out until after 7:00 P.M. Tuberville (R-Auburn) says that this should be the national standard year round — […]

North Alabama Congressman Dale Strong marked a major legislative victory with U.S. House passage of his first piece of authored legislation: The Department of Homeland Security Biodetection Improvement Act. It passed the House unanimously, and according to Rep. Strong (R-Monrovia), will help keep the United States one step ahead of adversaries. The bill deals with […]

On Thursday, the Alabama House of Representatives passed legislation with bipartisan support that will require teachers to post the curriculum of their classes online so that parents can be aware of what their child is learning and being presented. The “Parents’ Right to Know” bill is sponsored by Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Reed (R-Jasper). […]

Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation to make it a crime for organizers and activists to accept payment for handling absentee ballot applications of non-family members. It also makes it a crime for corporations or nonprofit organizations to pay people to harvest ballots in Alabama. Governor Kay Ivey announced her support for the proposal in her 2024 […]

In the days since her televised takedown of President Joe Biden’s “wildly political” State of the Union address, a style and tone familiar to Alabamians made its nationwide debut, setting off a viral reaction from left-leaning pundits meeting U.S. Senator Katie Britt for the first time and conservatives appraising her status as a top contender […]

Over the past three and a half years, we have watched as President Biden took every possible step to weaken our nation. We have seen the Taliban grow more powerful in Afghanistan. We awoke on an October morning to the news of Hamas attacking Israel, one of our closest allies. We have been forced to […]

On Thursday, the Alabama Senate passed a compromise gambling bill that is dramatically different from the one that passed the House of Representatives last month. Senator Greg Albritton (R-Atmore) carried the legislation in the Senate. Albritton insisted that the public wants the opportunity to vote on a gambling bill “They want the opportunity to vote […]

The Alabama congressional delegation provided their opinions of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night. As expected, the Republican congressmen were critical of Biden’s fourth State of the Union and Democrat Rep. Terri Sewell praised the speech. “This is the fourth time I’ve heard President Biden give an address to a joint […]

A new pharmacy reimbursement bill is facing increasing pushback over a $10.64 fee that will be added to every prescription drug purchase in Alabama. House Bill 238 passed out of an Alabama House Insurance Committee earlier this week. The bill requires pharmacy benefit managers to reimburse in-network pharmacies for the cost of acquiring medication and […]

U.S. Senator Katie Britt delivered the Republican rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech Thursday evening in a kitchen table address from her home in Montgomery. Britt, the only Alabamian ever to deliver the response, focused in particular on Biden’s response to the crisis at the southern border, his economic policies, the […]

As college athletics continue to evolve and change, elected officials are becoming more interested in regulating Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) toward a positive future. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will host a bipartisan roundtable with some of the biggest names in college sports in attendance. In 2023, Cruz drafted legislation aimed at providing legal certainty […]

Charles Barkley has always been outspoken politically. While Barkley has made it well known that he is no fan of former President Trump, he has open criticisms for the left as well. On Barkley’s CNN program King Charles with Gayle King, he spoke openly about why he believes Joe Biden and the Democratic party have lost […]

When the Legislature adjourned for the weekend on February 15th, plenty of challenging issues were already waiting for us to return the following week. The House was preparing for a vote on the CHOOSE Act and other priority items. The Senate was working on issues like election security and legislation dealing with DEI. The session […]

Tonight, Alabama U.S. Senator Katie Britt will deliver the official GOP response to President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address immediately following his speech.  Britt’s presence as the youngest Republican woman elected to the U.S. Senate, and the only current mother of school-aged children in the Senate is being hailed as the starkest […]