T he House of Representatives is preparing to vote on the Laken Riley Act, the first bill of the 119th Congress, on Tuesday (January 7).Named after Laken Riley, a nursing student murdered by an ...

The House voted at 1 p.m. Tuesday on the Laken Riley Act, passing the bill as its first piece of legislation of the 119th Congress on a vote of 264 to 159.. Forty-eight Democrats voted in favor of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WHNT) — Alabama Senator Katie Britt introduced her first bill of the 119th Congress Tuesday: The Laken Riley Act. The Laken Riley Act would require U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

The Laken Riley Act passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon, the first piece of federal legislation approved by the 119th Congress after the House agreed to its rules for the term.

The Laken Riley Act, which passed through the House Tuesday afternoon by a bipartisan 264-159 vote, puts the Republican Party’s policy intentions front and center as Congress is days away from ...

GOP leaders are moving ahead with the Laken Riley Act. What’s ... are pushing for a vote after promising to prioritize border security and immigration in the first days of the new 119th Congress.

House lawmakers passed the Laken Riley Act, ... agents to detain illegal immigrants suspected of committing non-violent crimes, the chamber’s first action of the 119th Congress. ...

The arrests of the criminal aliens were a product of the Laken Riley Act, the first bill by the 119th Congress that President Donald Trump signed into law in late January.

I am proud to have reintroduced the Laken Riley Act into the 119th Congress. It’s time that we work together to ensure that no more innocent lives can be lost to a broken system.

It all depends on whether the Senate passes the Laken Riley Act, an immigration measure that Republicans have championed as one of their first actions of the new 119th Congress. Named after an Augusta ...

The 119th Congress, with a Republican trifecta—Donald Trump in the White House and both the Senate and House controlled by Republicans—began its term by passing the Laken Riley Act. What was billed as ...