Sunny and snowless day on Jan. 22, 2015. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Despite the snowpocalypse expected to hit the East Coast on Friday, leaders on both sides of the issue are gearing up to mark another anniversary of the Supreme Court’s abortion decision.
Since the year after Roe v. Wade in 1973, anti-abortion advocates have been protesting every year on the anniversary at the March for Life, the organizers say that despite the forecast, this year's March for Life will not be canceled on Friday.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Thursday's National Weather Service computer outage has the attention of the chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Parts of Democratic Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski's home state of Maryland were not notified of a severe thunderstorm warning Thursday afternoon, due to a failure on the part of the weather service's computer system that sends out the warnings, the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang explained.
Heavy snow and ice has Booker and Menendez calling for more rock salt. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
New Jersey's senators are seeking federal help to alleviate a shortage of rock salt prompted by the abundance of ice and snow.
Specifically, Democrats Robert Menendez and Cory Booker want federal officials to waive the Jones Act, a 1920 Maritime law that bars certain foreign-flagged vessels from U.S. ports. A foreign vessel was transporting rock salt to Newark.
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