A bipartisan group of House lawmakers moved Thursday to strip out a controversial pesticide provision from legislation setting U.S. farm and nutrition policy after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., threatened to "slaughter" the legislation if her measure did not receive a floor vote. Lawmakers voted 280 to 142 to approve Luna’s amendment, which removed language from the farm bill shielding pesticide manufacturers from legal liability. The successful vote could be a sign of the

Earlier this month, President Trump ordered banks to lower credit card interest rates to 10%. Nothing has happened because legislation is required. Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida joined CBS News to discuss her bill with Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that would codify the 10% cap. This originally appeared on CBS News .

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is pushing forward with a discharge petition to circumvent Speaker Mike Johnson and force a vote on a congressional stock trading ban , she said in an interview Tuesday. The politically explosive topic is still divisive among House Republicans, but broadly popular with the public. Luna (R-Fla.) said she’s done with waiting around for accountability on Capitol Hill. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who is working on the effort with Luna, agreed many Republic

House Speaker Mike Johnson may want to put the Jeffrey Epstein saga behind him, but some Republicans saw rank-and-file members’ success in forcing Tuesday’s vote as an opportunity to push their own legislative priorities to the floor — even if it doesn’t have leadership’s blessing. GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has put House Republican leaders on notice that unless they change their approach to a bipartisan bill banning lawmaker stock trading, she will circumvent them using a di

According to the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, 86% of Americans want to ban stock trading in Congress. As elected...

The push to bar members of Congress from trading individual stocks is heading toward a moment of truth this fall, as a slew of bills...