Rep. Tim Kennedy has joined the bipartisan calls urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to delay new rules that would require dogs entering the U.S. from Canada to be older than six months and have a CDC-approved Dog Import Form, among other things.

“I am working across the aisle to ensure people can continue to cross the Northern Border with their canine family members,” Kennedy said in a statement. “This CDC policy places an excessive burden on U.S. citizens, especially in border communities like ours, which will contribute to increased processing time, longer border backups, and diminished economic returns. The CDC must delay implementing this rule until we find a more balanced approach.”

A day after Ohio Sen. JD Vance secured his spot as former President Donald Trump’s running mate, New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis lauded him as a “great pick.”

The Republican congresswoman, whose district includes Staten Island and part of Brooklyn, is currently attending the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin, where Vance was officially selected by delegates to be the party’s nominee for vice president.

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy, who represents New York's 23rd Congressional District, joined Capital Tonight host Susan Arbetter on Monday to talk about the 2024 Republican National Convention, Donald Trump selecting Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his vice presidential running mate, political rhetoric and the attack on Trump.

The 23rd District is made up of parts of Western New York and the Southern Tier.

President Joe Biden met with groups of Democrats in Congress on Friday to shore up support amid as calls for the incumbent to step down from the ticket continue

The meetings come after a huddle with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, which the New York Democrat detailed in a letter on Friday morning.

Rep. Pat Ryan has joined the small list of House Democrats asking President Joe Biden to step aside – becoming the first New Yorker in Congress to do so publicly.

“Trump is an existential threat to American democracy; it is our duty to put forward the strongest candidate against him,” Ryan wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday. “Joe Biden is a patriot but is no longer the best candidate to defeat Trump.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other key Democrats in Washington reiterated their support for President Joe Biden, but the party was far from unified on a path forward as congressional Democrats met on Tuesday to discuss his continued campaign.

“As I’ve said before, I’m with Joe,” Schumer said repeatedly at a Tuesday afternoon press conference after Senate Democrats met for lunch.

New York state Sen. John Mannion was victorious over Dewitt Town Councilor Sarah Klee Hood in the Democratic primary for New York’s 22nd Congressional District Tuesday. Now, it’s on to the general election against incumbent Republican Rep. Brandon Williams.

The 22nd Congressional District represents all of Onondaga and Madison counties, as well as parts of Cayuga, Cortland and Oneida counties.

State Sen. John Mannion has secured the Democratic nomination in the race for New York’s 22nd Congressional District, the Associated Press projects.

The two-term Albany lawmaker and longtime teacher defeated DeWitt Town Councilor Sarah Klee Hood in Tuesday’s primary elections, dealing Klee Hood her second loss for the Democratic Party’s nod for Central New York’s seat in the House of Representatives.

Westchester County Executive George Latimer has defeated the incumbent, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, in the 16th Congressional District Democratic primary, The Associated Press projects.

According to the AP, with more than 88% of the expected vote tallied as of 12:05 a.m. Wednesday, Latimer had 58.4% of the vote, while Bowman had 41.6% of the vote.

U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney secured the Republican nomination in her bid for another term representing New York’s 24th Congressional District, the Associated Press projects.

Tenney was defeating Geneva attorney Mario Fratto in Tuesday’s primary elections 61% to 40%, according to to the latest unofficial results from AP.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In 2022, Republican U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney defeated primary challenger Mario Fratto with 53% of the vote.

However, Fratto, who garnered 40% of the vote in a three-way competition and changed races following a redistricting lawsuit, believes he can do better this year.

The year 2022 was a wild one for New York’s delegation in the House of Representatives — a tumultuous redistricting process, delayed primary elections and four Democratic seats flipping to Republicans that ultimately helped them win their thin majority in the chamber in Washington.

The year 2024 has had its own level of distinction. Another set of congressional maps was submitted and approved, and two special House elections have already taken place — one to replace former Rep. George Santos after his historic ousting. And with House control up for grabs this fall, New York’s congressional races are back in the spotlight.

Democrats in Suffolk County are poised to pick their nominee for Congress next week, as they try to unseat a one-term incumbent Republican.

The contest in New York’s 1st District, which stretches from Northport in the west to the Hamptons in the east, pits John Avlon, a familiar face on cable news, against the district’s former Democratic nominee, Nancy Goroff.

Experience was the name of the game in Tuesday’s Democratic debate for New York's 22nd Congressional District seat between state Sen. John Mannion and DeWitt Town Councilor Sarah Klee Hood. For Mannion, it was about his time in the state Legislature and long tenure as a teacher. For Klee Hood, it was about her time in the Air Force and as a local politician and woman.

Both touted those experiences significantly in the debate hosted by Spectrum News 1 as both garner to be the one to take on Republican Rep. Brandon Williams in November in what is already one of the most closely watched House races in the country.

Candidates running in the Democratic Primary for New York's 22nd Congressional seat will face off in a debate Tuesday on Spectrum News 1.

The district represents all of Onondaga and Madison counties, as well as parts of Cayuga, Cortland and Oneida counties.

After a moment of prayer on Tuesday, Rep. Jamaal Bowman was endorsed by more than two dozen Bronx and Westchester county faith leaders.

Bowman is focused on voter turnout.

U.S. Rep. Marc Molinaro requested the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to hold a field hearing in New York to address Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to pause congestion pricing, according to a letter from the congressman on Tuesday.

Hochul cited affordability concerns that are a top issue for New York voters for her surprise announcement to delay the implementation of New York City's congestion pricing plan last week. Hochul’s plan dropped on the day before what should be the scheduled end of the 2024 legislative session, leaving some frustrated.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is scheduled to testify before Congress on July 12, a day after former President Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money trial, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Associated Press.

Bragg is set to appear before the House Select Committee on weaponization alongside Michael Colangelo, the former high-ranking Justice Department official hired by Bragg in 2022 to lead the Trump investigation.

The federal Right to Contraception Act, which would codify a person’s right to access and a health care provider's right to provide contraception and information into federal law, has its first Republican cosponsor in upstate New York U.S. Rep. Marc Molinaro.

In a statement released on Wednesday, the Republican who represents the 19th Congressional District, which voted for President Joe Biden in 2020, said “we need to do more to support women and the choices they make” and adds that the bill “is commonsense and a good place to start.”

Westchester County Executive George Latimer has picked up a big name endorsement for his primary challenge against incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman. On Monday, Latimer announced that former Rep. Mondaire Jones, who is trying to make a comeback to Congress, endorsed the county executive.

Bowman was first elected in 2020 after beating longtime incumbent Eliot Engel in a Democratic primary for New York's 16th Congressional District seat and is facing his own challenge from the Westchester County executive. Bowman is a member of the group of progressive Democrats known as "the Squad" and has been endorsed by progressives from Bernie Sanders to Jumaane Williams and the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. While Bowman has the support of the progressive group The Jewish Vote, he has lost the endorsement of J Street PAC.

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- It can take months for Canada to process visas and work permits when its temporary citizens apply through the traditional method.

However, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, said there is a loophole that's causing Western New York ports of entry like the Rainbow Bridge and Peace Bridge to "look like a merry-go-round." He said the practice known as flagpoling, when people enter the U.S. and loop around the flagpoles before submitting paperwork upon reentry, can shorten the processing time to days.

Former President Donald Trump's planned rally in the Bronx on Thursday has sparked sharp criticism from local politicians, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Trump is expected to rail against President Joe Biden, inflation and the surge of asylum seekers in New York when he takes the stage in Crotona Park, located in an area where he won just 16% of the vote in 2020.

The House Committee on Agriculture released a nearly 1,000-page document drafting the long-awaited 2024 Farm Bill totaling $1.5 trillion – the first trillion-dollar farm bill in history.

“The Farm, Food and National Security Act of 2024 is the product of extensive feedback from stakeholders and all members of the House and is responsive to the needs of farm country through the incorporation of hundreds of bipartisan policies,” House committee chair Glenn Thompson, a Republican, said in a press release.

Rep. Marc Molinaro hosted a roundtable discussion Monday to address the ongoing housing crisis facing Hudson Valley residents.

Officials and decision makers from all aspects of housing met to discuss the challenges they’re facing, including the price of building materials, keeping projects in line with highway, water and sewer standards and battling opposition to affordable and transitional housing opportunities.

The U.S. House approved legislation Wednesday mandating federal safety standards for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in e-bikes and scooters, with the goal of preventing fires.

The bill passed with wide bipartisan support, 378 to 34. It now heads to the Senate.

Rep. Dan Goldman has introduced legislation aimed at enhancing the federal government’s ability to investigate potential cases of antisemitism and discrimination on college campuses.

His bill would allocate an additional $280 million to the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, which Goldman, a Jewish Democrat representing lower Manhattan and part of Brooklyn, says currently “does not have sufficient funding to conduct the number of investigations that are now necessary with the rise of antisemitism on campus.”

Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand is seeking a third full term as the junior senator from New York, but first she’s got to go through Mike Sapraicone.

Sapraicone is a former New York City police detective who currently runs a private security firm called Squad Security.

Tim Kennedy is now a congressman.

The Western New York Democrat was sworn in Monday evening as the newest member of the House of Representatives.

As farmers and advocates continue to wait for Republicans and Democrats to come to an agreement on a new version of the Farm Bill, the House and Senate agriculture committee chairs have released their overviews.

The 2018 Farm Bill expired in December but was extended through the rest of 2024 because lawmakers could not agree on an updated version. However, with costs rising, particularly since 2018, farmers have pushed lawmakers to renew the bill quickly.

A $400 million increase in federal funding is available for security in places of worship, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Sunday.

The boost in money comes as concerns rise over threats against Jewish and Muslim communities, fueled in part by the Israel-Hamas war.

Without wielding the gavel or holding a formal job laid out in the Constitution, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries might very well be the most powerful person in Congress right now.

The minority leader of the House Democrats, it was Jeffries who provided the votes needed to keep the government running despite opposition from House Republicans to prevent a federal shutdown.

A brewing rematch in a congressional district that could determine which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives is quickly turning bitter and personal.

In New York’s expansive 19th Congressional District, which stretches from Tompkins County in the west to Rensselaer County in the east, Republican Rep. Marc Molinaro is trying for a repeat of 2022, when he beat Democrat Josh Riley.

Congressman Ritchie Torres introduced a bill that would allow the Department of Education to impose a “third-party antisemitism monitor” for any institution of higher education that receives federal funding.

Torres coined the legislation the COLUMBIA act — Columbia being an acronym for College Oversight and Legal Updates Mandating Bias Investigations and Accountability Act.

The families of Flight 3407 are applauding members of the U.S. House and Senate on presenting a new bipartisan FAA re-authorization bill.

The flight crashed on Feb. 12, 2009, in Clarence Center, just outside of Buffalo. All 49 people on the plane were killed. There was one casualty on the ground.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Democratic state Sen. Timothy Kennedy won a special election Tuesday for the New York congressional seat vacated by Democrat Brian Higgins.

Kennedy easily defeated Republican Gary Dickson for the upstate New York seat, helped by a 2-to-1 Democratic registration advantage in the district, which includes Buffalo, Niagara Falls and several suburbs.

Tuesday is the special election for the seat representing New York's 26th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. It includes parts of Erie and Niagara counties and the cities of Buffalo, Lackawanna, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda and North Tonawanda.

The early voting period ended on Sunday. Nearly 11,000 votes were cast from April 20-28.

Votes were being cast Tuesday in a special election to fill New York’s open 26th Congressional District in and around Buffalo. The seat had been held by Brian Higgins for 19 years until he stepped down in February to become president and CEO of Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo.

Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy and Republican Gary Dickson are running in Tuesday's special election, which is not considered competitive by the Cook Political Report, which rates the seat a "Solid D" district with a Cook partisan voting index of D+10.

In a letter, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., urged his counterpart in the chamber’s Republican majority, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to put a bipartisan bill aimed at fighting antisemitism up for a vote.

Earlier this month, a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers — Sens. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and James Lankford, R-Okla., and Reps. Kathy Manning, D-N.C., Chris Smith, R-N.J., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. — introduced the Bipartisan Countering Antisemitism Act, a bill that would establish a National Coordinator to Counter Antisemitism within the White House.

A bipartisan pair of lawmakers from New York introduced legislation Friday to impose antisemitism monitors on college and university campuses that receive federal funding.

U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., and Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., introduced the bill as demonstrations by thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt college campuses across the country.

Utica University professor Clemmie Harris is ending his campaign for the Democratic nomination in the race for New York's 22nd Congressional District.

Harris wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, said the move was a result of a dispute over ballot signature requirements with another candidate, DeWitt Town Councilor Sarah Klee Hood.

Staten Island Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis has joined forces with New Jersey Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer in a renewed effort against congestion pricing.

Malliotakis, whose previous attempts to stop congestion pricing were unsuccessful, and Gottheimer are now aiming to amend a broader piece of federal legislation dealing with toll road and express lane programs nationwide.

A coalition of attorneys general led by New York's Letitia James is calling on Congress to expand access to in vitro fertilization and other reproductive health services.

The group wants lawmakers to pass the Access to Family Building Act.

Former Rep. George Santos has ended his short-lived run to get back into the U.S. House of Representatives, he announced on social media Tuesday evening.

Santos, who was expelled from the House in December, wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he is dropping out of the race because he does not want to “be responsible for handing the house” to the Democrats.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — New York's 26th Congressional District has been without a representative for more than two months.

When Democrat Brian Higgins stepped down in February to take over as president of Shea's Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, he said it was in fact Congress that had become more about dramatics then results. Both candidates who are vying to finish his term agree.

New York Rep. Ritchie Torres is introducing legislation aimed at improving the federal government’s response to public health emergencies, citing shortcomings in how the feds handled an mpox outbreak two years ago.

Torres’s bill would require the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a department-wide strategy for after-action reviews of major health events, incorporating analysis from across the department’s various agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The review should include people from outside the department.

Republican U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney is teaming up with North Carolina Democratic Rep. Deborah Ross on a bill that aims to close a loophole in federal bankruptcy laws that impacts survivors of sexual abuse.

Tenney joined Capital Tonight on Thursday from Washington to discuss how the bill works and its chances of getting through the closely divided House of Representatives.

Senate Democrats quickly dismissed impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, voting to rule each of the two impeachment charges unconstitutional on the trial's first day.

All Republicans voted no on the questions of dismissal, bar Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a moderate who voted present on the first charge and voted against the second charge.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Democratic congressional candidate Nate McMurray submitted more than 1,400 designating petitions to the state Board of Elections as he pushes for ballot access in New York's 26th Congressional District primary in June, which would take place after the special election this month.

However, a lawsuit brought by his potential opponent, state Sen. Tim Kennedy, and a voter claimed, at best, 382 of the signatures McMurray submitted are valid. That would put the candidate well below the minimum of 1,250 needed.

The road to control of the U.S. House next year runs in no small part through New York, with competitive congressional contests on Long Island, in the Hudson Valley and in the Syracuse area.

New York is also home to a bitter Democratic primary battle, in which the Israel-Hamas War is a defining issue.

After 609 days since he was detained by the Taliban, a resolution calling for Ryan Corbett’s immediate release was passed Thursday after both Senate leaders Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell introduced the bipartisan resolution.

Corbett had a business in Afghanistan and was going there to do some work when he was detained.

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Early Voting runs April 20, 2024 – April 28, 2024.

A bill that would designate the Strong Museum as the National Museum of Play is one step closer to becoming law.

U.S. Rep. Joe Morelle says the House of Representatives approved the National Museum of Play Recognition Act on Wednesday. There is no word yet on when it could come up for a vote in the Senate.

The Democrat-aligned House Majority PAC is reserving roughly $21 million worth of TV ad buys across New York ahead of the November elections.

The move comes as the Empire State could be make or break for Democrats in their push to win back control of the U.S. House. Losses in congressional districts across New York in 2022 helped cost the party the majority.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik’s political operation, Team Elise, raised a record $7.1 million in the first quarter of 2024, the group announced Thursday.

Team Elise said the average donation to the Republican congresswoman’s campaign was $21 with 70,000 unique donors. It beats other previous quarter records.

In New York’s 16th Congressional District, a high-profile Democratic primary is heating up.

On Wednesday, former New York Gov. David Paterson endorsed Westchester County Executive George Latimer in the race.

A federal program helping tens of millions of Americans afford internet service — including roughly 1.8 million households across New York — is scheduled to run out of money later this month.

On Capitol Hill, Brooklyn Rep. Yvette Clarke is leading a bipartisan push aimed at saving the program, warning if it lapses, the digital divide between the haves and have nots stands to grow. Again.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is now pushing to codify President Joe Biden’s income-driven student loan repayment program.

Currently, more than 7.7 million federal student loan borrowers are enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan, including nearly 300,000 New Yorkers.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A decades-old law enforcement tool designed to dismantle the mafia may now be used to tackle the retail theft crime rings.

The federal plan will assist local stores that are targets for theft.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been calling on the House of Representatives to pass the “FEND Off Fentanyl Act.” The legislation would target cartels who are bringing in drugs to the United States and help fight the opioid epidemic.

The chief program officer for ACR Health, Michelle McElroy, says the legislation is great for targeting people at the top of the supply chain but not for those at the local level.

The new federal budget finalized over the weekend — nearly six months late — contains more than $500 million for roughly 450 so-called “community projects” across New York state, according to an analysis by Spectrum News NY1.

The funding, requested by members of the New York delegation, is designated for everything from food banks and community centers to infrastructure and public housing developments.

Former New York Rep. George Santos has announced that he will leave the Republican party — which he said "continues to lie and swindle its voter base" its voter base — and run for Congress as an independent.

Santos, who in December was expelled from the House of Representatives after a House committee reported fraud and misused campaign funds, made his announcement on Friday on X, formerly Twitter.

New York lawmakers are leading a push to overhaul public housing across the country, proposing legislation that would repair units and make them energy efficient, creating jobs in the process.

The legislation, dubbed the Green New Deal for Public Housing, has been introduced before — but its rollout this year comes as rising housing prices and rents are helping to drive inflation, which is a central issue in this year’s elections.

Lawmakers at the federal level are taking steps to protect in vitro fertilization, or IVF.

Alabama's Supreme Court ruled last month those embryos are children with rights, leading many providers to stop services over liability concerns. The state's lawmakers quickly passed a law to try and restore protections and allow some clinics to reopen.

Federal funding toward the city’s migrant crisis could soon be flowing again.

Senator Charles Schumer announced on Thursday his office helped the city finally unlock federal funding for thousands of migrants in the city.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Thursday called for the removal of major obstacles to a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians, which he said include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

In a speech on the Senate floor, Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in American history, recommended Israel hold new elections.

Although a bill that would ban TikTok from U.S. app stores unless Chinese company ByteDance divests itself from the company passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday with broad bipartisan support, seven of the votes against it came from New York City Democrats.

Reps. Jamaal Bowman, Adriano Espaillat, Gregory Meeks, Grace Meng, Jerrold Nadler, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nydia Velázquez were among the 65 total lawmakers – 15 Republicans and 50 Democrats – who voted against the bill.

George Santos went from a Republican rising star — a congressman-elect for parts of Queens and Long Island — to a punch line on Saturday Night Live skits, as he faces a 23-count federal indictment.

For his next act, Santos is hoping eastern Long Island voters will send him back to Congress.

After hurtling toward a potential fiscal disaster, Amtrak has been spared dramatic cuts that the railroad previously warned could have led to service reductions or suspensions.

New York Republicans were among the most outspoken lawmakers pushing back on the potential spending reductions, which were proposed by their own GOP colleagues.

President Biden delivered his third State of the Union address on Thursday, which served as an unofficial general election kick-off that will likely pit the incumbent with his immediate predecessor.

For analysis of the speech and the state of the race, Capital Tonight spoke with Jack O’Donnell, managing partner of O’Donnell and Associates.

The U.S. House is moving full steam ahead on a bill aimed at forcing TikTok’s Chinese parent company to divest the social media app — or face a ban in America.

The full House is expected to vote on the legislation next week, after the measure was unanimously approved by a House committee on Thursday.

U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democrat representing New York's 15th Congressional District, said Friday he would introduce a resolution to revoke House floor privileges for expelled members of Congress after former Republican Rep. George Santos made an appearance Thursday night at President Biden’s State of the Union address.

“Expelled Congressman George Santos disgraced the United States Congress with his presence at the State of the Union last night,” Torres said in a statement Friday. “Santos was thrown out of the House on a bipartisan basis after a litany of lies, alleged crimes, sideshows, and embarrassments on the national stage. We have to be better than this, and that’s why I will be introducing a rule to bar expelled members from maintaining the high privilege of sitting on the House Floor.”

Former Rep. George Santos on Thursday posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he will challenge incumbent Rep. Nick LaLota in the race for New York’s 1st Congressional District.

“New York hasn’t had a real conservative represent them since I left office arbitrarily, thanks to RINO, empty suits like @nicklalota. He is a willing to risk the future of our majority and the future of this country for his own political gain,” Santos wrote.

Congressman Adriano Espaillat on Friday hailed President Joe Biden's State of the Union address as "electric," expressing optimism about its historical significance.

"I think it will go down in history as one of the best State of the Unions," Espaillat, a Democrat whose district includes Washington Heights and Inwood, said during an appearance on “Mornings On 1.”

President Joe Biden had urged Congress to pass a bipartisan Senate deal on immigration, saying it would give him new emergency authority to “shut down” the border.

But after Donald Trump called the bill “a gift to the Democrats,” and that the Democrats “want this for the presidential election so they can now blame the Republicans for the worst border in history,” the bill failed to move in Congress.

New York's North Country would receive nearly $17 million in funding for local projects in water infrastructure, child care and emergency response times should the biparisan spending package for Fiscal Year 2024 pass the U.S. Senate as expected, Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced Thursday.

The package passed the House of Representatives 339-85 on Wednesday evening.

Federal prosecutors say a Texas man tried to defraud former New York Rep. George Santos out of $900,000 by claiming he could get the criminal charges against Santos dropped.

Authorities say 39-year-old Hector Medina, of El Paso, was taken into custody Wednesday morning and charged with wire fraud after an investigation run by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will attend Thursday’s State of the Union address by President Biden as a guest to Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, Spectrum News 1 learned Wednesday.

Espaillat represents New York's 13th Congressional District.

The Cayuga County Democratic Committee has endorsed state Sen. John Mannion for the Democratic nomination in the race for New York's 22nd Congressional District.

Following new congressional maps drafted by and passed by the state Legislature last week, the 22nd District now includes southern Cayuga County, including the city of Auburn.

The U.S. House of Representatives select subcommittee investigating the COVID-19 pandemic subpoenaed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to provide testimony related to his administration’s handling of nursing homes during the outbreak, according to a letter obtained by Spectrum News 1.

The Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic specifically wants to question Cuomo’s controversial March 25, 2020, state order that required nursing homes to take in COVID-19 positive patients if they were able to. The Associated Press reported a year later that, as a result, more than 9,000 COVID-19 patients were transferred into nursing homes between March and May 2020.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union Address this Thursday. When he does, U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney will be watching with the family of a Western New York man, Ryan Corbett, who's been held captive by the Taliban for 19 months.

Tenney invited Anna Corbett and her children as her honorary guests, hoping to place more pressure on the government to advocate for his safe return home to his family.

The map is finalized. And the race to take on Republican Rep. Nick LaLota in Suffolk County is coming into focus.

Democrats are vying to flip New York’s 1st Congressional District, which has been in GOP hands for nearly a decade. The two leading Democrats - Nancy Goroff and John Avlon - insist that although the map has gotten slightly redder after redistricting, it is still a swing seat.

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. -- Standing at the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport before heading back to Washington, Republican U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy said most Americans are familiar with the strict security procedures to fly major airlines.

However, he said those protocols are not always as stringent when taking charter flights. Langworthy sent a letter last week to the Transportation Security Administration outlining his concerns.

New legislation is introduced by U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is aiming to end food deserts across the state.

Fifty million dollars in federal funding would work to incentivize grocery stores to build new locations in underserved communities. It also helps those in food deserts better serve the public.

New York Congressman Tom Suozzi has now come full circle.

After giving up his seat to run for governor, the Democrat is now back on Capitol Hill, taking over the office of the man who briefly replaced him —scandal-scarred Republican George Santos.

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump made dueling trips Thursday to the U.S.-Mexico border, looking to gain an edge on immigration ahead of their likely rematch in the race for president.

Biden met with border officials and called out Republicans in Congress for sinking a deal that would have bolstered border security.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed into law a new set of congressional maps approved Wednesday by the state Legislature after Democratic lawmakers on Monday rejected the newest proposed boundaries drawn by the state's Independent Redistricting Commission.

Legislation introduced earlier this week that would make some changes to the maps the commission approved last week passed the state Senate and Assembly on Wednesday afternoon.

Rep. Tom Suozzi was sworn in Wednesday evening on Capitol Hill, filling the seat once occupied by George Santos and further reducing the House GOP’s already razor-thin majority.

"Speaker, I never thought I'd be back here, but the Lord works in mysterious ways and God made a way when there was no way," he said.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer acknowledged he and his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell, had their political differences but is proud they came together at crucial moments. McConnell announced Wednesday he would step down as the Senate Republican leader in November after nearly two decades running his conference in the Capitol’s upper chamber.

“During my years in the Senate, Mitch McConnell and I rarely saw eye to eye when it came to our politics or our policy preferences,” Schumer said in a statement. “But I am very proud that we both came together in the last few years to lead the Senate forward at critical moments when our country needed us, like passing the CARES Act in the early days of the COVID pandemic, finishing our work to certify the election on January 6th, and more recently working together to fund the fight for Ukraine.”

New York’s redistricting saga continues.

Democratic state lawmakers introduced legislation Monday night creating their own congressional map after they voted down a map created by the Independent Redistricting Commission. The question remains when the Legislature will vote on it.

The New York state Legislature’s newly introduced congressional maps don’t appear to be the blatant power grab that Republicans have been fearing, but they could serve to put an additional Democratic seat in the win column for New York.

According to redistricting expert Jeff Wice, an adjunct professor of law and senior fellow at the New York Census and Redistricting Institute, the new lines may put first-term Republican U.S. Rep. Marc Molinaro, of the 19th District, in jeopardy.

New York Democrats are wasting no time presenting a new set of congressional maps after the state Legislature on Monday rejected the newest proposed boundaries drawn by the state's Independent Redistricting Commission.

State Senate Deputy Majority Leader Mike Gianaris and Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski have introduced legislation in their respective chambers that would make some changes to the maps the commission approved last week.

After a Democrat-controlled state legislature rejected the new Congressional maps that were approved in a 9-1 vote earlier this month by an independent redistricting commission, the stage is set for a new political fight.

Candidates are set to begin collecting petition signatures Feb. 27, but without approved maps that process is muddy at best. Democrats now need to come up with their own map and then vote on it, but with a June primary looming, the clock is ticking.

For the second time in three years, Albany Democrats are poised to draw new Congressional maps, having once again rejected those drawn by the Independent Redistricting Commission — the latest twist in a drawn-out political saga.

“This is just unprecedented, unscripted, unpredictable,” said Jeffrey Wice, a professor at New York Law School and an expert on the state’s redistricting process.

New York's Democratic-controlled state Legislature rejected new congressional maps drawn by the state's Independent Redistricting Commission.

The proposal slightly altered the maps drawn by a special master for the 2022 elections.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Friday led a delegation of lawmakers to Ukraine to mark the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

The New York Democratic leader’s visit comes as the U.S. levied a massive tranche of new sanctions on Russia to mark the anniversary of its incursion into Ukraine and in the wake of the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny — and as a Senate-passed bill providing billions in aid to Ukraine is stalled in the Republican-controlled House.