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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

The act, also known as HR 29, was the first piece of federal legislation taken up by the new 119th Congress. ... Collins first introduced the Laken Riley Act in the 118th Congress.

The Senate voted Friday to advance the Laken Riley Act, putting Republicans a step closer to sending the first bill of the 119th Congress to President-elect Trump for his signature next week and gi… ...

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. ...