U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes says her focus will always be on everyday people, and she's working to expand opportunities for 13th District constituents.

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The legislation will require immigration officers to detain immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally when they're accused of lower-level crimes like shoplifting.

The bill would require law enforcement to detain immigrants without legal status arrested for crimes including larceny and shoplifting.

The White House’s temporary pause on trillions in federal spending could set up a court fight over executive authority and Congress’s control of the purse.

The Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act would have prevented states from enforcing their own agricultural regulations, but has failed to advance in Congress this session. While the measure was excluded from the most recent Farm Bill extension,

We all learned early in life that the Founding Fathers gave Congress the “Power of the Purse” on spending to act as a check on the executive branch, but it sure hasn’t looked like that in the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

President Donald Trump signed the first bill of his new administration – the Laken Riley Act, named for an AU nursing student who was slain on the University of Georgia campus.

New legislation Hinson introduced, called the Swamp Act, would move federal agency headquarters out of Washington, D.C. She said she's happy to speak to Congress members about where different agencies make sense. Hinson co-sponsored the legislation with Democratic Rep. Jared Golden from Maine.

The Laken Riley Act was named for a Georgia nursing student who was killed in 2024 while out for a run by a Venezuelan national in the U.S. illegally.

The bill is named after Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, who was killed in 2024 by a Venezuelan national in the U.S. illegally.