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Ahval
February 23, 2018
In a scathing commentary he wrote to the Armenian-American bilingual daily, Asbarez, U.S. Representative Adam Schiff said that the U.S. relationship with ... U.S. policymakers and the Turkish government's "ferocious and well-funded lobbying campaign" stopped successive Presidents and CongressesÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
February 23, 2018
Organization companies from European and Middle East countries, as well as the U.S., Canada, Argentina, India, China, and Russia, will hold the necessary talks to make organizations in Turkey at this fair. Volkan Ataman, president of TETKİD and Tourism Media Group, also added that they expect moreÃÂ ...
The42
February 21, 2018
Similarly, if you as a board can't trust us, what are we doing here?” Secretary Frank Murphy backed up the opposition view. Brian Cody and Frank Murphy Secretary Frank Murphy at the recent hurling league match between Cork and Kilkenny. Source: James Crombie/INPHO. “This county's delegates haveÃÂ ...
Afro American
February 14, 2018
President Trump sent a $4.4 trillion 2019 budget to the U.S. Congress for ratification on Feb. 12 and the membership of the Congressional Black Caucus rejected it outright. Highlights of the Trump budget include extensive cuts to domestic programs and entitlements and large increases in the military. U.S.ÃÂ ...
TheBlaze.com
February 12, 2018
As Just the Facts notes, the U.S. debt is now $20.5 trillion, about $162,360 for every American household. On its own, that figure is downright shocking, but the current debt is just one factor. The present situation is actually much worse. At the end of the 2016 fiscal year, the United States also held $8.5ÃÂ ...
FiveThirtyEight
January 29, 2018
FiveThirtyEight canvassed them all, from Hazel Abel to Ryan Zinke, to put the current rash of resignations into historical context. The reasons members of Congress give for stepping aside can tell us a lot about the political era in which they occurred, including our own. The 115th Congress owes its historicÃÂ ...
Truthdig
January 27, 2018
The top Democrats in Congress have transformed DACA, the effort to protect 800,000 childhood immigrants from deportation, into a gargantuan funding ... Not trusting Trump to keep the pressure on Moscow, Beijing and any other “threat” to U.S. hegemony, the bipartisan political servants of empire flood theÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
January 26, 2018
In 1794, the U.S. Congress allocated nearly $700,000 to fight against the Barbary pirates and took action to build strong vessels. In 1795, the U.S. sent a delegation ... During the reign of Sultan Selim III, Algerian leaders signed a treaty with the United States in Ottoman on Sept. 5, 1795. At the end of theÃÂ ...
Augusta Free Press
January 14, 2018
congress U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner secured final passage of the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of ... were not sure this day would ever come, but even here in the United States Congress and the United States Senate, occasionally we get things right.
Alexandrianews.org
January 12, 2018
U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner (both D-VA) yesterday secured final passage of the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal ... “We and some of the folks who are in the gallery today were not sure this day would ever come, but even here in the United States Congress and theÃÂ ...
Patch.com
January 12, 2018
The name Martin Luther King Jr. is iconic in the United States. ... preaching shows that King's clarion calls for justice were offspring of earlier prophetic preaching that flowered as a consequence of the racism in the U.S. ... Altogether, 16 African-Americans served in the U.S. Congress during Reconstruction.
Amarillo.com
January 12, 2018
Nineteen Texas Panhandle speakers earned the right to participate in the Austin in the six UIL classifications. The Congress competition allows students an opportunity to experience working under parliamentary procedure to pass legislation as is done in the State and United States Congresses and the topÃÂ ...
Peoria Journal Star
January 10, 2018
In any case, given the possibility/likelihood of appeal and the breakneck pace at which the judiciary moves — that's sarcasm, by the way — it would appear DACA has been gifted some additional time. Congress should not use that reprieve as an excuse to dawdle any longer. Give us something definitive,ÃÂ ...
Pew Research Center
January 4, 2018
Doug Jones has officially taken his freshly won U.S. Senate seat, becoming Alabama's first Democratic senator in 21 years. ... Now, with 14 split delegations, the current Senate is tied with several other Congresses for second-fewest in the past 50 years – there were 14 during most of the 107th CongressÃÂ ...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
China's economy totaled 82.7 trillion yuan (about 13 trillion U.S. dollars) in volume in 2017, expanding 6.9 percent as it picked up pace for the first time in seven years. The local "two sessions" will also highlight high-quality development, supply-side structural reform, rural area revitalization, coordinatedÃÂ ...
The CPA Journal
December 31, 1999
The aggregate cost of the SALT deduction in the United States was approximately $553 billion in 2015, benefiting approximately 44 million tax filers. .... Sheldon Pollack writes in The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy: Revenue and Politics (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996) that the Treasury'sÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
December 31, 1999
Democrats wanted to stand firm to protect from deportation the undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children, under a program known as ... The weekend shutdown only reminded us that congressional leaders in both parties care more about public relations than proper deliberation.
AllAfrica.com
October 31, 2017
... the conference experiencing its worst divisions post-independence, intends to raise US$8 million to finance the explosive elective congress ...
STRATFOR
October 31, 2017
But this time those leaks never emerged, offering a stark reminder of an uncomfortable truth: Few of us truly understand the inner workings of ...
HuffPost
October 31, 2017
After about an hour, U.S. troops called French fighter planes in the area ... 11 attacks has generally centered on the United States serving as the ...
Virginian-Pilot
October 21, 2017
There is no group in America today for whom this phrase is more apt than the U.S. Congress. No one, including most members of Congress ...
The Diplomat
October 17, 2017
Chinese Communist Party Congresses have not been smooth or regular .... Let us hope that China's leaders avoid returning to the more ...
NBCNews.com
October 16, 2017
Congress Is Barely Functioning, but Its To-Do List Keeps Getting Longer ... the United States' credibility among its original partners in the deal. ... Nikki Haley said, “I think right now you are going to see us stay in the deal.
Washington Examiner
October 13, 2017
Congress should feel no obligation to honor Obama's promises to Iran ... certify that the Iran deal is in the best interest of the United States, Congress will be ... by two-thirds of the Congress, as required by the U.S. Constitution.
Independent.ie
December 31, 1999
By way of comparison, five members of US President Donald Trump's 24-member cabinet are women, and about 20pc of the US Congress are ...
Stars and Stripes
August 31, 2017
WASHINGTON — Congress is gearing up for a vote as early as next ... the cost of Trump's $1.6 billion request for the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Kaiser Family Foundation
August 31, 2017
And I say, Amen to that. … The U.S. government must encourage publicly available, high-quality, useable data from all aid stakeholders,ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
August 31, 2017
Top Republican Woman in US Congress Draws Democratic Rival ... "I am running to represent Eastern Washington in the United StatesÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
August 30, 2017
Congress is beginning to consider possible strategies for providing relief to the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Harvey, even as a full accountingÃÂ ...
Business Insider
August 30, 2017
WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The Pentagon notified the U.S. Congress on Monday of the sale to Nigeria of 12 Super Tucano A-29 planesÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
August 30, 2017
By 1950, President Harry Truman felt empowered to commit the U.S. to ... Congress responded with the War Powers Resolution of 1973, limiting ... under the authority of the United States” is, under the Constitution, “theÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
August 30, 2017
Bad blood lingers in GOP as Congress ponders Harvey relief ... Harvey could be one of the most expensive natural disasters in U.S. history.
CNBC
August 30, 2017
According to the U.S. Treasury, in the 57 years since 1960, the limit has ... limits, and none of them is a large economy like the United States.
U.S. News & World Report
August 30, 2017
But the future of the flood insurance program that Nikov, 63, and other property owners in vulnerable U.S. areas depend on rests with the U.S.ÃÂ ...
snopes.com
August 29, 2017
The legislation does not allow authorities all over the U.S. to conduct ... was passed with overwhelming support by the United States Congress,ÃÂ ...
Collective Evolution
August 24, 2017
The idea of cryptocurrencies is absolutely genius, and they've certainly become more popular over the past few years. Bitcoin has come a longÃÂ ...
Community Impact Newspaper
August 24, 2017
Van Taylor announces bid for U.S. Congress, District 3 ... “That is why I am announcing my candidacy to serve in the United States Congress.”à...
CNNMoney
August 24, 2017
If Congress fails to increase the debt ceiling before October, the federal ... Defaulting on any U.S. legal obligations is a treacherous prospectÃÂ ...
snopes.com
August 24, 2017
Confederate soldiers, sailors, and Marines that fought in the Civil war were made U.S. Veterans by an act of Congress in in 1957, U.S. PublicÃÂ ...
Press Herald
August 24, 2017
He then worked in Congress for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, as staff to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 23, 2017
Trump Widens Rift With Congress as Critical Showdowns Loom ... building a border wall between the United States and Mexico unless, as Mr.
Hamilton Spectator
March 17, 2017
"Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016," Republican Senator Richard Burr, and DemocratÃÂ ...
Gizmodo Australia
March 17, 2017
In the sci-fi thriller Gattaca, Ethan Hawke struggles to compete in life and work as a biologically inferior human born without the aid of genetic selection.
TASS
March 17, 2017
MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has described as "the same old song and dance" the forthcoming hearings in the US Congress over rumored Russian intervention in the 2016 US presidential election campaign.
Politico
March 17, 2017
This is called incidental collection, and it can occur when people in the United States communicate with a foreign target of U.S. surveillance. The identities of Americans whose communications are inadvertently collected are normally kept secret ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 17, 2017
Nevada's congressional delegation is nearly united decrying President Donald Trump's request for Congress to allocate $120 million to restart the licensing process for a national nuclear waste dump in the desert outside Las Vegas.
The Olympian
March 17, 2017
Three federal judges on Thursday asked Congress not to break up the vast, San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a longtime target of Republicans and a recent foil to President Donald Trump.
National Catholic Reporter
March 17, 2017
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump follow a piper down the steps after they attended the annual Friends of Ireland St. Patrick's Day lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 16, 2017. (Reuters/KevinÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 17, 2017
Congress could have eliminated every penny of domestic spending at its annual discretion this year, and it would not have balanced the federal budget, according to Congressional Budget Office projections, much less rid the nation of its nearly $20 ...
Business Insider
March 17, 2017
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams will call on leaders of the U.S. Congress on Thursday to support efforts by Irish nationalists to maintain Northern Ireland's place in the European Union after the rest of the United Kingdom leaves.
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