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HuffPost
April 29, 2018
SAN DIEGO ― The caravan of Central American asylum-seekers that sent the Trump administration into a frenzy of anger began crossing into the ... On the U.S. side of the border, a group of about 100 people chanted “No borders! ... the ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
New York Times
April 27, 2018
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee released on Friday the results of its investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, and Democrats issued a dissenting report. The accounts reached dueling interpretations of a litany of information about contactsÃâà...
ICTSD Bridges News
April 26, 2018
The US House of Representatives is set to consider legislation for a new Farm Bill authorising farm subsidy and domestic food aid spending for the next five years, after the bill passed out of the House Agriculture Committee on 18 April. The US Farm Bill is the omnibus legislation governing agriculturalÃâà...
Mankato Free Press
April 26, 2018
"This will move us in a way that gets us more dedicated funding for roads and bridges. It's absolutely an appropriate thing to do." Torkelson is sponsoring the bill to put the amendment before voters this fall. Historically, groups supporting the constitutional amendment have pushed for gas tax increases.
Missoula Current
April 26, 2018
The National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, is a mandate which forces federal agencies to review what impact development has on public lands. NEPA was established in 1970 by President Richard Nixon and through it, so too was the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The council wasÃâà...
Religion News Service
April 25, 2018
In Washington, D.C., for example, the House Committee on Agriculture earlier this month released the 2018 farm bill, which was cobbled together by Republicans and calls for major ... The parable of the loaves and fishes teaches us that there is enough for everyone and even some left over when we share.
Cointelegraph
April 25, 2018
The Rules Committee of the Arizona House of Representatives has passed SB 1091, a bill that would allow state residents to pay their taxes with cryptocurrencies, public records indicate April 23. Arizona law requires bills to pass three readings. The House Ways and Means Committee gave its approval toÃâà...
Yale Daily News (blog)
April 25, 2018
Connecticut politicians and nonprofits have voiced concerns about the effect proposed changes to the federal farm bill may have on the state. On April 18, the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture approved the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, the latest iteration of the farm bill, which funds programsÃâà...
The Tennessean
April 24, 2018
Reedy made no mention of an aspect of the bill that requires law enforcement officials in Tennessee to comply with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers. More: Tennessee bill prohibiting sanctuary cities, mandating ICE collaboration advances. Such federal detainers ask local officials toÃâà...
kqennewsradio.com
April 17, 2018
April 17, 2018 4:35 a.m.. Three members of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure are coming to Coos Bay on Friday to talk about the Water Resources Development Act. A release from Congressman Peter DeFazio, Ranking Member on the committee, says a roundtable discussionÃâà...
Quartz
April 9, 2018
The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, in front of which Zuckerberg will appear on Wednesday, April 11, has released the CEO's prepared remarks. The two Senate committees that are holding a joint hearing the previous day have not yet released their version of the statement. Here is whatÃâà...
Recode
April 4, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg is officially headed to Washington. The Facebook CEO has accepted an invitation to testify before lawmakers from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on the company's recent Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, in which personal data from some 50 million users ended upÃâà...
WTVA
March 25, 2018
A day earlier, when an African-American lawmaker had a bill in a House committee to raise the minimum age for semiautomatic rifle purchases, only one Republican showed up for the meeting, preventing the bill from getting discussion. "These last few days of the session could be quite contentious," saidÃâà...
CNET
March 24, 2018
Leaders of the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce want Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to personally testify in an upcoming hearing about the misuse of user data. In a letter sent to Zuckerberg on Friday, committee members said he's the person that Facebook should send to testify beforeÃâà...
The Journal
March 23, 2018
“Kill committees protect many of our House representatives by not forcing them to vote on gun bill legislation,” and constituents want to see how House members vote on gun bill issues,” she said. “We want accountability. Help us identify who to lobby for sensible gun laws and who we should work against.
SpaceNews
March 23, 2018
H.R. 5345 includes a “sense of Congress” resolution that recognizes NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as the agency's “lead center for rocket propulsion and is essential to sustaining and promoting U.S. leadership in rocket propulsion and developing the next generation of rocket propulsion capabilitiesÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 22, 2018
Stephen and Rae Ann Gruver sit in a House committee room behind a photo of their son, 18-year-old Maxwell Gruver, a Louisiana State University freshman who died with a blood-alcohol content six times higher than the legal limit for driving in what authorities say was a hazing incident, on Wednesday,Ãâà...
WABE 90.1 FM
March 22, 2018
DeKalb State Judge Dax Lopez said immigration judges are part of the executive branch, under the U.S. Department of Justice. “We are trying to maintain our lane, our judiciary lane, and keep our judges outside of the executive,” Lopez said. Supporters say the bill is necessary to enforce immigration lawÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 22, 2018
According to the Center for American Progress's Moscow Project, the House committee charged with investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 election obtained either no or incomplete information about 81 percent of the known contacts between Trump officials and Russians, or groups and individualsÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 22, 2018
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Gun control proposals failed in the Alabama Legislature after most Republican committee members skipped out on Wednesday debate on the bills, including a proposal to raise the age to buy an AR-15 or similar rifle. The House Public Safety and Homeland Security CommitteeÃâà...
Montgomery Advertiser
March 22, 2018
“This is long overdue for us.” The House committee did not vote on the bill Wednesday. With legislative leaders aiming for adjournment on March 29, the bill may not pass this year, but Clarke said she had her eyes on the long-term. “One of my colleagues, one of my mentors here said it took her 12 years toÃâà...
The Fayetteville Observer
March 20, 2018
The House Veterans' Affairs Committee will forego its typical meeting place on Capitol Hill later this week to host a special field hearing at Fayetteville Technical Community College. The hearing, titled “Partnering, Payment and Provider Access: VA Community Care in North Carolina,” will begin at 10 a.m.Ãâà...
Utility Dive
March 13, 2018
"PREPA's explanations for Warehouse 5 and its inventory have been contradictory and, frankly, inadequate," the House committee's letter says. Equipment from the warehouse has been distributed to contractors on the island. The committee directed Gonzalez to respond by no later than March 26,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 12, 2018
American intelligence officials concluded in January 2017 that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia personally “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 .... The House committee's announcement will surely shift the spotlight across Capitol Hill to the Senate Intelligence Committee, where senators haveÃâà...
AOL
February 24, 2018
The Democratic memo and a Republican counterattack that included a point-by-point refutation of the minority Democrats' conclusions, are an escalation of the partisan feuding that Schiff and other members of his party have said is sabotaging the House committee's investigation. The latest duel on CapitolÃâà...
Department of Defense
December 31, 1999
“This law -- along with the two-year budget agreement passed as part of February's Bipartisan Budget Act -- finally freed us from the inefficient and damaging continuing resolution funding process.” The law provides predictable and sufficient funding needed to continue implementing the National DefenseÃâà...
