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…kes on new environmental initiatives. The GOP majorities in the House and Senate have a similar agenda and Democrats in Congress are expected to mobilize in opposition -- in particular by leveraging their power in the Senateto filibuster legislation —and publicly highlight the po...

a politico.com / POLITICO STAFF After two years, Congress finally has him on the stand. Here’s our question list. In one week, Robert Mueller will raise his right hand on Capitol Hill... Mass layoffs: a history of cost cuts and psychological tolls HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016206

…annon concentrated on a succession of EOs that would move the new administration forward without having to wade through Congress. That focus was countermanded by Priebus, who was cultivating the Trump-Ryan romance and the Republican agenda, which in turn was countermanded by Kush...

…be, by the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility, was initiated in response to demands from a bipartisan group in Congress, led by Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. In the meantime, a court hearing will be held at...

…incomes of $250,000 or more, and his supporters expect him to stick to that vow. In com- ing months, after he persuades Congress to keep taxes fromrising on the mid- dle class, he should push to restore a fair estate tax and raise the low capital gains rate to the level of ordina...

11 on how the United States should deal with the problem. Although most members of Congress accepted the Ford administration’s cautious approach to China as wise, many were circumspect about the merits of China’s political, economic, social, and value systems, then experiencing...

…as the House majority leader and raised $10 million. He spent, between himself and outside groups, $8 million to hold a congressional district. He ran against a professor who was an evangelical Christian and a libertarian economist. He ran against a professor who raised in total...

…ct of 2000,42 U.S.C. § 13704 (2006), required local agencies to report deaths until it lapsed in 2006. Hunter Schwartz, Congress Decides to Get Serious About Tracking Police Shootings, Wash. Post (Dec. 11, 2014), Attps:/Awww.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/201 4/1 2/1 1/...

… did= see your mail about possibly coming here end of September-however, I am supposedly arrang= ing a fund- raiser for Congress Woman Diana deGette of Colorado on Sept 27 in NYC; she = is the only one with a scientific agenda and she is just super-if anything = I am hoping on yo...

…her to push yet again for a federal constitutional amendment. Conceding that the amendment had only majority support in Congress rather than the necessary super-majority, the advocates decided to press for a far-reaching federal statute protecting victims' rights in the federal c...

…n the economy later this year. In an advanced text of his weekly radio speech, Obama said the stimulus plan approved by Congress and signed into law in mid- February "was not designed to work in four months -- it was designed to work over two years." U.S. Treasury Secretary Timot...

…be, by the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility, was initiated in response to demands from a bipartisan group in Congress, led by Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. In the meantime, a court hearing will be held a...

…tainly not helpful that in early January yet another round of unilateral HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029730 sanctions was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama. The complex set of new measures targets key industrial sectors, including shipping and imports of products such...

…blame the shutdown on his own party. Mark Meadows, the head of the House Freedom Caucus and a | staunch Trump ally in Congress, called the president from Europe to say that after the vote on Thursday afternoon most members had left town for the congressional recess. Congress wo...

…so has the United States. Anyone who watched Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing knows that it is an article of faith in Congress -- and pretty much a bipartisan one -- that Iran is a faithless, illegitimate terrorist state that will be deterred from building a bomb only by the th...