Congress

Source: miamiherald.com --- 1 day ago
Two weeks ago, the Senate passed a resolution calling on the U.S. to apologize for more than three centuries of enslavement and segregation. Senators thought they'd done the right thing. But that was before the House's Black Caucus weighed in. Now the July 7 signing ceremony is off. ...

Source: www.latimes.com --- 2 days ago
The California congressman offers part memoir (drawing on his upbringing in L.A.) and part chronicle of the wheeling and dealing necessary to get anything done in government. Pretty faces and promising careers tend to flash across our local political firmament with the frequency of shooting stars -- and with about as much effect. But for more than two decades, the most consequential elected official in Southern California has been a short, bald, decidedly mustached congressman from Los Angeles' Westside named Henry Waxman. ...

Source: www.thehindu.com --- 15 hours ago
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Source: www.moreover.com --- 17 hours ago
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Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 14 hours ago
While CNN reports that the American Medical Association's new president, J. James Rohack, is open to a government-funded health insurance option, others report that the system the AMA now endorses is not a public plan, but the heavily managed private plan that federal employees participate in. ...

Source: www.stripes.com --- 20 hours ago
For the last eight years, lawmakers have loaded annual defense authorization bills with new pay and benefit initiatives to support troops and their families and to show the nation's appreciation. ...

Source: www.apple.com --- 1 day ago
The largest library in the world, the Library of Congress has “millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps, and manuscripts in its collection.” And now you can enjoy part of that vast collection on iTunes U. Watch early films from Thomas Edison and Westinghouse. Hear the oral histories of African Americans who served as slaves. Enjoy lectures from researchers exploring the links between music and the brain. ...

Source: www.marshfieldnewsherald.com --- 1 day ago
A second Republican appears to be making a run for Congress and will make an announcement Wednesday in Wausau. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 1 day ago
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Source: www.islandpacket.com --- 5 hours ago
It is irresponsible for House members to vote on a bill as important as the cap-and-trade bill when more than 300 pages of amendments were added to the 900-page bill after 3 a.m. that day. ...

Source: www.islandpacket.com --- 9 hours ago
It is irresponsible for House members to vote on a bill as important as the cap-and-trade bill when more than 300 pages of amendments were added to the 900-page bill after 3 a.m. that day. ...

Source: www.hawaiireporter.com --- 21 hours ago
Hawaii's Sen. Daniel Inouye, a Democrat, led a group of senators and spouses on a four-day trip to France for the Paris Air Show, staying at the Intercontinental. ...

Source: www.catholic.org --- 1 day ago
'Public funding of abortion is rejected by the American people, as numerous surveys of public opinion ... ...

Source: www.cato-at-liberty.org --- 1 day ago
Technically, it was the companies which raised their fees. But they did so to anticipate new legislative restrictions on fees taking effect. Congress wanted to cut costs for consumers, but ended up costing them instead. Reports the Washington Post: Credit card companies are raising interest rates and fees seven months before new rules go into effect that will [...] ...

Source: www.npr.org --- 1 day ago
The news that Al Franken is finally going to the Senate has prompted all sorts of musing about the Democrats' new supermajority. But, in fact, the Democrats don't have 60 votes—and it's not even the fault of Independent Joe Lieberman, who's actually been a relatively loyal Democrat of late. No, the real impediments to Senate Democrats achieving a supermajority are staph infection and brain cancer. ...

Source: online.wsj.com --- 1 day ago
Democrats slow-roll aid to an ally. ...

Source: voices.washingtonpost.com --- 1 day ago
Today's Daily Read powered by Publish2 . See what else we're reading by subscribing to our GoogleReader feed, or following us on Twitter . Congress's Travel Tab Swells Wall Street Journal($) The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That's a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago. Group Says Government Used False Confessions Washington Post The American Civil Liberties Union accused the Obama administration of using statements elicited through torture to justify the confinement of a detainee it represents at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Staffer at SEC Had Warned of Madoff Washington Post An investigator at the Securities and Exchange Commission warned superiors as far back as 2004 about irregularities at Bernard L. Madoff's financial management firm, but she was told to focus on an unrelated matter, according to agency documents and sources familiar with the investigation. CIA Report on Interrogation Is Delayed Again WSJ($) Secret CIA Jails an Issue in Terror Case NYT Evidence to Charge Ruth Madoff Lacking WSJ($) Trustee's Total of Madoff Losses Nears $3 Billion NYT Rule Requires Reporting of Contractors' Past Performance GovExec Partner of Blago Witness Sentenced to 18 Months ChiTrib Court ...

Source: www.smallgovtimes.com --- 1 day ago
The Wall Street Journal reported recently a disturbing trend among members of Congress – tenfold increases in travel expenses, all funded by the taxpayer, to destinations like Italy, the Galapagos Islands, Jamaica, the Virgin Islands and locations in-between. The Journal reports that travel itself is up significantly over levels 12 years ago. In 2008, members of [...] ...