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The U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure Thursday that expands female workers' ability to sue their employers for gender discrimination and prohibits employers from punishing employees who share salary and compensation data with coworkers. ... Source: news.yahoo.com --- 19 days ago
Reuters - Legislation that seeks to protect college students from lending abuses and expands scholarship aid was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday. ...
Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 19 days ago
Republicans staged a revolt on the House floor yesterday to protest the lack of a vote on opening more land to oil drilling -- but this particular revolution was not televised. ... Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 20 days ago
House Democrats pushed through legislation yesterday that would give women new tools to combat pay discrimination. ... Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 15 days ago
Proposal set for vote would allow semiautomatics in D.C. and change storage, registration rules. ... Source: www.foxnews.com --- 15 days ago
House leaders have agreed to allow a vote next month on a Bill that would end local handgun control in the District of Columbia. ... Source: www.usatoday.com --- 19 days ago
The House took up its first spending Bill Thursday after weeks of delays that have left efforts to pass next year's Cabinet budgets ... ... Source: www.house.gov --- 17 days ago
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Congressman Jim Langevin today voted for the $72.2 billion Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act for FY2009. ... Source: martinez.senate.gov --- 19 days ago
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The House has approved legislation by U.S. Representative Keith Ellison to tighten standards for lead exposure in public housing. ... Source: www.courant.com --- 17 days ago
As the congressional session on Thursday inched closer to its summer break, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Bill authored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro to encourage paycheck fairness for women. ...
Source: www.kdhnews.com --- 19 days ago
Special to the Daily Herald WASHINGTON – Before speeding for the exits Friday to begin a five-week recess, House lawmakers passed the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill, which includes more than $60 million for p (...) ... Source: www.htrnews.com --- 19 days ago
WASHINGTON Aid for low-income students would increase and college students would get more information about tuition and textbook costs under legislation approved by the House on Thursday. ...
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a Bill recently apologizing to African Americans for slavery and segregation. Authored by Steve Cohen, Democrat of Memphis, and co-sponsored by 120 representatives, House Resolution 194 apologizes for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow" segregation but does not address the issue of reparations. ... Source: www.dailyitem.com --- 18 days ago
The $73.7 billion Military Construction and Veteran Affairs appropriations Bill, which the U.S. House passed Friday by a 409-4 vote, includes $24 million in funding for a new Army Reserve center in Lewisburg. ... Source: abrn.search-autoparts.com --- 8 days ago
The Massachusetts Auto Body Association (MABA) has announced that the Massachusetts Legislature’s House of Representatives has unanimously passed House Bill 5056 and sent it to the Senate, where once passed, would need to be signed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, who has already endorsed and signed into law sweeping auto insurance reforms. ... Find more results for House Bill on RSSMicro.com |
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Reuters - Legislation to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration broad authority to regulate cigarettes and other forms of tobacco cleared the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday. ...
Congress has finished work on a Bill that would create the toughest lead standards in the world for children's toys. ...
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation Wednesday that for the first time would subject the tobacco industry to regulation by federal health authorities whose job is to promote public well-being. Its backers call the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act landmark legislation. While the Bill appears to have enough support to pass this year, it is unclear whether the Senate will have time to act, and the Bush administration said Wednesday that President George W. Bush would veto the Bill. The 326-102 House vote signaled solid bipartisan support for the measure, with 96 Republicans breaking with Bush's position to vote in favor of the Bill. Both presidential candidates, Sens. John McCain, a Republican, and Democrat Barack Obama support the legislation. Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman worked for more than a decade to get the House to pass tobacco regulation. "This is truly a historic day in the fight against tobacco," Waxman said. "But it took us far too long to get here." The Bill would tighten restrictions further on tobacco advertising and impose new federal penalties for selling to minors. Its most far-reaching provisions would give the Food and Drug Administration power to regulate tobacco, from cigarettes to new kinds of smokeless products. While the agency could not outlaw tobacco or nicotine, it could demand the reduction or elimination of cancer-causing chemicals in cigarette smoke. The Bill would pr ...