H. CON. RES. 7 Rep Kennedy, Mark R. [MN-6] Expressing the sense of the Congress that there should be established a Free Enterprise Education Week to encourage schools and businesses to educate students about the free enterprise system. (introduced 1/4/2005), Cosponsors None Latest Major Action: 1/4/2005 Referred to House committee....
WASHINGTON -- A bill to extend a moratorium on Internet-access taxes moved through a key House committee last Wednesday while a Senate panel started considering similar legislation. - First enacted in 1998 and renewed for two years in 2001, the cur WASHINGTON -- A...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Rep. Richard W. Pombo (R- Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Resources which maintains jurisdiction over Native American issues, announced plans today to intervene in New York tribal land claims to bring a WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Rep. Richard W. Pombo...
Area agencies on aging and other groups were disappointed this week when a House committee approved a budget resolution that would make it harder to fund programs for seniors. Area agencies on aging and other groups were disappointed this week when a House...
Statement by Patrick M. Parkinson, Associate Director, Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, May 6, 1999
THE HOUSE Appropriations Committee has approved a funding bill that would provide, the Environmental Protection Agency with a. $7.15 billion budget in fiscal year 2001. The panel sent the spending bill to the House floor by a voice vote after ...
WASHINGTON, April 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Thomas Brantley, president of Professional Airways Systems Specialists, AFL-CIO PASS, today told the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's Subcommittee on Aviation that FAA policy changes potentiaWASHINGTON, April 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Thomas Brantley, president of Professional Airways Systems Specialists, AFL-CIO PASS, today told...
Calif. has full chairmanships of five major House committees: Ways and Means, Rules, Resources, Armed Services, Homeland Security. That's not so in the Senate, where both Californians are Democrats. Calif. has full chairmanships of five major House committees: Ways and Means, Rules, Resources, Armed...
WASHINGTON, April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In testimony presented before the full House Committee on Education and the Workforce this week, Education Leaders Council ELC CEO Lisa Graham Keegan urged committee members to support President Bush's proposal foWASHINGTON, April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In testimony presented before the full House...
Byline: Paul Winston It took a financial disaster for tens of thousands of United Airlines' employees and retirees and for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., but Congress finally is waking up to the need to address serious flaws in the nation's p Byline:...
CHICAGO, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In testimony today before the House Committee on Financial Services in Washington, D.C., D. Cameron Findlay, executive vice president and general counsel of Aon Corporation, urged the U.S. Department of Treasury to address a primary cause of the current U.S. liquidity problem -- the...
The U.S. House has only one real fight over a leadership spot this year -- and Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, is rushing in with his political sword and shield to defend a committee chairman being challenged as not friendly enough to the environment. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich.,...
Thirteen East Bay priests, rabbis and ministers asked Congressional leaders from California on Wednesday to urge President- elect Barack Obama to ban the use of torture by U.S. agencies as one of his first acts in office. Meeting with the top staff of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
OLDWICK, N.J. -- In the Democratic primaries earlier this year, they were rivals. But as President-elect Barack Obama begins work crafting what will have to be among his first initiatives--a new regulatory framework for financial services--he will do so with Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd as a linchpin to...
The day after U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., voted to override President George W. Bush's veto of the $23 billion Water Resources Development Act in November, he was called to a meeting with the president. President Bush had vetoed the bill, claiming the measure was too...
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthony J. Guida, Jr. was appointed by the U.S. House of Representatives to the U.S. Department of Education Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance ACSFA serving a term that expires October 2011. ACSFA was created by Congress in the Higher Education Amendments of 1986...
By Emelie Rutherford The two candidates battling for California's 52nd congressional district seat are no strangers to Congress, the Pentagon, the Global War on Terror, and defense spending. The Republican and fundraising frontrunner is Duncan D. Hunter, 31, a Marine Corps Reserve captain,...
Lawrence Gottlieb, Chair of Cooley GodwardKronish LLP's Bankruptcy & Restructuring Group, appeared recently beforethe U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Lawto inform key members of Congress about the impact of 2005 bankruptcy codechanges on retailers filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. With the recent changes among investment banks and...
WASHINGTON -- Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington CREW asked the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to investigate whether Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) violated House rules by improperly contacting a sitting U.S. Attorney. The U.S. Attorney in Albuquerque, New Mexico, David C. Iglesias has...
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