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- U.S. House of Representatives Lynn Jenkins
- By James Carlson THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Kansas Treasurer Lynn Jenkins is ready to step to the national stage in the U.S. House of Representatives after rising through the state Republican ranks, from the Kansas House to the Kansas Senate before becoming the state treasurer in 2002. ...
- Research articles 2008-10-19
- Bill Would Renew Clean Water Funding.(Brief article)
- Compiled by Carl Molesworth On Jan. 30, a bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to renew funding for the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund. The Water Quality Financing Act of 2007 (H.R. 720) also includes a provision to...
- Research articles 2007-04-02
- Race, party, and contested elections to the U.S. House of Representatives *.
- Recent studies of contested elections in the House have pointed to party electoral goals as motivating their resolution in Congress. However, little systematic research has been conducted on why such elections were contested to begin with. Using historical data and new statistical analysis of such elections from the late nineteenth...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- NBC-LEO honors 2 pioneers in Congress.(National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials, James E. Clyburn, Lorraine Miller)
- Terry Riley, councilmember, Kansas City, Mo., and president of the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials (NBC-LEO), presented Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), who is serving as the Majority Whip of the 110th Congress, and Lorraine Miller, clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, with...
- Research articles 2007-03-26
- Clinton, Hoyer to speak at Congressional City Conference.
- Several prominent members of Congress will address delegates at the Congressional City Conference, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.). These members...
- Research articles 2007-03-05
- Keith Ellison
- Keith Ellison, a convert to Islam and Democrat from Minneapolis, became Nov. 7 the first Muslim to be elected to Congress. With 56 percent of the vote, Ellison, 43, beat two other candidates to take Minnesota's 5th Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Research articles 2006-11-24
- E-giants lobby for privacy laws.(REGULATORY UPDATE)
- Technology giants, including Intel, and Microsoft, are fighting for Congress to write uniform privacy standards, relieving the industry from "a complex patchwork" of laws. Scott Taylor, Chief Privacy Officer for Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, Calif., presented these ideas recently at a hearing by a U.S. House of...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Congress Asked to Increase Renewable Energy Funding
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> Thirty-one business, consumer, environmental, and energy policy organizations called today for higher funding levels in Fiscal Year 2006 for the U.S. Department of Energy's renewable energy and energy efficiency programs. In a letter delivered today to Congressional appropriators in the U.S. Senate and the...
- Research articles 2005-09-26
- California agency to receive federal water funding.(COMMUNITY)
- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that will authorize $15 million in federal funding for water reclamation and distribution by California's Big Bear Area Regional Wastewater Agency BBARWA. The Water Resources Development Act (HR 2864) passed by a 406-14 vote and is...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- National Park Struggles Continue Under New Budget
- WASHINGTON, July 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Parks Conservation Association NPCA said that the fiscal year 2006 Interior Appropriations budget, expected to pass the U.S. House of Representatives tonight, reduces the total National Park Service budget by 3 percent. This cut would result in ad hoc development in and...
- Research articles 2005-07-28
- Photo Advisory: Members of Congress Announce Bipartisan Legislationto Update, Improve Kidney Care Quality and Ensure Access to Dialysis
- News Advisory: Photo Editors: High resolution, publication-ready photos supporting the following captions are available for free editorial use at http://www.wirepix.com/newsphotos Captions: Tejal Vakhaira with Abbott Laboratories explains what a Flat Stanley project is to Washington Redskins' Darnerien McCants following a press briefing in the U.S. Capitol, Wed., March 16, 2005,...
- Research articles 2005-03-16
- North Carolina congressman from High Point set to become black caucus chairman.
- By Paul B. Johnson, High Point Enterprise, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 9--Rep. Mel Watt, D-12th, should become the leader of a key congressional caucus after his re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives last week. Watt, the...
- Research articles 2004-11-09
- Electoral consequences of porkbusting in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Members of the U.S. House of Representatives work together to help each other provide constituents with particularistic benefits. By collaborating in this pork-barrel game, each legislator gets the opportunity to claim credit for working to improve the quality of life back home in the district. The political payoffs of pork-barreling...
- Research articles 2002-09-22
- Policy work for 2001 wraps up at congress of cities: the membership approved policy language urging that Washington, D.C.'s delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives be granted floor-voting privileges. Another resolution supports greater budget and le
- Highlights of NLC's policy development process at the Congress of Cities in Atlanta include support of voting rights in the House of Representatives for the District of Columbia, new policy concerning international trade agreements and a comprehensive revision of NLC's energy policy. The...
- Research articles 2001-12-17
- Diane Watson Wins House Seat Of Late Julian Dixon; Becomes 15th Black Woman Serving In U.S. Congress
- Barely 24 hours after she reaped three-fourths of the vote in a four-person Congressional race in Los Angeles, former Ambassador to Micronesia Diane Watson flew to Washington to be sworn in as the 15th Black female member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She replaced the late Rep. Julian...
- Research articles 2001-06-25
- U.S. House of Representatives - 5th District
- Congress creates laws and watches over the activities of the executive branch of government. Congress is a two-chamber legislature made up of 100 members of the Senate and 435 members of the House of Representatives. A senator must be at least 30 years old, a U.S. citizen for at...
- Research articles 2000-10-26
- Technology Bills Moving Through Congress
- Federal anti-spam legislation is headed to the U.S. House of Representatives after a bill was approved last week by the House Commerce Committee. The bill, HR-3113, the Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act of 2000, would allow Internet Service Providers and consumers to sue E-mail spammers for up to $150,000...
- Research articles 2000-06-26
- Statement by Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, November 13, 1997 - Statements to the Congress - Transcript
- Statement by Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, November 13, 1997Recent developments in world finance have highlighted growing interactions among national financial markets. The underlying technology-based structure of the international financial system has...
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- Statement by Silas Keehn, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, before the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, October 19, 1993 - Statements to the Congress - Transcript
- As requested, let me briefly summarize my views on the question of the appropriate recordkeeping and public release of the deliberations of the Federal Open Market Committee FOMC. As I stated in my letter of January 13 of this year to the chairman of this committee, I fully support...
- Research articles 1993-12-01
- Statement by Thomas C. Melzer, President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, before the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, October 19, 1993 - Statements to the Congress - Transcript
- I am pleased to appear before the committee today to testify on section 4 of the Federal Reserve System Accountability Act of 1993, entitled "Prompt Public Disclosure of Open Market Committee Meetings." As a creation of the Congress, the Federal Reserve System is fully accountable to the public for its...
- Research articles 1993-12-01
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