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Apr 04 2019
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Trump’s Tax Returns Requested by House Panel Chair
Representative Richard Neal invoked law that allows House Ways and Means Committee chair to obtain any person’s tax information.
The chairman of the House tax-writing committee formally requested President Trump’s tax returns on Wednesday, kicking off what could be a bruising legal fight between Congress and the Trump administration.
In a letter to the Internal Revenue Service,
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 28 2013
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Judge blocks Texas abortion restrictions
A federal district court has ruled that one abortion restriction passed by the Texas state Legislature over the summer is unconstitutional and has partially blocked another. District Judge Lee Yeakel has blocked the state from enforcing a requirement that abortion-providing doctors obtain admitting privileges at local hospitals — a restriction that would have ended abortion services at one-
PoliticoNov 16 2015
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EXCLUSIVE–House Freedom Caucus Chairman: No Commitment from Paul Ryan to Block Import of Muslim Refugees
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)94% reveals that conservative House members have received no commitment from Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)58% that he would in any way try to curb the nation’s importation of Muslims on visas.
By the end of the year, Congress will have to pass a government funding measure to appropriate
Breitbart NewsMay 21 2019
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Election security bills in the Senate are hitting one big roadblock: Mitch McConnell
While the issue of Russian collusion is very clearly politically charged, concerns about election security and foreign interference have historically been more bipartisan. As Mitch McConnell has made clear, however, that’s no longer the case.
Although several Republican-controlled Senate committees are still trying to address potential meddling by foreign adversaries — the Judiciary
VoxAug 23 2014
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Ferguson's Experience Offers Lessons on Integration
Sharon Golliday grew up in the Pruett-Igoe public housing project in St. Louis, a high-rise complex so violent that even the police were afraid to enter.
So like many African-Americans, she and her family took advantage of a sea change in federal housing policy in the 1980s and 90s that came to regard projects as part of the problem. Using a government voucher to subsidize the cost,
Wall Street Journal (News)Sep 18 2012
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Romney to Half of Us: Not My Job to Worry About You
It's not my job to worry about those people," declared Willard M. Romney. Incredibly, this man born with two silver feet in his mouth was speaking ABOUT almost half the population of the United States, the 47 percent of Americans who, because they're too poor, disabled, unemployed, or students, or retired on a pittance, or for some other reason, don't pay any federal income taxes. These people
HuffPostOct 17 2013
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The Shutdown Is Over! So ... What Happens Now?
What time is the next government shutdown? And what is the future of everything?
Glad you asked, because even though the federal government is re-opened and the threat of a debt default has been forestalled, it doesn't pay to get too comfortable. Life inside the Beltway will largely return to its typical status quo of atomic constipation, threadbare competence and small-minded
HuffPostAug 06 2015
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White Kids Get Medicated When They Misbehave, Black Kids Get Suspended — or Arrested
In recent years, as a national conversation about racial discrepancies in American policing has heated up, a depressing subplot has also emerged: a pattern of similar discrepancies in how discipline is meted out in schools. Black students made up just 18 percent of students in the public schools sampled by the New York Times in 2012, but “they accounted for 35 percent of those suspended once”
New York MagazineOct 14 2013
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Lots of talk, little action on debt deal in Congress
Congress spent the weekend insisting that it will reach a deal to raise the federal government’s borrowing limit by Thursday but making scant progress even as all sides tried to reassure itchy financial markets ahead of the stock market opening Monday. Most of the action Saturday and Sunday was negative: Republican senators filibustered Senate Democrats’ proposal for a 15-month debt-ceiling
Washington TimesApr 07 2013
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Major Ally Rips Obama Budget: 'Unconscionable'
WASHINGTON -- President Obama hasnt formally proposed his compromise budget plan yet but the White House can already see cracks forming among its trusted progressive coalition over cutbacks to cherished safety net programs. On Saturday organized labor quickly made good on its promise to oppose a White House budget that includes cuts to Social Security and Medicare with the AFL-CIO labor
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