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Aug 21 2024
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Majority of U.S. adults oppose Congress enforcing ethics code on Supreme Court, poll shows
A new poll shows that the majority of Americans say that Congress enforcing a code of ethics on the Supreme Court would threaten the judiciary’s independence. First Liberty Institute, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group, commissioned the survey, which was conducted Aug. 12-15 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy. Of the 1,100 adults surveyed, 57% said that Congress having the power
Washington TimesSep 13 2024
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Democrat serving 20 years in prison to run for Congress
The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that a congressional candidate currently serving a 20-year prison sentence can remain on the ballot in the election, running for the state's U.S. Representative seat, according to Anchorage Daily News. Eric Hafner, a registered Democrat who has reportedly never resided in Alaska, is in prison in New York after he pleaded guilty to harassing election officials
NewsweekSep 10 2024
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Troops killed during Afghanistan withdrawal honored by Congress
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday posthumously presented Congress' highest honor — the Congressional Gold Medal — to 13 U.S. service members who were killed during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, even as the politics of a presidential election swirled around the event. Both Democrats and Republicans supported the legislation to honor the 13 U.S. troops, who were
Longview News-JournalSep 17 2024
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Biden denounces trio of ‘anti-woke’ bills in Congress
President Joe Biden has denounced three “anti-woke” bills introduced by Republicans in Congress, saying each is unnecessary or would curtail needed government services. Biden announced Tuesday that he opposes the End Woke Higher Education Act, the Protecting Americans’ Investments from Woke Policies Act, and the Prioritizing Economic Growth Over Woke Policies Act. GOP leaders have teed up a
Washington ExaminerJul 09 2024
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US economy no longer overheated, Fed's Powell tells Congress
WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. is "no longer an overheated economy" with a job market that has "cooled considerably" from its pandemic-era extremes and in many ways is back where it was before the health crisis, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in remarks to Congress that suggested the case for interest rate cuts is becoming stronger.
"We are well aware that we now face two-sided
ReutersSep 04 2024
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Members Of Congress Question Response To Maui Disaster
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s point person for the Maui fires told a congressional oversight panel Wednesday that if he had to do it all over again, the direct-lease housing program would still be the best option to get survivors into longer-term housing. U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda wanted to know what Bob Fenton, FEMA’s Region 9 administrator, had to say about the issue of “predatory
Honolulu Civil BeatSep 12 2024
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Steward Health CEO to Skip Hearing in Rare Rebuff of Congress
US senators investigating the collapse of Steward Health Care, one of the nation’s largest private health systems, are confronting a problem they rarely face: a corporate leader who has refused to testify before Congress.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is holding a hearing on Thursday focused on the crisis spawned by Steward’s financial woes, including
BloombergSep 10 2024
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Families of migrant crime victims confront Congress
The family members of American girls and women killed by illegal immigrants who entered by way of the southern border during the Biden-Harris administration confronted lawmakers in Washington in a fiery, emotional hearing. “Each one of these individuals was someone’s child,” Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said in his opening statement. “Each one is a victim of the Biden-Harris open border policies
Washington ExaminerSep 17 2024
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Congress promised AI rules to protect elections. It’s not happening.
“I would certainly love to see something on the floor. But I’m not sure that we’re going to,” said Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), one of four members of a bipartisan Senate group chosen by Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to work on AI last year. It’s a dramatic comedown from when the Senate first began grappling with generative AI last year, dedicating a full closed-door meeting with
PoliticoSep 04 2024
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The Quietly Momentous First Continental Congress
The road to the congress. These disparate reactions speak to wider divisions in colonial American society. There was not, at this point, anything close to a consensus on virtually any issue. For one thing, people did not identify as American; they were Virginians, New Englanders, Philadelphians, local people with local concerns. In addition, bitter feelings still lingered over how quickly some
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