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• Democrat Members of the House Armed Services Committee Hold a News Conference On the War in Iraq

` DEMOCRAT MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE ON THE WAR IN IRAQ JUNE 14, 2006 SPEAKERS: U.S. REPRESENTATI...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 10, 2009

• Lawmakers to Finalize State Budget: ; Despite Combative Regular Session, Members of Committee Say Work Will Be Done 'Amicably'

While their regular 60-day session ended Saturday, the Legislature still must finalize the state's budget for the upcoming fiscal year - a process that will begin today at the state Capitol. Building on acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's proposal, a joint conference committee will resolve differences in the House and Senate versions of an $11.4 billion dollar budget bill.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• March 15, 2011

• Committee Passes Standards for Juvenile-Detention Facilities ; Senate File 9, Juvenile Detention Facilities-Standards, Must Pass Three Readings in the House to Move On to a Conference Committee to Reconcile Differences with the Senate or to the Governor for Approval.

By Bill McCarthy bmccarthy@wyomingnews.com

• Wyoming Tribune - Eagle
• February 24, 2010

• Stricter Ethics Bill Is in Doubt Again

For a second consecutive year, an attempt to toughen the state ethics law is in doubt as the regular session of the Legislature winds down to its final days. A House-Senate conference committee met for the first time Wednesday to work out differences in House and Senate versions of the ethics bill (HB2464).

• Charleston Gazette
• March 10, 2011

• 80th West Virginia Legislature: ; Senate, House Agree On Pay Hikes

West Virginia judges would get large raises while teachers, school service workers and other public employees would get smaller pay boosts under an agreement reached Friday by state lawmakers. Members of a House-Senate conference committee signed off on the compromise in the afternoon. Both houses must take up the bill (HB2879) again. The legislative session ends today.

• Charleston Gazette
• March 14, 2011

• Introduction: Citizenship Surveillance of La Gente (the People)-Theory, Practice, and Cultural Citizen Voices

Contributors also critically examine the power relations embodied in citizenship inequalities that have been resisted by Latinas/os across generations before and during the proposal of anti-immigrant U.S. House Resolution (H.R.) 4437, also known as the Border Protection, Antiteirorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act, which initially passed in December 2005, but was stalled in the House-Senate Conference Committee in June 2006. According to Quijada, youth activism on citizenship issues has led some researchers to ask, "What does it mean to do research and to teach in the area of youth studies when young people who are not participants of our studies walk out of their high schools and demand civic participation?" By blending personal testimony with ethnographic data, Quijada explain...

• Social Justice
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 1, January 2008

• Bi-Partisan Majority in the U.S. House Calls for Protection of Camp Ashraf Residents

WASHINGTON, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, and Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, were joined yesterday by ten of their colleagues, including three from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in a press conference to announce the support by a bi-partisan House majority for the humanitarian rights and protection of residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq. In his remarks, Rep. Filner announced that following the last July deadly assault by the Iraqi security forces against unarmed residents of Camp Ashraf, home to 3,400 members of Iran's main opposition, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), he introduced a resolution (H....

• U.S. Newswire
• March 18, 2010

• Firms Gauging Impact of Pension Reform Law

After working for more than a year to draft legislation, spending four months in an opaque conference committee reconciling the House and Senate versions, and achieving approval of final legislation in a rush before its August recess, Congress delivered a 1,099-page measure that rewrites US pension laws. Now corporations have to wade through the bill's provisions, which contain interrelated policy on defined-benefit and defined-contribution pensions, relief for airlines and other industries, and assorted tax reform measures. The provisions start on a staggered schedule, with new contribution calculations taking effect in Jan 2008. In addition to curbing credit balances, which have allowed companies to skip payments in some years, the legislation will limit the smoothing of interest rate...

• Workforce Management
• August 11, 2009

• Budget Gets Early Ok From Senate ; 233 Amendments in $34 Billion Bill

The Maryland Senate voted Tuesday night to approve the state's proposed $34.2 billion budget, sending it to a joint Senate-House conference committee for review. The Senate voted 37-10 in favor of the spending plan, which had already passed the House. The Senate declined to make any further amendments to the budget during a pair of floor debates Tuesday.

• The Washington Times
• March 30, 2011

• Cwa Urges the Senate-House Conference Committee to Preserve Broadcast Decency Language in Dod Bill

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ - Concerned Women for America (CWA) called for the Senate-House Conference Committee to use the Broadcast Decency language in the final Senate version of the Department of Defense (DOD) Authorization Bill. The conference committee is expected to vote at any time to resolve differences between the Senate and the House versions. The Senate version would allow the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to increase fines up to $275,000 for a first offense and $375,000 for a second offense, with a $3 million cap per day.

• U.S. Newswire
• October 01, 2004