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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation that would offer a tax break to the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings and their families. The bill also would exempt payments made to victims and their families from the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund from federal income taxes.
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Other African American women in prominent positions were: Juliet D. Blackura, merchandise manager, Sears Roebuck & Co.; Atlanta, Ga Ruth Bowen, president Queen Booking Corp., New York, N.Y.; Julia M. Carson, Indiana state legislator; June Christmas, M.D., commissioner, New York City department of mental health and mental retardation; Louise M. Dargans, director of research, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington. D.C.; Doris A. Davis, mayor, Compton, CA. Jean a Fairfax, director of legal and community services, the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), New York, N.Y.; Margaret Bush Wilson, president of the NAACP; Frankie Muse Freeman, commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Ri...
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Urges Swift Passage by House of Representatives WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Federation of the Blind today commended the United States Senate for passing the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act (S. 841), which will protect the blind and other pedestrians from injury as a result of silent vehicle technology.
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By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
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ELLENSBURG -- The question is simple, but the answer is anything but -- What are the biggest short-term and long-term challenges confronting Washington universities and community colleges? On Wednesday, the Higher Education Committee of the Washington State House of Representatives convened at Central Washington University to discuss this and other issues.
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WASHINGTON, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A House of Representatives amendment that supports bringing home the remains of U.S. Navy heroes from Libya has no counterpart in the Senate's version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2012. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110621/DC23808)
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In these trying times of political and economic strife, it puffs me up with pride to see that our House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., is working hard to make this nation safe for large, scary snakes. In a report by GOP members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee titled "Broken Government: How the Administrative State has Broken President Obama's Promise of Regulatory Reform," the committee takes issue with a proposed snake ban, calling it an example of how bureaucratic red tape is choking job growth.
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Each Tuesday afternoon at the Salem Senior Center, there are a couple of senior citizens who model behavior that, if adopted by the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., could transform that legislative body. I will explain. Paul Zak, who is a professor of neuroeconomics at the Claremont Graduate University in California and a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, has studied the neurological basis for trust.
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The House of Representatives that returns Tuesday is 10 percent leaner than a year prior - the result of a pair of mandates requiring largely symbolic cuts to the way it goes about its business enacted since John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, assumed the speaker's gavel in January. The cuts have resulted in raises for chiefs of staff, while the payroll for low-level aides was slashed. The largest savings, in mass mailings to constituents, may have come not from renewed financial prudence so much as technology.
