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WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress (FMC) and the National Archives will team up for a program discussing the deterioration of civility in the U.S. Congress and solutions for the future.
On Thursday, October 6, at 7:00 pm at the National Archives' McGowan Theatre (700 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.), FMC will host a panel discussion focusing on Congress and the current state of the U.S. representative democracy. Panelists include: the authors of the 2006 publication The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get it Back on Track-- Thomas E. Mann, the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, and Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for...
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... Court determined on expedited review that Members of Congress did not have standing to maintain a co...
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Efforts by Congress to oversee the federal judiciary are being renewed with the re-introduction of a bill that would create an inspector general to conduct investigations of alleged misconduct.
The bill was introduced in the 112th Congress last week by Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., R-Wis., member and former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
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... the extra-judicial functions which some members of the Convention-Madison and Wilson notably- conc... that the President or either House of Congress be able to request advisory opinions of the Suprem...
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...Appellees, Members of the 104th Congress, voted "nay" when Congress p...
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... spree, with victims including a congresswoman, a judge, and a little girl, committed by a known ... possessing weapons within 1,1000 feet of a member of Congress. He didn't explain how such a rule wou...
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NATION AT A GLANCE
CALVERTON, N.Y. | The U.S. Navy's newest warship will not be named for a former president, distinguished member of Congress or some historic figure from the past.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Small Business, today wrote the Committee Chairman, Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), calling for swift hearings on the "American Jobs Act," legislation the President outlined in an address to Congress on Thursday night.
The full text of Velazquez's letter is below.
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... RANKING MEMBER REP. GARY L. ACKERMAN, D-N.Y. ... carry out the responsibilities that this Congress gave it, over the objections of my Republican coll...
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Parents of children killed in teen-related crashes joined today to mark "National Teen Driver Safety Week", October 16-22, and to urge Congress to pass federal legislation to protect new teen drivers.
Bipartisan legislation known as the STANDUP Act (Safe Teen And Novice Driver Uniform Protection Act) (H.R. 1515/ S.528) has been introduced in the House by Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) and Rep. Hultgren (R-IL) and in the Senate by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) as well as Senator Klobuchar (D-MN). A letter, signed by 28 parents from across the country, was sent to each Member of Congress, calling for quick action on this lifesaving legislation. (Parents' letter is available at www.saferoads4teens.org).