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- Expert Panel to Address Congress and Current State of U.S. ; the U.S. Archives Will Host a Special Panel Discussion On October 6, 2011.
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...
- U.S. Newswire
- October 05, 2011
- Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998)
... Court determined on expedited review that Members of Congress did not have standing to maintain a co...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Congressional Leaders Push for Oversight of Judiciary
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.
- Daily Record (Rochester, NY)
- March 03, 2011

- Section 2: Judicial Power and Jurisdiction
... 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...
- Constitution of the United States (Annotated)
- Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811 (1997)
...Appellees, Members of the 104th Congress, voted "nay" when Congress p...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Gun control couldn't have stopped it: the Tucson massacre should not lead to new restrictions on firearms.
... 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...
- Reason
- Vol. 42 Nbr. 11, April 2011
- Velazquez Calls for Hearings On President's 'Jobs Act'
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.
- U.S. Newswire
- September 09, 2011
- Rep. Scott Garrett Holds a Hearing On the Sec Budget
... 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...
- Political Transcript Wire
- March 21, 2011
- For Teens in Every State
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).
- U.S. Newswire
- October 18, 2011
- Pa. Veteran to Be Named to West Point Board
President Obama announced plans on Friday to nominate a former Pennsylvania congressmen to serve as a member of the Board of Visitors to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. In 2006, Patrick J. Murphy, 37, became the first veteran of the Iraq War to be elected to Congress. The Democrat represented the 8th Congressional District from 2007 to 2011.
- Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
- June 25, 2011