Since 2008, John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, to US Congress detailing ways waste, embezzlement, fraud and abuse have resulted in failed reconstruction efforts. ..…

Congressional Research Service, Capitol Hill's think tank, is highlighting laws for Trump to tap that would not be subject to Congress termination provison... ... Banzhaf pointed out two legal provisions in CRS report on emergency wall funding that could be the easiest way for Trump to bypass..…

Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Francis Rooney hope to rejuvenate idea, proposing amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress. ... By sending forth amendment is above zero, After all, 15 states already term-limit their legislators However, the likelihood that two-thirds of the..…

He currently heads the Israel Council on Foreign Relations, a Jerusalem think tank affiliated with the World Jewish Congress. . ..…

State of Union speech is considered as opportunity for US presidents to explain future plans before a joint session of US Congress at the beginning of each year. . ..…

Given the openness of the U.S. political system, where all 535 members of Congress are potential targets who can advance a foreign nation’s interests, it might be more vulnerable to this source of overcommitment than any other country on Earth. . ..…

The Anti-Defamation League released a statement in response to Tlaib’s tweet: “Representative Tlaib’s tweet regarding the pending bill on the Senate floor has been interpreted by some as suggesting that Jews or Members of Congress, such as the sponsors of the bill, are more loyal to Israel..…

With government shutdown over for now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited President Donald Trump to give his 2019 State of Union Address to Joint Session of Congress on February, week later. ..…

Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of Islamist Ennahda movement, speaks during the movement's congress Tunis, Tunisia, May 20, 2016.. ..…

One major step that would help is to disallow Congress from taking any outside $ and have fixed amount equally for everyone AND eliminating all lobbyists. — Randy Baker January 28, 2019.. 52 percent of Clinton's cash came from large contributors, while Trump pulled 14 percent from these wealthy..…

.), the first member of Congress to endorse Sen. Kamala Harris for president said this on Twitter on Monday: . ..…

American troops are now obligated to defend Montenegro, the NATO and so-called critical addition to Transatlantic alliance, without Congress first passing declaration of war. ... Trump could explain to American people that Congress is now in the strange position of promising that..…

In effort to get Democratic members of Congress on record about LA teachers strike and the issues teachers have with charter schools, Rachel Cohen for Intercept found few had anything to say.. ..…

Congress must take action to fix this problem. . While disenfranchisement policies have been in place for many years, the number of persons subject to these laws has increased dramatically with the expansion of the criminal justice system over the last 40 years. ..…

They also included testimony by a Huawei senior vice president to the US Congress that Huawei’s business in Iran did not violate any rules or regulations, including related to sanctions. [Charles Ding, a senior VP with the company, testified before Congress on Sept. 13, 2012.] . (8)..…

And this from both sides of the ruling coin, with conservatives blathering about socialism and genocidal democracy resulting from wimpy policies merely asking how so few can be so rich while so many are so poor, and what passes for a liberal left more concerned for scandalizing a president and whining about..…

In interview on Fox and Friends Monday morning, Aaron McWilliams explained that the bill is important including how it informed Constitutional Congress.. ..…

Convicted of lying to Congress about Iran-Contra, Abrams called his prosecutors “filthy bastards,” dismissed the proceedings as “Kafkaesque,” and denounced the members of the Senate Intelligence Committee as “pious clowns.” ..…

In December 2018, Congress passed The First Step, rare piece of legislation that takes initial steps to reform the justice system and ease prison sentences at the federal level.. ..…

Bartolo Fuentes, a Honduran journalist and former member of Congress, tells In These Times that the southern Mexico development portion of the Marshall Plan could be promising. ... Congress, for example, have called for the United States to more rigorously condition foreign aid and loans to..…

Democratic response will Abrams platform to counter President following his address to Congress and the nation — and the speech is sure to further elevate her national profile... ..…

Guaido said in interview with CNN Spanish on Monday that Venezuela's opposition-controlled congress had approved measure asking foreign nations to ensure the country's assets aren't looted by Maduro... ..…

In assessment casting doubt on President Trump's of North Korea, U.S intelligence agencies told Congress on Tuesday that North is to dismantle its nuclear arsenal... ... -Mexico border, which Trump has asserted as the basis for his demand that Congress finance border wall. ..…

Graham said agreeing to one big package could clear the decks of the thorny issues facing Congress in the weeks ahead.. ... Sometime in the half of 2019, Treasury Department will lose the ability to borrow if Congress and President ca not agree on how to get around the cap. ..…

Congress should likewise strongly support the effort, as lawmakers have consistently bemoaned the lack of innovation in IT across government. ..…

Written Arabic acquired by Library of Congress, The Life of Omar Ibn Said is handwritten personal story of American slave, and it's also one of the intimate accounts of the early history of Muslims in United States... ..…

Buildings present opportunity for Congress to revitalize the core of U.S infrastructure and improve communities across the country.. ..…

Makh, a veteran Bolshevik from Kharkov, had been a delegate to the Tenth Party Congress. ... On May 25, 1923, a month after the Twelfth Party Congress, he was arrested by the GPU. ..…

To avoid getting caught flatfooted, Cornyn is holding discussions with party officials at all levels, from RNC to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, to individual members of Texas GOP Congress... ..…

But, more significantly, he signaled that he will declare a national emergency and use the military to build the wall without approval from Congress... ..…

Klein condemned the behavior of purportedly mainstream Jewish bodies like Presidents Conference, AIPAC, the World Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee and Jewish federations that failed to criticize other Jewish organizations slandering Trump from Jewish platforms.. ..…

Congress detail how waste, embezzlement, fraud, and abuse of U.S. funds undermine reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. . . ... Congress detailing how waste, embezzlement, fraud, and abuse undermine reconstruction efforts. ..…

Q Marzieh Hashemi was neither mentioned by the US, nor any of the members of US Congress, not even any other elected US officials. ..…

there was shift within House of Representatives the commanding heights of power within Congress remains under the control of the conservative and centrist forces within Democratic Party. ..…

After Maduro was re-elected, administration plans began taking shape, driven in part by key members in the National Security Council and anti-Maduro advocates in Congress like extreme interventionist Senator Marco Rubio. . ..…

Democrat Congress had called on Trump to postpone the address, citing, among other things, security... ..…

Bush led the NAFTA negotiations, but Clinton and Al Gore backed by Big Business were hired to push it through Congress. . ..…

From September 8 to 14, 1929, members of the Congress of the World League of Sexual Reform met in London to promote their agenda which included the promotion of onanism, birth control, masturbation, eugenics, population control, sterilization, artificial insemination, divorce, and feminism; the..…

After spirited debate, ABA House of Delegates on Monday voted to ask Congress and Department of Defense to instruct Armed Forces and its public-private venture housing contractors to implement breed-neutral pet policies for families living in military housing in United States... ..…

Those jurisdictions and several states were allocated $90 billion in disaster-relief funds by Congress in response to the hurricanes, floods and wildfires of 2017. ..…

It urges Congress to enact legislation affirming that discrimination based on orientation or identity is discrimination under Civil Rights Act, and affirming that religious freedom laws do not authorize otherwise illegal discrimination.. ..…

It ended on Friday, with Trump sticking to his $5.7 billion demand for Congress to fund wall along U.S...…

There was also brief, rambling answer from Beto O'Rourke about the responsibility to protect doctrine that had very little to do with the doctrine, and surprising rebuke of O'Rourke from New York Mayor Bill de Blasio about the importance of Congress declaring war. ..…

President Donald Trump had said he would have signed the measure if it had passed both houses of Congress. . ..…