While majority of Americans say in this country is working well, about six-in-ten say significant changes to the fundamental design and structure of government are needed to make it work for current times 38% say the design and structure of government serves the country well and does not need significant..…
Newseum Displays Sculpture of Alice Allison Dunnigan, First African American Woman to Cover White House and Congress. ..…
Congress has invoked War Powers Act to limit American military commitments, and more ambiguous interventions, particularly those with humanitarian dimension like Somalia and Kosovo in the 1990s, slipped through the statutory cracks. ..…
At Sept summit the focus was on elevating the voices and leadership of women of in the political arena.. ..…
Capitol With the debate over gerrymandering making its way through Supreme Court, and suppression very much reality, the issue of representation for Black people remains in need of solutions. ..…
Tweet President Donald Trump could personally discover the cure for cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, autism, end starvation around the world, bring peace to Middle East, erase the debt and end unemployment, and Democrats would still attack him as they are now. ..…
President Rodrigo Duterte's Harry Roque at House of Congress Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines May 15, 2017. © 2017 Reuters. ..…
House of Representatives has introduced bill to amend the Constitution in effort to fight the influence of so-called dark money in politics.. ..…
Earlier this summer, Illinois became the 37th state to ratify Equal Rights Amendment to United States Constitution proposed by Congress on March 22, 1972. ..…
The advocacy group, AARP, is launching campaign to block congressional efforts to turn Medicare into voucher system.. ..…
Currently, majorities give favorable assessments of 13 of the 17 agencies and departments tested by contrast, fewer Department of Education, IRS and Department of Veterans Affairs .. ..…
WASHINGTON - federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Bush administration's plan to convene military tribunals to try terrorism suspects detained at U.S naval base on Guantanamo Bay is constitutional, decision that promises to jump-start controversial and historic process that has been waylaid for eight..…
Tom Coburn and George Nethercutt were elected to Congress in 1994 as part of wave of citizen lawmakers. ..…
I have come to realize over the past seven years that, with the failure of term-limits legislation nationally, to limit my own service puts the I represent at disadvantage... ..…
Six Western states are among those with declines in unauthorized immigrant populations from 2009 to 2012 — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Oregon. ..…
By special interest groups that, Stevens notes that as late as 1991, even retired Chief Justice Warren Burger, said that Second Amendment has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word 'fraud, on American publicI have ever seen in my lifetime... ..…
Charles Ommanney Contact Press Images Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and John Paul Stevens, 2005 Robert Katzmann, has been federal judge for over fifteen years. ..…
The number expressing favorable opinion of Congress has fallen by nine points since March, with nearly equal declines among Republicans, Democrats and independents.. ..…
Passed by House and Senate last week, National Defense Authorization Act now awaits the president's signature. President Obama had threatened to veto the bill back May, when House passed one version of it, and again November, when Senate passed another, somewhat different version of it.. ..…
Tea Party, and its focus on eliminating government, and including Christian Washington, is hurting Republican Party's chances of appealing to swing voters and winning back Senate and House of Representatives November's midterm elections.. ..…
What Happened The Republican-controlled House of Representatives yesterday passed bill that would ease the way for Congress to sue president. ..…
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