In 2012, the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, which provides funds for community prevention programs and battered women’s shelters, was strongly opposed by conservative Republicans. Former Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, who had previously voted against renewal of the..…
Congress overwhelmingly approved the invasion (297–133 in the House, 77–23 in the Senate), which was also supported by many journalists and analysts. Energetic and thoughtful arguments for the legality of prevention, based mainly on self-defense, were made before the invasion and in its..…
Although Department of Health reports indicate that 81 percent of recorded HIV cases since 1984 have been among men who have sex with men, the government has failed to target HIV-prevention measures at this group. . . . ... In January 2015, the Senate cut 1 billion pesos (about US$21..…
In Oregon, there's situation where committee hearings at Capitol require those testifying to swear oath that includes the phrase. ..…
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James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, testifies during US House Committee on Intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill Washington, DC, September 10, 2015 Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has warned of a large, Armageddon-scale cyber attack that could debilitate the entire US..…
It's not accident that one of the first bills in Senate with Democratic majority was Prevention First Act, wide-ranging family planning initiative. ..…
People want to 'get tough on crime,' and conservative presidents appoint justices who are likely to share those feelings. . ... Last week the Senate voted to make every murder with a gun that crosses state lines a federal crime. ..…
The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in favor of overturning an Arkansas law aimed at limiting members of Congress to three terms in the House (six years) and two terms in the Senate (12 years). This is a popular sentiment. This month, voters in seven states approved term-limit..…
But Illinois Republican Mark Kirk, who likened Iran’s leadership to a “pyromaniac psycho,” said, “The notion that the Iran sanctions effort can be stopped was killed by the American people at the ballot box when they elected a Republican Senate. This is going to move forward in the..…
In recent years, several studies have revealed, in the words of Steven Cohen of Hebrew Union College and Ari Kelman of the University of California at Davis, that “non-Orthodox younger Jews, on the whole, feel much less attached to Israel than their elders,” with many professing “a near-total absence of..…