United States attempts to subvert Venezuela and its open threats to invade Latin American country marking the return of interventionism to the hemisphere, after period of rapprochement and dialogue during Obama administration.. ..…
Tracing the origins of the militaryʼs antigay World War II, his book was often referred to in 1993 Senate hearings on that policy and was the basis for the documentary film Coming Out Under Fire.. ..…
US Democrats tried to block the decision of US Treasury to lift the sanctions from Oleg Deripaska's companies, and Senate did not support the lower house. ..…
On Senate side, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would be open to approving legislation to prevent government shutdowns, provided the measure has bipartisan support. ... Tim Kaine, D-Va., Wednesday, this bill is similar to Warner's legislation and also would stop Senate from considering..…
The final vote in Assembly was 95-49, Senate was 38-24. The primary sponsors of the legislation were state Sen. ..…
After an essentially pointless 35 day shutdown, some members of the House and Senate are proposing bills that would make government shutdowns impossible. . · Sunday, January 27, 2019 · 17 comments . . ..…
To hear the cheers on the floor of New York Senate when the law passed must have been the same sound slave owners made when big shipment of fresh slaves came pulling into port or the cheers that echoed through Reichstag with the passage of Nuremberg Laws... ... In light of what New York has..…
House vote was 52-25 and Senate vote was 23-16, with two Democrats each chamber voting against raising the minimum... ..…
The U.S. senate recently voted overwhelming for just such a bill that would make boycotting Israel illegal. ..…
In Congress, the President is selected by House of Representatives and Vice President is selected by Senate. House of Representatives selects from the three presidential candidates who earn the number of electoral votes and Senate selects from the vice presidential candidates. ..…
What we Democrats were not prepared to do is to allow this President, aided and abetted by Senate majority, to hold the people and government of United States hostage to his campaign rhetoric and political whims. . ... In 2017-2018, Republican majorities in both Senate and House..…
At the request of Senator Richard Lugar, the most prominent Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Carl Meacham, director of Latin America on the Senator’s political team, met with staff from the State Department, senior foreign diplomats and industry representatives over several..…
Senate’s Batista-Cuban hardliner Rubio accused this of being “theft,” as if feeding the people to alleviate the U.S...…
The US government shutdown is over for now and Trump and Senate Republicans lost in the court of public opinion. ..…
The measure has been carried for years by Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, D-Bronx, and on Thursday it picked up key support in Senate when Sen. ..…
Not surprisingly, Senate's first act of New Year was an implicit rebuke of the president's drawdown. ..…
Booker has long been in Democratic Party, and has worked to implement in Senate focused on justice reform, legalization of marijuana, and in the inequality gap for American people. ..…
On the other side of Capitol Hill, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the self-described “center-right” American Action Forum, told the Republican-led Senate Finance Committee that government policies were at least partly to blame for rising drug prices. . ..…
James Antle III, responded to Feb Senate vote, by calling on President Donald Trump to call Congress's bluff in his State of Union address... Put the onus on House and Senate to fulfill their constitutional duties. ..…
confinement of slavery within its old terrain, therefore, was bound in the sphere to annihilate the hegemony that the slave states exercised through Senate, to threatening perils from the poor whites.. ..…
Madagascar This island off the East African coast relies upon college of municipal, communal, regional and provincial leaders to pick 42 of the 63 members of its Antenimieran-Doholona, or Senate. ... Pakistan Asian president is selected by college, consisting of members of Senate,..…
Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, who focuses on nuclear issues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called the treaty’s suspension “a tragedy that makes the world less safe.” . . . ..…
the Alabama Democrat who beat out accused predator, racist, and all-around Roy Moore for Senate offers any indication of how Democrats will proceed in the year, the signs are not promising. ..…
Bush, even at the federal level, Republican-dominated Supreme Court struck down the last remaining state sodomy laws, and Senate rejected Bush-sponsored to Constitution that would have defined marriage as exclusively heterosexual.. ..…
The Colorado State Senate passed bill this week to place the in a compact of states pushing to elect U.S by. ..…
Opponents — including Senate Republicans — say decriminalizing abortion strips away legal protections for pregnant women who are victims of domestic abuse. . ..…
Lower House lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the plan, which now passes to the Senate. ..…
A good modern example of this use of nullification is a bill introduced in the Hawaii Senate to ban the use of “stingrays.” ..…
During his in Senate, Booker has not focused much on policy, and worked to provide relief for teachers. ..…