Demonstrators hold up green handkerchiefs, which symbolize the abortion rights movement, during a demonstration in favor of legalizing abortion outside the Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 31, 2018. . © 2018 Reuters (Washington, DC, August 8, 2018) – The Argentine Senate, in a..…
Led by so-called “Radical Republicans,” Congress had voted to free the slaves in Washington, D.C., and ban Union officers from returning escaped slaves to their former owners. ..…
The 2016 election ushered in a new era in Washington defined by unified Republican control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. The changes in the dynamics of power in Washington have registered with members of both political parties. ..…
(R-TX) spoke alongside several other members of Congress on Wednesday at an event called “Washington — A Man of Prayer,” and he used his time to openly weep about the First Amendment, women’s rights, and marriage equality. . . ..…
Based on law and custom, of the past six decades especially, what makes Iran deal unusual is not that it was agreement, except that President Obama was forced to compromise and submit it to Congress for approval. 3.. Washington can still twist the arms of many nations, and recent years..…
Congress, politics cited most often . Asked to name in their own words the biggest problem with the government in Washington, 13% specifically mention Congress, including 11% who cite gridlock or an inability to compromise within the institution. ..…
WASHINGTON -- Congress is poised to approve rules for interrogating and trying suspected terrorists, key piece of the agenda that Republicans aim to showcase in their fight to hold onto control of Congress.. ..…
WASHINGTON -- federal judge Texas, ruling that Congress has no power to second-guess Supreme Court's constitutional rulings, struck down yesterday law designed to protect religion against government interference.. ..…
The basic argument is simple: imposing term limits in a single state amounts to unilateral political disarmament; even those who would like to see incumbents retired after a few terms may think twice about putting their state at a disadvantage in the perennial struggles for political favors in..…
Joshua Roberts/Reuters Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson—who spent at least $92 million to support Republican candidates in the 2012 election—waiting with his wife, Miriam, for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, Washington, D.C., March 2015 With each..…
President Obama while speaking at Boeing Everett, Washington. Now just today, we took important short-term step to strengthen our economy. Just before we got here, Congress did the right thing and voted to make sure that taxes would not go up on middle-class families at the end of this..…
On this question, the responses of independents who lean toward either of the political parties are about the same 53% of Republican-leaning and 51% of Democratic-leaning independents say it's the members of Congress that are the problem.. Smaller percentages cite other concerns 7% say they see..…
As Jesse Zwick emphasizes for The Washington Independent, Congress can still limit the damage in the coming months before the officials elected last night take office. ..…
Library of Congress Washington, D.C. . With the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act in 1998, the United States became one of the few countries in the world to make promotion of religious freedom an explicit foreign policy goal. ..…
Marion Sims and Civil War is based on source archival work Paris, at National Archives and Library of Congress Washington, D.C., and at range of probate offices, archives, and libraries Alabama, New Jersey, Florida and New York.. ..…
Ted Cruz (R-TX) and go to Washington to rattle the china in Congress. . ... Because if 535 members of Congress all do that, that’s how we bankrupt this country.” . ..…
Chris Murphy warns President Trump last February about the clout of the NRA in Congress. . . Washington – Sen. Chris Murphy will join other gun control advocates and a coalition of progressive groups in a one-day fundraising effort for eight Democrats hoping to defeat Republican incumbents..…