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6 May 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In my Verdict column this past Friday, I described a recent report from the Republican staff of the House Ways & Means Committee (which, along with the Senate Finance Committee, bears primary responsibility for writing the country’s tax laws). [read post]
26 Jun 2007, 10:18 am
Representative John Murtha, the Democrat chairman of the U.S. [read post]
  There have been numerous bills introduced over the past year, and the House of Representatives addressed certain corporate governance/executive compensation topics in The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed in December 2009. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 8:54 am by jeffreynewmanadmin
” The committee’s actions represent a shift in thinking in Washington about U.S. investment ties with China that has put some venture-capital firms in the hot seat. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 11:40 am by Michael Markarian
House of Representatives begins debate tomorrow on the annual appropriations bill to fund the budget of the U.S. [read post]
23 Sep 2021, 9:03 pm by News Desk
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, has introduced the bill that would require USDA to partner with growers, distributors, and food hubs to provide fresh, U.S. [read post]
3 Jun 2019, 2:35 pm by Michael Geist
In December 2017, the government launched its copyright review with a Parliamentary motion to send the review to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. [read post]
24 Jul 2018, 8:56 am by Molly E. Reynolds
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) have opposed the idea publicly, but that doesn’t appear to have dissuaded Meadows and his allies from pushing forward. [read post]
28 May 2013, 1:04 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
The immigration reform bill that has emerged from the Senate Judiciary Committee is good – not ideal, not awful, but good. [read post]
28 Mar 2017, 6:07 am by Michael Geist
    Need for Reform I had the honour of appearing before both the House and Senate committees on Bill S-4, which was ostensibly the effort to update PIPEDA by implementing recommendations first made in 2006. [read post]
13 Dec 2017, 12:19 pm by Michael Geist
The good news is that there are signals that the government gets the need for balance and Canadian-oriented policies as evidenced by its rejection of term extension and restrictive digital locks in the TPP negotiations and the recent International Trade committee report that warned against unbalanced U.S. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 1:00 pm by Mike Scarcella
The attorneys, including Joe Roden, said Clemens has a right to question Issa, now the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, over his remarks in February 2008 about the merits of a congressional hearing about drug use in baseball. [read post]
20 Jun 2014, 1:27 pm by Nadia Kayyali
I will continue to push for these important reforms when the Senate Judiciary Committee considers the USA FREEDOM Act next month. [read post]
22 Jul 2015, 3:25 pm by Matthew Oresman
On June 31, Congress, led by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), allowed the authorization of the U.S. [read post]
28 Apr 2023, 2:29 pm by Matthew Guariglia
The Bad Suggestions: Government representatives are always quick to testify to the legitimacy and utility of these programs by vaguely referencing classified events or attacks that intelligence agencies thwarted thanks to this program. [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 1:57 pm by Chas Kissick
Former State Department inspector general Steven Linick told the House Oversight and Reform, House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees in an interview that he had been investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for misuse of government resources before Linckwas fired last month, the Hill reports. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 10:28 am
Hanlon adds in part: “[S]tate governments have failed for many years to implement the necessary reforms to address long-standing and systemic problems in our death penalty counsel systems. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 5:06 am by Anne Tindall, Jessica Marsden
The Committee eventually recommended, and Congress passed, several legislative fixes tied directly to the wrongdoing uncovered by Jaworski and the House Judiciary Committee, including Freedom of Information Act reforms, the Right to Financial Privacy Act, the Tax Reform Act and the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. [read post]