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21 May 2010, 6:56 am
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] on Thursday passed the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 [S 3217 materials], focused on increasing regulation in the financial sector following the recent economic crisis [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
23 Mar 2017, 7:00 am by Jonathan Niznansky
The US Senate voted [roll call] Tuesday to approve House Joint Resolution 69 [text], a bill to invalidate an August 2016 regulation [text] protecting wildlife on federal lands from certain kinds of hunting. [read post]
10 Jul 2023, 7:15 am by Associated Press
Jamie Raskin says he’s not running for open US Senate seat first appeared on Maryland Daily Record. [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 9:52 am by William Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
A US federal judge Monday told US Senator Lindsay Graham that he must testify before a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury about efforts to overturn the 2020 US presidential election in that state. [read post]
6 Feb 2021, 2:26 pm by Steve Gottlieb
As a result, a relatively small part of the American population can block what the rest of us want to do. [read post]
The post Republican US senators send threatening letter to ICC prosecutor over possible Netanyahu arrest warrant appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
The US Senate passed the $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Friday with veto-proof majority support amidst President Trump’s threats to reject the legislation. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 11:06 am by Sarah Miley
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] voted 56 to 43 [roll call] to pass a modified version of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 [HR 4872 materials] Thursday, after certain language in the original bill was altered to fix parliamentary problems highlighted by Republicans. [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 7:27 am
This administration has undercut those concepts for eight years and I have never heard my current US Senator criticize or work to prevent such decay of our fundamental freedoms. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 10:34 am by Sarah M Donnelly
Links: Senate Bill 5000 (prefiled 12/05/16), Washington State Joint Legislative Task Force on the Use of Deadly Force in Community Policing: Final Report to the Legislature and Governor Download(PDF): Handout: Reduce Violence, Restore Trust Make Use of Deadly Force the Last Resort Media Advisory: Police Use of Deadly Force Should be Last Resort Senator McCoy (Tulalip Tribes) recently was elected to a leadership position in the Senate, where he… [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 2:11 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
Warner, the senior senator from Virginia. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 1:32 pm by Rebecca DiLeonardo
[JURIST] Ten US senators on Monday filed an amicus brief urging the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] to uphold section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) [text], which denies federal recognition of state-sanctioned same-sex marriages. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 7:48 am by Zach Zagger
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] Tuesday approved Donald Verrilli, Jr [Oyez profile], as the next Solicitor General [official website] by a vote of 72-16 [roll call vote], taking the position left open since Elena Kagan was sworn in [JURIST report] to the Supreme Court [official website] last August. [read post]
26 Sep 2008, 3:27 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] on Thursday voted in favor of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act [HR 3971 text, PDF], which as passed by the House reauthorizes a program requiring states receiving criminal justice assistance grants to report to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] information about people who die while incarcerated or in police [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 9:04 am by Ruben Sindahl
The US Senate approved a bill [text, PDF] on Tuesday to overturn a rule [text, PDF] created by the Obama administration regarding land management. [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 11:19 am by Bradley McAllister
[JURIST] US Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT) [official websites] on Monday introduced a bill [press release] aimed at limiting frivolous patent lawsuits. [read post]
20 Mar 2007, 5:55 am
[JURIST] The US Senate voted Tuesday to limit the power of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile; JURIST news archive] to name interim US attorneys, passing the Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007 [S 214 materials] by a vote of 94-2 [roll call]. [read post]
19 Oct 2005, 12:32 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] moved Wednesday to cut federal funding for projects that seize peoples' homes for private development, continuing a backlash to a recent controversial ruling [JURIST report] by the US Supreme Court [official website]. [read post]