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26 May 2011, 2:05 pm
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives passed the $690 billion National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 [HR 1540 materials] Thursday, approving the basic funding plan with a 322-96 vote [roll call vote]. [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 8:01 am
The Act, titled the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 (H.R. 3961), passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 243-183. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 11:23 am
The US House of Representatives [official website] on Monday approved HR 387 [text], a bipartisan bill that updates US privacy laws in regards to e-mail and cloud storage. [read post]
6 Dec 2013, 7:45 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] on Thursday approved a bill [HR 3309, PDF] intended to curb the actions of "patent trolls" [Filament backgrounder], or patent assertion entities, in which companies frivolously accuse other companies, often small business owners, of patent infringement in effort to collect licensing fees. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 11:31 am
[JURIST] The Delaware House of Representatives [official website] voted 26-15 on Thursday in favor of a bill [SB 30 text] allowing same-sex civil unions [JURIST news archive] within the state. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 10:37 am
Representative Chris Smith [official website] said during the hearing that if the allegations were true, the Chines government is guilty of serious human rights violations. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 10:37 am
The US House of Representatives [official website] on Wednesday voted 407-10 [roll-call, text] to approve HR 4909 [text, PDF], a bill that seeks to increase funding for security and safety in schools. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 12:00 am
Ilyse Wolens Schuman On Thursday, the House of Representatives readily approved by a vote of 252-172 the Save American Workers Act of 2015 (H.R. 30), a bill that would increase from 30 to 40 the number of hours an employee must work per week to be considered "full-time" under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).read more [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 11:43 am
[JURIST] Members of the US House of Representatives approved bi-partisan legislation to relieve financial pressure on Puerto Rico on Thursday. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 9:30 am
The Oklahoma House of Representatives [official website] passed HB 1549, known as the the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2017 [text, PDF], on Tuesday, which would prohibit abortions because of Down's Syndrome or genetic abnormalities of the child. [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 10:23 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] on Thursday approved the Death Tax Repeal Act of 2015 [HR 1105, text], a bill set to end the federal estate tax [IRS overview], by a 240-179 vote. [read post]
30 Apr 2009, 2:55 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] on Wednesday approved a bill [HR 1913 materials] that would expand protection from hate crimes [JURIST news archive] by broadening the category of violations defined in the current law. [read post]
14 Feb 2020, 10:32 am
The House of Representatives took one giant step Thursday by voting to remove the 1982 ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment. [read post]
9 May 2018, 8:13 am
The US House of Representatives voted [roll call] 234-175 on Tuesday to overturn a rule [text] implemented to prevent discrimination in auto lending. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 9:22 am
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved legislation [HR 7 text] that prohibits the use of federal funds on abortions. [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 11:11 am
[JURIST] The Mississippi House of Representatives approved a bill [HB 1305 materials] on Thursday that would make details involving executions secret and allow lawsuits against anyone who divulges the secrets. [read post]
22 Mar 2014, 9:12 am
[JURIST] The Georgia House of Representatives [official website] passed legislation [HB 512, PDF] Thursday night that would expand carry rights to allow firearms in places such as bars and schools. [read post]
21 Jul 2005, 10:12 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives will debate its version of a bill Thursday to extend the Patriot Act [text], which after months of debate has seen 20 amendments adopted and 47 proposed [JURIST report]. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 10:49 am
House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health considered legislation that would repeal the medical loss ratio (MLR) provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).The MLR provision (Section 2718 of the ACA) requires health insurers to spend 80%-85% of all premium dollars on medical care or activities that improve health care quality. [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 12:28 pm
This Friday, July 2, at 2:30 pm, Quinta Jurecic, fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, and Dan Byman, senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, will join Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss the formation of the House of Representatives’ select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which Speaker Pelosi announced last week. [read post]
