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10 Dec 2006, 2:16 am
[JURIST] Legislation extending the mandate of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) [official website] passed both houses of the US Congress last week at the end of its current session, and the agency will continue to monitor US spending in Iraq until the fall of 2008 pending President Bush's signature. [read post]
25 May 2006, 10:28 am
The US Senate approved the final version of the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act [HR 5037 summary; PDF text] by unanimous consent Wednesday, and the US House followed suit with a voice vote. [read post]
5 Jun 2023, 5:16 am by Ashley Deeks, Matthew Waxman
Instead of prohibiting the use of funds to use an autonomous nuclear launch system, Congress might prohibit the spending of funds to develop one. [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 5:51 am
Congress Tightens "National Security" Reviews of Foreign Investment in the US On Wednesday, Congress passed the "Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007" to formalize and tighten the process for reviews of foreign acquisitions of businesses in the US... [read post]
8 May 2023, 9:21 am by kblocher@hslf.org
This critical legislation, which passed in the House in the last two Congresses by a wide bipartisan margin, would help to end soring by strengthening the Horse Protection Act, banning the use of devices that are commonly used to inflict pain on horses, eliminating the failed current system of industry self-policing and increasing penalties for violators. [read post]
24 May 2012, 6:34 am by Nathan Dorn
John Wilson, whose residence is six miles from the city, the use of a cart and four oxen; it did not arrive at the office, until after dark on Monday night, when it was immediately laden with the most valuable records and papers, which were taken, on the same night, nine miles, to a safe and secret place in the country. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 6:12 pm by Brian Kalt
The Ninth Amendment helps us remember that there is more to rights than what courts write about them, or even than what the Constitution says about them. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 11:54 am by John Hopkins
Isn’t it one of the responsibilities of the US Congress to institute laws or take other action that would reduce those deaths? [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 8:20 am by aallwash
Join us on Tuesday, March 26 from 12:00 – 12:30 pm EDT for “Communicating with Congress: Strategies for Effective Advocacy on Capitol Hill,” our newest online advocacy training. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 6:10 am by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration and Congress expect an agreement Monday on an aid package of up to $450 billion to boost a small-business loan program that has run out of money and add funds for hospitals and COVID-19 testing. [read post]
11 May 2022, 12:18 pm by Kit Walsh
But in 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and since then courts have interpreted its “anti-circumvention” provision to give rightsholders the unprecedented power to block even fair uses of their works, whenever that use requires bypassing an access control like encryption or DRM. [read post]
23 Apr 2013, 11:14 pm by Barbara Bavis
This is a multi-faceted problem that many of us are working on in different ways. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 7:39 am by Shawn Collins
They were concerned about the direction of the current EPA and offered to help Congress use its oversight to put a halt to Trump’s misguided deregulatory push and the dismissal of science in favor of politics at the agency. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 12:53 pm by Scott H. Kimpel
A few of the bills were introduced in the last congress but did not pass. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 8:43 am
beSpacific points us to a U.S. [read post]