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14 Jun 2012, 12:26 pm by Todd Ruger
The Senate confirmed lawyer Mari Carmen Aponte as United States Ambassador to El Salvador today, with Democrats getting enough votes to overcome a block from Republicans that started late last year. [read post]
8 May 2015, 2:12 pm by Rahul Bhagnari
The U.N. will scrutinize the United States’ human rights record and give President Obama a chance to right past wrongs. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 5:48 am by Stefanie Levine
The United States Senate passed the America Invents Act on September 8, 2011 by a vote of 89-9. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 7:20 am
"Senate rejects GOP effort on terrorist trials": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "The Senate voted early Friday to reject a Republican effort to prohibit the United States from prosecuting foreign terrorist suspects in civilian courts, handing a victory to President Barack Obama. [read post]
11 May 2020, 7:00 am by Jacob Sapochnick
On May 7th just days after the President signed his controversial April 22nd executive order limiting the immigration of certain aliens to the United States for 60 days, Republican senators rallied together to urge the President to pass more immigration restrictions—this time targeting nonimmigrant foreign workers. [read post]
20 Jan 2009, 10:31 am
Bush's term as President of the United States ended. [read post]
18 Sep 2015, 8:57 am by WIMS
Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), along with 46 Senate co-sponsors, introduced a joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) that expands the scope of federal authority over land and waterways in the United States under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, commonly known as WOTUS. [read post]
23 Mar 2023, 9:31 am by Mary Szarkowicz
Fentanyl Trafficking Three Republican Senators–John Barrasso (R-WY), Tim Scott (R-SC), and Hagerty (R-TN)–questioned Secretary Blinken on the Department of State’s activities to combat the trafficking of fentanyl into the United States. [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 5:30 pm by FM Librarian
State Department (16 March 2018)- Regional Focus: United States (16 March 2018)Tagged Publications. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 3:36 pm by Jack Goldsmith
  Along the way, Senator Paul is painting a misleadingly very unattractive picture of the circumstances in which the United States uses drones abroad in words that will now be played around the world as credible statements of U.S. policy. [read post]
14 Feb 2020, 8:26 am by Zoe Gujral
Section 1 paragraph 7 of the Resolution states: “The question of whether United States forces should be engaged in hostilities against Iran should be answered following a full briefing to Congress and the American public of the issues at stake, a public debate in Congress, and a congressional vote as contemplated by the Constitution. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 4:50 pm by admin
Today, the United States Senate unanimously confirmed Mark Pearce and Brian Hayes to the National Labor Relations Board. [read post]
9 Jun 2021, 9:22 am by Marina Wilson
United States Senate Out of all of the federal government sites that we checked, the U.S. [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 8:50 am by Tess Bridgeman
” The battlespace in Syria was messy before the United States intervened. [read post]
18 May 2011, 9:00 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
It was Transmitted by the President of the United States of America to the Senate on May 6, 2002. [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 12:42 pm by Meena Harris
  He also used the opportunity to advocate for the adoption of chip-and-PIN payment card technology in the United States, which is one of the last major economies lacking such data-security technology. [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 4:05 am by NCC Staff
It took an additional week for four more Senators to show up in New York, and on April 6th, the House and Senate took up their first official joint business: convening the Electoral College to confirm George Washington as President and John Adams as Vice President. [read post]
6 Apr 2017, 4:05 am by NCC Staff
It took an additional week for four more Senators to show up in New York, and on April 6th, the House and Senate took up their first official joint business: convening the Electoral College to confirm George Washington as President and John Adams as Vice President. [read post]