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27 Mar 2003, 9:34 pm
[JURIST] According to press reports, the US House of Representatives Thursday passed a resolution calling on Iraq to respect the terms of the Geneva Conventions concerning treatment of prisoners of war (the actual text of the resolution, H.Con.Res. 118, is not yet available from THOMAS [official website]). [read post]
22 Jun 2005, 7:37 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] is scheduled to vote Wednesday on HJ Res. 10 [text of resolution], a proposed constitutional amendment to criminalize the desecration of the American flag. [read post]
11 Oct 2007, 10:35 am
House of Representatives committee has voted to extend an Internet tax moratorium for four years, but declined to make the tax ban permanent, as some lawmakers had advocated. [read post]
5 Jul 2006, 1:03 am
[JURIST] Republicans from the US House of Representatives [official website] begin a series of immigration hearings Wednesday in order to assess the threats at the country's borders and the labor needs to combat those threats in preparation for final negotiations on comprehensive immigration reform [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 12:00 pm by David Ingram
House of Representatives' tax committee has hired a lawyer with years of experience conducting oversight of the executive branch. [read post]
9 May 2014, 11:00 am by Nonprofit Blogger
On Wednesday by a vote of 224 to 187 (later updated to 231 to 187 according to press reports) the House of Representatives approved House Report 113-415, which included a resolution that Lois Lerner be found in contempt of Congress... [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 5:43 pm by Reproductive Rights
OzarksFirst.com: Missouri House Passes Late-Term Abortion Bill, by Dick Aldrich: The Missouri House of Representatives Monday gave first-round approval to a bill that establishes 20 weeks as the viability age of a fetus and limited the parameters of when and... [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 10:44 pm by Mark Jaycox
The House passed two cybersecurity "information sharing" bills today: the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's Protecting Cyber Networks Act, and the House Homeland Security Committee's National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act. [read post]
9 May 2008, 9:24 am
[JURIST] A committee of Japan's House of Representatives [official website, in Japanese] Friday approved a measure easing legal restrictions on placing Japanese military technology in space ahead of a vote of the full House of Representatives expected next week. [read post]
12 Feb 2015, 8:46 am by Molly Foley-Healy
In an unexpected and outstanding turn of events, the House State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee, in a bipartisan 6 to 5 vote, reported an amended version of House Bill 15-1113 ("HB 1113") out of Committee yesterday with a favorable recommendation to the full House of Representatives. [read post]
25 Oct 2007, 7:11 pm
[JURIST] Representatives in the US House of Representatives have asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi to delay a vote on a resolution [HR 106 materials; text] labeling as genocide the World War I-era killings of over one million Armenians by Turkish soldiers [ANCA backgrounder; Turkish DC Embassy backgrounder]. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 12:17 am
Last May, the Clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives sent a memo to all House members urging respect for the then-House policy on invocations by guest ministers. [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 9:22 am
House of Representatives": Bruce Alpert of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this news update. [read post]
7 Nov 2003, 8:29 am
In immigration law news on Friday, the House of Representatives today approved legislation conferring a variety of immigration and naturalization benefits upon legal immigrants serving in the military and their families. [read post]
18 Oct 2009, 8:44 am
House of Representatives passed a new air safety bill aimed at bolstering training standards for airline pilots. [read post]
21 Jan 2020, 1:23 pm by Mario Dalessandro
The Idaho House of Representatives voted unanimously to expel Rep. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 11:02 am by Scott R. Anderson, Hadley Baker
The same day, the White House also released a statement of administration policy on the current version of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2020 (H.R. 2740), which was passed by the House Committee on Appropriations in May and is scheduled for consideration in the House starting June 12. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 8:49 am by Scott Bomboy
On Thursday, the House of Representative formally advanced impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump after rules were approved for a public hearing process. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 6:59 pm
In a vote this afternoon, the House of Representatives rejected the rescue bill by a vote of 205 "Ays" and 228 "Nays". [read post]