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8 Jan 2014, 8:30 am by Kelly Buchanan
(Source: United Nations Photo Flickr stream.) [read post]
5 Jan 2014, 4:55 am by Doug B.
Gottfried, a Manhattan Democrat who leads the assembly’s health committee, has held two public hearings on medical marijuana in recent weeks, hoping to build support for a bill under which health care professionals licensed to prescribe controlled substances could certify patient need. [read post]
We categorically reject the notion that the threat of terrorism requires citizens of democratic countries to surrender the freedoms that make democracies worth defending. [read post]
29 Dec 2013, 6:12 pm by Jon Gelman
(Committee on Ways and Means Democrats/Labor Department)A projected 1.3 million people will lose emergency unemployment benefits when they expire Saturday.Congress offered the extended benefits as unemployment ballooned during the Great Recession and has put off their expiration 11 times since. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 12:06 pm by John Bellinger
These earmarks for lawyers raise democratic concerns, have unintended consequences, and make it hard for the Executive branch and Congress to object when other countries pass similar “special” laws designed to remove the immunity or limit the defenses of the U.S. [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
As it happened, however, the chairs of the budget committees in the Senate and the House did agree on a deal, and the resulting law will prevent a replay of the absurd standoff that resulted in the government’s shutting down for the first half of October. [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 1:15 pm by Ritika Singh
In contemporary parlance, it often refers to national security or homeland security. [read post]
17 Dec 2013, 8:45 am by Katharine Goodloe
Adam Schiff, a Democrat who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, praised the proposal, calling it “yet another confirmation that restructuring the program is both technically feasible and more protective of the privacy interests of the American people. [read post]
More recently, a new report on U.S. intelligence research and development observes, The global spread of scientific and technical knowledge challenges U.S. national security. [read post]
13 Dec 2013, 4:35 am by Jon Gelman
” Despite the biting chill, the House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi of California, surrounded herself on the steps of the Capitol with dozens of Democratic lawmakers and with advocates who had been fasting in a tent on the National Mall to push the House to vote on an immigration bill. [read post]
12 Dec 2013, 4:41 pm by INFORRM
This is odd, because the public availability of accurate and up-to-date information about ownership is – undeniably – an essential component of democratic and pluralist media systems. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 6:11 am
Norway has provided an architecture of governance that sits astride the borders of market and state, of public and private and of national and international. [read post]
8 Dec 2013, 11:33 am by Jeff Foust
(While the DCCC may have felt that way, that did not dissuade Democratic members of the science committee from participating in the hearing.) [read post]
8 Dec 2013, 8:34 am
(Rajashree Rajasekaran is a student with The National University of Advanced Legal Studies(NUALS), Kochi) [read post]
7 Dec 2013, 1:44 pm
The letter was sent to farm bill conference committee leaders, Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), and Representatives Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.). [read post]
6 Dec 2013, 11:39 am by Jon Gelman
Yes, they can prevent committees from meeting and add days of wasted time to every nomination... [read post]