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1 Aug 2007, 3:49 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website, in Japanese] said Tuesday that the recently passed US House of Representatives resolution [HR 121 materials; JURIST report] calling for a formal apology from Japan for forcing Asian women to become "comfort women" [Amnesty backgrounder; JURIST news archive] during World War II is "regrettable. [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 7:49 am
“With 19 Democrats withholding support from Nancy Pelosi for House speaker on Wednesday, it represented the largest defection from a party’s speaker nominee in nearly a century. [read post]
26 Oct 2006, 7:15 pm
[JURIST] US special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald [official website; JURIST news archive] spent approximately three hours Thursday cross-examining the first witness presented by lawyers representing former White House aide I. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 10:44 am
The decision, which was split down party lines, will now advance to the state House of Representatives, where it needs a two-thirds vote to succeed. [read post]
13 May 2011, 12:54 pm
[JURIST] The Missouri House of Representatives [official website] on Thursday gave final approval [press release] to legislation [HB 213 materials] that would ban abortions [JURIST news archive] after 20 weeks of pregnancy. [read post]
5 Jun 2015, 6:00 am
House of Representatives' Homeland Security Committee that a new wiretap law is needed that will require social media websites to share customers' communications with law enforcement agencies the same way that telecom carriers do. [read post]
10 Jan 2022, 11:31 am
A later House of Representatives proposal sought to increase the capital gains tax rate and cut the estate and gift tax exemption in half in 2022. [read post]
12 May 2024, 10:00 pm
The Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act (HR 1042) (the Act) was approved by the House of Representatives on December 11, 2023, and the Senate on April 30, 2024. [read post]
12 Apr 2023, 2:17 pm
We’re in growth mode’: Oppenheimer on the hunt for int’l advisors in MiamiThe firm is looking to grow its share of the international wealth management space after having recently opened a new office in Miami to house its advisorMark Astarita has been representing advisors who are changing firms and firms who are hiring thos advisors for decades. [read post]
25 Oct 2023, 3:40 pm
The Republican Party, in electing Louisiana’s Mike Johnson Speaker of the House of Representatives, served notice today that its preferred position is filial, with heads bowed, genuflecting before the throne of Donald Trump. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 4:14 pm
House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional Research Service.Hat tip to Andrew Weber (LOC)! [read post]
11 Mar 2007, 9:24 am
[JURIST] After initial expressions of concern and regret [JURIST report], several top Japanese politicians said over the weekend they would ignore a proposed US House of Representatives resolution [text; H Res 121 summary] calling for Japan to apologize to "comfort women" used by the Japanese army as sex slaves during World War II. [read post]
8 Jan 2011, 2:00 am
Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives, the New York Times has posted an annotated guide to the founding document, focusing on "the clauses most revered, and disputed, by advocates on either [read post]
25 Jul 2018, 1:09 pm
House of Representatives has once again voted against the ACA's tax on medical device manufacturers, after two previous postponements in assessing and collecting the tax, which was an important source of funding for the various subsidies in the ACA that needed to be financed. [read post]
14 Dec 2009, 6:50 am
The Reference and General Government Blogs via the USA.gov website added the following new blogs:Office of the United States Trade Representative Blog covering U.S. trade issues.United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) where David Kappos, the director of the USPTO, discusses the work of the agency.White House Office of Public Engagement blog that aims to engage the American public in a [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 11:14 am
Progressives in the United States House of Representatives have re-introduced the FAIR Act, legislation intended to kill mandatory arbitration. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 1:55 pm
Representative Barney Frank introduced a bill entitled the “Fair Debt Collection Practices Clarification Act of 2012” in the House Committee on Financial Services (the “Committee”). [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 1:48 pm
The conference report on the bill was agreed to by the House of Representatives (246-183) and the Senate (60-38) on 02/13/09. [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 6:07 am
The terror warriors, having turned their attention to "violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention"--as it was recently dubbed in a House of Representatives bill of the same name--have set out to reconquer [read post]
19 Nov 2007, 1:15 pm
On the heels of a House of Representatives committee's passage of a higher-education funding bill that includes new antipiracy obligations for universities that participate in federal financial aid programs, MPAA Washington general counsel Fritz Attaway suggested it's reasonable to condition federal education funding on copyright enforcement efforts.Read the article: CNET News.com [read post]
