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30 Apr 2010, 9:15 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] voted 223-169 [roll call] Thursday to approve legislation calling for a referendum on the status of Puerto Rico [BBC backgrounder]. [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 5:16 pm
[JURIST] Republican senators Friday blocked US Senate agreement to provisions in a House of Representatives intelligence funding bill passed [JURIST report] Thursday limiting CIA interrogation methods by invoking a Senate rule against the late insertion of new language in legislation. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 9:23 pm
House of Representatives today for its approval of H.R. 5143, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2010. [read post]
25 May 2017, 8:53 pm
Republican representatives passed a measure on Wednesday that would rescind EPA restrictions on the use of pesticides near water. [read post]
17 Jul 2006, 4:44 am
[JURIST] Leaders of the US House of Representatives [official website] have decided to move forward with a vote on the Marriage Protection Amendment [PDF text; H.J. [read post]
14 May 2009, 8:05 am
[JURIST] Speaker of the US House of Representatives [official website] Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) [official website] said Thursday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] misled Congress about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques [JURIST news archive] during the Bush administration. [read post]
18 Oct 2007, 11:54 am
[JURIST] An employment non-discrimination bill protecting gays, lesbians, and bisexuals but not transgendered individuals has been sent to the full US House of Representatives for consideration after being approved [press release] by the House Education and Labor Committee Thursday. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 10:42 am
[JURIST] Florida House of Representatives [official website] Speaker Marco Rubio [official website] announced on Monday that the House will join the state of Florida in defending a challenge to a law [CS/CS/SB 1310 materials] requiring travel agencies booking flights to Cuba to post a bond ten times greater than that of other agencies. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 10:15 am
House of Representatives panel have finally scheduled a vote on a bill that would extend by four years a soon-to-expire federal ban on Internet access taxes. [read post]
28 Jun 2009, 3:17 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] on Friday passed a climate bill [HR 2454 materials] that focuses on clean energy. [read post]
17 Feb 2006, 8:03 am
[JURIST] The Georgia House of Representatives [General Assembly website] approved a bill [text] Friday protecting physicians who assist the state in performing lethal injections. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 11:08 am
House of Representatives passed landmark legislation to dramatically reduce the sentencing disparity between [read post]
19 May 2009, 1:30 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] on Monday approved the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act [S 386 materials], which creates a commission to investigate the cause of recent economic turmoil [JURIST news archive] and allocates more resources for federal prosecutors to pursue financial fraud cases. [read post]
28 Apr 2006, 8:57 am
[JURIST] A group of 11 Democrats from the US House of Representatives [official website] plan to file a lawsuit [press release] Friday against the Bush administration seeking to overturn the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 [PDF text; S 1932 bill summary] as unconstitutional because, due to a clerical error, the version of the act signed by President Bush was not passed by both houses of Congress. [read post]
29 Jan 2008, 6:20 pm
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives Tuesday voted to extend the Protect America Act of 2007 [S 1927 materials; JURIST report] for an additional two weeks past its original February 1 expiration date. [read post]
2 Mar 2008, 7:56 am
Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), chairman of the House Select Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that the House of Representatives could vote on compromise surveillance legislation as early as next week. [read post]
11 Feb 2006, 3:15 am
[JURIST] Speaker of the US House of Representatives Dennis Hastert (R-IL) [official website] on Friday announced his support for a deal [JURIST report] reached earlier this week by Senate Republicans and the White House on long-term renewal of the USA Patriot Act [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
28 Apr 2017, 11:30 am
House of Representatives introduced a bill Thursday which would loosen Obama-era regulations on e-cigarettes. [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 8:50 am
[JURIST] The Uruguayan House of Representatives [official website, in Spanish] on Thursday approved [press release, in Spanish] a bill that would allow same-sex couples to adopt. [read post]
26 May 2005, 1:32 pm
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives has passed a $491 billion defense measure, HR 1815 [PDF text], which among other things leaves any decisions on the placement of women in war zones up to the Pentagon pending Congressional approval. [read post]
