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6 Jun 2022, 8:54 am
It takes both houses of Congress to pass statutes. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 1:13 pm
I also highlighted the Library of Congress data challenge to map UK and US legislative bills to the emerging international standard for legislative documents, Akoma Ntoso. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 5:30 am
The district is home to 700,000 residents, most of whom are Black and Brown, who are denied full voting representation in Congress. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 1:00 pm
While deliberating the Philippine Bill of 1902 (S. 2295), which would establish a bicameral legislature with, eventually, a popularly elected house, some members of Congress expressed disbelief that Filipinos could self-govern. [read post]
14 Oct 2007, 9:10 pm
Kudos to Mark Plotkin for his years of passionately standing up for District of Columbia statehood and voting rights in Congress. [read post]
30 May 2012, 2:59 am
Tony has extensive organizing experience, having directed major public employee representation campaigns in several states. [read post]
25 Aug 2021, 4:30 am
“By the time the 114th Congress began in 2015, write Brian Gervais and Irwin Morris, “conditions were ripe for an uncivil outsider…to blaze a path to the Republican nomination, claim the White House, and effectively take over the Republican Party” (Gervais and Morris 2018, p. 65). [read post]
27 Sep 2021, 9:05 pm
Legislation now pending in Congress contains many useful measures to protect democracy. [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 4:00 am
It believes proportional representation is the key to ending gerrymandering, breaking up congressional deadlock, and reducing partisan divisions. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 4:22 pm
(Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) After the fallout stemming from the improper targeting certain applications for tax-exempt status based on keywords and politically charged language by the Internal Revenue Service, Congress and the White House demanded answers. [read post]
13 May 2011, 1:06 pm
(Chuck Kennedy/White House) [read post]
9 Aug 2023, 7:01 am
Chesebro used to buttress his proposal that parts of the Electoral Count Act are unconstitutional. [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 12:17 pm
Congressman Scott and Congresswoman Wilson, both members of the current Democratic Majority in the House well known for their pro-labor positions, oppose the changes set forth in the Proposed Rule. [read post]
18 Mar 2015, 10:26 am
Both bills were voted out of committee and their next stop could be the House floor. [read post]
22 Oct 2021, 4:00 am
But everywhere the Democrat looked recently, bare faces rushed by, ignoring the signs: “Use of face covering is required. [read post]
3 Jan 2009, 12:48 pm
Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin (who chaired the House Judiciary Committee prior to the 110th Congress) believed such appointments, even in an absolute emergency, destroyed the essential democratic character of the House. [read post]
29 Apr 2013, 9:49 pm
As it happens, I support bicameralism in a polity as large as the US (or, for that matter, even Texas, though not, e.g., any state smaller than New Zealand, which functions just fine with one House of Representatives), though I despise the principle of equal representation in the Senate. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 6:20 am
Hopefully, Congress will take this opportunity to include within this legislation not only the increase in access to the federal appellate system but practical solutions to the accompanying financial support that will be needed for this expansion in post-conviction legal representation. [read post]
25 Mar 2013, 10:26 am
This is not a requirement that would concern us in the least, as these are the standards to which we already adhere. [read post]
4 Jul 2007, 10:22 am
IN CONGRESS, July 4th, 1776 A DECLARATION By the REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, In GENERAL CONGRESS assembled. [read post]
