Topic: William Lacy Clay
More than a dozen House lawmakers are calling on their colleagues to avoid cutting federal pay and benefits to finance an extension of the payroll...
Amidst one of the most devastating tornadoes the U.S. has seen in decades, Republican House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, made a statement that...
The fight over mandating free access to papers based on research funded by taxpayer dollars is again heating up in Washington, D.C. Yesterday, lawmakers discussed expanding the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) "public access" policy to other science-funding agencies ...
Word comes from DC that there is now a " - Requires the CFPA conduct a "Financial Autopsy" of each state's bankruptcies and foreclosures (a scientific sampling), and identify financial products that systematically led to a large number of bankruptcies and foreclosures.. - Requires ...
Republicans, angered by treatment, force marathon voting session in HouseThe House may have set a record getting people on the record.Republicans angry over what they regarded as mistreatment by the majority Democrats retaliated Thursday by demanding roll call votes 53 times ...
Amid immigration concerns, Locke urges stepped-up outreach; lawmaker calls for halt to raidsNew Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Monday exhorted census volunteers to boost outreach in hard-to-count communities as a top lawmaker urged the government to halt immigration raids to ensure an ...
Federal agencies increasingly rely on information from commercial data brokers to detect and investigate fraud, verify people's identities and determine eligibility for benefits. Several witnesses at a congressional hearing March 11 on agencies' use of commercial data said the Office of ...