Business is not waiting for Congress to say it is okay to compete in the renewable economy. For instance, now that China has called for one out of every five cars sold there to run on alternative fuel within 8 years (“China Hastens a Global Move to Electric Cars,”New York Times, Oct...
Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison, a South Carolina native, said he “often teased that Mr. Spratt had probably forgotten more about the federal budget than the majority of Members had ever known,” calling him “brilliant, kind, and beloved by many.” First ele...
Pascrell had been in and out of the hospital with an illness recently. He died Wednesday morning at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey, according to his long-time chief of staff, Ben Rich. “It is with deep sadness that we announce that ...
The claim is simply that, oh, Israel has bought the U.S. Congress through its campaign contributors. But there’s a circular flow. Congress will give aid to Israel. Israel will use some of the aid it gets to pay back into the lobbying effort to pay the congressmen. So everything, so...
This year Filner introduced the Filipino Veterans Equity Act which would grant benefits to that country’s World War II vets. But the bill is not popular in Congress. A similar measure died in the last session, probably because it would cost American taxpayers an estimated $777 million a year...
According to Broun, the scientific plot was primarily concerned with hiding the true age of the Earth. Broun serves on the House Science Committee, whichcame under scrutinyrecently after another one of its Republican members, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), suggested that victims of “legitimate...
He was 16 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary. He joined the anti-Nazi resistance, and later the anti-Communist student movement. After the Soviets invaded Hungary, he learned that most of his family had died in the Holocaust. Lantos came to the United States on an academic scholarship in 194...
“i urge you to consider the enhanced danger ebola now presents to the american public, and therefore request that appropriate travel restrictions be implemented immediately,” he wrote. [ related: top ebola doctor dies, airline suspends flights ] ebola has an incubation period of up to three ...
whoascendsto the presidency on the event of thepresident’sdeath, disability, resignation, or removal. The vice president also serves as the presiding officer of the U.S.Senate, a role that is mostly ceremonial but that gives the vice president the tie-breaking vote when the Senate is deadlo...
“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” that British colonists asserted to justify theirDeclaration of Independence. Nor were they included among the “People of the United States” who established the Constitution in order to “promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of ...