“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 weeks...
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...
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...
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...
Turner served two terms as Houston's mayor from 2016 to 2024, the peak of a decadeslong career in state politics that included 27 years in the Texas House. Following his tenure as mayor, Turner succeeded Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a fellow longtime Houston Democratwho died in June 202...
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...
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...
When Representative George Santos became a fixture of public scrutiny thanks to December 19, 2022, New York Times report uncovering the many lies in his public biography — from claims that he was Jewish to claims that his mother had died in the 9/11 attacks — a number of people took to...
Senate, a role that is mostly ceremonial but that gives the vice president the tie-breaking vote when the Senate is deadlocked. The position of vice president also exists in the executive structure of many other governments and businesses. The table provides a list of vice presidents of the ...
Lou Capozzi, chair of the Cumberland County Republican Committee, said there are some Trump-supporters in Pennsylvania who still believe the election was stolen, but he said that the “fervor has died down.” “There’s probably a fairly vocal minority, but I think they’re the minority,”...