Stewart B. McKinney, a Connecticut Republican who served in Congress for 16 years, died in Washington recently of pneumonia brought on by AIDS. The Washington Post reported McKinney, 56, wanted his death from AIDS, contracted from a 1979 blood tr...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — John Spratt, a former longtime Democratic congressman from South Carolina who successfully pushed for a balanced budget deal in the 1990s but was unseated decades later when his district turned Republican, has died. He was 82. Spratt died Saturday night at...
2013). In 2009, cap-and-trade legislation died in Congress. The climate denial lobby went after Democrats who had voted for cap and trade, and then they took on Republicans who were sympathetic to green energy or climate action.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) —New JerseyDemocratic Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., a 14-term incumbent and a fixture in his hometown of Paterson for more than four decades, died Wednesday. He was 87. Pascrell had been in and out of the hospital with an illness recently. He...
So let’s just solve the problem. And let’s also understand that this is not only a problem for Palestine, this is also a survival problem for Israel. There’s no way that Israel gets out of here alive, having basically amped up its neighbors who are stronger than Israel. ...
“For more than 50 years, Filipino veterans who bravely fought with American soldiers in defense of the United States during World War II have been shamefully denied the recognition they deserve,” the congressman said. This year Filner introduced the Filipino Veterans Equity Act which would grant...
“All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell,” Broun said. “And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.” ...
as well as foreigners who recently visited them, from entering the u.s. rep. alan grayson, d-fla., requested the travel ban in a tuesday letter to department of homeland security secretary jeh johnson and secretary of state john kerry. citizens of guinea, liberia and sierra leone should be...
Charles Gati of Johns Hopkins University says the war helped shape Lantos' outlook in Congress. "Where he comes from is the experience of anti-totalitarianism," he said. "He hates dictators with a passion, and he hates people and politicians who discriminate against others on the basis of rac...
Who Becomes President After the President and Vice President? Vice presidents of the United States no.vice presidentbirthplacetermpresidential administration served under *Died in office. **Resigned from office. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica ...