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...
And then that danger has been there, but only recently with the placement of these nuclear-compatible missiles on the border. And by the way, as tensions have been escalating now recently, the U.S. has also announced that it is going to bring nuclear-compatible missiles to Germany as well...
Alcee Hastings — a longtime Florida representative in the House who was elected to Congress after he was impeached as judge — died Tuesday morning…
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. “An anti-immigration wind is blowing thorough the American landscape,” the Philippine Daily Inquirer recently opined of Congr...
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...
“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.” ...
Tom Lantos served nearly three decades in the U.S. House of Representatives, and most recently served as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He made a name for himself as a champion of human rights. "We are deeply concerned with human rights everywhere - in China, in North Ko...