US Congress Convenes Louisiana Hearing. (cover story)This article reports on the plan of the U.S. House of Representatives' Natural Resources Committee to hold a field hearing regarding the impact of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in Houma, Louisiana, on April 18, 2011. ...
in pursuance of an act of congress, entitled "An act to enable the people of the territory of Orleans to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of the said state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes: And the said...
Canadian-born Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville—known as the “Father of Louisiana”—founded New Orleans, which he named after the Duc d’Orleans. The city became the French colony’s capital in 1723. During the era ofFrench Louisiana, the French crown and several chartered...
Mayorkas has been the subject of intense scrutiny, particularly by Republicans in Congress, over his handling of the Texas border crisis.The two articlesaccuse the cabinet member of willfully refusing to comply with federal immigration law and breaching public trust. The House of Representat...
"6th. That, by the said act, Congress intended that the southern boundary line of the State of Mississippi, beginning at the point dividing it from the State of Alabama, should run westwardly till it joined the Louisiana eastern boundary line, and that, in doing so, the said southern boun...
Mayorkas has been the subject of intense scrutiny, particularly by Republicans in Congress, over his handling of the Texas border crisis.The two articlesaccuse the cabinet member of willfully refusing to comply with federal immigration law and breaching public trust. The House of Representative...
Only four states, including heavily populated Florida, have not finalized new congressional maps ahead of November's midterm elections, when control of the U.S. Congress will be at stake. Democrats are considered underdogs to maintain their slight majority in the U.S. House of...
Mayorkas has been the subject of intense scrutiny, particularly by Republicans in Congress, over his handling of the Texas border crisis.The two articlesaccuse the cabinet member of willfully refusing to comply with federal immigration law and breaching public trust. The House of Representative...
The U.S. House Of Representatives Convenes 117th Congress, Swears In New Members (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) Didn't Congress Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent? There has certainly been legislation proposedon the state and federal levels that would end our twice-a-year dance with...
because they didn’t think most people were capable of understanding the world enough to vote sensibly, draft legislation, or serve in a congress, and that the tiny wise minority would be drowned out by the majority wanting to vote for dining on the king’s tab and killing all the lawyers...