Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) said the decrease is the first step to more deeply cut spending per the Budget Control Act (Pub. L. No. 112-25) to lower spending by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years....
three of which are scheduled for their first hearing today before the Senate Transportation Committee. Surrounding each is an impressive array of studies suggesting that such laws are either the best way to save lives or unenforceable intrusions that will become useless as motorists slip into their ...
* Secretary of State: The Constitutional Amendments Committee approved legislation (SCA 35) by Sen. Quentin Kopp (I-San Francisco) making the secretary of state’s office nonpartisan. A 3-0 vote sent the measure to the Senate floor. More to Read...
WASHINGTON —Crawling up the Capitol steps to dramatize the barriers confronting them, scores of disabled persons rallied Monday to protest delays in congressional action on a Senate-passed bill to expand their access to jobs, transportation and public services. The legislation, endorsed by President ...
Richard Simpson was Willie Brown’s education adviser. He is now working for the Senate Education Committee. “I started off in the Senate, so this is like coming home again,” Simpson said. “The speakership crisis had some impact. It was unclear if the job I used to have would have ...
Faced with a new Ohio law that prevented any governor from serving more than two successive terms, Lausche turned to the U.S. Senate where he was elected in 1956 and reelected in 1962. He served on the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee and as...
Shapiro agrees. “The recent increase in Mel’s fund raising is attributable to the fact he is running for the Senate,” he said. Disney wasn’t completely shut out of the highway bill in the House. The public works panel approved $4 million to study a connection between the proposed Di...
Lockyer’s remarks came a week after the leader of the state Senate, Democrat John Burton of San Francisco, floated a similar “windfall profits tax” as a way to combat what he called “oil company greed.” Lockyer, who last year formed a task force to examine California’s special vulne...
Advertisement Like earlier versions, the proposal, which had some bipartisan support, was fashioned after an experimental workfare project in San Diego County. Administration officials have redesigned it, however, and its authors, Senate Republican Leader James W. Nielsen of Woodland and Assemblyman Ern...
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.), who was disabled in World War II, was among about 40 legislative sponsors who attended the ceremony. Contemplating the scene with unalloyed joy was John Bateman-Ferry of Syracuse, N.Y., whose back was broken by an automobile accident in 1978 just...