Congressional committees also have the power to compel testimony from unwilling witnesses, and to cite for contempt of Congress witnesses who refuse to testify and for perjury ofthese who give false testimony. (10)___ 1.,在set后加up, set up“建立、成立”...
The city passed a new law to regulate street vendors. 1 Legislation The body of laws in a particular field or subject. Tax legislation is constantly evolving. 4 Law Law is a system of rules created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise...
An overseas netizen once launched a challenge to “reject Made-in-China products”, and the result was a bleak one: the challenger ended up running almost naked on the street, wrapped only in a green bath towel. This is not to say that China is unstoppable, but rather, we live in a ...
David Frum has a goodposttoday on how the reforms of the 1970s that were supposed to make Congress work better actually destroyed its ability to function. While I don’t disagree with David’s specific points, I think he is ignoring the proverbial elephant in the living room: the demise o...
"Occupy Wall Street Commercial" posted Sunday on YouTube. While other videos from the protest have so far tended to be either footage of violent arrests or interviews with protesters that run for several minutes, this "commercial" is succinct and on-message. A professionally produced, 30-second...
By 1996, when the owners upgraded to the current location on V Street—a building that had once housed a club owned by Duke Ellington—9:30 had established itself as a hotspot for alternative music, a stepping stone for rock and punk legends like Nirvana, Bad Brains, and D.C. natives ...
What Broke Congress?Bruce Bartlett
Back here on the ground, Google Streetview, the product of a project of almost unimaginable ambition – involving special camera vehicles driving along virtually every road and backstreet in the world – lets me follow all those millions of routes, with 360°, zoomable vision, from the ...
A regular guest on television, Dany appears frequently on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Her broadcast appearances also include CBS News, CNN, C-Span, and MSNBC. She is also a frequent contributor to mainstream outlets, and has been published in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Th...
Down the street from NYSE and Federal Hall is the Museum of American Finance. Housed in a historic bank building on Wall Street, it has permanent exhibits on the financial markets, money, banking, entrepreneurship, and Alexander Hamilton (the founder of the US financial system). If you want ...