House Committee on Ways and Means in the 54th and 55th Congresses. The tariff schedule of 1897, known as the Dingley Tariff, was framed under his direction to counter the lower rates set forth in the 1894 Democratic Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act. The Dingley Tariff raised tariff rates and ...
Antichoice activists have praised his work as [former] Judiciary Committee counsel for Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-MI) when Sen. Abraham was pushing for a federal abortion ban.” Schumer also said Kethledge had passed Trump’s “litmus test” on overturning Roe v. Wade, adding that the ...
In 1986 she swam a marathon butterfly stroke around Manhattan Island for 31 miles, as a fund raiser in support of the referendum that successfully drove nuclear weapons off the warship US Idaho which still sits in New York Harbor, converted into a naval museum, and docked 1½ miles from ...
Her announcement came the day after she was interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee during which she said she had occasionally told white lies on Trump's behalf, according to a source familiar with the interview. That said, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said that her decision...
Energy and Environment and Judiciary. In its decision to make power theft a felony, the committee firstly defined it under the Black Law Dictionary’s 18th edition of 2004 as a serious crime, usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by dea...
On Aug. 18, 1920, women were empowered like never before in the United States after the19th Amendmentwas passed. After a fight for women's rights that beganmore than a centurybefore, the Nineteenth Amendment the women's right to vote was ratified to the U.S. Constitution. The act was ...
The final bill was a compromise deal brokered between House Majority Leader Bill Frist and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter and resulted in a three-category division for the more than 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally: legalization after certain conditions, departure ...
Hate crime seems to be the only crime the police, the judiciary and the lawmakers are interested. But when some act or statement, either spoken or written, can be defined as a criminal act of 'hate speech' by anyone who decides they are offended by it, is the prosecution the alleged ...
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called Patel “an unqualified loyalist,” and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy on Sunday said Patel’s “only qualification is … he agrees with Donald Trump that the Department of Justice should serve to punish, lo...
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called Patel “an unqualified loyalist,” and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy on Sunday said Patel’s “only qualification is …