United States. Congress and United States. House of Representatives. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Abstract
Stone was convicted Friday of all seven counts in a federal indictment that accused him of lying to Congress, tampering with a witness and obstructing the House investigation into whether [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA). Nov 21, 2019
Subjects
United States. House of Representatives. Committee on the Judiciary -- Political activity, United States. Congress -- Political activity, Controlled substances -- Political aspects, and Marijuana -- Political aspects
Abstract
Nov. 21-- Nov. 21--For the first time, a congressional committee has voted to end federal prohibitions on cannabis. As impeachment hearings transpired across the hall in the Capitol on Wednesday [...]
National Review. Nov 25, 2019, Vol. 71 Issue 21, p8, 1 p.
Subjects
United States. Congress -- Political activity
Abstract
* For decades, it has been an issue: Should the U.S. Congress declare itself on the mass killings by Turks of Armenians in 1915? Should Congress declare these killings a [...]
The Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario). August 27, 2019
Subjects
United States. Congress
Abstract
'These treaties are sacred. They mean something. There's no expiration date on them,' said Chuck Hoskin Jr., chief of Cherokee Nation, who last week announced he would fulfil a long-standing [...]
USA Today (Magazine). July, 2019, Vol. 147 Issue 2890, p24, 4 p.
Subjects
Company legal issue, United States. Congress -- Political activity, and Impeachments -- Political aspects
Abstract
THE DONALD TRUMP presidency has become an interruption to --and a frustration for--those whose loyalties lie with the deep state. It certainly comes as no surprise that the many congressional [...]
Commentary. Sept, 2019, Vol. 148 Issue 2, p33, 5 p.
Subjects
Company legal issue, United States. Department of Justice -- Powers and duties, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, Special prosecutors -- Investigations, and Executive-legislative relations -- Analysis
Abstract
FOR TWO YEARS, America scrutinized Robert Mueller almost as closely as Mueller scrutinized Donald Trump. But where Mueller's investigation produced a clear-eyed view of the 2016 election, America seems to [...]
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario). Oct 15, 2019, A11.
Subjects
The Associated Press -- Officials and employees, News agencies -- Officials and employees, and Evidence, Expert
Abstract
She was the first White House official to appear as part of the House impeachment inquiry. Her appearance came despite a White House vow to halt co-operation with what it [...]
Washington Monthly. April-June, 2019, Vol. 51 Issue 4-6, p13, 6 p.
Subjects
Company personnel management, United States. Congress -- Demographic aspects, United States. Congress -- Science and technology policy, United States. Congress -- Human resource management, United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment -- History, United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment -- Powers and duties, United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment -- Organization dissolution, United States. Government Accountability Office -- Powers and duties, United States. Government Accountability Office -- Aims and objectives, Professional government workers -- Demographic aspects, Professional government workers -- Human resource management, Professional government workers -- Compensation and benefits, Technology and state -- Political aspects, and Technophobia -- Political aspects
Abstract
Chuck Schumer, one of the most powerful people in Washington, uses a flip phone. The kind of phone with a tiny screen and real buttons, designed for making actual phone [...]
The Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario). Jan 30, 2019, A7.
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- Political activity, Steel industry -- International economic relations, Steel industry -- Political aspects, Steel industry -- Taxation, Steel industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Steel industry -- Political activity, Tariffs -- Political aspects, Tariffs -- Laws, regulations and rules, Steel -- Political aspects, Steel -- Taxation, and Steel -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract
Republicans and Democrats alike on Capitol Hill won't back the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement until President Donald Trump ends America's punitive restrictions on steel and aluminum imports from Canada and Mexico, says [...]
Abbotsford News (Vancouver, British Columbia). Jan 18, 2019
Subjects
Company legal issue, The Trump Organization L.L.C., United States. Congress -- Investigations, and Real estate developers -- Political aspects
Abstract
Democrats are vowing to investigate whether U.S. President Donald Trump directed his personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a Moscow real estate project, calling that possibility a [...]
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario). Jan 4, 2019, A3.
Subjects
United States. Congress
Abstract
Cheering Democrats returned Nancy Pelosi to the House speaker's post Thursday as the 116th Congress took office and ushered in a historically diverse class of freshmen ready to confront President [...]
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. April, 2019, Vol. 56 Issue 8, p1068, 1 p.
Subjects
Books -- Book reviews and Poor Representation: Congress and the Politics of Poverty in the United States (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews
Abstract
Miler, Kristina C. Poor representation: Congress and the politics of poverty in the United States. Cambridge, 2018. 222p bibl index ISBN 9781108473507 cloth, $99.99; ISBN 9781108461818 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781108590198 [...]
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Education policy, Basic education -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015
Abstract
In December 2015, when President Barack Obama signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)--replacing the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001--congressional leaders on both sides of [...]
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario). August 30, 2019, A9.
Subjects
The Associated Press
Abstract
'Domestic terrorism is in our backyard and we need to call it and treat it under the law the same as other forms of terrorism,' said U.S. Sen. Martha McSally, [...]
Boeing Co., Ethiopian Airlines, Aircraft industry, Airlines, and Aircraft accidents
Abstract
'If Boeing's wrongful conduct continues, another plane will dive to the ground,' he told the panel. The Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed just minutes after takeoff on March [...]
Boeing Co., Ethiopian Airlines, Aircraft industry, Airlines, Aircraft accidents, and Family
Abstract
'If Boeing's wrongful conduct continues, another plane will dive to the ground,' he told the panel. The Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed just minutes after takeoff on March [...]
Music Trades. Nov, 2019, Vol. 167 Issue 10, p42, 1 p.
Subjects
Music in education and Legislators
Abstract
CONGRESSWOMAN CHERI BUSTOS, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, recently visited the West Music Quad Cities store for her latest 'Cheri on Shift' job shadow. West Music repair technician [...]
Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada). Sept 23, 2019, B17.
Abstract
NEW YORK -- Lead Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians and a pioneering journalist who chronicled Washington from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump for NPR and ABC News, [...]
United States. Congress -- Foreign policy, Democratic Party (United States), Foreign policy -- Political aspects, and Executive-legislative relations
Abstract
On January 3, 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump will face a new reality: a chamber of Congress controlled by the opposition party. Confronting a hostile Democratic House of Representatives will [...]
The American Prospect. Spring, 2019, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p52, 5 p.
Subjects
United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, United States. Supreme Court -- Political aspects, United States. Supreme Court -- Powers and duties, Judge-made law -- Political aspects, and Judge-made law -- Analysis
Abstract
It is a grim time for the rule of law in the United States. Our Constitution is controlled by the mixture of Republican partisans and conservative ideologues who dominate the [...]
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