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1. I Testify: Congress Must Push for the Repeal of Blasphemy Laws Abroad [2020]

  • Ahmed, Rafida Bonya
  • The Humanist. March-April, 2020, Vol. 80 Issue 2, p20, 4 p.
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Political activity, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, International Humanist and Ethical Union -- Political activity, International Humanist and Ethical Union -- Political aspects, Pew Research Center -- Political activity, Pew Research Center -- Political aspects, Humanists -- Political activity, Humanists -- Laws, regulations and rules, Humanists -- Civil rights, Humanists -- Political aspects, Violence -- Laws, regulations and rules, Violence -- Political aspects, Blasphemy -- Laws, regulations and rules, Blasphemy -- Political aspects, Civil rights -- Africa, Civil rights -- Bangladesh, Civil rights -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Civil rights -- Political aspects
Abstract
On January 28, 2020, the testimony Of Rafida Bonya Ahmed, a humanist activist and author, was presented before the United States House of Representatives in a joint hearing on 'Ending [...]

2. U.S. Congress won't pass USMCA with aluminum and steel tariffs in place [2019]

  • 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 [...]

3. Ilhan Omar's Blast From the Past: Anti-Semitism in the U.S. Congress is nothing new [2019]

  • Guttman, Nathan
  • Moment. Spring, 2019, Vol. 44 Issue 2, p14, 1 p.
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. House of Representatives -- Laws, regulations and rules, Legislators -- Political aspects, Legislators -- Laws, regulations and rules, Antisemitism -- Political aspects, and Antisemitism -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract
A pair of tweets--unfortunate at best, outright hateful at worst--have directed a spotlight on Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, a newcomer to Congress and one of the first Muslim-American women to [...]

4. Congress cheated health insurers [2020]

  • Wolf, Richard
  • USA Today. April 28, 2020, 06A.
Subjects
Company financing, Company legal issue, Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Health policy, United States. Congress -- Cases, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Supreme Court -- Cases, United States. Supreme Court -- Health policy, United States. Supreme Court -- Laws, regulations and rules, Health insurance industry -- Finance, Health insurance industry -- Cases, Health insurance industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Health insurance -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Abstract
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Congress cheated health insurance companies by reneging on a $12 billion promise made under the Affordable Care Act. The decision [...]

5. Lawmakers Resurrect Question of Congress Voting From Home [2020]

  • Fandos, Nicholas
  • The New York Times. March 20, 2020, A13
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, Legislators -- Powers and duties, and Legislation -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract
As long as Congress has met, votes have been cast only in person. A growing group of lawmakers are pushing to change that in the age of coronavirus. [...]

6. Latest Threat From President Targets Congress [2020]

  • Fandos, Nicholas
  • The New York Times. April 16, 2020, A10
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Epidemics -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Epidemics -- United States, Epidemics -- Political aspects, Recess appointments -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Recess appointments -- Political aspects, Recess appointments -- Laws, regulations and rules, Presidents -- Political activity, Presidents -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Presidents -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Presidents -- Political aspects
Abstract
The House and Senate have both taken extended recesses amid the pandemic, convening at least every few days for so-called pro forma sessions to keep their chambers technically in session. [...]

7. Canadians to soon have easier access to the U.S. Congress green-lights bill expanding preclearance to Billy Bishop, train stations [2016]

  • The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario). Dec 11, 2016, A9.
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, Bills, Legislative -- Laws, regulations and rules, Bills, Legislative -- Political aspects, Railroads -- Stations, Railroads -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Railroads -- Political aspects
Abstract
A U.S. bill that's one presidential signature away from becoming law is expected to have a broad impact on Canada-U.S. border crossings, including Billy Bishop Airport in Toronto. [...]

8. Our UN-American military: since the advent of the United Nations, the U.S. military has served as an arm of the UN, and U.S. soldiers have fought and died for that entity, even as it betrayed them [2016]

  • McManus, John F.
  • The New American. August 22, 2016, Vol. 32 Issue 16, p33, 7 p.
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Department of State -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Senate -- Laws, regulations and rules, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, United Nations. General Assembly, United Nations. Security Council, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Military maneuvers -- Military aspects, Military maneuvers -- Laws, regulations and rules, Military maneuvers -- Casualties, Disarmament -- Military aspects, Disarmament -- Laws, regulations and rules, Disarmament -- Casualties, International law -- Military aspects, and International law -- Casualties
Abstract
'Progressive controlled disarmament and continuously developing principles and procedures of international law would proceed to a point where no state would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened [...]

9. Stimulus Passes; Some May Receive Checks in a Week [2020]

  • Cochrane, Emily
  • The New York Times. Dec 22, 2020, A1
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Small Business Administration. Paycheck Protection Program -- Laws, regulations and rules, Epidemics -- United States, Epidemics -- Economic aspects, Tax deductions -- Laws, regulations and rules, Domestic economic assistance -- Laws, regulations and rules, Student aid -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Student assistance programs -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract
Lawmakers approved a $900 billion pandemic aid bill that provides a $600 payment for most Americans. WASHINGTON -- Congress on Monday night overwhelmingly approved a $900 billion stimulus [...]

10. All in: an empirical analysis of legislative voting on internet gambling restrictions in the united states [2015]

  • Halcoussis, Dennis and Lowenberg, Anton D.
  • Contemporary Economic Policy. Jan, 2015, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p17, 12 p.
Subjects
Internet, Government regulation, Sports/gambling game, United States. Congress -- Political activity, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- International economic relations, United States. House of Representatives -- Political activity, United States. House of Representatives -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. House of Representatives -- International economic relations, United States. Department of Justice -- Political activity, United States. Department of Justice -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Department of Justice -- International economic relations, United States. Congressional Research Service -- Political activity, United States. Congressional Research Service -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congressional Research Service -- International economic relations, World Trade Organization -- Political activity, World Trade Organization -- Political aspects, Internet -- Laws, regulations and rules, Internet -- Political aspects, Holding companies -- Laws, regulations and rules, Holding companies -- Political aspects, Political parties -- Antigua and Barbuda, Political parties -- Laws, regulations and rules, Online gambling -- Laws, regulations and rules, Online gambling -- Political aspects, and Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006
Abstract
In 2006. the U.S. Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) which prohibited financial institutions from processing transactions arising from online gaming activities, thereby severely hindering U.S. residents [...]

11. U.S. Congress votes to disclose CIA torture details; As document nears release, new leaks emerge of illegal interrogation methods [2014]

  • The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario). April 4, 2014, A3.
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Reports, United States. Congress -- Political activity, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, Torture -- Reports, Torture -- Laws, regulations and rules, Torture -- Political aspects, Coercive interrogation -- Reports, Coercive interrogation -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Coercive interrogation -- Political aspects
Abstract
On the surface, a massive victory for democracy over secrecy passed Thursday with a landmark decision in U.S. Congress to let Americans in on the details of CIA torture. [...]

12. The Fair Play, Fair Pay Act of 2015 has been introduced in the U.S. Congress and is supported by a coalition of American recording artists record labels, and music publishers [2015]

  • Canadian Musician. May-June, 2015, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p17, 1 p.
Subjects
United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules and Sound recording industry -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract
... The Fair Play, Fair Pay Act of 2015 has been introduced in the U.S. Congress and is supported by a coalition of American recording artists, record labels, and music [...]

13. The shifting ground; Police reform [2020]

  • The Economist. June 13, 2020, p19
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Social policy, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- Media coverage, Republican Party (United States) -- Social policy, Republican Party (United States) -- Media coverage, Republican Party (United States) -- Political aspects, Republican Party (United States) -- Demonstrations and protests, Democratic Party (United States) -- Social policy, Democratic Party (United States) -- Demonstrations and protests, Democratic Party (United States) -- Media coverage, Democratic Party (United States) -- Political aspects, Police Brutality Protests, 2020 -- Media coverage, Police Brutality Protests, 2020 -- Influence, Police Brutality Protests, 2020 -- Demonstrations and protests, and United States -- Demonstrations and protests
Abstract
One of these slogans doesn't work Protests against police brutality have already brought policy changes FOR YEARS, reformers have advocated a host of policies to make [...]

14. Nullification vs. constitutional convention: how to save our republic: with the U.S. Constitution being disregarded by every branch of the federal government, the solution is for voters and state legislators to enforce it, not revise it [2014]

  • Wolverton, Joe, II
  • The New American. April 7, 2014, Vol. 30 Issue 7, p17, 5 p.
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Officials and employees, United States. Congress -- Political activity, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. National Security Agency -- Officials and employees, United States. National Security Agency -- Political activity, United States. National Security Agency -- Laws, regulations and rules, National security -- Laws, regulations and rules, National security -- Political aspects, Legislators -- Political activity, Legislators -- Laws, regulations and rules, Legislators -- Political aspects, Conferences and conventions -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Conferences and conventions -- Political aspects
Abstract
Every day, the federal government --Congress, the president, and the courts--passes and protects acts that are unconstitutional and deprive Americans of our most basic rights. The National Defense [...]

15. The regulation of dietary supplements within the United States: flawed attempts at mending a defective consumer safety mechanism [2013]

  • Quinones, Ralph L., Winsor, Robert D., Patino, Anthony, and Hoffmann, Peter
  • Journal of Consumer Affairs. Summer, 2013, Vol. 47 Issue 2, p328, 30 p.
Subjects
Government regulation, Metabolife International Inc. -- Safety and security measures, Metabolife International Inc. -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Food and Drug Administration -- Safety and security measures, United States. Food and Drug Administration -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- Safety and security measures, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, Pharmaceutical industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Americans -- Laws, regulations and rules, Consumer protection -- Laws, regulations and rules, Dietary supplements -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994
Abstract
The use of dietary supplements in the United States has escalated in the past decade, driven by the public's desire to exert control over their health and by the mistaken [...]

16. Millions of Children Face 'Dire' Wait for Hunger Aid [2020]

  • DeParle, Jason
  • The New York Times. May 27, 2020, A1
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Domestic policy, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, Hunger -- Laws, regulations and rules, Hunger -- Political aspects, Food relief -- Laws, regulations and rules, Food relief -- Political aspects, Food relief -- United States, and Disaster relief -- United States
Abstract
Child hunger is soaring, but two months after Congress approved billions to replace school meals, only 15 percent of eligible children had received benefits. WASHINGTON -- As child [...]

17. Congress Axes Amendment To Triple H-1B Visa Fees; The additional $3,500 that employers would've been charged for each H-1B visa had been earmarked to fund scholarship programs for U.S. students [2007]

  • InformationWeek. Nov 7, 2007
Subjects
Market trend/market analysis, Company pricing policy, Government regulation, and United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract
Looks like Congress will remove from a spending bill a controversial amendment that would've more than tripled fees paid by employers for each H-1B visa applicant and created a new [...]

18. Congress Should Overturn Any Forthcoming CFPB Rules, Industry Groups Say [2016]

  • American Banker. Dec 8, 2016, Vol. 1 Issue 235
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, Payday loans -- Laws, regulations and rules, Financial institutions -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996
Abstract
Banking and credit union trade groups are urging Congress to consider repealing any upcoming Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules governing arbitration, payday lending, debt collection and prepaid cards by using [...]

19. Sparks Fly as Congress Reviews ESSA Rulemaking Process [2016]

  • Ujifusa, Andrew
  • Education Week. April 20, 2016, Vol. 35 Issue 28, 14.
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Department of Education -- Powers and duties, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, Education -- Finance, Education -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015
Abstract
Washington -- The way the Every Student Succeeds Act handles federal spending on students from low-income backgrounds has become a major point of disagreement between some in Congress and the [...]

20. Broad Democratic Bill Targets Abuses by Police [2020]

  • Edmondson, Catie
  • The New York Times. June 9, 2020, A14
Subjects
Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Congress -- Social policy, Democratic Party (United States) -- Social policy, and Police misconduct -- Laws, regulations and rules
Abstract
The measure, the most expansive intervention into policing that lawmakers have proposed in recent memory, is likely to draw opposition from Republicans and police unions. WASHINGTON -- Democrats [...]

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