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THOMASVILLE — A Thomas County man who decided three years ago to seek the Second District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives announced his candidacy Thursday.
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Opponents of the plan to bring nuclear waste from foreign countries to Utah are one step closer to getting it banned. The United States House of Representatives overwhemingly passed legislation co-sponsored by Representatives Jim Matheson and Jason Chaffetz Wednesday afternoon. It would ban low-level radioactive waste from being brought from foreign ...
The U.S. House of Representatives squeaked out a health insurance reform bill, not a health care reform bill.
For almost two hours Wednesday, high school students turned into legislators and hotel conference rooms became the state Senate and House of Representatives.
Flight attendants and crew members could take unpaid leave to care for a newborn or sick family member under a bill approved by Congress. The measure, which passed the House on a voice vote Wednesday, now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature. The... Barack Obama - House - United States Congress - United States - Politics
A Planned Parenthood supporter from Otego joined demonstrators in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to lobby for health care reform and to protect access to abortion that would be banned in the House of Representatives version of legislation. Stuart Anderson said he was in a Senate caucus room where New York's senators echoed Planned Parenthood's opposition to limits in the Stupak-Pitts Amendment ...
FAIRBANKS — House Republicans meeting in Fairbanks have confirmed Tammie Wilson’s appointment to the state House of Representatives. Lt. Gov. Craig Campbell will lead Wilson’s swearing in ceremony...
By SHARIE PYKE -For The Outpost In 1956, Yellowstone County elected its first woman to the Montana House of Representatives, Antoinette “Toni” Fraser, a pretty, vivacious 30-year-old. In 1957, she was the only woman in the Montana House. “There was a wonderful woman from Polson in the Senate,” she says. That same year, Toni Fraser married Earl Rosell and became Toni Rosell. Name recognition is ...
THE THREE Democrats who represent the Hudson Valley in the House of Representatives were uncharacteristically quiet on Wednesday about where they stand on President Barack Obama ’s new strategy for the war in Afghanistan .
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed by a unanimous voice vote a bill permitting nationwide service of Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenas in civil actions filed in federal court.
Delphi Packard Electric retired salaried workers are turning their attention toward possible solutions to their pension worries after what they called a successful hearing Wednesday before a House of Representatives subcommittee.
A subsidiary of Peabody Energy Corp. spent more than $1 million during the third quarter to lobby Congress on issues related to the coal industry and energy policy, according to a recent disclosure report. Peabody Investments Corp. of St. Louis also lobbied... United States Congress - Coal - Energy - United States - Peabody Energy Corporation
Air Products and Chemicals Inc., an industrial and medical gas supplier, spent $450,000 in the third quarter to lobby Congress on clean energy issues, according to a recent disclosure report. The Allentown, Pa.-based company lobbied on clean air and clean... United States Congress - Air pollution - Green energy - Environment - Air Products & Chemicals
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner affirmed Wednesday the administration's intent to soon end the $700 billion financial bailout program. Geithner did not provide details, but said the government is close to the point at which "we can wind down this program"... United States Secretary of the Treasury - Timothy Geithner - United States Congress - Financial crisis - Business
The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday to provide Americans in the path of dangerous storms with life-saving warnings.
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Democrats on the House Energy Committee said Wednesday they are concerned the derivatives bills pending in the U.S. House of Representatives could usurp some of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's authority by giving it to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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