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By: Rep. Jamie Raskin Press Release -- (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Representatives Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and Mark Meadows’ (NC-11) bipartisan House Resolution 512 today passed out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and is gaining bipartisan momentum in Congress. More than 40 House Members have cosponsored H. Res. 512, calling for the global repeal of blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy laws.… Read more »

By: Tom Feltner, For The Hill -- An op-ed by American Financial Services Association CEO Bill Himpler recently took issue with the Center for Responsible Lending’s (CRL) recent poll showing that 70 percent of voters approve of limiting interest rates on consumer loans to 36 percent interest. It also takes issue with the use of an annual interest rate to ensure that borrowers understand… Read more »

By: Dr. Paul Carlsen, For USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin -- College affordability has never received as much attention as it is receiving right now, and rightfully so. Currently, there is more than $1,600,000,000,000 in outstanding student loan debt. While the majority of this debt is the result of for-profit colleges maximizing shareholder profits at the expense of student credit… Read more »

By: WSAU WASHINGTON, DC (Wisconsin Radio Network-WSAU) -- Four Wisconsin congressional Republicans have signed onto a legal brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider overturn Roe versus Wade. Senator Johnson and Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner, Glenn Grothman and Bryan Steil are among 39 Republican senators and 168 representatives who've signed an amicus brief asking the… Read more »

By: Stephen Kelley, For WQOW -- Four members of Wisconsin's Republican Congressional delegation have signed a brief asking for the United States Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. They were among 39 Republican senators and 168 representatives to send the brief over to the high court. It was submitted in the case of June Medical Services LLC vs. Gee which the court will… Read more »

By: EIN Presswire WASHINGTON, DC, US, January 2, 2020 -- Youth for Human Rights National Office announced today its pledge to activate grassroots support through its U.S. chapters to help prevent global human trafficking through the Sex Trafficking Demand Reduction Act (HR 4326) introduced by Representatives Ann Wagner (R-MO-02) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08). Representatives Wagner… Read more »

Bloomberg BNA: Failed NLRB Defunding Attempt Could Fuel Changes at Agency (Corrected) By Tyrone Richardson A failed Republican effort in the House to cut NLRB discretionary spending by nearly half could set the groundwork for future discussions about reeling in the authority of the labor agency. House lawmakers last month rejected an appropriations amendment that would have… Read more »

Fifty years ago, U.S. Army Captain Steve Yedinak returned home from Vietnam believing that he had led covert operations that contributed significantly to the U.S. efforts to counter communist infiltration from the North into South Vietnam. Yedinak, now 77, left behind more than 200 local troops who had fought alongside U.S. forces. Ethnic Cambodians living in South Vietnam, the… Read more »

Click here to link to this article. One restraint on economic growth is the increasing U.S. labor shortage, especially for jobs that require technical skills. Meanwhile, many college grads are underemployed and burdened by student debt. The Trump Administration is trying to address both problems by rethinking the government’s educational priorities. President Trump directed Labor… Read more »

By Stephen Dinan Hundreds of patent examiners appear to have cheated on their time cards yet were still rated as above average employees — and some were even given bonuses by their bosses at the U.S. Patent and Trade Office, the agency’s inspector general told Congress in devastating testimony Wednesday. More than 100 examiners appeared to have ditched at least one full day’s… Read more »