Word: congress
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...they're House Representatives. To their bookkeepers, they're something else. Financial-disclosure forms, released last week, reveal a new side of some Congress members...
...High School, where a student was shot dead in English class six years ago. But moments before he was to arrive, the House of Representatives voted 280-147 against legislation to restrict access to guns and impose safety locks on them. Gore had found his mojo. "What is the Congress doing?" he asked, his arms whirring. "With your help, I will personally lead the fight to pass [these laws] as President of the United States...
Stewart, who was flown first-class to Los Angeles, put up in a hotel suite and paid to appear, was prepared to talk about campus conservatism and the "disconnect between older and younger feminists." However, after events in Congress that day, the topics of the show ere changed to gun control and displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms--two issues on which Stewart does not consider herself particularly conservative...
However, after events in Congress that day, thetopics of the show were changed to gun control anddisplaying the ten Commandments in classrooms--twoissues on which Stewart does not consider herselfparticularly conservative...
...United States Congress has finally given up on its Dr. Evil-like plan to blackmail the United Nations into slashing its bureaucracy. Instead, they?re coughing up one billion dollars in back dues, and taking the money out of the back end. The Senate voted 98-1 on Tuesday to release the back dues and cut the U.S. contribution to the organization?s budget to 20 percent from 25 percent. TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell says the change of heart ?- adopted by Democrats after Clinton went along ?- has a lot to do with Slobodan Milosevic. "Kosovo showed the importance...