Mariners, Unions Fight Call to Alter Jones Act
Amid the massive oil cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico, the domestic shipping industry is going on the offensive, cautioning Members not to tinker with an obscure maritime law it claims protects thousands
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Amid the massive oil cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico, the domestic shipping industry is going on the offensive, cautioning Members not to tinker with an obscure maritime law it claims protects thousands
“I am focused 100 percent on trying to retain a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives,” he said in an interview Friday. “That is getting my exclusive attention these days.
who earns the rest of his income as a missionary in the Africa division of the Assemblies of God church.
The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, the formal name for the ethics committee, announced Thursday that an investigative subcommittee found substantial reason to believe that the
, calling the Harvard Law professor “absolutely” qualified for the job.
In an interview with La Opinion, the Nevada Democrat said he is largely leaving it up to reform advocates to tell him when a comprehensive bill is no longer viable and that the Senate should instead
In an interview, Zimmer said the idea for the project occurred to him while he was unsuccessfully fishing for bass last year.
“I was told in the interview that 90 percent or more of the staffers are Michigan natives. They kept saying, Well, the competition is tough, and almost everyone is from Michigan!'”
“We’re going to win this primary,” Miller said Monday in a telephone interview.
interview Sunday.
Hoyer, likewise, said in an interview that he expects to be Majority Leader next year and hasn’t given any thought to a return to the minority.
Cornyn acknowledged in an interview taped for C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program Friday afternoon that his committee has already reached out to multiple potential GOP candidates, including Rep.
Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who was in Charleston for the announcement, said in an interview Thursday that he looked forward to helping the new Senator get acclimated and ensured that he could be productive
Top executive positions were empty as of late last week at eight powerful industry groups: the Business Roundtable, the American Bankers Association, the Motion Picture Association of America, the
But for the 73-year-old chairman of the Commerce Committee, it’s just another day at the office.
The Congressman had $903,000 in the bank at the end of June compared with about $230,000 for Nunnelee.
But the Hill staffers argue that the giveaway objectifies women.
The Speaker drew a distinction between Obama and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, who suggested in a television interview Sunday that enough House seats were in play for Republicans to possibly
At the hotel, Habteab asked Nadler to pay $8 for the first leg of the trip, saying he would then reset the cab’s meter.
The basic design of the plan, by Paul Howard of the Manhattan Institute and Stephen Parente of the University of Minnesota, is to offer vouchers or tax credits to low-income workers to buy basic