A Good Week to Be Aligned With Boehner as Speaker Flexes Muscle
According to documents obtained by Roll Call, the steering committee will now have just one representative from the class of 2010.
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According to documents obtained by Roll Call, the steering committee will now have just one representative from the class of 2010.
Those documents have been at the center of the chamber’s problems with Holder, including its contempt citation and subsequent, related lawsuit.
sorta campaigned for the job and everything), b) the stunt touched off a flurry of warnings from official/unofficial critics, and, c) the entire episode was not meant to demean or even to lampoon the voting
But Goodlatte’s style differs from Smith’s.Smith often adopted a hard-charging tone — frequently blasting press releases and demanding documents from administration officials.
The campaign, funded by the Ford Foundation, is one of many ways that voting modernization advocates are working to overhaul the voting process for the digital era.
Efforts to combat voter fraud in 23 states could jeopardize the voting rights of more than 10 million Latino voters, a report released today by the Advancement Project found.
Older voters who don’t have birth certificates or other supporting documents required to get the photo ID have to pay to get them — and in some Catch-22 cases, they can’t get birth certificates without
Seventeen Democrats joined Republicans in voting to hold Holder in contempt.
In September 2004, he joined 29 Republican colleagues in voting down Energy and Commerce Democrats’ attempt to obtain the names, dates, subjects and locations involved in the Cheney energy task force
Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee with subpoena authority and oversight of D.C. affairs, announced last week that he was in the process of requesting documents
Issa is a voting member of the NCPC, in his capacity as chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has jurisdiction over the District of Columbia.
voting rules.
He invited trouble recently by publicly criticizing the new map, raising concerns that it might not adhere to the Voting Rights Act.
In voting unanimously to take the rare step of referring a former colleague to both the Department of Justice and the Federal Election Commission, Ethics Committee leaders also made the unusual decision
In 2009, the group received $1.4 million in contributions and spent $1.6 million on salaries and other expenditures, according to documents filed with the IRS.
on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee continued their public disagreement over how the panel should operate with ranking member Elijah Cummings leading all of the Democrats present in voting