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  • Pelosi, Dems unveil bill to bind Trump to Paris climate accord

    03/27/2019 12:18:32 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 82 replies
    The Hill ^ | March 27, 2019 | Mike Lillis, Miranda Green
    House Democrats on Wednesday unveiled long-awaited legislation designed to reduce carbon emissions and take on climate change by binding the United States to commitments made under the Obama-era Paris climate accord. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joined other Democrats in releasing the legislative package in the Capitol, framing climate change as "an existential threat" and promising that the party will move the legislation quickly to the floor. “The American people know that the … crisis is an existential threat of our generation, of our time, a crisis manifested in natural disasters of epic proportions,” she said. The five-page bill known as...
  • House Delays Renewal of Voting Rights Act

    06/21/2006 10:25:01 AM PDT · by Republican Red · 19 replies · 659+ views
    CBS / AP ^ | Jun. 21, 2006 | LAURIE KELLMAN
    House GOP leaders delay renewal of Voting Rights Act under objections from Southern Republicans (AP) House Republican leaders on Wednesday postponed a vote on renewing the 1965 Voting Rights Act after GOP lawmakers complained it unfairly singles out nine Southern states for federal oversight, a leadership aide said. At a private meeting, several Republicans also balked at extending provisions in the law that require ballots to be printed in more than one language in neighborhoods where there are large numbers of immigrants, said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not yet been made public....