Showing posts with label U.S. House of Representatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. House of Representatives. Show all posts
Friday, May 17, 2024

Congressional Committee Releases Staff Report on Harvard's Response to Antisemitism on Campus

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Yesterday the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released a Staff Report titled Investigative Update-- The Antisemitism Advisory...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

House Brands Palestinian Slogan as Antisemitic

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Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 377-44  adopted House Resolution 883 ( full text ) stating that the slogan, "f...
Friday, February 16, 2024

House Members Protest Invited Guest Chaplain

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Yesterday, 26 members of the U.S. House of Representatives Freethought Caucus sent a letter ( full text ) to House Speaker Mike Johnson and ...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

House Committee Seeks Documents on FBI Interest in Radical Traditionalist Catholic Extremists

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Yesterday, U.S. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to FBI Director Christopher Wray seeking documents related t...
Friday, December 09, 2022

House Hearing Explores Lobbying of Supreme Court by Religious Conservatives

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Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled  Undue Influence: Operation Higher Court and Politicking at SCOTUS . One of t...
Friday, July 15, 2022

House Hearing On Impact of Dobbs Decision

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On July 13, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing on  The Impact of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision on Abortion Righ...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Archbishop Bars Pelosi From Communion Because Of her Support For Abortion Rights

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On Thursday, San Francisco Catholic Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone formally notified Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representativ...
Friday, May 20, 2022

House Overwhelmingly Passes Resolution Condemning Antisemitism

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On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 420-1  passed House Resolution 1125 ( full text ) condemning rising antisemitism...
Friday, June 18, 2021

Catholic Members of U.S. House Confront Bishops Over Possible Denial of Communion To Pro-Choice Democrats

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As reported by CNN , the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops today voted 168-55 with 6 abstentions to direct its Committee on Doctrine to d...
Tuesday, December 08, 2020

House Resolution Calls For International Repeal of Blasphemy, Heresy and Apostasy Laws

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The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday, by a vote of 386-3 passed House Resolution 512 ( full text ) calling for the global repeal of ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Nazi Symbols On 75-Year Old POW Gravestones In VA Cemeteries Raise Protests

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Yesterday, bipartisan leadership of the House Veterans Affairs and Appropriations Committees wrote the Secretary of Veterans Affairs ( full ...
Monday, March 02, 2020

House Holds Hearings On Anti-Semitic Domestic Terrorism

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On Feb. 26, a subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing titled Confronting the Rise in Anti-Semitic Domestic Terr...
Friday, January 31, 2020

Recent Hearings By House Foreign Affairs Committee

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The House Foreign Affairs Committee has held two hearings of interest in recent days: Ending Global Religious Persecution  (Jan. 28, 2020...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

House Holds Hearings On Human Rights Issues In India's Jammu and Kashmir

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Last Thursday, the House of Representatives Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held hearings on  Jammu and Kashmir in Context.  The Committe...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

House Holds Hearing on Trump's "Muslim Ban"

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On Sept. 24, two subcommittees of the House Judiciary Committee held a joint hearing on  Oversight of the Trump Administration’s Muslim Ban....
Thursday, September 19, 2019

6th Circuit Refuses To Allow Congress To Intervene To Defend FGM Ban

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As previously reported, after the Department of Justice dropped its appeal of the district court's decision in United States v. Nagarwa...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

House Holds Hearing On "Do No Harm" Act

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The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing yesterday on H.R. 1450, the "Do No Harm" Act . The hearing was titled ...
Thursday, May 02, 2019

House of Representatives Moves To Intervene To Defend Federal FGM Ban

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As previously reported , last month the Department of Justice dropped its appeal of the court's decision in United States v. Nagarwala ....
Friday, April 19, 2019

DC Circuit: House Can Exclude Secular Invocations

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In Barker v. Conroy ,  (D Cir., April 19, 2019), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected an Establishment Clause challenge t...
Tuesday, April 09, 2019

House Holds Hearing On Hate Crimes and White Nationalism

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The House Judiciary Committee today held a hearing on  Hate Crimes and the Rise of White Nationalism.  The full text of the prepared testimo...