by Elizabeth Strassner | Oct 19, 2017 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A new bipartisan bill proposed Thursday would require online platforms to publish information about advertisers, a key issue as investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election continues. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. – the top...
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by Elizabeth Strassner | Oct 17, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Current approaches to restructuring nations’ sovereign debt are inadequate, because they don’t account for systemic risk and rely too much on the International Monetary Fund and similar institutions to bail out debtor nations, a bankruptcy law expert said...
by Elizabeth Strassner | Oct 11, 2017 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Strict spending limits imposed by the 2011 Budget Control Act are threatening military readiness, two members of the House Armed Services Committee said Wednesday. But Republican Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., proposed that military spending be separated from...
by Elizabeth Strassner | Oct 4, 2017 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — “The middle class is gonna get it,” warned Rep. Mark Pacon, D-Wis., on Wednesday as he and other Democrats accused Republicans of misrepresenting their tax plan and called on the GOP-controlled Congress to reject it. Pacon and other members of the...
by Elizabeth Strassner | Oct 3, 2017 | National Security
WASHINGTON — A yellow Labrador retriever named Jax stole the spotlight Tuesday at a congressional hearing that focused on the high number of dogs in homeland security canine units that are from foreign countries. He was trotted out as an example of the trained...
