WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 26: Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) is demanding answers from the head of the General Services Administration (GSA) about newly-released criteria for construction, which call for two new courthouses--in Florida and Alabama--to be built in the "classi more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. RL31139) entitled "Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances". Here are excerpts of the report issued on Aug. 25 and written by Mark P. Sullivan, specialist in Latin American affairs: Summary: Restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba have constituted a key and often contentious component in U.S. efforts to isolate Cuba's communist government since the early 1960s. Such restrictions are larg more PR

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Aug. 29 -- The Southern Poverty Law Center issued the following news on Aug. 28: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom drew some 250,000 people to the nation's capital in a clarion call for racial justice. The event, culminating with Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963, pressured the administration of President John F. Kennedy to initiate a federal civil rights bill that his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, signed into law the follow more PR