WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. RL31675) on Feb. 17, 2022, entitled "Arms Sales: Congressional Review Process" by nonproliferation specialist Paul K. Kerr: * * * SUMMARY This report reviews the process and procedures that apply to congressional consideration of foreign arms sales proposed by the President. This includes consideration of proposals to sell major defense equipment, defense articles and services, or the retransfer to thir more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management issued the following news: On Feb. 11, the United States recognizes National Inventors Day, a day designated to salute past and present great inventors. National Inventors Day was first signed into declaration in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. Reagan chose Feb. 11 to honor Thomas Edison's birthday. Edison was one of history's most notable inventors, holding more than 1,000 patents. The Office of Legacy Management ( more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- The House Judiciary Committee issued a report (H.Rpt. 117-234) on Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (H.R. 4445), which aims to amend Title 9 of the U.S. Code with respect to arbitration of disputes involving sexual assault and sexual harassment. The report was advanced by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, on Jan. 28, 2022. Excerpts of the report follow (with changes to the law omitted, and available at https://www.congress.gov/congressio more ST

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2022: Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which began the forced internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet passed his bill to add the Amache internment site for Japanese-Americans to the National Park System (NPS). The facility, located in Granada, Colorado, held nearly 10,000 Japanese Americans against their will during the Second Worl more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- President Biden issued the following statement on Feb. 18, 2022, on the day of remembrance of Japanese American incarcerations during World War II: * * * Eighty years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, stripping people of Japanese descent of their civil rights. That order and the subsequent actions carried out by the Federal Government represent one of the most shameful chapters in our Nation's history. On this Day of  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following weekly column on Feb. 14, 2022: Earlier this month, the U.S. national debt alarmingly surpassed $30 trillion, which means it effectively doubled in just a decade. While there is no easy or immediate solution for tackling the problem of our massive debt, the monstrous size of and rate at which it continues to grow should concern us all and spur on congressional leaders and the president to responsibly address it. For context more PR