WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: Washington Post: "the latest and largest effort by a group of congressional Democrats seeking to make sex equality a legal reality" Today, Congresswomen Cori Bush (MO-01) and Ayanna Pressley (MA-07)led 120 of their colleagues in a letter to President Biden urging him to direct the Archivist to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution before the end of more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is granting clemency consisting of 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is pardoning the following 39 individuals: NINA SIMONA ALLEN - Harvest, Alabama Nina Simona Allen is a 49-year-old woman who was convicted of a non-violent offense in her 20s. In the years since, Ms. Allen returned to school to earn a post-baccalaureate degree and two more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2024: * * * Firm settles SEC charges related to former employee's misconduct * * * The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Eric Cobb of South Carolina with engaging in a fraudulent scheme where he allocated profitable securities trades to favored accounts and unprofitable trades to disfavored clients, a practice known as cherry-picking, while he was a representative of inv more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- The Senate Appropriations Committee released the following testimony by Agriculture Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small from a Nov. 20, 2024, hearing entitled "A Review of Disaster Funding Needs": * * * Thank you, Chair Murray, Vice Chair Collins, and Members of the Committee for the opportunity to come before you today to provide an update on the impact of disasters on American farms, ranches, private and public forest lands, and rural communities, and the work the U. more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- The Senate Appropriations Committee released the following testimony by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg from a Nov. 20, 2024, hearing entitled "A Review of Disaster Funding Needs": * * * Chair Murray, Vice Chairman Collins, and members of the committee--thank you for this opportunity to speak with you today alongside my colleagues in the Biden-Harris Administration. A month ago, I was in North Carolina and Tennessee visiting communities impacted by Hurricane Hel more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- The Senate Appropriations Committee released the following testimony by Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, from a Nov. 20, 2024, hearing entitled "A Review of Disaster Funding Needs": * * * Thank you, Chair Murray and Vice Chair Collins, for the opportunity to brief the Committee on the dire conditions facing Georgia farmers in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and the urgency of passing this disaster supplemental before year's end. Let me be clear: Georgia agriculture was dev more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The White House issued the following news release: Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is granting clemency consisting of 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is pardoning the following 39 individuals: NINA SIMONA ALLEN - Harvest, Alabama Nina Simona Allen is a 49-year-old woman who was convicted of a non-violent offense in her 20s. In the years since, Ms. Allen returned to school to earn a post-baccalaureate degree and two master's degre more PR