WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine issued the following news release: Attorney General Karl A. Racine has welcomed 15 recent graduates from area law schools to join the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) as part of the 2020 Charles F.C. Ruff Fellowship. OAG established the year-long fellowship in 2012 to promote public interest legal work and give recent law school graduates the opportunity to practice law as Assistant Attorneys General for the District more PR

WACO, Texas, Feb. 6 -- Baylor University issued the following news: Former members of the U.S. Congress - Rep. Alan Steelman (R-TX 5th District, 1973-1976) and Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX 11th and 17th Districts, 1991-2010) - will be joined by Baylor Law Professor Rory Ryan and Baylor History Professor Stephen Sloan, Ph.D., for a panel discussion and Q&A, "Investigating Impeachment: Context, Congress, and the Constitution," at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, on the fifth floor of the Cashion Academic C more PR

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 7 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's Utah State Office issued the following news release on Feb. 6: * * * - The approved management plans provide certainty to local communities, protect monument objects and values, and incorporate input from over seven months of public engagement for each plan * * * To cohesively manage the national monuments and public lands in Utah, and to restore public trust, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- The Center for Education Reform issued the following news release: State of the Union address by President Donald J. Trump will very likely include more than a passing reference to education reform, and specifically, the Administration's effort to enact education freedom scholarships to help low-income students choose the schools they'd prefer to attend outside of their attendance zone. Tonight will not be the first time, nor the last, that a president makes a national pi more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Rep. John Garamendi, D-California, issued the following news release: Congressman John Garamendi (D-CA), who served as Deputy Secretary of the Interior under President Bill Clinton, sent a letter to California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot, California Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Jared Blumenfeld, and California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross, advocating for the Sites Reservoir Project--an off-stream reservoir--and the Sacr more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following op-ed: The U.S. Senate has only confronted a presidential impeachment trial three times in American history. The first was President Andrew Johnson's trial in 1868, which reflected the lingering divisions of the Civil War. The second was President Bill Clinton's trial more than 130 years later in 1999. At that time, I was serving South Dakota as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. I assumed and hoped that wou more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania, issued the following statement: U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) issued the following statement after he and a majority of senators voted to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment: "Today, I joined a majority of senators in voting to acquit President Trump. The Constitution sets a very high bar for impeachment and removal of a sitting president. While some of President Trump's actions were inappropriate, they did not come cl more PR

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Feb. 8 -- The Veterans of Foreign Wars issued the following news release: * * * - A total of 39 African-American veterans have earned the Medal of Honor during VFW-qualifying actions, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society * * * More than 3,500 service members have earned the nation's highest military decoration. But of those, only 92 have been black men, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. The Medal of Honor (MOH) is an award that da more PR