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Congress says Harvard built a nonprofit to dodge foreign gift disclosure law
Harvard is the single largest recipient of foreign money in American higher education, and if the disclosure law meant to track that money can be bypassed by routing it through a separate nonprofit, then nobody — not Congress, not the Education Department, not the public — actually knows who is funding research at the country's most influential university.
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Jeffries indicates potential Supreme Court changes if Democrats win midterms
Jeffries supported implementing 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices, which is currently a lifelong appointment, and said that House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin D-Md., would lead talks on altering the high court.
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House GOP group launches $22 million advertising campaign ahead of midterms: report
The ads promote Republican's elimination of taxes on tips and Social Security, along with other parts of a GOP package passed last summer.
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Democrats' $3.5 trillion reconciliation 'will be reduced' in order to pass, says Democratic rep.
"We can't lose anybody," Norton says of the budget reconciliation bill which needs the support of all Democrats to pass in the Senate
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House Dems to release tax-increase package, 'biggest in decades,' to offset $3.5T spending bill
Proposal reportedly would raise corporate rate to 26.5%, increase the top tax rate for individuals to 39.6%.
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Sen. Joe Manchin says he can't support Biden's $3.5 trillion spending plan
The entire package that the Dems are trying to push through, totaling approximately $5 trillion, may well depend on the vote of Sen. Manchin.
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DC Delegate Norton says no one accused her of sending zebras to run wild through Maryland
'All of this entire release is a play on words on statehood and on my most recent work on fences at the Capitol,' Norton said after releasing a statement denying setting free zebras that were spotted running wild in Maryland.
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9/11 Commission vice chair: 'A lot more' can be done to improve intel sharing within government
“Government tends to become very polarized and becomes very jealous of jurisdictions in sharing information and working across not just departmental lines ... but also within the same department," former Rep. Lee Hamilton said.
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Boxer hints time for fellow California Democrat Feinstein to retire from Senate
The former Senator retired in 2017 at the age of 76, Feinstein is currently 88
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McCarthy ask Supreme Court to weigh in on House Democrats' ongoing proxy voting
In August, Speaker Nancy Pelosi extended the proxy voting system through at least October 1
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Sen. Ron Johnson: Biden is 'trampling civil liberties' with new vaccine mandates
The senator also said he found Biden's announcement to be "a level of coercion that I find highly disturbing."
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Dem elder statesman Lee Hamilton chides party for ramming through Biden agenda with no GOP support
"You do not accomplish, I don't think, anything of lasting value in our complicated government, unless you do it in a bipartisan way," Hamilton said.
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CBO: U.S. government ran a $173 billion deficit in August, $2.7 trillion so far this year
The leader of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says "policymakers can’t keep heading down an unsustainable path"