Washington, D.C. – Two bills cosponsored by Alaska Congressman Don Young were considered in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Coast Guard Subcommittee today – one to update the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 as it relates to foreign spills, another to establish a funding process for the alteration, renovation, lease or charter of a […]
Washington, D.C. – Representatives Don Young, Sam Farr (D-CA), and Lois Capps (D-CA) Friday introduced H.R. 2717, the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring (FOARAM) Act of 2015, to expand NOAA’s efforts to study the impacts of ocean acidification, which could threaten an estimated $350 billion blue economy that employees over 2.9 million people in […]
Lawmakers in South Carolina’s House of Representatives have approved a measure to remove the Civil War-era Confederate flag from the grounds of the state Capitol in Columbia. The bill passed early Thursday morning by a vote of 94-20 on its third and final reading, after more than 13 hours of contentious debate. Opponents of the […]
South Carolina’s House of Representatives is debating a bill to remove the Civil War-era Confederate flag from the state Capitol grounds, where it has flown for more than 50 years. The bill, backed by both Democrats and Republicans, was approved 36 to 3 by the state Senate on Tuesday. During Wednesday’s debate, the House rejected […]