In the largest political upset of U.S. House leadership in years, the U.S. House second-in-command Eric Cantor went down in shocking defeat to little known, Tea Party-backed David Brat in the Virginia primary on Tuesday. The Tuesday defeat sent shockwaves through the Republican rank and file who expected Cantor to handily defeat his unknown rival, Brat, […]
Washington, D.C. – For nearly 50 years, the Huna Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska have been prohibited by federal regulation from practicing an integral part of their heritage they have shared for generations – the traditional harvest of gull eggs in Glacier Bay. On Monday, Alaska Congressman Don Young made headway in resolving this longstanding subsistence concern by passing H.R. […]
