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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ended months of caution on impeachment Tuesday, launching a formal inquiry aimed at removing President Donald Trump over allegations he withheld aid from Ukraine to pressure that country to launch a corruption investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.
"The president must be held accountable," she said in a six-minute speech, flanked by six American flags outside her office at the Capitol. "No one is above the law."
Vulnerable Democrats continued to announce their support for impeachment proceedings Tuesday ahead of an important caucus meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and amid a scandal over whether or not President Donald Trump reportedly pressured a foreign nation to investigate one of his political foes.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Residents from Conroe to Galveston are complaining that they haven't gotten their mail since a postal facility roof collapsed during Tropical Storm Imelda.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Postal Service says just about all of their mail delivery has returned to normal.
Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (D-TX 29) held a press conference Sept. 23 to address post-Imelda recovery efforts, standing across the street from the damaged post office on Aldine Bender Road in north Houston.
On Thursday, Sept. 19, the post office building's flat roof collapsed during Tropical Storm Imelda, causing three people to have minor injuries according to Garcia. The post office, located in Garcia's district, is still working to analyze the damage completely before opening it to a tour by Garcia or the media.
PORTER, Texas - The U.S. Postal Service is still working to recover from last week's storm damage after the heavy rain.
The immense damage to the mail distribution facility still looks about the same as it did Thursday morning when the flat roof collapsed during heavy rainfall, leaving three people with minor injuries.
Between the damage and flooding at other post offices, FOX 26 News' Ivory Hecker talked to some people who haven't received mail in up to five days.
This past week, the House Financial Services Committee considered and passed a few bills that would, if passed by the House, result in changes to the securities laws. These include:
La depresión tropical sorprendió a muchas personas que apenas estaban superando la devastación del potente huracán Harvey, y ahora aseguran que nuevamente se encuentran en situación de emergencia. Lina Hidalgo, juez del condado Harris, dice que se están utilizando fondos locales para atender a los afectados y que se espera la recolección de donaciones para la asistencia. La funcionaria pide a los damnificados solicitar la ayuda, sin importar el estatus migratorio.
There are two political roadblocks that have powered the slowly building push to impeach President Trump among House Democrats. One is starkly political — the recognition that the Senate under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would never vote to remove Trump from office. The other is … also starkly political, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) declining to embrace an impeachment effort, certainly in part out of concern that it would cost her party its hard-won majority in her chamber.
The United States Postal Service has temporarily suspended activity at multiple Houston-area facilities until further notice due to the impact of Tropical Storm Imelda.
Despite damage experienced at the north Houston mail processing facility, USPS says it is "working daily to return to full operations, as soon as we can safely do so."
USPS released the following statement Monday:
A new Congressional bill proposes to offer cash bounties to people who voluntarily provide original information on potential audit-related violations to the U.S. regulator of audit firms.
The bill, called "PCAOB Whistleblower Protection Act of 2019," proposes to establish a whistleblower program at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board that will be similar to the whistleblower program at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The bill was passed Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives, and will be considered by the Senate next.