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Hundreds of thousand of people descended upon downtown Houston on Saturday to celebrate annual Pride Festival and parade — a day to display acceptance of often marginalized groups.
The slogans displayed on posters and rainbow-themed attire reiterated those messages: "Love is love," one hat read. "This Isn't a Phase," read another.
The event, expected to draw some 700,00 people, was especially poignant this year, the 50th anniversary of the now-famous Stonewall Riots in New York City that were in many ways a catalyst for the modern gay rights movement.
Presidential contender Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation to block the Department of Housing and Urban Development from implementing a rule barring undocumented immigrants from subsidized housing.
"This proposed HUD rule is another example of the Trump administration's clear and relentless attacks against immigrant families across this country," Gillibrand said in a statement to POLITICO.
Last month, the Trump administration said it intends to recalculate how poverty is determined in America when estimating the size of the nation's population of poor people.
The change would better reflect how inflation affects peoples' lives and enable the Census Bureau to more accurately count how many families have incomes so low that they fall beneath official poverty measures, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget.
WASHINGTON — The bill that permanently authorizes the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund passed out of the House Judiciary Committee unanimously on Wednesday.
The move comes a day after former "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart shamed members of a Judiciary subcommittee, as only Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and four subcommittee members were present for testimony from 9/11 first responders.
WASHINGTON – Former "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart shamed members of a House panel Tuesday when only five lawmakers were seated in the rostrum to hear survivors of the Sept. 11 terror attacks testify about the need to reauthorize the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.
House Democrats are seeking to block the Trump administration from following through on a plan to make it more difficult for undocumented immigrants to receive government housing aid.
Rep. Justin Amash broke ranks with fellow Republicans when he said special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report shows that President Trump took actions that "meet the threshold for impeachment," arguing that the stark partisan divide over the findings was because "few members of Congress have read the report."
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spent several hours in a congressional hearing answering questions about his department's plan to evict unauthorized immigrants from government-subsidized housing.
After the May 21 hearing, Carson tweeted at U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Democrat from Houston, about the lack of public housing available in her city.
At least 225 members of the House of Representatives have publicly backed the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, based on his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 Democ
After a Capitol Hill hearing with more than a few minutes devoted to a back-and-forth about whether a California congresswoman was asking about foreclosed properties or Oreo cookies, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson lobbed a tweet at a Houston congresswoman and claimed undocumented immigrants were keeping Houstonians from public housing.