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A bipartisan team of senators introduced a bill Thursday that would make Facebook's cryptocurrency libra a security under the law. That classification would likely invite even greater regulation and scrutiny to the project, which Facebook has insisted is a digital payments system.
Leading up to the early 1970s, women (and some men) fought for the "radical idea" that women and men should be equal under the Constitution - "that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
Years of activism in favor of full equality culminated with the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct.12, 1971 and in the Senate on March 22, 1972.
Wyoming might not be first in mind when it comes to cutting-edge financial technology, but the state is forging ahead with plans to attract a small fortune in cryptocurrency assets from companies eager to sidestep federal oversight.
Members of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee are no longer willing to settle for the testimony of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's deputies. Several representatives are pushing for Zuckerberg to testify on the company's plans to launch a new cryptocurrency called libra following talks for his COO Sheryl Sandberg to appear before the committee.
WASHINGTON, DC —Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4863, the United States Export Finance Agency Act of 2019, which would reauthorize the Export-Import (EX-IM) Bank for ten years and increase its lending authority to $175 billion dollars. The EX-IM Bank is the official credit agency of the United States that support U.S.
HOUSTON – At KPRC 2, we're dedicated to keeping Houstonians informed. As part of our new Ask 2 series, the newsroom will answer your questions about all things Houston.
The question: Why don't all Texas School buses have seatbelts?
When Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 693 into law in 2017, Texas became one of only a handful of states in the country to pass some variation of a school bus seat belt law.
Dozens of activists and protesters rallied near downtown Houston Sunday afternoon to protest the Trump administration's treatment of immigrant women and children.
The "Unlock the Future" rally, organized by the D.C.-based National Organization for Women, addressed reports of physical and sexual abuse in detention facilities and the living conditions of women and girls who are currently being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
November 14, 2019
Betsy DeVos
Secretary of Education
United States of Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20202
Secretary DeVos,
Dear Colleague:
We invite you to become an original cosponsor of a resolution condemning Federal Housing and Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mark A. Calabria's decision to remove the critical borrower's preferred language question from the redesigned Universal Residential Loan Application (URLA).
WASHINGTON, DC — Earlier this week, the Houston City Council approved $24 million in federal funding that will go towards the East End Maker Hub, a startup hub in the Texas 29th Congressional District.