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On Thursday, the House of Representatives approved the Senate GOP's version of the border supplemental by a vote of 305-102.
The plan appropriates $4.5 billion in a bid to solve the myriad of problems occurring at America's southern border.
The House Financial Services Committee continued to focus on workforce diversity.
That committee held a hearing entitled "Diversity in the Boardroom: Examining Proposals to Increase the Diversity of America's Boards."
This is the second hearing on diversity in this committee this session. The first in February was entitled "An Overview of Diversity Trends in the Financial Services Industry."
Later this month, the committee will hold another hearing on diversity entitled: "Diverse Asset Managers: Challenges, Solutions and Opportunities for Inclusion."
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.