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The nascent financial technology industry started the year faintly optimistic that the 116th Congress would pass bills in its favor. But as 2019 comes to an end without legislation, the industry isn't even expecting action in 2020. And for that, they're feeling relieved, not disappointed.
Facebook Inc.'s midyear announcement that it planned to launch a cryptocurrency, Libra, upended the industry's focus, tilting the legislative strategy from pressing hard for beneficial bills to staying clear of measures aimed at checking the social media giant's ambitions to transform commerce.
WASHINGTON, DC — Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) announces the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service has awarded $167,000 to el Centro del Corazon towards the end of 2019. This grant money will support el Centro del Corazon with delivering quality healthcare to the medically underserved and uninsured in the Houston area, which includes services and programs such as diabetes self-management, children wellness, and comprehensive prenatal and postnatal care.
The House will vote on the impeachment of President Donald Trump this week, after spending the past three months investigating the president's dealings in Ukraine and deciding whether his behavior was grave enough to qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors.
WASHINGTON, DC — Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) announces the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded BakerRipley more than $10.8 million in grant money for its Head Start and Early Head Start programs in the Texas 29th Congressional District.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Rep. Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) voted to pass H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, bold, transformative legislation to strengthen the health and financial security of America's seniors and families by finally stopping Americans from having to pay more for their medicines than what Big Pharma charges for the same drugs in other countries.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said she wanted to put House Democrats' case for impeachment in "simple terms for the American public."
During a marathon hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in which Democrats teed up the third impeachment of a president in American history, the El Paso Democrat laid out a hypothetical.
A governor withholds funding from a community racked by a natural disaster, telling the mayor of that community he'll hand over the money, but first he wants a favor: Have your police chief smear my political opponent.
After over 14 hours of debate, Democrats surprised Republicans by holding off a final vote in the House Judiciary Committee until Friday morning on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, as Democrats charged the President was clearly trying to get Ukraine to announce investigations which would benefit Mr. Trump's 2020 re-election bid.
"President Trump used his office to serve himself," said Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), as Democrats said the evidence was clear that President Trump was trying to get foreign help for 2020.
WASHINGTON – After weeks of blaming Democrats for delaying President Donald Trump's renegotiated trade deal with Canada and Mexico, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R- Ky., said Tuesday he would delay it further.
On Dec. 11, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a bipartisan bill spearheaded by U.S. Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-19), Dan Newhouse (R-WA-04), Mike Simpson (R-ID-02), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-01), and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-25), passed in the House of Representatives with a 260-165 vote.
Over 80 members of the Home of Representatives have now referred to as on White Home senior adviser Stephen Miller to resign after leaked emails printed this week confirmed his affinity for white nationalism.
HuffPost contacted the workplace of each Home member and requested whether or not Miller ought to resign. All instructed, over 80 representatives, all Democrats, have mentioned he ought to.
"Hell sure," responded Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.).