05/30/2014 Illinois Democratic Reps. Tammy Duckworth and Dan Lipinski on Friday became the first Democrats in the Illinois delegation to call for the resignation of embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki. Earlier, Rep. Adam Kinzinger R-Ill. said Shinseki should go.
< Read more > 05/29/2014 The chairman of the House science committee threw the legislative equivalent of a no-hitter last night, winning his panel's approval of a bill that sets policy for the National Science Foundation (NSF) on a straight party-line vote. And although the committee's Democratic minority failed to make any changes to a bill that the scientific community feels is seriously flawed, they made a strategic decision that they hope will lead to victory on a related NSF spending bill now pending on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
< Read more > 05/27/2014 Twenty-nine members of the U.S. House sent a letter to the head of the Federal Aviation Administration over the holiday weekend complaining about a "lack of transparency'' in the agency's new off-the-street hiring policy for air-traffic controllers, and the lawmakers sought assurances that flight safety is not being impaired.
< Read more > 05/27/2014 A move to have the U.S. post office in Chicago's Mount Greenwood community named after late Chicago Fire Department Capt. Herbie Johnson is a step closer to becoming reality.
< Read more > 05/21/2014 A bill that would prohibit the Army Corps of Engineers from dumping dredged material into the Lucas-Berg Nature Preserve in Worth passed the U.S. House this week.
< Read more > 05/21/2014 Legislation has been introduced to rename the U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters in Washington in honor of former U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar. The longtime congressman died May 3 at 79.
< Read more > 05/21/2014 The House agreed to the conference report on the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (H.R. 3080) on a 412-4 vote May 20.
< Read more > 05/13/2014 A Democratic congressman is mounting an effort to name the U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters for former U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, who died May 3.
< Read more > 05/04/2014 Unlike the highly visible trucks and rail cars that haul cargo across country, the millions of tons of coal, steel, cement, rock and agricultural products that move along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal from Chicago to New Orleans and other parts of the world are not so obvious.
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