On the heels of the GOP taking back the White House and maintaining control of Congress, a proposal from a Texas lawmaker to bring back earmarks threatens to divide House Republicans and their typical allies. Houston Rep. John Culberson’s bid to overturn the 2011 moratorium on congressionally directed spending hit the skids just before lawmakers left Washington on recess last week, when Speaker Paul Ryan halted a closed-door vote on the measure. "We just had a 'drain the swamp' election," Ryan r...
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The Texas Republican congressman, who with two other colleagues proposed a revision of the 2011 ban on legislative earmarks, withdrew his proposal at Wednesday’s House Republican Conference meeting.
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The acquisition of U.S. movie theater chains and entertainment production companies by Chinese entities has continued to raise red flags in Congress, as one lawmaker petitioned the Department of Justice Thursday for closer scrutiny of the growing relationship between Beijing and Hollywood.
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Republican Rep. John Culberson contacted the Department of Justice (DOJ) to take a second look at the attempted takeover by a Chinese company of the U.S. movie industry.
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A key member of Congress introduced a bill Thursday that would halt all new naturalizations until the Obama administration can prove it is checking immigrants’ fingerprints to make sure they shouldn’t be deported instead of granted citizenship.
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A House Republican introduced legislation to prevent the U.S. government from granting immigrants citizenship, responding to a report found that several hundred people slated for deportation were accidentally naturalized.
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Republicans will continue to oppose the U.S. government’s plan to cede its control over a major internet governance body as the Sept. 30 transition date nears.
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