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On the first day of the new Congress, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry turned an eye to the possibilities of tax and health care reform along with an infrastructure program that offers the potential for bipartisan cooperation.
"Our system is so extraordinary that even after a divisive hard difficult election we can come together and replenish our system with new ideas, new people and start afresh," Nebraska Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE-1) said.
Congress has coalesced around Omaha’s sound idea to let local donors help the Veterans Administration serve the medical needs of local veterans better, faster and cheaper than the federal bureaucracy can on its own.
Labour MP Joan Ryan was in Washington, D.C. this week arguing for American money towards peace-building initiatives in Israel and the Palestinian territories, which aims to spend £160 million ($200 million) per year.
The Nebraska Legislature will see considerable turnover when it convenes in January. Seventeen of the 49 lawmakers will be freshmen. That’s a third of the membership.
The Legislature also will be electing a new speaker and nine new committee leaders.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry said Thursday he sees "possibilities of real policy reform" emerging from the November election in terms of health care, modernization of the nation's infrastructure and fundamental changes in budgeting and taxation.
A Nebraska Congressman acknowledges the election results surprised him, but adds the signs were there all along.
Congressman Jeff Fortenberry readily says the honest answer to the question of whether the election results surprised him is “Yes.”
House Republicans began a discussion Wednesday on whether to restore limited earmarks in spending bills after banning the practice in 2010. But Speaker Paul D. Ryan requested members delay a vote on the matter until early next year.
COLUMBUS — Each time U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry walks through the Chicago airport on his way to Washington, D.C., he passes a photo of a pilot.
It's a picture of O’Hare International Airport’s namesake, Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hare, who served in the United States Navy during World War II.
Twenty years ago, Lt. Col. John Hyten moved from Colorado Springs to Offutt Air Force Base to become the last commander of the 6th Space Operations Squadron, which operated weather satellites.
Hyten, now a four-star general, is back for his second and last tour at Offutt, this time at U.S. Strategic Command in charge of America’s nuclear, space and cyber defenses.