TRNS News Notes By Victoria Jones
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Emmet Bondurant, the lead attorney for a lawsuit challenging the filibuster’s legality and member of the governing board of Common Cause, stated in a District Court Tuesday that the filibuster is unconstitutional since it basically grants the Senate too much power.
Officials at the NSA and the FBI told House lawmakers Tuesday that secret NSA spying has disrupted over 50 potential terror plots against the U.S. since 9/11.
Women make up about 14 percent of the 1.4 million active U.S. military personnel.
“The Speaker of the House should be the Speaker of the American People not of one particular party.” Gutierrez said during a press conference outside the Capitol.
Issa issued a statement that he was “deeply disappointed” and that the transcript “will serve as a roadmap for IRS officials to navigate investigative interviews with Congress.”
Three years and 9,000 pages of legislation later, our economy has yet to see any benefits from the passing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.
The Vice President said Tuesday that Democrats are going to keep trying to pass expanded background check laws.
