by Jessica Floum | Feb 12, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON — The world is waiting for the United States to ratify treaties to that would close global ports to illegal fishing vessels, witnesses told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday. Illegal fishing– using illegal gear, failing to report catch...
by Jeanne Kuang | Feb 12, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON — A bill introduced by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Wednesday would prohibit disciplinary and safety practices in schools that result in children being locked alone in rooms or physically restrained, practices the Senate education committee says happen...
by Sara Olstad | Feb 12, 2014 | Living, Politics
WASHINGTON – Nearly 30 people have been killed at schools in the United States since the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., according to new data released by two gun control groups. Two Democratic lawmakers and members of Moms...
by Sylvan Lane | Feb 12, 2014 | Business, Living
WASHINGTON—Five years after the Great Recession stalled the American economy, senior citizen entrepreneurship might be what the United States needs to kick the slow recovery into another gear. Now, the Senate is trying to figure out what needs to be done help “encore...
by Stephanie Haines | Feb 12, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The federal government needs to invest in more preventative measures to protect the countryagainst natural disasters, senators said Wednesday. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., and Sen. Ron Johnson,...
by Christophe Haubursin | Feb 12, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Like wine connoisseurs judging the best Bordeaux, a panel of judges with more than a century of taste-testing knowledge among them, named Curtis, Neb. Wednesday as having the best drinking water in rural America. The annual competition — the National...
by Ryan McCrimmon | Feb 12, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — A panel of Middle East policy experts say the growing jihadist movement in Egypt poses an increasing threat to the United States. The experts told the House Homeland Security Committee Tuesday that terrorist and insurgent groups are thriving in the...
by Cat Zakrzewski | Feb 12, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Almost a month after President Barack Obama called for an end to the National Security Agency’s practice of storing telephone metadata, some senators said Wednesday they feared it would not be enough and pressed for action by Congress. The Senate...
by Preetisha Sen | Feb 12, 2014 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed the bill to suspend the federal debt ceiling until March 2015 on Wednesday after a crucial 67-31 vote to end debate on the measure, with a flurry of support from Republican leadership. The procedural vote for cloture, which...
by Jeanne Kuang | Feb 11, 2014 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON—A Congressional Budget Office report that spurred a partisan economic argument last week continued to pit Democrats and Republicans against each other Tuesday. At a Senate Budget Committee hearing, Douglas Elmendorf, head of the non-partisan CBO, said the...
by Jonathan Palmer | Feb 11, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON – The latest incursion of technology into classrooms will hit in the fall when some schools start using online assessment systems to track student progress in meeting the new common care standards. In spring, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for...
