In June, a US House of Representatives committee found Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents related to the operation.
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Also on Tuesday's ballot were 11 state governorships, a third of the seats in the 100-member US Senate and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives.
Supporters of the measure, passed by the US House of Representatives in a 279-149 vote, say state courts would often impose large settlements on businesses accused of wrongdoing and based in a different state.
In recent testimony before the US House of Representatives, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke stated that if the national debt ceiling were not raised by the August deadline, the US Government would either have to default on some of its debt or reduce spending by 40 percent .
The likelihood of us being able to get the votes in the House of Representatives for DOMA repeal are very low at this point so, truthfully, the recourse to the courts is probably going to be the best approach.
In February 2004, the Chairman, Retirement Committee Louisiana House of Representatives asked us for guidance in drafting a law to prevent pension wrongdoing.
There she attacked the Netanyahu government for purportedly reacting with happiness to the news that the Republicans won control of the US House of Representatives in Tuesday's elections.
"You may not like what we've proposed but at least let us have a vote in the House of Representatives, " Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, said Thursday in criticizing congressional Republicans.
"There is absolutely no reason to think that the White House has been anything but cooperative with us" in efforts to maintain a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.
For example, the US House of Representatives voted in 1993 to ban the National Biological Survey from accepting the services of volunteers.
The report sent to the House of Representatives in the matter before us violated almost every standard followed by Judge Sirica.
The US House of Representatives voted 361-41 in favour of a plan passed by the Senate on Thursday that would cover the essential aviation staff's costs.
According to the US constitution, tax legislation has to start in the House of Representatives - by standard practice, in the powerful Ways and Means Committee - rather than the Senate.
And we're speaking with Fred Beuttler, deputy historian of the House of Representatives, who joins us here in - I guess I can call it Studio H144.
And we are particularly appalled and outraged at the latest callous attempts by the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives to harshly criminalize 12 million of those among us who are in this country maybe without papers, but who are the ones, are law-abiding, tax-paying, hard-working members of this community, contributing to the wealth and well-being of this country.
Remember how you felt when Nancy Pelosi told us that we would know what was in the Obamacare bill after it had been passed by the House of Representatives?
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The law is supported by Republicans in Congress, and lawyers acting for the House of Representatives leadership are defending the law instead of the US government.
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