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The Detroit City Council peppered Mayor Mike Duggan's administration with several concerns and questions Tuesday about his $250 million blight bond proposal, just days after a blistering Auditor General report outlined several problems with Detroit's demolition program. The contentious vote was postponed for at least a third time Tuesday, according to the city clerk's office.
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), lead sponsor of H.R. 1980, the Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act today celebrated the unanimous passage of the legislation out of the Committee on House Administration. The bill next heads to the House floor. Rep. Maloney introduced the bill on March 28, 2019 with Reps.
On the eve of a City Council vote that may advance Mayor Mike Duggan's $250 million blight bond proposal, a blistering Detroit Auditor General report concluded Friday the city's demolition program has been mismanaged and beset with significant problems for the past four years.
Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn led the passing of a bipartisan bill on November 3 in honor of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. The Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act allows a commemorative silver dollar coin to be minted by the U.S. Treasury in honor of the historic event.
A bipartisan delegation of women members of Congress is visiting Israel this week to underline that there is “no daylight” between the Democratic and Republican parties when it comes to ensuring the strength of US-Israel relations, and in supporting Israel as a Jewish, democratic state, the leader of the group said Thursday.
Congressman Fred Upton and colleagues from Michigan are trying to convince the U.S. Army corps of Engineers to speed up the approval process for property owners seeking to install shoreline protections along the Great Lakes due to coastal erosion this year.
U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Zeeland), co-chair of the Great Lakes Task Force has led a bipartisan letter dated Friday to Commanding General of the Army Corps of Engineers Todd Semonite. The letter from 10 of Michigan’s 14-member congressional delegation outlines the “imminent threat” Michigan residents who live near the Great Lakes face due to high water levels and erosion.
Two-thousand mourners paid respect to former U.S. House Rep. John Conyers Jr. during a funeral service on Monday at Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple on the city’s Northwest side. “When somebody served as long and as well as John did, it’s tempting to list every last bill that he sponsored or co-sponsored or had anything to do with,” former President Bill Clinton said during the service.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor once said, “We are never going to achieve equality in America until we achieve equality in education.” That battle cry was sounded long and loud Nov. 1 during the Women of Color Collaborative’s annual luncheon at Henry Ford College.
enator Marsha Blackburn’s (R-Tenn.) bipartisan legislation honoring the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote with a commemorative coin has passed Congress and is on its way to the President’s desk to be signed into law. The Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act, cosponsored by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), will create a silver $1 coin minted by the U.S.