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Vetoing the Immigration Act of 1917, Woodrow Wilson opposed imposing a literacy test on immigrants that would restrict Asian ...
Every lawmaker is for change, but not if it means sacrificing their pet project, favorite acronym-laden agency, or beloved ribbon-cutting opportunity.
THE PHILIPPINES’ anti-graft court has rejected Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Ejercito Estrada’s motion to dismiss his graft charges in connection with a multibillion-peso pork barrel scam. “The court is ...
The senator also said the daily disbursement reports (DDRs) of Benhur Luy — the principal whistleblower in the pork barrel scam —“are unreliable as they are mere printouts and can nowadays b ...
In the last several years, the people elected to run Alabama’s largest county have been doling out more and more pork, dipping into ... Some of that spending has gone to government-related ...
It was a smorgasbord of popular pork-barrel spending for public projects across the 17 th Congressional District. There were water projects for Pleasantville, Sleepy Hollow, Ossining and Carmel ...
Nearly 30,000 federal workers were laid off or fired last month as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order reducing government spending. It is uncertain whether that will stand ...
We are now able to taste three of the distillery’s recipes, however, in a trio of new single-barrel releases that were unavailable to the general public. The core single-barrel bourbon is OBSV ...
Elon Musk doubled down on his pledge to cut government spending by $1 trillion — an amount that would slash the federal budget deficit in half and, if implemented, put the U.S. much closer to ...