WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - The protests Tuesday night to President Trump’s first joint Congressional Address didn’t just take place outside. Inside, Republicans and Democrats brought certain guests to represent the many different issues polarizing the country. An undocumented immigrant, those relying on ‘Obamacare’ and a refugee were on the guest list. Remember those emotional reunions at Dulles International? That's how Virginia Congressman Gerry Connolly met 35-year-old Farah Al Khafaji, the Iraqi i...
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By Greg Hambrick FAIRFAX, VA -- The Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax received a bomb threat on Monday. It was one of more than a dozen sites in the U.S. targeted in the latest round of threats to Jewish schools and community centers. After receiving the telephone threat Monday morning, the school followed safety protocols and worked with local law enforcement before school returned to normal activities, according to a statement by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington. ...
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Today, U.S. Representative Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Mark Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) along with U.S. Representatives Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-AL), John Sarbanes (MD-03), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), John Delaney (MD-06), Don Beyer (VA-08), Anthony Brown (MD-04), and Jamie Raskin (MD-08) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting a report on the effectiveness of governance and dedicated funding structures of the Wa...
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Getting Metro Safety Back on Track New commission will be empowered to adopt tough safety rules BY REP. STENY H. HOYER, SENS. BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, MARK WARNER, TIM KAINE AND CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, DEL. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, REPS. JOHN SARBANES, GERALD E. CONNOLLY, JOHN DELANEY, DONALD S. BEYER JR., ANTHONY G. BROWN AND JAMIE RASKIN The Washington Metro system has its good days and its bad ones. On its best, it carries hundreds of thousands of commuters and visitors around our metro area. On its worst...
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National Capital Region Members Introduce Joint Resolution to Establish the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission Today, U.S. Representative Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Mark Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) along with U.S. Representatives Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-AL), John Sarbanes (MD-03), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), John Delaney (MD-06), Don Beyer (VA-08), Anthony Brown (MD-04), and Jamie Raskin (MD-08) introduced a joint resolution to est...
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"This is about ensuring a fair review process. All Postal Service employees should have the basic right to appeal an adverse personnel action,” said Connolly.
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Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement today after the U.S. Office of Government Ethics urged the White House Counsel to investigate senior White House Advisor Kellyanne Conway’s potential violation of federal rules: “Kellyanne Conway’s infomercial for President Trump’s daughter was an egregious violation of the federal Standards of Conduct. This dereliction of basic ethical conduct from a senior Administration official is behavior that has come to characterize the Tr...
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Mikaela Lefrak and Martin Austermuhle A nearly straight party-line vote by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to overturn a D.C. law giving terminally ill residents the right to end their own lives prompted plenty of impassioned debate on Capitol Hill Monday night, but whether it will have any real impact is in doubt. Led by Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, the panel voted 22-14 in favor of sending to the House floor H.J. Res. 27, a bill authored by Rep. Brad Wenstrup, an Ohio R...
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Today, all Democratic Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter to Chairman Jason Chaffetz urging him to reconsider his repeated refusals over the past several months to join Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings in investigating Lt. General Michael Flynn and his ties to Russia. “Today, all Democratic Members of the Committee write to you jointly to request that you either reconsider your decision and initiate this investigation, or step aside and allow the Comm...
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It's Time For Cameras in the Court President Trump’s possibly unconstitutional ban on the entry of people from seven predominantly Muslim countries into this nation is likely headed for the Supreme Court. As the Feb. 8 editorial “Justice in full view” pointed out, thanks to technology, any member of the American public could witness the oral arguments in District Court Judge James L. Robart’s court and listen to the arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. When this case almos...
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