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In Arizona , a Christian state legislator is angry after a fellow legislator offered a godless invocation to open a session of the Arizona House of Representatives.

I was optimistic when I began reading the Washington Post op-ed on climate change by Rep.

This means amendments will not be considered to the gambling legislation and the bill is dead.

Human rights activist and actor Sean Pean greets Rep. Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J., at the top of Monday's House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations hearing on the plight of Jacob Ostreicher, a Brooklyn native being detained abroad in Bolivia.

Washington D.C., May 20, 2013 / 05:05 pm .- Secretary of State John Kerry released on May 20 the annual International Religious Freedom Report for 2012, which documents violence and persecution towards global religious minorities.

A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step - for federal legislation, that first step is usually passage through a congressional subcommittee.

I'm not sure what else Rep. Adam Smith expected to hear from host Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday this weekend, since his network has been in full fake Benghazi outrage mode ever since the attacks in Libya, and taking the insanity to new heights ever since ABC helped legitimize the witch hunt last week -- but I was glad to see Wallace get some ... (more)

Rep. Mike Rogers , the head of the House Intelligence Committee and a Republican looking into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, said more "whistleblowers" have volunteered to supply information that could be valuable to a GOP-led investigation.

When three Ohio women were returned to their families earlier this week after a decade in captivity in their own neighborhood, it was described as a miracle, but another group of 'left behind' parents are still waiting to see their children.

Expressing concern over increasing "abduction" of American children to India, an influential lawmaker has said that the country has been a source of immense frustration and grief for parents in the US.

Parents whose spouses flee overseas with their children called Thursday for the federal government to put sanctions on countries that don't help get those children returned, saying it should be considered a human-trafficking issue, not merely a family dispute.

"It's a Girl" exposes the fact that there are up to 200 million women missing in the world today due to gendercide.

Congressman Lamar Smith - Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - has introduced a bill that would give Smith's committee and its Senate counterpart the power to control what science is funded, and force researchers to compete for grants on a political rather than scientific basis.

Chinese prison authorities have denied the nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng urgent medical treatment for acute appendicitis, while police increase their persecution of his relatives, according to rights groups.

US Official News April 25, 2013 Thursday Washington: SPEECH OF HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH OF NEW JERSEY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013 Washington The Library of Congress, The Government of USA has issued the following Speech: Mr.