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Most House Republicans heading home for the August recess would probably rather not talk about immigration policy. They also probably won’t have a choice.
With the Senate having passed bipartisan legislation a month ago that lays out a path to legal status for the country’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, pressure has been building on House Republicans to take a stand for or against, or to find a compromise.
A partisan split on fiscal 2014 spending bills is setting off a scramble in both chambers to develop a stopgap measure to extend funding for the government, with Democrats and Republicans still undecided on how long to extend government programs and the scale of the spending guidelines.
Lease on Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39 may be near, Bolden says
By James Dean | Florida Today | August 1, 2013
A long-term lease of a mothballed Kennedy Space Center launch pad may still be near, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden suggested Wednesday.
At least one company and some members of Congress have asked NASA not to award a single company exclusive use of pad 39A, saying it should be made available to multiple launchers.
Local plant announces expansion, creation of 245 new jobs
By Jonathan Willis | Franklin County Times | August 1, 2013
Innovative Hearth Products, the parent company of the Russellville FMI plant officially announced Thursday that they will be expanding the local manufacturing plant and adding close to 250 new jobs.
A groundbreaking ceremony will be held at the plant on Lawrence Street, in the former H.D. Lee building, at 2 p.m. Friday.
Exploring the 'Dark Matter of Love'
By Wendy Mitchell | Screen Daily | July 31, 2013
The filmmaking team behind documentary The Dark Matter of Love has launched a campaign for the film to be used as an advocacy tool for the Russian children stuck in Putin’s US adoption ban.
A group of business and governmental leaders got a civics lesson Friday — British style — from Stephen Metcalfe, a member of Parliament.
Metcalfe came to Gadsden with U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, who was hosting him as part of a State Department exchange program to give British MPs information about how the American political system and government works.
Only one member of Alabama's congressional delegation votes to defund NSA's collection of phone records
By Leada Gore | AL.com | July 25, 2013
The House of Representatives has turned back a measure that would have stopped the National Security Agency from collecting phone data from millions of Americans, with all but one member of the Alabama congressional delegation voting to allow the controversial program to continue.
Congressmen Register Concern Over Possible Exclusive Lease of Pad 39A
By Dan Leone | Space News | July 22, 2013
WASHINGTON — Two members of the House Appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA, including the chairman, are concerned that the agency might lease out an old space shuttle launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on an exclusive basis.