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United States Newsmakers After the Republican victory in the 2014 US midterm elections and an eight - year hiatus, Richard Shelby, a senior senator from Alabama, has taken over his old post as chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the top - ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called for the head of AIG to resign over comments he made comparing outrage over executive bonuses to lynchings that took place...

Since taking over the committee from Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen after the Democrats lost the majority in the 2010 midterms, Israel, who hails from Long Island, has instituted an aggressive campaign to take back the House.

«That this House commends the Speaker on the action he has taken over the past year to reassert the principle that Ministers ought to make statements to the House before they are made elsewhere; notes that paragraph 9.1 of the Ministerial Code says that when Parliament is in session, the most important announcements of Government policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament; believes that compliance with this principle is essential for backbenchers to be able to represent the interests of their constituents and hold the Government to account; and invites the Procedure Committee to consider how the rules of the House could be better used or, if necessary, changed to ensure compliance with this principle and to develop a protocol for the release of information.»

The crisis rocking the House of Representatives over juicy committees took a dramatic turn as two members of the House of Representatives, Hon. Herman Hembe and Hon. Aliyu Sani Madaki, on Tuesday exchanged slaps over the issue.

The head of NYCHA's biggest worker union and the chair of the Assembly's Housing Committee, Keith Wright, took the unprecedented step of calling on the state to take over the city's troubled Housing Authority.

(CNN)- The House Ethics committee said Friday they are closing their investigation of Rep. Vito Fossella over his arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol, and taking no action.

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Rural Development, Oladipupo Adebutu has revealed what will happen to Nigeria if the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, takes over...

For example, Faso took a shellacking over the House tax bill that he didn't actually vote for, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee berating «John Faso's Republican Congress» for passing the original version of the bill.

The recent spat between science agencies and Republicans was intensified shortly after Congressman Lamar Smith took over chairmanship of the House of Representatives» science, space, and technology (HSST) committee in 2013, and repeatedly accused the NSF of wasting taxpayer money on frivolous research.

He was there to attend a town hall conducted by Congressman Mike Conaway (R - TX), who has recently taken over the investigation into Russian election tampering for the House Intelligence Committee after Devin Nunes recused himself.

The House of Lords social mobility committee has published a report claiming that scrapping the national curriculum for pupils over 14 and taking careers advice away from schools could help young people make better choices about their future.

Washington — Representative William D. Ford, the Michigan Democrat who will take over as chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee in the upcoming 102nd Congress, has announced that he will also head the panel's Postsecondary Education Subcommittee.

In Michigan, the EAA's real governing power is housed in an executive committee dominated by gubernatorial appointees; and now the governor has also taken over the School Reform and Redesign Office, formerly under the state superintendent.