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Today in a letter to Council of Environmental Quality Chairman Connaughton, Chairman Henry Waxman of the Oversight Committee expressed deep concern over the Administration's use of emergency powers to facilitate training exercises that could harm whales off the coast of southern California, and releases a list of previous uses of CEQ's emergency powers. These powers have historically been used only in response to true emergencies, and have never before been used to effectively override a court order.
Today, Congressional Democrats and Republicans and President Bush reached an agreement on a bipartisan stimulus package to immediately jumpstart the slowing economy.
Find more information in the Committee release issued after the hearing >>
Acting Chairwoman Mazie Hirono:
The House is currently debating the override of the President's veto of the revised bipartisan SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) bill.
Newspapers Across The Nation Call On Members of Congress to Stand Up for America's Children
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial (Pennsylvania)
On this day in 1973, the Supreme Court recognized that a woman has the power and fundamental right to choose what happens to her body and, by extension, her future.
I will continue to fight for the right to choose, for safe and quality reproductive health care, comprehensive and medically sound reproductive education, and access to contraception in the United States and abroad.