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The Science Subcommittee on Investigations & Oversight chaired by Rep. Brad Miller (NC-13) is currently holding a hearing, "The National Security Implications of Climate Change."

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Subcommittee Chairman Brad Miller gives opening remarks:

Today, Committee on Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment Chair Jane Harman (D-CA), and other Committee Democrats sent a letter to Rep. David E. Price (D-NC), Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security and Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security regarding the funding of the Department of Homeland Security's National Applications Office (NAO).

The Oversight Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs is currently holding a hearing, "Third Walter Reed Oversight Hearing: Keeping the Nation's Promise to Our Wounded Soldiers." Representatives of the GAO will be testifying on a new GAO report stating that "Delayed decisions, confusing policies, and the perception that DOD and VA disability ratings result in inequitable outcomes

With an overwheming bipartisan vote of 265-159, the House has just passed the final House-Senate agreement to reauthorize the successful Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), H.R. 976, for an additional five years. CHIP provides health coverage to American children whose parents do not qualify for Medicaid, but can not afford private insurance.

The House is now considering the final House-Senate agreement to reauthorize the successful Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), H.R. 976, for an additional five years. CHIP provides health coverage to American children whose parents do not qualify for Medicaid, but can not afford private insurance.

Today Chairman Henry Waxman of the Oversight Committee wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about three extraordinary communications the Committee has received from the State Department regarding corruption within the Iraqi government, the operations of Blackwater USA, and the status of political reconciliation in Iraq.

Fifty years ago today, nine young African Americans quietly but defiantly displayed their moral courage by simply entering a schoolhouse door in Little Rock, Arkansas.

In that moment, the Little Rock Nine secured for themselves their constitutional right to an equal education. For the millions of others denied this right, they changed the course of history. The Little Rock Nine made plain to the world, on behalf of African Americans across our nation, that they would not bend in the face of discrimination or be denied their full share of the American dream.