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Sara Weissman Diverse Education The U.S. Department of Education rejected grants from one of the TRIO programs, Upward Bound, a few years ago because of clerical errors such as incorrect fonts and margins. A new bill – the Educational Opportunities and Success Act – was introduced to prevent those type of slips from getting in the way of federal funds for low-income students… Read more »

Scott Anderson Patch Voting strictly along party lines, Wisconsin's eight congressional representatives were split on whether to condemn a series of Twitter posts as racist in a resolution sent to the floor of the House on July 16. The non-binding resolution, which was brought forward by House Democrats, was passed nearly along party lines. A total of 235 Democrats and four… Read more »

Taurean Small Spectrum News NY1 Quite a few lawmakers say the emergency spending bill that Congress pushed through a couple of weeks ago is a start but Washington will have to do more in order to move the needle on what they’re calling a growing humanitarian crisis at the Southern border. House Oversight Democrats traveled to Homestead, Florida at the beginning of the week to get a… Read more »

Lawrence Andrea Milwaukee Journal Sentinel More than half of the unaccompanied migrant children who were living in a  Florida detention center are no longer there — but U.S. officials won't tell members of Congress where the children are now.  Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan told reporters Tuesday that administrators of the 3,200-bed facility wouldn't answer… Read more »

Scott Anderson Patch On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence saw the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions that detained migrant adults faced at a U.S. detention center in McAllen, Texas. His tour came in advance of ICE raids in select U.S. cities and amid a growing humanitarian crisis at the southern U.S. Border. In comments following his tour, Pence called upon Congress to take… Read more »

Jim Lundstrom Door County Pulse New report finds it would raise wages of 27 million workers Twenty-nine states have hourly minimum wages that are higher than the federal minimum of $7.25. Wisconsin has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009. Some municipalities have set their own minimum wages higher than state or federal wages, such as San Francisco, which, as of July 1, has an hourly minimum… Read more »

ACCESSWIRE From July 4 to July 8, Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman Sen. Roger Wicker (MS) led the largest bipartisan, bicameral U.S. delegation in history to the 2019 OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) Annual Session in Luxembourg. The participation of 19 members of Congress showed the deep U.S. commitment to European security and to countering Kremlin aggression and anti-democratic… Read more »

Mike Lillis and Cristina Marcos The Hill A growing number of progressive House Democrats, frustrated with an ongoing spat between Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D), are taking the freshman New Yorker to task for accusing Pelosi of treating minority women unfairly. The critics say Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, crossed a… Read more »

Budapest Business Journal Led by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Democrat Senator Ben Cardin, a group of United States congressmen and women met today with representatives of the Central European University (CEU) led by President and Rector Michael Ignatieff, in the latterʼs office, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal. “For two years CEU has sought… Read more »

Dell Cameron Gizmodo The Federal Communication Commission’s investigation into the unauthorized sale of Americans’ location data is now in its second year and still, no one outside of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s office knows a thing about it. On Capitol Hill, faith in his ability to properly handle these apparent violations has reached an all-time low. On Wednesday, Congresswoman Lori… Read more »