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Congressional Climate Bill Tracking

H.R. 255 – Next Generation American Manufacturing Act of 2015

S. 177 – Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2015

H.R. 522 – Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies

H.R. 612To preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities.

H.R. 467 – STEM Opportunities Act of 2015

H.R. 616 – To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for reforms to the EB-5 immigrant investor program, and for other purposes.

S. 191 – Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce Act of 2015

S. 108 – Financial Aid Simplification and Transparency Act of 2015
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Video of the Day

Are Clinton’s Private Email Woes Eroding Her Lead in the Polls?
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Today’s Hill Action

Senate Floor Schedule

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Committee Hearings
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House Floor Schedule

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Committee Hearings

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High Support For Legislation To Curb Drug Costs

Across party lines, the public thinks something should be done policy-wise to lower
the cost of prescription drugs.

But they’re largely in disagreement with a pretty important group: lawmakers, who
have shown little to no interest in enacting the policies that large majorities
of the public support.

At least 7 in 10 people support four potential policy changes aimed to lower the
prices of prescription drugs, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey released
Thursday morning, although 72 percent of Americans say their prescriptions are affordable.
A little more than half of Americans report taking a prescription drug.
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Chuck Grassley questions potential conflict at State on email probe

A Senate committee investigating Hillary Clinton’s email controversy is questioning
whether State Department lawyers’ connections with her counsel, David Kendall, created
a conflict of interest – a suggestion the State Department immediately denied.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), in a letter to Secretary of State
John Kerry Wednesday, inquired about the role State attorney Catherine Duval has
played in classifying Freedom of Information Act requests for information.
POLITICO reported several weeks ago that Duval was formerly an attorney at Williams
& Connolly, the same white-shoe law firm where Kendall works.
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The Other ‘Top Secret’ Problem Hurting Hillary Clinton

The recent controversy over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server for
public business is all about secrecy. Did Clinton handle “classified”, or even “top
secret,” emails with her server? And if so, was it “classified” when it arrived
in Clinton’s custody or did it only become that way retroactively? But beneath the
Clinton-versus-Congress war of words, national security experts are wrestling with
a question that has plagued the intelligence community for decades: How secret is
“top secret” really?
Long before Clinton made the decision to operate a private email server during her
tenure at the top of the State Department, intelligence agencies had been guilty
of “overclassification”: excessive secrecy that saturates decisions about what’s
classified and tips the balance toward keeping way too many documents off-limits.
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Until tomorrow,
Lobbyit.com

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