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Feinstein: Climate change could cause California’s ruin

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Obama administration on Tuesday, May 6,  released the third U.S. National Climate Assessment, a comprehensive report on climate change and how it will affect the country and economy. The report, which summarizes effects of climate change on the United States, was compiled by a team of more than 300 experts. According to […]

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Schatz bill would permit refinance of student loans

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) on Tuesday, May 6, introduced today with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and colleagues the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, legislation that would allow those with outstanding student loan debt to refinance at the lower interest rates currently offered to new borrowers. Over the last

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JCPA: U.S. moral leadership needed around the world

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The failure of the Nigerian government to take immediate and effective steps to rescue hundreds of girls kidnapped from their school with the intention that they be sold into marital slavery highlights the need for more assertive U.S. leadership in protecting human rights, said the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. “For

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AJC thanks Kerry for trying to bring Mideast peace

NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC (American Jewish Committee) has expressed “gratitude and admiration” to Secretary of State John Kerry for “the noble initiative” for Israeli-Palestinian peace he launched last June at the AJC Global Forum. Kerry’s address to AJC was his first speech in Washington as Secretary of State. “When you spoke to us in Washington

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Middle East, USA

Lowey stresses U.S. support on Yom Ha’ Atzma’ut

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-New York) on Monday, May 5, released the following statement in honor of Israeli Independence Day: “This year, we celebrate 66 years of Israeli independence as well as over six decades of steadfast friendship between Israel and the United States. “When President Truman recognized the state of

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Bennet: Cinco de Mayo a prompt for immigration reform

WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) on Monday, May 5, marked Cinco de Mayo by recognizing the many contributions Mexican-Americans make to Colorado and the United States. Cinco de Mayo commemorates May 5, 1862, when Mexicans won an unlikely victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla, part of their struggle for independence

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Boxer seeks prompt college guidelines on sexual assault

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release). – U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on Monday, May 5,  sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, urging him to quickly finalize and release regulations that will provide clear guidance to universities on how to address sexual assault on campus. A recent report issued by the White House Task Force to

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Lawmakers call for rescue of abducted Nigerian girls

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)—Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-New York),  the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Monday, May 5, made the following statement regarding the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian girls by Boko Haram, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization: “The recent abduction of more than 200 Nigerian girls by Boko Haram is a cowardly

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Feingold again on ‘good government quest’ — in Congo

  KINSHASA, Congo (SDJW) –Russell Feingold, D-Wisconsin, was known in the U.S. Senate as a campaigner for good government, reaching across the aisle to Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona to produce a bipartisan bill to regulate how political campaigns are financed. After his defeat for reelection in 2010, Feingold taught law until he was

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AJC adds its voice against ‘Price Tag’ attacks

NEW YORK (Press Release)– AJC decried on Sunday, May 4,  the so-called “price tag” vandalism attacks that have spread to Arab communities in Israel in recent weeks, joining such other groups as the Anti-Defamation League and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in the denunciations Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that such

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