WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 -- Americans for Tax Reform issued the following news release on Dec. 6, 2023: Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist testified in front of the House Ways and Means Committee for the Hearing on Tax Policies to Expand Economic Growth and Increase Prosperity for American Families. The submitted testimony can be read below or in PDF format, with sources, by clicking HERE (https://www.atr.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Norquist-Testimony-for-12-6-WM-Hearing.pdf). A v  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: By C. Todd Lopez, DOD News As the world considers the repercussions of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the brutal Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, an increasingly assertive China, and the disturbing aspirations of nations like Iran and North Korea, it considers also what the role of the United States will be--and what its role must be is leadership, said the U.S. secretary of defense. "We're living through challeng  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, Dec. 5 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who died Friday at 93, made an appearance at Dartmouth early in her tenure as a Class of 1930 Fellow through the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. Addressing an audience of more than 1,000 people at Dartmouth in April 1984, O'Connor reflected on the fact that the number of lawyers in the U.S. had surged to 650,000--two thirds of all attorneys in the wo  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Co-Chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, took to the Senate floor to urge his Republican colleagues to pass President Biden's national security supplemental funding request, which includes emergency funds for Ukraine, Israel, the Indo-Pacific, and humanitarian crises. During his speech, Durbin implored Republicans to reflect on what the late President Ronald R  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 9 -- The American Bar Association issued the following news release: In a period of unparalleled challenges to our democracy, the American Bar Association's Presidential Speaker Series steps up to shed light on these critical issues. Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Charles Johnson and former federal judge J. Michael Luttig, co-chairs of the ABA Task Force for American Democracy, will lead an insightful discussion titled "Democracy in Peril" for the next install  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 5 -- The New York University School of Law issued the following news: Former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor passed away on December 1. As the first woman justice, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, she broke new ground for women in law, and she earned a reputation for thoughtful and pragmatic opinions that often found a middle ground between the Court's ideological poles. In 2015, Justice O'Connor participated in the Institute of Judicial Administration'  more