WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, issued the following statement on Jan. 27: Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement marking three years since President Trump signed orders instituting the Muslim travel ban, making it more difficult for families, including refugees, from seven predominantly Muslim countries to enter the United States based on their religion or religious heritage: "Three years ago, in a stunning act of callousness and discrimination, President   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Committee issued the following testimony on Jan. 29 by Diane Souvaine, chair of the National Science Board, at a hearing entitled "Losing Ground: U.S. Competitiveness in Critical Technologies": Since World War II, advancements in science and technology have driven much of our economic growth, underpinned our national security, and transformed nearly every aspect of Americans' daily lives. New technologies built on federally funded d  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Nebraska, issued the following column: On the 10th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, in 1983, President Ronald Reagan reflected on the ruling and the effect it had on our country. President Reagan lamented, "our nationwide policy of abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy was neither voted for by our people nor enacted by our legislators." Overnight this decision led to ftodayederal abortion policies on par with countries whose   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release on Jan. 30: * * * - Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour named chair of National Assessment Governing Board * * * U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has appointed a former governor, engineering curriculum specialist, and twelfth-grade U.S. government and politics teacher to four-year terms on the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the only continuing, nationally representative eva  more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Jan. 28 -- The University of Virginia's School of Law issued the following news: * * * - War Expert Served as Associate Director of Center for National Security Law * * * University of Virginia School of Law professor Robert F. Turner, the cofounder and associate director of the Center for National Security Law at UVA, will retire at the end of this month after more than 32 years at the Law School. He previously served as the first president of the congressionally   more