WASHINGTON — Asserting that economic sanctions alone “are unlikely to deter” Russia’s efforts to destabilize Ukraine, Sens. Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown of Ohio want the Obama administration to ship defensive military aid to the beleaguered Ukrainian army.
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For students struggling with tuition and colleges struggling with declining enrollment, President Barack Obama's plan for free community college sounds like the answer to many problems.
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A competitive United States is created by, and depends on, the companies of the middle market—mid-sized outfits that have an outsized impact on the nation’s prosperity and success. Why do we say that? Because these companies grow the most: In 2014, revenue at middle market companies grew 7.2 percent, almost half-again as fast as the revenue of the giants in the S&P 500. Because they hire the most: America’s mid-sized companies increased their payrolls 5 percent last year—as much as big companies and small companies combined. Because in industry after industry we see these unsung champions winning business, expanding market share, and putting people to work, and selling American products and services in global markets.
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U.S. Reps. Steve Stivers (R-OH) and Dave Loebsack (D-IA) introduced the Homeless Children and Youth Act on Tuesday, legislation that would improve resources for serving these children.
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There’s a new plan in Washington, D.C. to help connect returning military veterans with therapy dogs. Supporters say the dogs will help soldiers battling Post-Traumatic Stress.
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As trade watchers wait for introduction of a trade promotion authority bill, Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.) has put forward legislation that would renew and reform the Export-Import Bank, his chief of staff, Jessica Carter, said. The bill’s cosponsors, 58 in all including Fincher, make up nearly a fourth of the House Republican Conference.
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When I worked as an outreach case manager in Los Angeles, nothing was more heartbreaking than when I would have to turn a homeless family away because U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development didn't feel the family was "homeless enough." Denying services to homeless families and unaccompanied homeless children and youth happens because HUD doesn't count them as actually being homeless. I literally have had to tell numerous families that paid for a hotel room the night before and ran out of money, they need to sleep in their car with their children or sleep outside on the ground before we can help them.
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Congressman Steve Stivers (R-OH) last week reintroduced the Cents and Sensibility Act, legislation that would lower the cost of minting pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
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