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The U.S. Census Bureau unveiled its state-by-state apportionment data on Monday, laying out the population totals after unprecedented disputes over the proper role of the decennial count and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
For nearly 50 years, generations of feminists in the U.S. have marched, lobbied and advocated for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)—a simple but crucial amendment that would enshrine gender equality in the Constitution. And all the while, protectors of the status quo have taken extreme measures to block their path.
In 1996, Purdue Pharma released OxyContin, the prescription painkiller largely blamed for the opioid addiction crisis that has killed about 500,000 Americans in recent decades.
Washington — The House voted Thursday on a bill that would admit Washington, D.C., as the 51st state, although the measure is likely to fail in the evenly divided Senate. The legislation passed along party lines with a vote of 216 to 208, with no Republicans voting in favor.
The House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation that would make Washington, D.C., the country’s 51st state, a move that would grant residents of the nation’s capital full voting rights and representation in Congress.
The bill, H.R. 51, passed along party lines. The vote will bring D.C. closer to statehood than it has been in at least three decades.
Members of the Sackler family who own bankrupt OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma LP are worth approximately $11 billion, documents released Tuesday by a congressional committee show.
Agency inspectors general demonstrated a strong return on investment in 2020 with every dollar spent on IG oversight work to $17 in potential savings.
In the past year, overseeing trillions in COVID-19 relief spending, IG offices have identified $33.3 billion in potential savings from audit reports and actually recovered nearly $20 billion from investigations.