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stanley straws ASHINGTON, D.C. 鈥?A U.S. House committee has reached a bipartisan agreement to introduce legislation to form an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.The chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson D-MS , announced Friday that he has reached the agreement with ranking member Rep. John Katko R-NY .Thompson says he and Katko will introduce the legislation Friday. The bill, called the National Commission to Inve
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stanley thermos cts and circumstances surrounding the U.S. Capitol riot, as well as the influencing factors that may have provoked the incident during the counting of the Electoral College votes, according to a press release from ThompsonSimilar to the 9/11 commission, the proposed bill would establish a 10-person bipartisan commission with five commissioners, including a chair, appointed by the speaker of the house and majority leader of the Senate and five commissioners, and a vice chair, appointed by the minority leaders of the House and Supporters of a South Dakota abortion rights initiative submitted far more signatures than required Wednesday to make the ballot this fall. But its outcome is unclear in the conservative state, where Republican lawmakers strongly oppose the measure and a major abortion rights advocate doesn t support it.The effort echoes similar actions in seven other states where voters have approved abortion rights measures, including four 鈥?California, Michigan, Ohio and Vermont 鈥?that put abortion rights in their constitution. Abortion rights measures also might
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stanley cups nt ban on nearly all abortions, and as a ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant, went into effect in Florida.Dakotans for Health co-founder Rick Weiland said backers of the ballot initiative gathered more than 55,000 signatures to submit to Secretary of State Monae Johnson, easily exceeding the 35,017 valid signatures needed to make the Novembe
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