NEWS
November 18, 2010 | By James Oliphant and Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau
A bipartisan panel Thursday recommended that embattled Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York be censured by the full House of Representatives for ethics violations, the stiffest penalty a member can face short of expulsion. The House will likely take up the matter after Thanksgiving. Rangel could be the first congressman censured by the body in almost 30 years. The Harlem Democrat had sought a lighter sanction. Before the vote, he asked the House Ethics Committee for leniency, pointing to his 40 years of service on Capitol Hill and saying that in the details of the ethical allegations against him "there was not even the suggestion of corruption.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 25, 2010 | By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times
Officials broke ground Saturday on a new residence hall that will provide 196 units of affordable housing near Los Angeles International Airport for low-income veterans. With airplanes thundering overhead at close range — sometimes as often as one minute apart — U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles), Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, Victoria Reggie Kennedy (wife of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy) and veterans from each branch of the Armed Services celebrated the $34.9-million project, which is expected to open in the fall of 2011.
NATIONAL
June 8, 2010 | By Kathleen Hennessey and Jennifer Martinez, Tribune Washington Bureau
Decades ago, she was a pioneer breaking down barriers for women in journalism. For years, she was in the front rank of the White House press corps posing blunt, often uncomfortable questions to the world's most powerful leaders. But it was her own blunt answer to a question that abruptly ended her career. Helen Thomas, the 89-year-olddean of the White House press corps, resigned as a syndicated columnist Monday amid controversy over anti- Israel comments she made to a filmmaker last month.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 8, 2007 | Mary Engel, Times Staff Writer
A bill guaranteeing that affordable apartments proposed for a San Fernando Valley veterans campus be solely for veterans passed the House of Representatives on Monday despite claims that it could delay or derail the very housing it seeks to support. "The bottom line is it stops a housing project for disabled veterans that has been underway for four years now," said Dora Leong Gallo, chief executive of Community of Friends, a nonprofit developer.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 27, 2006
April 27, 1946: Jack Benny and Bette Davis were among the celebrities on hand to help dedicate Rodger Young Village, emergency housing temporarily erected in Griffith Park for 1,500 World War II veterans and their families. Built at a time when homes were in short supply, the collection of Quonset huts was "the largest veterans' emergency housing project in the nation and first of its kind to be opened," The Times reported. Pfc.
NATIONAL
July 26, 2003 | From Associated Press
The House approved $90 billion in spending next year for veterans, housing and other programs on Friday after Republican leaders overcame complaints that the measure would shortchange veterans' health care. The chamber also voted 352 to 60 to approve a separate bill providing $984 million in immediate relief for victims of natural disasters. House members then left town, finished with their legislative work until September.