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With help from the FTC, LGBT advocacy groups might be able to stop dangerous conversion therapy by calling it something new: consumer fraud.
Samantha Allen
February 26, 2016
The Daily Beast
Ending LGBT conversion therapy used to seem a long way off.
By KATIE BO WILLIAMS
February 26,2016
The Hill
Lawmakers, officials and industry leaders increasingly believe Congress will be forced to resolve the FBI’s controversial bid to compel Apple to help unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters.
David Deuchar
January 27, 2016
Seeking Alpha
Colleges That Produce the Most Members of Congress
By NICK SELBE
February 26, 2016
Times Union
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Hurd: FBI should clarify why Apple's help is necessary
By AISHA CHOWDHRY
Feb 26, 2016
Federal Computer Week
One of the leading voices of cybersecurity on Capitol Hill, Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) said he is concerned that FBI officials have not provided clarity on what exactly they need from Apple when it comes to the evolving debate of getting into the San Bernardino, Calif., shooter's iPhone.
How Congress turned on the DEA and embraced weed.
By JAMES HIGDON
July 30, 2015
Politico Magazine Illustration/iStock.
It's not easy being the DEA these days. After an unprecedented losing streak on Capitol Hill, the once-untouchable Drug Enforcement Administration suffered last week what might be considered the ultimate indignity: A Senate panel, for the first time, voted in favor of legal, recreational marijuana.
Lieu, Pelosi advocate for infrastructure investments
By Gregory Cornfield, 7/22/2015
Federal funding used to rebuild and repair system
With the California Incline reconstruction site in Santa Monica as a backdrop, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) hosted a press conference on July 17 with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Santa Monica Mayor Kevin McKeown, Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, 3rd District, and other county leaders to highlight the need for infrastructure investment.
Steve Corbin, Special to The Desert Sun 10:58 a.m. PDT July 21, 2015
Nationwide polling data clearly indicates that an overwhelming majority of voters support four national strategic policy ideas, known as the No Labels National Strategic Agenda.
State Senator Fran Pavley, who represents the 27th district that includes Malibu, has earned a national reputation for drafting cutting-edge environmental legislation. Her 2002 California Clean Car Standards bill survived a Supreme Court decision and, in 2009, Obama directed that it become the national standard.
Pavley spoke at the Malibu Democratic Club's "First Saturday Speaker Series" where she talked about what she's working on in Sacramento.