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Richard Friedman, a former reporter for The Birmingham News who is now executive director of the Birmingham Jewish Federation, watched today's speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress and offered the following real-time analysis on his blog.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security received funding to operate the rest of the 2015 fiscal year despite the votes of the Republican members of Alabama's Congressional delegation.
All six of Alabama's Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted against the bill that passed on a 257-167 vote. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell of Birmingham was among the 182 Democrats who supported the bill without dissent.
Congressman Gary Palmer was honored Tuesday, after meeting with Major General Theodore Harrison, the Commanding General of the Army Contracting Command stationed at Redstone Arsenal.
Major General Harrison presented Palmer with an Army seal and congratulations from the Army.
Congressman Palmer released this statement Tuesday afternoon:
WASHINGTON — Representative Gary Palmer (R-AL6) on Monday called the Federal Communications Commission's "Net Neutrality" ruling an abuse of the agency's power.
"The FCC's ‘net neutrality' erodes the authority of Congress," Rep. Palmer said. "The FCC, an independent federal agency, does not have the authority to write laws, but in a 3-2 ruling has done just that."
WASHINGTON — In a House Oversight and Government Reform committee hearing Thursday, U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL6) raked Environmental Protection Agency consultant Dr. Susan Tierney over the coals for the agency's use of armed agents when investigating possible violators.
"EPA has been very aggressive in enforcement," Rep. Palmer said, "and it's gone from a regulatory agency to almost operating like a police state, I'll just be blunt about it."
On Tuesday, February 17 both U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R from Alabama) and U.S. Representative Gary Palmer (R from Hoover) both issued statement urging the Senate to Pass DHS Funding in light of a ruling by a federal judge enjoining President Barack H. Obama's controversial unilateral policy of granting legal status and work permits to millions of immigrants who are living illegally in this country and issuing executive actions making it easier for corporations to import more foreign workers into the United States.