CITING its benefits to the economy, the House of Representatives on Tuesday adopted a resolution supporting the immediate ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement. The plenary adopted House Resolution 728, after the House Committee on Trade and Industry approved the same at the committee level. In his…
WASHINGTON (CNS) The intended audience of a Dec. 15 hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on Nicaragua s repression of religious freedom was not the White House, State Department or Congress.
Rather, it was a direct appeal to Pope Francis and the Vatican.
The pope and Holy See have not been more vocal, said Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, the Republican co-chair of the bipartisan House commission. They need to speak out strongly.
He said Pope Francis should avoid words see
Bianca Jagger, a native of Nicaragua who heads her own human rights commission, said she had pleaded with the pope to condemn the regime of Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's president since 2007, and also has appealed to Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes of Managua and to the country's conference of bishops.
that s according to people familiar with the matter. we now know that in fact that was not accurate. thousands more government documents, some highly classified, were found at mar-a-lago through a grand jury subpoena back in may and then, of course, that fbi search of the property in august. the post reports that after months of stonewalling by trump s representatives, national archives officials threatened to get the justice department or congress involved if all original presidential records were not returned. the attorney alex cannon then arranged in january the transfer of 15 boxes of presidential records packed by trump himself from mar-a-lago to the national archives. then people familiar with the matter told the newspaper that a month later in february trump seemed determined to declare that all materials sought by the national archives had been handed over. he told trump he couldn t tell the national archives that.