Washington, D.C. – Today, 18 retired three- and four-star generals and admirals who previously oversaw military operations and served at NATO and U.S. European Command sent a letter to Congress on the urgency for additional security, economic, and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine. Click here or see below for the full letter.
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There s been some chatter over the past year from some quarters of the House GOP about making an outsider speaker when Republicans assume the majority in the new Congress, prompting the question: Can they even do that?
We, the undersigned national, state, and local drug policy, criminal legal reform, public health, and advocacy organizations, write to communicate our ardent support of ending criminal penalties for the possession of personal-use amounts of drugs. In 2020, U.S. law enforcement agencies made 1,155,610 arrests for drug law violations–more arrests than for all violent crimes combined. Around 86% of these arrests were for the possession of personal-use amounts of drugs alone and often led to time spent in prison. Yet, we have an abundance of evidence that demonstrates that drug arrests, prosecutions, and incarceration have had no substantial effect on ending problematic drug use or curbing the illegal drug supply in the United States. Rather, these policies have only exacerbated the dangers of drug use and led to poorer health outcomes for people who use drugs, including increasing the likelihood that someone will fatally overdose or die by suicide upon release from prison. Given the emo
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, ending a historic run as the first woman with the gavel and making way for a new generation to steer the party after Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in the midterm elections.