New Target for New York’s Ascendant Left: Rep. Carolyn Maloney
Justice Democrats, a left-wing group that fueled the rise of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is backing Rana Abdelhamid’s primary bid.
Rana Abdelhamid, a young activist from Queens, is running to represent New York’s 12th Congressional District in Congress.Credit.Benjamin Norman for The New York Times
April 14, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Nearly three years ago, a little-known left-wing organization helped engineer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s shock victory over Representative Joseph Crowley in a House primary. Last year, the group, Justice Democrats, aided Jamaal Bowman’s ouster of Representative Eliot Engel in another House primary.
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Congress Poised to Apply Banking Regulations to Antiquities Market
Regulators have long worried that the secrecy of the antiquities trade, where buyers and sellers are seldom identified, made it an easy way to launder money.
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By Zachary Small
Jan. 1, 2021
The antiquities trade, which regulators have long feared provided fertile ground for money laundering and other illicit activities, will be subject to greater oversight under legislation passed by Congress on Friday when it overrode President Trump’s veto.
The provisions tightening scrutiny of the antiquities market were contained within the sprawling National Defense Authorization Act, which Mr. Trump vetoed last week and which the House and Senate voted to override on Monday and on Friday.
After Decades of Lobbying, Congress Has Approved the Creation of New Smithsonian Museums for American Latinos and Women’s History
Legislation for the new Smithsonian museums was included in the 5,500-page omnibus spending bill passed last night.
December 22, 2020
Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) appears on SiriusXM Presents: Women In Congress. Photo by Larry French/Getty Images for SiriusXM.
After decades of stops and starts, Congress has finally approved the creation of two new Smithsonian museums, one dedicated to American Latinos and the other to women’s history.
Legislation calling for the building of the National Museum of the American Latino and an American Women’s History Museum on or near the National Mall in Washington, DC, was included in the 5,500-page year-end omnibus spending bill passed last night by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.