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House committees
Coverage of House committees in the Nexus archive.
- US lawmakers fight Trump administration cuts to $386m ocean monitoring program: ‘supreme stupidity’
US lawmakers, including Republican senator Lisa Murkowski and Democratic groups, are opposing the Trump administration's plan to dismantle the $386m Ocean Observatories Initiative, a network of 900 ocean sensors used to track climate data and marine ecosystems. The National Science Foundation faces calls to reverse its decision, with House lawmakers alleging the agency is acting illegally.
- Republicans threaten ActBlue CEO with contempt of Congress in fraud probe
Republican chairs of three House committees allege ActBlue may have deliberately withheld documents in a fraud investigation. They threaten contempt of Congress against the company's CEO.