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Six more co-sponsors have joined the effort to push through the Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act recently, according to Kathleen Schmatz, president and CEO of the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association.

Project 21 just issued a press release criticizing the Congressional Black Caucus's apparent plans to retaliate against the House Office of Congressional Ethics, which concluded that several CBC members should be investigated by the full Ethics Committee for alleged violations of gift rules.The release says: Project 21 Critical of Members of ...

With bagpipes blaring, the State Police welcomed 104 new troopers into their ranks during a ceremony in Toms River today.

NEWARK, N.J., June 26 NJ-PSEG-Climate-Bill Applauds NJ Congressmen who voted in favor of climate change bill; emphasizes job creation, consumer protection and environmental progress NEWARK, N.J. , /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Calling the passage today of the American Clean Energy and Security Act a significant step towards getting comprehensive ...

So, in the meantime, they keep themselves busy by getting busy -- usually with women not their own wives .

We can build a more secure New Jersey. The first step is to recognize the following facts.

The House ethics committee is investigating whether a New Jersey congressman and four other U.S. House representatives received improper gifts in travel to Caribbean conferences 2007 and 2008.

Written by CBS News investigative producer Laura Strickler The House Ethics Committee is now officially digging into two Caribbean trips taken by Congressmen Charles Rangel, D-NY, Carolyn Kilpatrick D-MI, Bennie Thompson, D-MS, Donald Payne D-NJ, and Delegate Donna Christensen D-VI. The trips were sponsored by a New York based non-profit ...

Already embroiled in an ethics probe now entering its tenth month, Rep. Charlie Rangel , chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, received more bad news Wednesday night as the House ethics committee announced it would look into Caribbean trips taken by the veteran lawmaker and four other Democrats.

A veteran foreign service officer born in Hackensack who has spent many years in global hotspots is on his way to becoming the next United States ambassador to the newly minted nation of Kosovo.

Today advocacy organizations and debt relief campaigners welcome the reintroduction of the Stop Very Unscrupulous Loan Transfers from Underprivileged Countries to Rich, Exploitive Funds or "Stop VULTURE Funds" Act This bill, introduced in the House of Representatives, is designed to protect developing nations from lawsuits by so-called Vulture ...

A Central Jersey congressman has re-introduced a popular voting-verification bill for the fourth time this decade.

Friends and well-wishers of Judith McHale gathered in the Benjamin Franklin Room on the 8th Floor of the State Department, overlooking the Lincoln Memorial yesterday afternoon for her swearing in ceremony as the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs , we're told.

HOT SEAT a ' Journalist Violet Gonda interviews ZANU PF Minister Walter Mzembi. Broadcast: 12 June 2009 VIOLET GONDA : Walter Mzembi, the Zanu-PF Minister of Tourism is my guest on the programme Hot Seat.

USA TODAY analyzed reports that lobbyists file twice a year with the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records.

Local, state and federal leaders are making a coordinated lobbying effort for weekend service on NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Rail Line, despite ongoing construction tasks wrap up that have been delaying the service for years.

Americans are protected from toasters that might explode, toys with lead paint, bad meat and snake oil cures -- but not from flawed mortgages and other loans that might lead not just to foreclosures, but to a national financial crisis.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced today that New Jersey's application for nearly $900 million in education funding from the federal stimulus package had been approved.

The House ethics committee is looking into yet another possible breach of ethics by Rep.

Senior citizens and the disabled who own homes in New Jersey now have until Aug.