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WASHINGTON (AP) — Paralympian Melissa Stockwell and University of Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens are among the picks for a Congressional committee tasked with studying possible reforms in...

Paralympian Melissa Stockwell and University of Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens are among the picks for a U.S. congressional committee tasked with studying possible reforms in Americas Olympic system.

Saturday, 19 December 2020 Olympic gold medallist and former canoeist Norman Bellingham is reportedly among the appointments to a Congressional committee tasked with overseeing reforms to the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and the state of the organisation. According to documents cited by Associated Press, Bellingham, a former chief executive of the United States Olympic Committee who won the gold medal in canoe sprint at Seoul 1988, was chosen for a position on the pa...

Olympian Bellingham recommended for congressional panel By EDDIE PELLSDecember 19, 2020 GMT Gold medalist and former Olympic executive Norm Bellingham and Olympian Eli Bremer have been recommended for a congressional committee to study possible reforms in America’s Olympic system. Also chosen for the panel by Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado, were athlete agent Peter Carlisle and former Defense Department inspector general Joe Schmitz. The picks must be made official by Rep. Greg Walden, an Oreg...

Mississippi electors vote Trump, top officials cast doubt about election results in other states Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, right, wears his “Trump” mask as he waits while Secretary of State Michael Watson tends to the official duties overseeing the casting of Mississippi’s votes in the electoral college at the state Capitol in Jackson on Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Gov. Tate Reeves and Secretary of State Michael Watson defended the presidential electoral college and...

You have a long-time loyal defender of the presidents and attorney to the presidents who is scheduled to go to prison, who said he would now testify and come clean, who back said down because of the threats you reported and now a clash with the congress said guess, what, buddy, it may not be your call. thats rr why its so big the democrats have subpoena power. rarely do you have a subpoena fight with an incarceration deadline. year all going to watch the next couple weeks. do they try to delay i...

You who you should vote for obama and not for the republicans because theyll keep you in this mess. but on the irs help line. >> the national organization for marriage was leaked to a rival group, and finally when senator durbin and others were exhorting the irs to be more political in their application reviews, she said, with regard to crossroads gps, the most important conservative group, we are working on a denial of the application. not expediting, not coming to a quick conclusion, but we ar...

then republican leaders pursued criminal charges against lois lerner for her role in the irs targeting scandal. >> there is reason to believe that lois lerner committed crimes. >> what theyre doing at this hearing is essentially politicizing this issue. >> well talk about two members of the house weighs and means committee, which voted this week to send lerners case to the justice department. the committees top democrat sander levin and republican charles boustany, and our sunday panel...

democrat sheldon whitehouse. then republican leaders pursued criminal charges against lois lerner for her role in the irs targeting scandal. >> there is reason to believe that lois lerner committed crimes. >> what theyre doing at this hearing is essentially politicizing this issue. >> well talk about two members of the house weighs and means committee, which voted this week to send lerners case to the justice department. the committees top democrat sander levin and republican charles b...