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The father of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Tommy D’Alesandro Jr., served as mayor of Baltimore.
But, to hear his daughter tell it, he was also mayor of Washington, D.C.
When Rep. Tommy D’Alesandro, D-Md., served in Congress, the nation’s capital lacked home rule. Congress served as a sort of super city council over Washington, D.C. Congress even set up key committees devoted to overseeing Washington, D.C. D’Alesandro chaired the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the District of Columbia. Pelosi says her father did not like that he was often referred to as the Washington, D.C., mayor, just because he controlled the purse strings.
NCAA leader nominated for VA deputy secretary post 22 hours ago In this 2015 file photo, NCAA chief legal officer Donald Remy speaks during an interview in Indianapolis. Remy was nominated by the White House on Friday for the second-highest leadership post at the Department of Veterans Affairs. (Michael Conroy/AP) President Joe Biden has tapped the second-ranking official at the National Collegiate Athletic Association to serve as the second-highest official at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Donald Remy, an Army veteran with long ties to both Biden and former President Barack Obama, was nominated Friday as VA’s deputy secretary. If confirmed, he will be only the second Black veteran to serve in that leadership role. VA Secretary Denis McDonough in recent weeks has promised that his leadership team will underscore the president’s “seriousness about diversity and inclusion” at the department.
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VA dumps plans to stop students from adding non-degree classes to keep GI Bill benefits 1 day ago Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks to students at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., on Dec. 7, 2017. (Petty Officer 1st Class Dominique A. Pineiro/Navy) Veterans Affairs officials are backtracking on plans to bar student veterans from “rounding out” their degree programs with non-required courses to maintain their GI Bill benefits, saying they’ll look for other ways to ensure the system isn’t being abused. Department leaders had planned to end the practice this August, a move that could have cost some veterans thousands of dollars in tuition payouts and housing stipends.