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Feb 4, 2021 Press Release Washington, DC – As 2020 marked the deadliest year for gun violence in the last 20 years, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today reintroduced the  Gun Violence Prevention Research Act to fund research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on firearms safety and gun violence prevention. The legislation would authorize $50 million in funding each fiscal year for the next five years at the CDC to study gun violence. According to the Gun Violence Archive, at least 43,495 people lost their...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Three months after a leak and investigation into over $2 trillion in suspect transactions at the world’s largest banks and financial institutions, known as the “FinCEN Files,” Congress passed legislation that would require anonymous shell companies to disclose their true owners. [1] The Corporate Transparency Act, which was added to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), would apply to future and existing entities and would make it more difficult for criminals and kleptocrats to anonymously launder money or evade taxe...

Why? >> well, because he was extremely credible, he had very specific information. we sent binders of information to the federal regulators and normally when we provide that sort of information on behalf of our whistleblower clients the federal agencies will jump at it because they have insider information they usually didn't know before. here all we got was stonewalling, the ntsb, we had to keep hounding them and they finally agreed to give him a 15-minute interview which ended up stretching to an hour, an hour and 15 minutes because we were covolling them to do an investigation. the faa woul...

Table, representative maloney, are you a supporter of this bill. are you wearing a fireman's jack right there. can you explain why this funding is even an issue? shouldn't funding for the healthcare of first responders be a non-issue? >> it should be a non-issue. and jon stewart has every right to be angry, so am i, but i'm hopeful we will be reporting the bill out of the committee tomorrow. we have over 311 co-sponsors for the bill, which is a large, large number for the house and over 81 republicans. it's strongly bipartisan. i hope we will pass it on the congress when we celebrate the value...

Protected. >> you also serve on the house oversight committee. representative maloney has requested that the committee investigate the white house's knowledge of rob porter's background check, decision to allow him to handle classified material for over a year without that security clearance. a, do you think the committee should investigate that? b, what the questions you have about this situation? >> on a, i actually think we have the information we need. rob porter was a serial wife beater. this guy is astonishing. it's illegal. it's immoral and, by the way, it's really cowardly. and what we...