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High-profile stories about Congress today frequently focus on the fights over big legislation and the gridlock that results. But beyond the headlines we are seeing quiet, steady progress on energy efficiency policy.
We are keeping an eye on bills to encourage purchases of more efficient vehicles, help prepare tomorrow's energy workforce, and incentivize homeowners to invest in improving energy efficiency, among others. Here are some of the key developments this year so far.
Bipartisan Senate Group Encourages Efficient Transportation
Arizona tribes thin on broadband, struggle with lagging technology
"Just Google it."
Carroll Onsae says it's a joke among Hopi, who have broadband internet in only some pockets of the reservation. And even there it works slowly.
"Our area is economically disadvantaged. It's a hardship for families to not have service to broadband services," said Onsae, general manager of Hopi Telecommunications Inc.
PHOENIX - Phoenix and Mesa were ranked among the top 25 cities that would benefit from the passing of the American Dream and Promise Act.
A Center for American Progress report released last month found that Phoenix was the No. 4 city that would benefit, topped by Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago, with Mesa coming in at No. 25.
The Dream and Promise Act, also known as H.R. 6, would create a path to legalization and ultimately citizenship for immigrants brought to the U.S. as children who qualify for the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, escalating the war between the Trump administration and House Democrats.
The committee voted 24-16 along party lines to approve a resolution recommending that the full U.S. House find Barr in contempt for his refusal to comply with a committee subpoena seeking an unredacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Everyone wants what's best for future generations, but very rarely do children get the chance to share their ideas with leaders.
Officials in Arizona and Sonora are working to close that barrier with the Cross-Border Youth Summit (CBYS), which provides junior high and high schoolers from both sides of the border a place to gather and share their experiences while also proposing solutions for a wide variety of topics.
Immigration and infrastructure reform were focal points at this year's Statespersons' Luncheon, where U.S. Representatives Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., and Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., shared their insights from the nation's capital.
Around 100 people – including legislators, local officials and business professionals alike – packed into the East Valley Institute of Technology's Culinary Arts School last week for the PHX East Valley Partnership's annual luncheon.
Congressmen Greg Stanton (CD-9) and Andy Biggs (CD-5) both represent prominent districts in the East Valley but together their time in the United States Congress only adds up to roughly three years.
The two Representatives put aside their conflicting voting records this week and sat down to discuss issues facing Arizona in Washington, D.C. at the East Valley Partnership Statesperson Luncheon.
Rep. Greg Stanton promised to support DACA recipients and efforts to address the rising cost tuition during a town hall on Tuesday at ASU's Tempe campus.
Stanton (D-Phoenix) was invited by the state chapter of youth voting advocacy group NextGen America to speak to youth voters who "went to the polls in November" to elect him.
More than 150 years ago, on a war-torn battlefield outside a small town in Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln reminded our nation of the enduring task of preserving our "government of the people, by the people, for the people."
That's a responsibility of our generation, too – and the truth is, we must do better.
Perhaps not since Lincoln's time have our politics been so divisive, so vile, so frustrating – and a real roadblock to making the progress we need.