News from March 2017
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Costa Rica is a constitutional republic governed by a president and a unicameral legislative assembly directly elected in multiparty elections every four years. In April 2014 voters elected Luis Guillermo Solis of the Citizen Action Party (PAC) during a second round of elections. In simultaneous legislative...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today delivered remarks as the keynote speaker at the Urban Institute-Tax Policy Center’s forum on tax reform...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Italian Republic is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a bicameral parliament consisting of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The constitution vests executive authority in the Council of Ministers, headed by a prime minister whose official title is President of the Council of Ministers.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Principality of Andorra is a constitutional parliamentary democracy. Two co-princes-the president of France and the Spanish bishop of Urgell-serve with joint authority as heads of state. In March 2015 the country held free and fair multiparty elections for the 28 seats in parliament (the General Council of the Valleys), which selects the head of government. Having won a majority in parliament, the Democrats for Andorra re-elected Antoni Marti Petit head of government.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Federated States of Micronesia is a constitutional republic composed of four states: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap. Individual states enjoy significant autonomy, and their traditional leaders retain considerable influence, especially in Pohnpei and Yap. The elected unicameral national congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Deshawn Livingston, 41, of Brooklyn, New York and Brandy LaRock, 33, of Hinesburg, Vermont have been charged by criminal complaint with possession of heroin and crack cocaine with the intent to distribute such drugs in the Hinesburg, Vermont area.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Japan has a parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy. Shinzo Abe, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, became prime minister in 2012. Upper House elections in July were considered free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Australia is a constitutional democracy with a freely elected federal parliamentary government. In a free and fair federal parliamentary election held in July, the Liberal Party and National Party coalition won a majority in the 150-seat House of Representatives and formed a government with Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON – Former Texas Governor Rick Perry was sworn in on Mar. 2, 2017, as the 14th Secretary of the United States Department of Energy.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Solomon Islands is a constitutional multiparty parliamentary democracy. Observers considered the 2014 parliamentary election generally free and fair, although there were incidents of vote buying. Parliament elected Manasseh Sogavare as prime minister, and he formed a coalition government.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Slovak Republic is a multiparty parliamentary democracy led by a prime minister and a 150-member parliament (Narodna Rada or National Council). Prime Minister Robert Fico heads a three-party coalition that secured a majority of seats in the National Council following free and fair parliamentary elections in March. Voters elected Andrej Kiska to a five-year term as president and head of state in 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE) announced the following members of EPW's four subcommittees, during the 115th Congress.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Paraguay is a multiparty, constitutional republic. In April 2013, Horacio Cartes of the Colorado Party, also known as the National Republican Association, won the presidency in elections recognized as free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Russian Federation has a highly centralized, authoritarian political system dominated by President Vladimir Putin. The bicameral Federal Assembly consists of a directly elected lower house (State Duma) and an appointed upper house (Federation Council), both of which lacked independence from the executive. State Duma elections during 2016 and the presidential election in 2012 were marked by accusations of government interference and manipulation of the electoral process.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Suriname is a constitutional democracy with a president elected by the unicameral National Assembly. Elections for the National Assembly took place in May 2015, and in July 2015 the Assembly elected Desire Delano Bouterse to a second consecutive term as president. International observers considered legislative elections to be free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Republic of San Marino is a multiparty democracy. The popularly elected, unicameral Great and General Council (parliament) selects two of its members to serve as captains regent (co-heads of state). They preside over meetings of the council and the Congress of State (cabinet), which has no more than...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Lebanon is a parliamentary republic based on the 1943 National Pact, which apportions governmental authority among a Maronite Christian president, a Shia speaker of the Chamber of Deputies (parliament), and a Sunni prime minister. On Oct. 31, Michel Aoun was elected by parliament to the presidency,...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General (DOJ IG) Michael Horowitz, asking why the IG’s office took nearly five years to complete an investigation into the Osorio and Barba trafficking rings. This investigation was originally requested by the House Oversight and Senate Judiciary Committees in Sept. 2012.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Republic of Latvia is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. A unicameral parliament (Saeima) exercises legislative authority. Observers considered elections in 2014 for the 100-seat Saeima to be free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Antigua and Barbuda is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. In the June 2014 parliamentary elections, which observers described as generally free and fair, the ruling Antigua and Barbuda Labor Party (ABLP) defeated the United Progressive Party, and Gaston Browne was elected as prime minister.
