WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland has met with two supportive Senate Democratic leaders and spoken by phone to more of his Republican opponents. But he's moved no closer to weakening the GOP barricade against changing his status from Supreme Court nominee to justice.
President Barack Obama's pick to fill the late Antonin Scalia's seat made his first courtesy calls on Capitol Hill Thursday, receiving predictably favorable reviews from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Patrick Leahy, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Yet if anything, GOP leaders dug in even further against considering his nomination, and senators left town for a two-week recess.
BOSTON – Arguing the need for a "revolution in housing production" to keep pace with demand, a report released Wednesday by a Senate committee recommends 19 proposals taking aim at everything from foreclosures to gentrification, homelessness, preservation, production, public housing, support services and zoning.
Along with support for housing-related legislation and expansion of existing programs, the report calls for several new initiatives, including plans to develop "millennial villages" to free up housing stock for working families and to provide state assistance to urban areas and former industrial communities that have experienced blight.
