Category: house

Woman Spends 3 Years to Transform Home Into a Tropical Paradise: ‘It’s Very Therapeutic’

A plant collector has spent nearly $20,400 (15,000 pounds) renovating her house and garden with over 250 tropical plants. Hannah McFarlane, who lives near Winchester, Hampshire, bought her first home in September 2017 and wanted to completely transform the small garden into a tropical paradise. Inspired by her travels, she decided to use ideas from…


US House Panel Considers Bill Curbing Dual-Class Stock

NEW YORK—A U.S. House of Representatives panel plans to discuss a draft bill requiring companies that go public with dual-class stock to sunset the structure after seven years, according to a copy of the proposed legislation published late Thursday. Dual-class share structures, which give some stockholders more voting power, are out of favor among investors,…


House Passes 30-Day Extension for Highway Funding

The House of Representatives voted 365–51 on Friday to extend for one month the authorization for surface transportation funding. The funding was set to be renewed in the over $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed by the Senate, but House Democrats have failed to advance the measure as part of an impasse over the larger $3.5…


Top House Democrats: $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill Likely Will Be Smaller

Several top House Democrats have conceded they will likely reduce the White House-backed $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill after several moderate members of the party expressed opposition to the measure. Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the third-ranking House Democrat, told CNN that the number could be lower. “So it may be $3.5 (trillion), it may be…


Democrats’ Election Bill Dramatically Expands Federal, Judicial Control Over Elections

News Analysis Democrats and Republicans battled on the House floor late into the evening Tuesday before voting to pass Rep. Terri Sewell’s (D-Ala.) ‘John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act,’ HR4. The measure was unanimously supported by Democrats and unanimously opposed by Republicans. HR4 was designed, according to Sewell, to address allegations of minority voter suppression…


During Emergency Session, House GOP Urges Dems to Address Afghanistan

After Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) $3.5 trillion budget resolution just squeaked through the Senate hours before Congress’s August recess, House Democrats called an emergency session for Aug. 23 that continued late into Tuesday evening. At the session, the House considered three monumental pieces of legislation: the Senate-passed infrastructure bill, Sanders’s budget resolution, and Rep. Terri…


House GOP Urges Democrats to Address Afghanistan During Emergency Session

After Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) $3.5 trillion budget resolution just squeaked through the Senate hours before Congress’s August recess, House Democrats called an emergency session for Aug. 23 that continued late into Tuesday evening. At the session, the House considered three monumental pieces of legislation: the Senate-passed infrastructure bill, Sanders’s budget resolution, and Rep. Terri…


Highlights From House Rules Committee Hearing

In a House Rules Committee meeting Monday, members from both parties considered three monumental pieces of legislation: the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, the $3.5 trillion budget proposal, and the Democrat’s “John Lewis Voting Act” elections bill. In a highly partisan debate, Democrats argued for the passage of the three pieces of legislation while Republicans expressed…


Woman, 28, Spends 16 Hours Cleaning a House for Free and the Transformation is Incredible

A self-declared queen of cleaning from Finland who took 16 hours to tidy up a young couple’s house that was covered in piles of trash, stains, and mess has shared a video of the incredible transformation, which has gone viral. Auri Katariina, 28, from Tampere, who quit her day job as a service manager to…


Texas House Special Session Adjourned as Not Enough Democrats Present

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan on Saturday called for the lower chamber to be adjourned until Monday as not enough Democrats showed up for the special session. “A quorum is not present,” Phelan said Saturday afternoon. He adjourned the chamber until Monday minutes later. Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Chris Turner said that the Democrats…