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Tim O'Brien was born in Austin, Minnesota on October 1, 1946, [6] the son of William Timothy O'Brien and Ava Eleanor Schultz O'Brien. [1] When he was ten, his family – including a younger brother and sister – moved to Worthington, Minnesota. Worthington had a large influence on O’Brien's imagination and his early development as an author.
The subcommittee had oversight jurisdiction over: issues related to civil rights, civil liberties and the equal protection of laws, including voting rights, freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly; equal employment; nondisclosure agreements; and criminal justice reform policies; and legislative and oversight jurisdiction over the Census Bureau and the Census.
Eleanor Holmes Norton (born June 13, 1937) [1] [2] is an American politician, lawyer, and human rights activist. [3] Norton serves as a congressional delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives , where she has represented the District of Columbia since 1991 as a member of the Democratic Party .
The panel now known as the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was originally the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, created in 1927 to consolidate 11 separate Committees on Expenditures that had previously overseen the spending of various departments of the federal government.
In 2009, she published a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt's early political advisor Louis Howe, titled FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force that Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. She is the co-author of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's book For the Next Generation: A Wake-Up Call to Solving Our Nation's Problems. [2]
Words can hold a lot of power. They can uplift and inspire. Here are 50 quotes about life to motivate you.
Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American dancer and actress. Best remembered for her tap dance numbers in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s, she was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 's top dancing stars during the Golden Age of Hollywood .
Eleanor Irene Clift (née Roeloffs; born July 7, 1940) [1] is an American political journalist, television pundit, and author. She is a contributor to MSNBC and blogger for The Daily Beast . [ 2 ] She is best known as a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group . [ 3 ]