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Creating an inclusive financial system will require effective ways to verify people’s identities and prevent fraud. A recent event from the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program (Aspen FSP) discussed the role of digital identity in the financial system and the state of identity in the United States. Special attention was given to mobile driving licenses (mDLs) which have been spreading across the U.S.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is leading a push for USDA to boost the percentage of conservation funds sent to Illinois to match the state’s status as a top farming state.
In a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, Durbin, D-Springfield, and a dozen others from Illinois’ congressional delegation, said the state receives a “disproportionate” share of funds from USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for critical farm conservation initiatives.
In response to the address Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered to Congress Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Bill Foster denounced the leader’s actions in Israel’s war in Gaza as “incompetent, self-destructive and anti-democratic.”
The Naperville Democrat attended the speech — which prompted boycotts by many top Democratic lawmakers and drew thousands to the U.S. Capitol to protest Israel’s war with Hamas — out of respect “for the country of Israel and its people at a particularly challenging moment,” he said in a statement following the address.
A major government-backed quantum research project in Illinois will test the limits of quantum computing — and also how much America is willing to invest in a still very experimental technology.
The city of Batavia is looking to expand its stretch of the Fox River Bike Trail, with the $8 million project being recommended last month for some federal funding.
The project plans to connect two sections of trail on the river’s west side that were disconnected during the city’s $136 million upgrade of its wastewater treatment facility, according to Batavia City Administrator Laura Newman.
The diversion of funds from the Transportation Security Administration is harming its adoption of advanced security screening technologies, including facial biometrics, several House lawmakers told Nextgov/FCW.
Following the September 11th terrorist attacks, Congress created the TSA and authorized the agency to charge travelers a tax — commonly known as the 9/11 security fee — to help fund its operations.
Bipartisan legislation that would study the Transportation Security Administration's use of digital identification systems is headed to the House floor after making it through a key committee last week.
During a House Homeland Security Committee markup on June 12, the panel’s members favorably advanced legislation introduced by Reps. Clay Higgins, R-La., and Bill Foster, D-Ill., that would require TSA to compile a report on how its acceptance of digital IDs impacts U.S. homeland security.
(WASHINGTON) — A coalition of Illinois lawmakers are joining the Teamsters in demanding that Amazon respect federal labor laws and stop committing unfair labor practices against its delivery drivers in Skokie, Illinois.
Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Chuy García (D-Ill.), and Nikki Budzinski (D-Ill.), sent an oversight letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy today expressing concern over the company’s unlawful retaliation against Delivery Service Partner (DSP) drivers employed at its DIL7 delivery station.
Top banking regulator Martin Gruenberg is facing pressure to resign after a savage report about the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) licentious working culture confirmed long-standing findings of sexual harassment plaguing the agency.
Top Republicans on congressional financial committees and at least one Democratic lawmaker have issued calls for Gruenberg’s resignation following an investigation by law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.
A bill has been introduced in the United States House of Representatives to ban cryptocurrency mixers for two years. Called the Blockchain Integrity Act, it is sponsored by five Democratic congresspeople led by Sean Casten.
Casten defined a crypto mixer in a statement as a pool that allows users to “generate a new address and withdraw their funds without revealing the link between the depositor and withdrawal addresses.”