Jackie Speier

Saturday TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'Premium Rush' on Starz

2013-06-07 16:19:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 9 - 15, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES In the Flesh This three-part tale about...

Showing the IRS some love after witch hunt

2013-05-25 08:50:00

You may not have discerned this through the fog and mist of recent weeks, but the Internal Revenue Service is pretty durn good at its job. Some experts would go further. "I think they do an extraordinary job, considering that they're historically...

Military sex crime record should bring shame

2013-05-07 17:42:00

Maybe, in the end, we will thank Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinksi, head of the Air Force’s Sexual Assault Prevention Unit, who was arrested on suspicion of sexual battery early Sunday after a woman reported he drunkenly approached her in a parking lot and...

Democrats seeking office have their eye on Sacramento

2013-05-17 18:39:00

WASHINGTON — Early this year, Leticia Perez and her husband flew here for a whirlwind 48 hours. The couple dined at the Italian Embassy, visited the Lincoln Memorial and joined the crowd on the National Mall watching as President Obama was...

Sexual assaults in military: 'Little monsters' now in charge

2013-05-17 09:23:00

Paula Coughlin was grocery shopping in Jacksonville, Fla., when I caught up with her on the phone this week. If anyone has an interesting perspective on the U.S. military’s absurd inability to deal with sexual assault, it’s Coughlin. She is...

Key lawmaker: House will be 'more thoughtful' on Internet sales tax

2013-05-07 09:19:00

WASHINGTON -- A key House committee chairman said his panel would take a "more thoughtful" approach to legislation allowing states to force retailers to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases. His comments signaled that momentum from Monday's easy...

House Speaker Boehner unlikely to support Internet sales tax bill

2013-05-07 17:52:00

WASHINGTON — House Speaker John A. Boehner said he probably won't support legislation allowing states to require that larger retailers collect sales taxes on Internet purchases. And a key House committee chairman said his panel would take a...

Senate OKs Internet sales tax

2013-05-07 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — The Senate gave strong bipartisan approval to landmark legislation that could largely lead to the end of the nation's decades-long Internet sales tax holiday. Now the issue shifts to the more skeptical, Republican-controlled House,...

Climate change causes prostitution? Rep. Barbara Lee explains

2013-04-30 15:17:00

Climate change is causing glaciers to melt, heat waves to become more intense, species to become extinct and low-lying island nations like Tuvalu to disappear altogether. To this list of calamities, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee has added another: Climate...

Obama wraps up his three-day Capitol Hill tour

2013-03-14 14:40:00

WASHINGTON�-- After a rough-and-tumble meeting with House Republicans�earlier in the week, President Obama wrapped up his Capitol Hill tour Thursday with friendlier crowds in the House and Senate, �even as lawmakers signaled opposition to his budget...

Congressional leaders reach agreement on pipeline safety

2011-12-08 21:37:14

Explosion fears: House OKs pipeline safety bill; Senate up next

2011-12-12 16:36:24

State Sen. Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough) wants to ban the sale to minors of products that include the stimulant synephrine.

2005-07-14 20:53:16

Sen. Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough)

2004-05-24 00:00:00

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough), shown in 2003, says insurance sales across state lines "would be a huge problem for California consumers."

2003-08-14 00:00:00