Julie Gallagher
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Julie Gallagher is a reporter in the Washington bureau of Capital News Service covering social services and Rep. Elijah Cummings. She is a junior at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Julie has previously interned at Street Sense where she covered local and national issues surrounding homelessness and poverty, and Urner Barry, a market reporting company. Julie also writes for UMD'S chapter of Her Campus, an online publication geared towards college women. You can find her on Twitter @_JulieGallagher and LinkedIn.

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House Democrats Demand Documents From Planned Parenthood Video Producers

Democratic members of a House oversight panel sent a letter Tuesday to Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, requesting him to direct the anti-abortion activist who secretly recorded Planned Parenthood to turn over documents related to his videos.

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Congress, Advocates Call for Post-Prison Job Reforms

Bipartisan group of lawmakers aims to help former inmates find federal work.

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Cummings, GOP Tangle Over Planned Parenthood Spending

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Baltimore, on Tuesday warned that banning federal funds for Planned Parenthood would cut off vital health care services for low-income Maryland women.

Vegetables from Real Food Farm ready to be picked up by Baltimore City employees, as part of their community-supported agriculture program on Sept. 10, 2015. (Capital News Service/Julie Gallagher)
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Baltimore Teams with Farmers to Help City Employees, Poor

BALTIMORE – It’s a rainy Thursday afternoon in the Abel Wolman Municipal Building downtown and boxes of fresh fruits and vegetables are being carted up to the conference room by a local farmer. Baltimore City employees line up, plastic and…

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Unlike 2013, food aid would stop with another government shutdown

Federal food assistance program has no reserves to hold it over in the event of a government shutdown.