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Delta County officials weren't looking forward to having to comply with a bill going through the Colorado Legislature on landfills, and they may not have to, at least for now. A measure that won preliminary approval in the Colorado House on Wednesday was initially designed to require the state's landfills to have solid waste diversion programs.
Republicans on Wednesday applauded President Trump for producing a tax blueprint that could turbocharge the economy even as they conceded flaws that might stall the plan in Congress. Proponents of conservative reform were gushing over Trump's proposals to cut the corporate tax rate to 15 percent - a 20 percent reduction - and simplify the code for individuals and married couples.
The Interior Department is to review large-scale national monuments in Colorado and Utah under an executive order that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said gives new voice to rural Americans. "Finally, rural America has a voice again," Zinke said Wednesday as President Donald J. Trump announced the executive order to study the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado and Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments in Utah.
Jamaicans in the United States who send remittances to family back home may soon find themselves contributing to the construction of the Mexican border wall - a key commitment of US President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. A United States congressman is proposing that an amendment be made to the US Electronic Fund Transfer Act to impose a fee for remittance transfers to certain foreign countries - including Jamaica.
Top Republican lawmakers in Kansas are working on new proposals for raising income taxes to fix the state budget that include a plan similar to one Governor Sam Brownback vetoed. Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning said Wednesday that fellow GOP senators are drafting a plan to retain separate rates for lower- and upper-income earners.
Democrats weren't able to derail Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, but they haven't abandoned the pointed questions they aimed at him, recycling those questions Wednesday for a hearing with appeals court nominee Judge Amul R. Thapar. From campaign finance reform cases to his ties to the conservative Federalist Society, Judge Thapar fended off the inquiries during his confirmation hearing, asking to be evaluated on the reputation he amassed during more than a decade on the federal bench.
Social Security can't even give a ballpark estimate for how much fraud there is in the program, a top official admitted to Congress on Wednesday - though he insisted they care about the matter and are working to weed out bogus payments, particularly in disability payments. Sean Brune, assistant deputy commissioner at the Social Security Administration's budget office, said they're trying to become more aware of the problems and looking for new tools to fight back, but said he couldn't guess at how bad the problem is.
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter discusses plans for legislation to create Oklahoma Commission on Opioid Abuse. [Photo by Grayson Cook, The Oklahoman] Declaring that Oklahoma is in the midst of "an opioid abuse epidemic," Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter joined state lawmakers Wednesday in announcing support for a resolution to form an Oklahoma Commission on Opioid Abuse.
Today, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, introduced the Senate version of H.R. 5, the Regulatory Accountability Act, which would require endless agency studies before new consumer protection rules could be adopted. The bill, should it become law, would make it virtually impossible for federal agencies to enact rules and safeguards to protect public health and the environment, noted EWG legislative attorney, Melanie Benesh.
Research scientist like Chris Karstens with University of Oklahoma cooperative institutes for mesoscale meteorological studies has been working with The National Severe Storms Laboratory on FACETs, Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats on this for about five years now. "Our project really is designed to bring about a new kind of warning paradigm for the National Weather Service," Karstens said.
During last year's campaign, Donald Trump promised cheering throngs that they'd eventually be so tired of winning that they'd beg for a respite from all those victories. But as President Trump's 100th day in office closes in this week, the Republican is woefully short of major legislative victories and time is running short.
This photo distributed on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, by the North Korean government, shows what was said to be a "Combined Fire Demonstration" held to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the North Korean army, in North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service.
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. discusses the Republican agenda as he faces reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 30, 2017.
President Donald Trump is proposing “the biggest tax cut” ever even as the government struggles with mounting debt, in an effort to fulfill promises of bringing jobs and prosperity to the middle class. White House officials on Wednesday were to release broad outlines of a tax overhaul that would provide massive tax cuts to businesses big and small.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin confirmed that the tax plan set to be unveiled later this afternoon will include a proposal to drive down the corporate tax rate from 35 percent down to 15 percent. Mnuchin confirmed the rate decrease at a discussion at the Newseum on Wednesday, calling it the " biggest tax cut and largest tax reform in the history of our country."
Republican Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming said Tuesday he regrets using "a poor choice of words" when he suggested to students last week that if a man wears a tutu in a bar and ends up getting bullied, then it's partly the man's fault because he "kind of asks for it." In an emailed statement to CNN, Enzi said he does not believe "that anyone should be bullied, intimidated or attacked because of their beliefs" and that his message "was intended specifically to be about promoting respect and tolerance toward each other."
Paul Ryan Ryan rejects ObamaCare subsidies in funding bill UN contacted Trump administration on ObamaCare repeal: report Shutdown fears spur horse-trading MORE on Wednesday threw cold water on a Democratic push to fund ObamaCare subsidies in a must-pass spending bill needed to avert a government shutdown this week. "We're not doing that.
When her appointment as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new chief of staff was announced Tuesday, much was made of Maria Comella's years of work for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Comella grew up in Loudonville and graduated from Shaker High School in 1999.
For the first two months of Donald Trump's presidency, which was ushered in with his "America First" inaugural speech promising to pull back from the world, he did not speak directly to the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. It's notable not only because a new Republican president spent so long not talking to a Republican chairman of a high-profile committee, but also because that chairman is perhaps the most well-known Republican in the entire Congress - Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
In a Daily Beast video interview, Caitlyn Jenner says her loyalties lie with the LGBT community, not President Trump. She also mulls the possibility of becoming 'Senator Jenner.'