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Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, left, and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt listen to President Donald Trump speak during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, May 9, 2018, in Washington. Image credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt is overhauling the way his agency sets pollution limits under the Clean Air Act, announcing Thursday that regulators will seek input on the economic impact of enforcing the landmark federal law.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller this week unveiled a "Juntos con Heller" campaign with a coalition of 254 Hispanic activists committed to helping the Republican win re-election. U.S. Sen. Dean Heller this week unveiled a "Juntos con Heller" campaign with a coalition of 254 Hispanic activists committed to helping the Republican win re-election.
At the highest levels, the political theory was that people would like the benefits of the ACA and provide a growing set of invested constituencies that would rally to the defense of the ACA if need be. And we have seen that at the highest levels.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday demanded President Donald Trump withdraw his nominee of Brian Benczkowski to head the Department of Justice's Criminal Division, claiming his ties to a Russian bank could undermine the special counsel's probe. Mr. Benczkowski , currently a partner at Kirkland & Ellis , ran the Trump transition team at the Justice Department .
President Donald Trump will allow year-round sales of renewable fuel with blends of 15 percent ethanol as part of an emerging deal to make changes to the federal ethanol mandate. Republican senators and the White House announced the deal Tuesday after a closed-door meeting, the latest in a series of White House sessions on ethanol.
A complaint against state Rep. Nick Miccarelli now under investigation by House leaders raises claims that he is retaliating against the two women who have accused him of rape and domestic violence and in one instance, used taxpayer-funded resources to do it.( The latest accusations against Rep. Nick Miccarelli now under investigation by House GOP lawyers raise claims against the Delaware County Republican that he continues to retaliate against the two women who have accused him of rape and domestic violence.
Democrats mischaracterized emails between top Environmental Protection Agency officials to claim Administrator Scott Pruitt wanted "misuse" of taxpayer dollars by creating a new agency office in his hometown. Pruitt directed his staff "to establish a new EPA office in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma," sparking a wave of media coverage that added to the growing list of complaints against Pruitt, House Democrats claimed .
Eric Schneiderman's sudden disgraced resignation as New York's attorney general doesn't mean that all or even any of his political investigations and lawsuits will go away with him. The civil and criminal cases he filed and those that still may be pending in the pipeline - against Donald Trump , Michael Cohen , Paul Manafort , or Jared Kushner ; against the Trump administration's travel ban , its environmental policies , its military transgender rules and its net neutrality position - almost certainly will continue in Schneiderman's absence, especially in the short term.
For many years, Democrats have been convinced that the American people, and even their Republican opponents, are open to persuasion. If they could just have the opportunity to explain why their policies are morally right and practically effective, they could win almost anyone over.
Auto executives visiting the White House Friday, May 11, will to try to save the national fuel economy and emissions program from a Trump administration buzz saw that they fear could usher in years of litigation and uncertainty rather than the leeway they sought. Clean-air advocates have sounded alarms about a dramatic weakening of Obama-era efficiency and emissions standards described in a leaked draft proposal by federal transportation and environmental agencies.
AUTHORITIES have found more than 300,000 items of substandard products in the Bangkok-based Donmuang Modern Market. Widely known as a big cosmetics marketplace, the market spans over 18 rai of land in the capital's Don Muang district.
American Asset Management Inc. lessened its holdings in Ishares Lehman 20 Year by 95.7% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission . The fund owned 18,914 shares of the exchange traded fund's stock after selling 425,396 shares during the quarter.
Four years after agreeing to expand Medicaid to cover more low-income adults, Michigan Republicans want an estimated 350,000 enrollees who are not working to get a job - or, at the very least, to start preparing to enter the labor force. Their aim is threefold: to rein in a massive, costly government health insurance program they say has grown far beyond its basic mission, to help businesses fill job openings and to reinforce the importance of work for abled-bodied people.
President Donald Trump is suggesting that Rudy Giuliani, the aggressive new face of his legal team, needs to "get his facts straight" about the hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. Trump chided Giuliani even as he insisted that "we're not changing any stories" about the $130,000 settlement, which was paid to Daniels to keep her quiet about her allegations of an affair with Trump.
Missouri lawmakers will convene in an historic special session later this month to consider impeaching Republican Gov. Eric Greitens following allegations of sexual misconduct and misuse of charity resources for his political campaign.
Longtime Hamilton County Commissioner Christine Altman faces a challenger who promises to make county commissioner his only job if he's elected in her re-election bid for the District 1 seat.
How can we reduce the number of abortions in the United States? One way is to make sure women are confident they'll have medical coverage throughout their pregnancies and after. And how can we encourage people to work? By making work pay, which is why Republicans and Democrats have supported the Earned Income Tax Credit, known as the EITC, which tops off the pay of low-income employees.
Desperate to divert attention from Scott Pruitt, an Environmental Protection Agency employee recently tried to feed negative news stories about President Trump's Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, drawing the ire of the White House, according to a report. Michael Abboud, a member of the EPA press team, has tried to pitch stories reflecting badly on Zinke to multiple news outlets, hoping they would take the "heat off Pruitt," according to sources and correspondence reviewed by the Atlantic .
With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Tom Wolf ended-for now-the annual effort to "change the way medical treatment is administered under the workers' compensation system" by vetoing Senate Bill 936. Over the last few years, the Republican-controlled legislature has been trying to pass various pieces of legislation targeting health care under the Workers' Compensation Act.