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The pressure is growing on Scott Pruitt and the Environmental Protection Agency to do something anything about the costs being imposed on consumers and the energy sector by the Renewable Fuel Standard. According to Politico's Morning Energy newsletter , there's a meeting scheduled for Thursday in which President Trump will be talking to Ted Cruz and other interested parties about the subject.
In the first enforcement action initiated by its new "Cyber Unit," the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday announced it has secured a court order to freeze the assets of individuals behind a "scam" initial coin offering, or ICO. Ben Hancock is a San Francisco-based reporter covering litigation, technology, finance, and the future of law.
A USA Today review found that the FBI issued more than 4,000 requests last year for agents to retrieve guns from prohibited buyers. A USA TODAY review finds thousands of guns were sold to people who should have failed their background checks.
President Donald Trump endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore on Monday, throwing his weight behind the embattled Alabama Republican before a special election next week that has been rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct. FILE PHOTO: Judge Roy Moore participates in the Mid-Alabama Republican Club's Veterans Day Program in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, U.S., November 11, 2017.
An attempted revival of Democrats in Arkansas is being mounted in legislative districts that the party lost or ignored in 2016, with candidates announcing that they intend to run against GOP incumbents in places like Rogers, Conway and west Little Rock. But the state's Republicans, who have near-supermajorities in the Legislature, are looking to pad their recent wins in next year's elections.
Republicans muscled the largest tax overhaul in 30 years through the Senate early Saturday, taking a big step toward giving President Donald Trump his first major legislative triumph after months of false starts and frustration on other fronts.
On Monday, November 27, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC over whether inter partes review - an adversarial process used by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to analyze the validity of existing patents - violates the US Constitution.1 Although it is difficult to predict which way the Court will rule, the questions posed by each Justice in oral argument may signal the Justices' views on the issue of constitutionality of IPRs.
The Republican tax overhaul that squeaked through the Senate early Saturday morning would reach deep into the nation's health-care system, with a clear dagger to a core aspect of the Affordable Care Act and broader ripple effects that could threaten other programs over time. The measure would abolish the government's enforcement of the ACA requirement that most Americans carry insurance coverage.
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Experts have said that the bill will raise the U.S.' rising deficit, increased the number of uninsured individuals, and redistribute wealth to the rich while increasing taxes on the poor. The United States Senate passed its version of the Trump tax plan 'reform' that has been described by progressives as "socialism for the rich" due to its massive redistribution of wealth to top income brackets.
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Reporters get an update from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., a member of the Senate Budget Committee, as Republican senators gather to meet with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on the GOP effort to overhaul the tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. McConnell turned to one of his harshest antagonists to help pass the most sweeping tax package in more than three decades.
The congressional clock is running out as a handful of bills are batted around Capitol Hill to reauthorize a critical foreign intelligence collection program that expires in four weeks. The House intelligence committee on Friday passed the latest one 13-8.
The congressional clock is running out as a handful of bills are batted around Capitol Hill to reauthorize a critical foreign intelligence collection program that expires in four weeks. The House intelligence committee on Friday passed the latest one 13-8.
Yesterday, in addition to hearing oral argument regarding state court jurisdiction over '33 Act class actions , SCOTUS also heard oral argument in a second case, Somers v. Digital Realty Trust.
A Syracuse man has been charged with threatening to kill a U.S. congressman in an ominous call to the offices of Republican Rep. John Katko in upstate New York. "Listen, Mr. Katko If you don't support net neutrality, I will find you and your family and I will kill .
Calling it the opportunity of his lifetime, President Donald Trump's pick for health secretary pledged Wednesday to help lower drug prices and said he'd carry out the Obama-era health law his boss has been unable to erase. Alex Azar's assurances to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee were met with doubt by lawmakers of both parties, especially Democrats concerned about his ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
U.S. Supreme Court justices raised concerns on Wednesday about the ability of police to obtain information on the past locations of criminal suspects using cellphone data from wireless providers without a warrant in a major test of privacy rights in the digital age. Several of the nine justices across the ideological spectrum made comments indicating that the absence of a court-issued warrant is troubling.
Ivanka Trump walks with Sen. Marco Rubio after a meeting with other senators on Capitol Hill in June. The Senate Republicans' tax bill would leave millions of poor families with only partial access to a tax credit that conservatives have touted as a critical policy tool for alleviating poverty.
The decision in Kwan v. Sanmedica International , 854 F.3d 1088 in April, has occasioned a lot of discussion about the apparent demise of the establishment claim "standard" in California.