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Popular Vote Loser Donald Trump just released his first budget,and it is filled with debilitating cuts to social services and... Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... Rep. Greg Walden , chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is one of the leaders responsible for Trumpcare. There are two committees taking the lead, and one of them is his, and he's been right there in the middle of crafting-if you could call it that-the so-far failed plan.
All is not well at the Department of Labor these days. There were early signs that the Democrats were going to try to hang on to Obama era policies at Labor when they put up an intense fight to keep Andy Puzder from taking over and those efforts don't seem to be slowing down.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals on April 10 affirmed a decision to grant a man's provisional discharge from the state's treatment program for sex offenders, saying the program leader can't unilaterally prevent his conditional release by refusing to approve a residential setting for him. The decision comes in the case of Eugene Kropp, 74, who was committed to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program, also known as MSOP, in 1998 after a history of molesting boys.
In this 2013 photo, U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Minaldi speaks during the Empowering Women Luncheon in Sulphur, La. Minaldi, whose unusual behavior on the bench preceded her mysterious removal from a string of cases, was ordered to get treatment for alcoholism so severe a colleague believes she cannot take care of herself, according to court records released Thursday, April 13, 2017.
Congressman Jared Polis didn't hide his excitement Thursday when he heard about the Thompson School District's new graduation guidelines at a meeting with district staff and the Board of Education.
President Donald Trump signed legislation Thursday allowing states to withhold federal family planning dollars from clinics that provide abortion services, a move that effectively deprives Planned Parenthood and several other family groups of a significant source of funding. The move marked the 12th time that Trump has signed a resolution under the 1996 Congressional Review Act abolishing a rule issued under President Barack Obama.
Despite Speaker Paul Ryan's ill-fated attempt at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, Virginia Republicans recently doubled down on their opposition to the ACA and rejected a proposal by Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe to expand Medicaid. "Every taxpayer should know that we have forfeited $10.4 billion," said McAuliffe at a press conference .
President Trump quietly signed legislation Thursday that rolls back an Obama-era rule protecting certain federal funds for Planned Parenthood and other organizations that provide legal abortions. That regulation, implemented in the waning days of the Obama administration, required that states pass along family-planning grants - regardless of whether the groups they're passing them along to offer abortion services as well.
Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has decided not to follow in Republican Idaho Gov. Butch Otter's footsteps and has instead made the correct choice to help protect the property rights of its citizens. Ducey has just signed into law a bill that should seriously restrict the ability of law enforcement officers in Arizona to abuse the process of civil asset forfeiture as a way of generating revenue rather than fighting crime.
President Donald Trump and a top adviser on Wednesday pushed back plans to overhaul the tax code, saying they wanted to prioritize first a renewed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The comments from Trump and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney mark a sharp reversal from the administration's approach just a few weeks ago.
When the U.S. Senate was considering whether then-Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama should lead the Justice Department, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., was one of the most vocal members to stand in opposition to him. Booker's chief concern: Sessions' abysmal record concerning basic civil rights, and in particular where those rights concern minorities.
Rebuffing President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on the GOP health care bill seemed like a major political misstep for Iowa Rep. David Young, who quickly was punished by a political action committee linked to Speaker Paul Ryan. Nearly three weeks later, voters in Young's southwestern Iowa district - Republicans and Democrats - say the GOP congressman made the right move.
Since the failure of the GOP health care bill in the House nearly three weeks ago, President Donald Trump has suggested letting Obamacare explode to bring Democrats to the negotiating table. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Wednesday, Trump suggested the federal government would hold back key subsidy payments made to health insurers offering insurance to low-income Americans.
Multiple outlets are incorrectly calling deceptive articles aimed to drive up stock prices for certain companies "fake news" in yet another misappropriation of the term. Although such fraud is indeed problematic, conflating it with fake news -- truly fabricated content meant to drive traffic or push a political message -- detracts from awareness efforts to combat the threat actual fake news continues to present.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events "Issa wouldn't protect us from a bill that raises premiums and causes 24 million to lose their insurance." - new "Save My Care" ad attacking Rep. Darryl Issa Seven vulnerable Republican lawmakers are being targeted with $1 million in television spots by a liberal group backed by labor and progressive interests.
Two hard-line opponents of illegal immigration who have held leadership posts at two organizations labeled as hate groups have obtained high-level advisory jobs at federal immigration agencies in the Department of Homeland Security. Jon Feere, a former legal policy analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies, or CIS, has been hired as an adviser to Thomas D. Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Homeland Security spokesman David Lapan.
The Senate's top Democrat said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's refusal to release his tax returns is going to make this year's promised overhaul of the tax code "much harder." Sen. Charles Schumer says Trump is opening himself to second guessing about his motives for supporting different policies and that the average American will think he's making changes because "it's good for him."
In late March, Roger Severino was appointed to be the new Director of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights , the office responsible for enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy, security, and breach notification rules as well as civil rights laws pertaining to HHS. Mr. Severino replaces Jocelyn Samuels who led HHS OCR from 2014 until her departure from the office earlier this year.
Not far from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, one expert after another warned Monday about the dangers that rising sea levels pose to Florida's coast. Not that surprising, except this was a Senate committee field hearing challenging the position shared by President Donald Trump and many Republicans in Congress that climate change isn't real.
Eleby, who is homeless, is accused of setting the fire that eventually spread to a load of plastic and fiberglass conduit and ignited the a portion of Interstate 85 that runs over Piedmont Avenue. The interstate collapsed, causing damage that will impact millions of drivers for months to come.