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Senate Republicans re-elected Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Wednesday to be majority leader next year, keeping the tough legislative tactician at the forefront when the new Congress begins working on Donald Trump's agenda. The chamber's Democrats replaced their departing leader with Sen. Chuck Schumer, meaning the New Yorker will be Washington's most powerful Democrat as the party confronts a Republican-dominated government.
The International Bottled Water Association today announced that Terry Clark, chief operating officer of Alaska Glacial Products LLC, based in Anchorage, has won its prestigious Shayron Barnes-Selby / IBWA Advocacy Award. Mr. Clark was handed the award at IBWA's Annual General Meeting as part of the 2016 IBWA Annual Business Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard said Tuesday that he won't pursue an expansion of Medicaid in 2017 after a discussion with Vice President-elect Mike Pence. The South Dakota governor said in a statement that his decision is based on a Monday meeting in which he and Pence talked about the Trump administration's plans for repealing or reforming the Affordable Care Act.
With President-Elect Donald Trump expected to name a new U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, the guessing game has begun for a replacement for Deirdre M. Daly, a Fairfield resident, according to the Connecticut Law Tribune. Daly was appointed by President Barack Obama in May 2014.
Sharlaine LaClair, a Democrat and Lummi tribal member, ran for the Washington State House of Representatives in 2016. She lost to incumbent Luanne Van Werven, a Republican.
Kevin O'Connor, the general counsel for Steven A. Cohen's investment firm, is overseeing staff picks for the Justice Department as a member of President-Elect Donald Trump's transition team, according to a chart obtained by Bloomberg. O'Connor's employer, Point72 Asset Management, is the successor to Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors, which was the subject of one of the largest insider trading cases in recent years, though he wasn't there at the time.
Oregon has plenty to lose when it comes to President-elect Donald Trump's vow to change the nation's health care system. His surprise victory threatens state officials' hope of plugging a looming budget hole with $1.25 billion in federal health care reform payments, and his vow to immediately repeal Obamacare creates uncertainty for more than 470,000 Oregonians who received coverage or subsidies under the law.
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White, shown at a press conference in 2015, says she will step down in January. Mary Jo White, the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will step down in January, a move that leaves the future direction of the regulatory agency more uncertain than ever.
During their private White House meeting on Thursday, Mr. Obama walked his successor through the duties of running the country, and Mr. Trump seemed surprised by the scope, said people familiar with the meeting. Following Trump's meeting Thursday at the White House with the president, several Obama officials privately noted the extent to which Trump and his staff seemed unprepared to discuss basic aspects of staffing a new administration and daunted by the extent of the challenges ahead Kushner's [Trump's son-in-law] presence at the White House on Thursday drew notice from Obama's staff when he asked, as they toured the West Wing, how many of the individuals there would remain into the next administration.
If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his plan to deport the millions of undocumented immigrants he claims have criminal records, Portland's policy is to cooperate. Although Maine's largest city historically has been welcoming to immigrants and has taken steps to protect them , it lacks the policies of so-called sanctuary cities.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White plans to step down around the same time President Barack Obama exits the Oval Office, the agency said on Monday. Her departure will cap a nearly four-year tenure marked by regulatory and enforcement milestones, as well as internal discord over Wall Street rules.
Congressional Republicans are looking for the quickest ways to tear down Obamacare following Donald Trump's election as U.S. president, including rapidly confirming a new health secretary who could recast regulations while waiting for lawmakers to pass sweeping repeal legislation. Trump's victory on Tuesday means Republicans will control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives.
"What people don't realize is, because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke." - House Speaker Paul D. Ryan , interview with Fox News Channel, Nov. 10 Our eyebrows went up when we saw this quote from Ryan.
Donald Trump won fair and square and, as Hillary Clinton said in her concession speech, is owed an open mind and a chance to lead. It is therefore incumbent upon conservatives who have been highly critical of Trump to think through how to make a success of the coming years of Republican rule.
Obamacare repeal is one Trump's few proposals amounting to more than a detail-free promise of something Yuge. It's also one of the few areas of wholehearted agreement between him and GOP congressional leadership.
Even before Donald Trump chooses a Supreme Court nominee, the new president can take steps to make several contentious court cases go away. Legal challenges involving immigration, climate change, cost-free contraceptive care and transgender rights all could be affected, without any help from Congress.
Listen, we'll come right out and say it. There's an upside to all of the spoiled brat ProgNazis behaving like spoiled brat ProgNazis, and that is that no amount of paid for propaganda, law and order campaigns and thousands upon thousands of columns, posts and letters could ever prove our Imperial point as well as they do themselves.
Even before Donald Trump chooses a Supreme Court nominee, the new president can take steps to make several contentious court cases go away. Legal challenges involving immigration, climate change, cost-free contraceptive care and transgender rights all could be affected, without any help from Congress.
Over the last few years, I have heard time and time again about the new rules and regulations that are being piled on the backs of our nation's small businesses and their hard working employees. They aren't wrong that this it has been a regulatory avalanche: an average of 81 new major rules have been announced by the Obama Administration annually, including a total of 43 major regulations with more than $100 billion in cost.
New Hampshire's new U.S. Senator, Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., talks during an interview with the Associated Press in her office Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in Concord, N.H. New Hampshire's new U.S. Senator, Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., talks during an interview with the Associated Press in her office Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in Concord, N.H. CONCORD, N.H. - Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan chose to run for U.S. Senate to help protect and advance New Hampshire's work on Medicaid expansion, women's health care and a slew of other issues. "I am sure I can find common ground with members of the other party in the Senate as well as President Trump," she told The Associated Press on Friday.