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The General Assembly will again consider installing electronic tolls on state highways, renewing a debate that's becoming an annual ritual at the state Capitol . State Rep. Henry Genga , D-East Hartford, has submitted a bill that would bring electronic tolls to an unspecified number of highways and state Sen. Ted Kennedy , D-Branford, a rising star in the Democratic Party , is pushing the idea at various forums.
The state of California has a 53-member House of Representatives delegation and, like all other states, two senators. Here is a list of all 55 members of the California Congressional delegation, and whether or not they are planning to attend Friday's inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States.
After a relatively easy confirmation hearing, Ben Carson will get a vote on his nomination to be secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development next week. The Senate Banking Committee, headed by Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, announced Tuesday evening that the vote would be held the morning of Jan. 24. Carson, a former neurosurgeon without experience in government or housing, demonstrated an ability to quickly pick up knowledge and also to diplomatically answer senators' tough questions at his hearing.
Senate Republicans offered a sharp rebuke of President Obama 's decision to commute the remainder of Chelsea Manning's sentence, which comes only three days before he is set to leave office. While speaking to reporters at the Capitol soon after the news emerged, Senate Republicans condemned the decision, which came seven years after Manning was convicted and earned a 35-year sentence for leaking sensitive information about American military activities to WikiLeaks.
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is joining CNN as a senior political commentator, according to Adweek , a trade publication covering the media and advertising industry. Granholm, a Democrat, is one of nine political commentators and contributors added by the cable news network for 2017 as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office.
But the boot-wearers weren't a group of slick-talking lobbyists meeting with a congressman or a cadre of local politicians making a bold fashion statement. They were a gaggle of nearly 50 kids waiting to jump and swing for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
Rep. Jim Banks, R-3rd, said Tuesday he and his family have not decided whether they will have a residence in Washington, D.C. Banks, who joined Congress this month, told reporters at an open house at his Fort Wayne district office that he will keep his home in Columbia City.
Several Kansas lawmakers are seeking to weaken a law that will allow concealed guns on state college campuses starting this summer. A bill introduced Tuesday would permanently exempt several types of health care facilities and colleges from the law that allows guns in public buildings.
In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., accompanied by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
President-elect Donald Trump has said on more than one occasion that his closest relationships are with his family. "I have a lot of good relationships.
John Barrasso GOP chairman plans 'wholesale change' at EPA Overnight Energy: Former Exxon chief Tillerson takes the hot seat Republicans scramble on ObamaCare replacement plan MORE , the new chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, wrote in a Fox News opinion piece Tuesday that he and Scott Pruitt, Trump's nominee to head the EPA, will implement a major turnaround at the agency. Barrasso outlined the EPA's failures under Obama, including the Gold King Mine disaster in Colorado and the Flint water crisis in Michigan, as well as expensive rules.
Megan McArdle is a Bloomberg View columnist. She wrote for the Daily Beast, Newsweek, the Atlantic and the Economist and founded the blog Asymmetrical Information.
Many of them resent the FBI director's election-eve intrusion into the presidential election, when he restarted an inquiry into Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server then quickly produced nothing. "He should pack his things and go," said Representative Hank Johnson of Georgia.
Laurie Anderson is subject of a lengthy new piece in The Guardian , where she talks about her late husband Lou Reed, Trump, and more. Here's a particularly great excerpt: "Lou is the most wonderful person I've ever met and I think of him all the time and he's completely inspiring to me.
In , I applied the same analysis to show that Trump also didn't do especially well in the battleground states but won because the handful of states he flipped narrowly from the Democrats were almost all large states. In , I looked at turnout - specifically, what percentage of the voting-eligible population voted for each candidate - and concluded that, while Trump did better than past GOP nominees in some states, he still Today: why it's reasonable to believe that another Republican nominee in 2016 would have collected more of the votes Trump left on the table, and some conclusions about the relative importance of trends, candidates, campaigns, and demographics.
Billionaire philanthropist and public education backer Eli Broad is urging senators to vote against President Donald Trump's pick for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, saying she is “unprepared and unqualified for the position.” Broad writes in a letter to senators that if DeVos were confirmed, “much of the good work that has been accomplished to improve public education for all of America's children could be undone.” Broad says the country needs an education secretary “who believes in public education and the need to keep public schools public.” DeVos is a major advocate of school choice programs, and Democrats and labor unions have protested her candidacy.
Justice Department officials have completed their review of more than 16,000 clemency petitions filed by federal prisoners over the past two years and sent their last recommendations to President Barack Obama, who is set to grant hundreds more commutations to nonviolent drug offenders during his final days in office.   "Everyone has killed themselves here to get the final recommendations to the president," Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates said in an interview.
Donald Trump is threatening German automakers with a hefty import tax if they plan to sell cars in the U.S. that are built in other countries, repeating a claim that has shaken the global automotive industry. The German newspaper Bild quoted Trump as saying: "If you want to build cars in the world, then I wish you all the best.
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