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A major agriculture bill passed by the U.S. Congress last week could legalize hemp at the federal level, allowing farmers across the country to cultivate hemp, but that doesn't necessarily spell good news for Humboldt County. The bill, which now awaits President Donald Trump's signature, includes a provision that lifts hemp off of a list of federally criminalized drugs.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein arrives in the Capitol for a meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the Russia investigation in May 24. As news broke Monday morning that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was resigning or expecting to be fired , Democrats were quick to call for congressional action to protect the special counsel investigation that Rosenstein has managed. "With Rosenstein's departure there is one less barrier protecting the Mueller investigation from President [Donald] Trump's interference," Florida Rep. Val Demings said in a statement.
Viktor Stevenson said that he had the San Francisco Police Department called on him earlier this week while he was opening his lemonade stand in the Mission District because someone in the neighborhood thought he was breaking into his own business. Viktor Stevenson said that he had the San Francisco Police Department called on him earlier this week while he was opening his lemonade stand in the Mission District because someone in the neighborhood thought Viktor Stevenson's Gourmonade stand on Valencia Street in the Mission District, where a bottle of lemonade costs $8 before tax.
Lawyer Aaron Schlossberg, center, the man who ranted against the people speaking Spanish in a Midtown restaurant, takes a cellphone video of reporters taking his video as he leaves his home in Manhattan, New York on Thursday, May 17, 2018. less Lawyer Aaron Schlossberg, center, the man who ranted against the people speaking Spanish in a Midtown restaurant, takes a cellphone video of reporters taking his video as he leaves his home in Manhattan, New ... more Lawyer Aaron Schlossberg, the man who ranted against the people speaking Spanish in a Midtown restaurant, covers him self with an umbrella to block the photographers and reporters as he leaves his home in Manhattan, New York on Thursday, May 17, 2018.
Embroiled in a new legal dispute after an FBI raid earlier this month, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has dropped a $100 million defamation lawsuit filed against BuzzFeed news, and the head of the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which spearheaded the development of the Steele Dossier, paid for by Democrats in 2016, which made accusations of ties between Russia and President Donald Trump. "Michael Cohen hereby voluntarily dismissed the above-entitled action as to all named Defendants without costs to any party as against the other," Cohen's lawyers stated in a one page filing with a federal court in New York.
As a retired teacher, I disagree strenuously with Anna Mae Maly's assertion that “teachers are owned by the Democratic Party.” About 300,000 individuals teach in California, and their political affiliations reflect the same range as the state's population does. While teachers do not leave their constitutional rights at the classroom door, neither do they “use their classrooms for their personal propaganda and partisan activism garbage.” Teachers have a curriculum to follow and testing to prepare students for, which allows no classroom time for much else.
Washington>> Congressman Jared Huffman released the following statement after joining as a cosponsor of Articles of Impeachment, introduced by Congressman Steve Cohen , the ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice: “Every member of the House of Representatives pledges to support and defend the Constitution of the United States when we are sworn into office.
U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman will be the keynote speaker at the Marin Democratic Party's shrimp boil next month in Marinwood. The Mardi Gras-themed event is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at the community center.
Shortly after Congress sent the federal government spiraling toward a shutdown by failing to pass a continuing funding resolution tonight, North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman sent out a statement blasting Republicans, laying blame for the "sh*tdown" squarely at their feet. Earlier today, Huffman voted against the continuing resolution that passed the House and would have funded the government into mid February and reauthorized the Children's Health Insurance Program, which expired in September and provides insurance for some 9 million children, for the next six years.
Florida Governor Rick Scott and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, announce there will be no new offshore drilling in the State of Florida. Both met at the Tallahassee International Airport, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018.
Rep. Jared Huffman and two other members of Congress have taken the lead in a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke protesting the Trump administration's offshore oil drilling plan. The Trump administration this month announced a proposal to allow drilling in most U.S. continental-shelf waters, including areas of the Atlantic and the Arctic.
Two congressmen from northern California strongly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's government for failing to include relief of California wildfires in its multi-billion-U.S.-dollar budget on Saturday, local media reports said. Rep. Mike Thompson and his fellow Democrat, Jared Huffman, both from North Bay, a subregion of San Francisco Bay Area in northern California on the west U.S. coast, said the victims of wildfires that ripped through northern California in October are "in a time of need, and the administration is supposed to be helping, not playing political games."
Top U.S. House Democrat Nancy Pelosi and five other members of Congress plan to tour wildfire-ravaged Northern California on Saturday as families and communities begin the long process of rebuilding. Pelosi, of San Francisco, will spend a day touring the fire zones and meeting with officials and victims alongside Rep. Mike Thompson, who represents the city of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County, the hardest-hit areas in the fires.
In this Oct. 10, 2017 file photo, the remains of the Signorello Estate winery continue to smolder in Napa, Calif. Top U.S. House Democrat Nancy Pelosi and five other members of Congress plan to tour wildfire-ravaged Northern California on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017, as families and communities begin the long process of rebuilding.
After hearing that some eligible applicants are going without federal assistance in the wake of October's wildfire disaster because of concerns they might expose family members and others to deportation, Rep. Jared Huffman led a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency asking for clarification on the agency's immigration policies.
Several dozen young immigrants shouted down Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the U.S. House, on Monday during an event in San Francisco, following her recent conversations with President Donald Trump over the future of a program that grants many of them legal status. "We are immigrant youth, undocumented and unafraid," they shouted as they overtook an event Pelosi was holding to encourage passing legislation that would give many young immigrants legal status.
In this Oct. 2, 2009 file photo, in California's Westland Water District of the Central Valley, canals carry water to southern California. A new federal audit says the federal government improperly spent tens of millions of dollars on the California water project.
The California Coastal Commission is set to consider today whether to approve Humboldt County's request to open up unused coastal lands around Humboldt Bay to new industries - including cannabis. But county Planning and Building Department Director John Ford said there are several steps and approvals that must take place before a cannabis business could even be considered to open in these areas.
Rep. Jared Huffman has announced his annual district-wide landscape photography competition will start on Aug. 3. Constituents in California's 2nd Congressional District, including Mendocino County, can email an original landscape photo to rephuffmanphotocontest@gmail.com and include their name, hometown and photo location in the body, with the subject “Photo Submission.” One photo submission will be accepted per person, until Aug. 24. “The people of California's 2nd Congressional District live in the most beautiful district in the country,” said Huffman.