WA: New Ferry Director Young and Passionate
Forty-year-old Amy Scarton became director Feb. 1, bumping interim boss Elizabeth Kosa back to her No. 2 staff chief position.
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Morning Digest: Which Nevada Democrat will challenge the Senate’s most vulnerable Republican?
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according... **NOTE: THE FORM LETTER IS BLANK. WE WILL ACHIEVE MAXIMUM IMPACT WITH UNIQUE LETTERS.
Trump playing catch-up to fill top government posts
With Senate confirmation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, President Donald Trump filled another important post in his new government. Only 685 to go.
Judges’ response to Trump criticism: Silence
Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch meets with Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch meets with Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The Right Can’t Defend Trump’s Behavior
By now you may have noticed the difficulty many conservatives have defending everything President Trump does and says. I'm not just referring to the big policy moves, most of which conservatives can support fairly easily .
Short Circuit: Bill Aims to Deep-Six 9th
How big is the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals? The San-Francisco-based circuit is so big that it represents nine states, including Nevada, 20 percent of the U.S. population and 40 percent of the nation's land mass. It's so big that Congress has looked at bills to split the circuit since 1941, and it's so big that none of those measures have succeeded.
The Latest: Senate confirms Sessions as attorney general
The 52-47 vote broke largely along party lines and capped weeks of divisive battles over Sessions, an early supporter of Donald Trump and one of the Senate's most conservative Republicans. Democrats laced into Sessions over his ties to Trump and his record on civil rights and immigration.
Perriello comes out against pipeline and, in a shift, offshore drilling
Former congressman Tom Perriello, a Democrat running for governor of Virginia, announced his opposition to the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. RICHMOND - Another contender for Virginia governor took aim at energy suppliers on Wednesday, coming out against two proposed natural gas pipelines while swearing off campaign donations from utility giant Dominion Virginia Power.
The unlikely champions of a carbon-tax plan: Republicans
You wouldn't know it by looking at Congress or the White House, but the GOP isn't in complete lockstep when it comes to climate change denial. The deniers just happen to be the ones who hold all the political power within the party.
Carbon tax push from former GOP officials faces uphill slog
President Donald Trump sits at his desk after a meeting with Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, left, and members of his staff in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. President Donald Trump sits at his desk after a meeting with Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, left, and members of his staff in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017.
1902 fistfight gave rise to arcane rule that silenced Warren
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. reacts to being rebuked by the Senate leadership and accused of impugning a fellow senator, Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington Warren was barred from saying anything more on the Senate floor about Sessions after she quoted from an old letter from Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow about Sessions.
Democrats, a take a chill pill,a you arena t winning anytime soon, Rahm Emanuel says
Democrats need to "take a chill pill" because they aren't going to have national power anytime soon, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says. "It ain't gonna happen in 2018," Emanuel said Monday at Stanford's Graduate School of Business in California, according to the Chigaco Tribune .
Republican Introduces One-Sentence Bill To End Education Department
Representative Thomas Massie introduced a bill on Tuesday thatwhich would abolish the federal Department of Education. The bill, just one sentence long, reads "The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018."
This May 23, 2016, file photo, shows the northernmost
The maker of Patagonia has a message for Utah government officials: If you want big outdoor business, act like it. Patagonia pulls out of Utah outdoor show amid Bears Ears National Monument battle The maker of Patagonia has a message for Utah government officials: If you want big outdoor business, act like it.
Marco Rubio, GOP Senators Won’t Let Elizabeth Warren Read a Coretta Scott King Letter
Elizabeth Warren stepped onto the Senate floor last night with a simple plan: Read a letter by the late civil rights icon Coretta Scott King criticizing attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions. Given Sessions' incendiary record on racial justice, King's opinion was quite relevant to the debate on whether he should be America's top law enforcement official.
The Latest: Trump asserts he has right to enact travel ban
He tells a group of police chiefs that his immigration order was "done for the security of our nation." He says the order was written "beautifully" and was within his executive authority.
A 21st-century Glass-Steagall? It’s called the Volcker Rule
During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump called for a 21st-century Glass-Steagall Act. While that Depression-era law required the complete separation of commercial and investment banking, it is unclear exactly what now-President Trumps envisions in a modern version.
Sen. Sessions on track for confirmation as attorney general
In this Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Most Americans don’t want “religious freedom” laws…
A majority of Americans oppose denying services to LGBT individuals in the name of religion, according to a new poll from the . Sixty-one percent of respondents were against giving faith-based groups or private individuals the religious exemption to, say, refuse to cater a lesbian wedding, or to refuse to sign the marriage certificates of same-sex couples, as Kim Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Ky., made national headlines for doing in 2015.
Bipartisan US lawmakers urge Trump to sanction Venezuela
A bipartisan group of 34 U.S. lawmakers has sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to step up pressure on Venezuela's government by immediately sanctioning officials responsible for corruption and human rights abuses, The Associated Press has learned. The letter was partly prompted by an AP investigation, which it cites, that found corruption in Venezuela's food imports.