OnPolitics Today: Pruitt won’t do it Source: Cox Media Group
Two thousand. That's roughly the number of families thought separated at the border as of last week under President Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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Supreme Court largely upholds new NC districts in gerrymandering case
The U.S. Supreme Court voted last week to uphold most of North Carolina's newly drawn state legislative districts, marking the end of one of the state's gerrymandering lawsuits. The per curiam ruling ends a long-running battle over the 2011 state elections map-which was drawn by Republican lawmakers-and its court-ordered successor map.
Senator gauges federal programs’ work with small businesses
A U.S. senator from Idaho held an oversight hearing in Anchorage to receive feedback from Alaska business leaders on Small Business Administration programs. The Alaska Journal of Commerce reports Republican Sen. Jim Risch, chairman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, aimed for the hearing last week to gather insight into how and if the programs are helping businesses navigate the federal contracting system.
EPA’s New Chief Is Former Coal Lobbyist, Senate Staffer
The new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is a former coal industry lobbyist who helped lead an industry fight against regulations that protect Americans' health and address climate change. Andrew Wheeler, the No.
Pruitt’s Exit Is Deserved, But Won’t Change the Trump Administration
Note: President Donald Trump today announced he would accept the resignation of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. Scott Pruitt was the stuff of late-night parody, but he also was emblematic of the Trump administration - its corruption, its deadly deregulation, its handover of total power to the very industries that agencies are regulating and of course its unprecedented and pervasive ethical failures.
Pruitt’s Departure Welcome, But Overdue
Following a series of scandalous revelations about his conduct in office, Scott Pruitt will no longer serve as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency . His departure is a positive step, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists-not just because of his personal corruption but because of how his actions have violated the mission of the agency.
Good Riddance, Scott Pruitt
"In an administration that is notorious for its corrupt approach to governing, Scott Pruitt's shamelessly self-enriching antics actually stood out. Pruitt's systematic attack on the EPA itself, his devotion to polluting industries, and his disdain for American public health and environmental protections made him an unfit leader of the agency.
TSA-Approved ways to shorten the airport screening line
In this June 29, 2018, file photo, people wait in line to check in at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. he summer air travel season is shaping up to be the busiest ever, which could mean lengthy lines at U.S. airport security checkpoints.
OnPolitics Today: Pruitt won’t do it
Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt resigns under a torrent of scandals. Also on Thursday: Trump's Supreme Court finalists .
Scholars dismantle the myth policing trans kids’ genders
Experts push back on a number of flawed studies and claims about the desistance myth, popular with parents eager to stop their transgender children from transitioning. As debate rages over how best to care for children who are gender nonconforming, a group of Canadian scholars are working to change the way families and care providers respond.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigns
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt walks during an Independence Day picnic for military families on the South Lawn of the White House July 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. President Trump tweeted that he had accepted Pruitt's resignation but added that "within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this."
Connecticut environmentalists hail Pruitt’s fall
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on April 26. President Trump tweeted Thursday, July 5, he accepted the resignation of Pruitt. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on April 26. President Trump tweeted Thursday, July 5, he accepted the resignation of Pruitt.
3 judges top Trump’s Supreme Court nominee list
President Donald Trump is closing in on his next Supreme Court nominee, with three federal judges leading the competition to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Trump's top contenders for the vacancy at this time are federal appeals judges Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Raymond Kethledge, said a person familiar with Trump's thinking who was not authorized to speak publicly.
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster). President Donald Trump boards Air Force…
California can limit police cooperation with immigration officials and require inspections of detention facilities but can't enforce a key part of a third state sanctuary law barring private employers from allowing immigration officials on their premises without a warrant, a U.S. judge ruled Thursday. The decision came in a lawsuit filed against the state by the Trump administration seeking to block all three laws.
McConnell toured a hemp processing plant in Louisville on Thursday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says it's "absurd" that the U.S. imports hemp products but puts severe restrictions on American-grown hemp. The Kentucky Republican is looking to change that by legalizing hemp in the next federal farm bill.
Scott Pruitt’s replacement expected to carry on Trump’s anti-regulatory agenda at EPA
With a top coal lobbyist stepping in to serve as acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency , few people are expecting Scott Pruitt's resignation to slow down the Trump administration's efforts to deal a knock-out blow to the agency's ability to protect the environment. President Trump on Thursday named EPA deputy administrator Andrew Wheeler - whose beliefs on environmental protection are as radical as Pruitt's - to serve as acting administrator of the agency.
Phillip Tutor: President Trump’s Alabama slammer
Standing before a portrait of George Washington, President Donald Trump announces about $60 billion worth of annual tariffs on Chinese imports, at the White House in Washington, March 22, 2018. If President Trump loves Alabama, which he says he does, and if Alabamians by and large love him back, why then is he kicking us in the shins? This isn't about immigration.
Congressional Democrats and Republicans join hands to celebrate Scott Pruitt resignation
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Environment Subcommittee in this April 26, 2018, file photo. CREDIT: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Democrats and Republicans in Congress joined virtual hands Thursday to celebrate the resignation of Scott Pruitt, the embattled administrator of President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency.
Chris Murphy kicks off annual walk across Connecticut
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy , waving to an assembled crowd, completes his more than 100-mile A'Walk Across ConnecticutA' walk at Rogers Park in Danbury shortly after noon on Thursday, August 17, 2017. U.S. Senator Chris Murphy , waving to an assembled crowd, completes his more than 100-mile A'Walk Across ConnecticutA' walk at Rogers Park in Danbury shortly after noon on Thursday, August 17, 2017.
Big-name charter school backers donate to key governor races
Prominent charter school supporters are dishing out campaign money, as key gubernatorial races in several states have now begun in earnest. June primary contests set up a number of state battles for governor in the midterm elections this November, with both Democratic and Republican candidates that could change how public resources flow into charter and private schools in the coming years.