Earlier this week I noted that one-tenth of the Republican health care bill is taken up with a provision that denies Medicaid coverage to lottery winners. I figured it was just Republicans being Republicans, ever watchful for some poor person who’s gaming the system and getting something they don’t deserve.
Day: March 11, 2017
USDA clears Pitt research labs after animal complaint
The care and treatment of animals in research laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh is in full compliance with the Animal Welfare Act and U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations, the university said this week. Pitt issued a news release Thursday on the results of an unannounced USDA inspection from Feb. 28 through March 3 that was in response to a 17-page complaint from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
McCord to star in trial involving alleged state treasury bribery scheme
Former state Treasurer Rob McCord will be the star witness in the trial of a suburban Philadelphia investment adviser whom he secretly recorded in conversations that federal prosecutors say lay out a bribery scheme to land lucrative state treasury contracts, jurors heard Friday. Richard Ireland is charged with 79 money-laundering, wire fraud, mail fraud and conspiracy charges that stem from federal pay-to-play investigations that also ensnared Mr. McCord and a second former state treasurer, Barbara Hafer.
U.S. attorney for La. western district retiring
Stephanie A. Finley, United States Attorney for the western district of Louisiana, announced Friday that she is retiring after 25 years of federal service. Finley began her career with the Department of Justice as an assistant United States attorney in October of 1995.
4 takeaways from demonstration
The anti-Trump protest on Feb. 23 in front of Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s office in Ottawa brought about 100 protesters, most of them progressives but a few tea party and pro-life folks as well. – There’s no evidence of outside money.
Program to provide legal aid to undocumented immigrants
Julie Gonzalez is a U.S. citizen who lives in Gainesville, but her husband Jose Manuel, an undocumented immigrant, is now back in his native Mexico. “I miss my husband,” Gonzalez said.
Muhammad Ali’s son says he was detained again at airport
A bloody, shirtless man with what appeared to be a broken wine bottle turned a balmy evening of soccer practice and batting cages into a scene of chaos and panic. A bloody, shirtless man with what appeared to be a broken wine bottle turned a balmy evening of soccer practice and batting cages into a scene of chaos and panic.
Top Trump confidante admits to speaking privately with…
OCTOBER 08: Political consultant Roger Stone speaks onstage during The New Yorker Festival 2016 – ‘President Trump: Life As We May Know It,’ featuring Max Boot, Amy Davidson, Roger Stone, and Sean Wilentz in conversation with Evan Osnos at MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre on October 8, 2016 in New York City.
People are calling for some undocumented immigrants to be…
On Friday afternoon, twenty-two-year-old Daniela Vargas was released from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Louisiana after her case made headlines across the nation. “I urge you … to ensure the Department of Homeland Security exercises available discretion and looks upon her case favorably,” Thompson wrote.
Trump stumping for AHCA? Democrats arena t worried.
The three-phase Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is intended to end with massive political pressure on Senate Democrats, who’ll face a choice: Vote with them on individual replacement bills, or be blamed for the American Health Care Act’s implementation going awry. The crux of the theory is that 10 Democrats face reelection next year in states won by Trump.
Budget blunder: Proposed cuts would imperil Great Lakes restoration efforts
And, just like all his predecessors did, he needs money to carry out his plans. So begins the process of finding what can be cut and what must be salvaged.
Trumpcare: Different Plan, Same Problems
With his widely followed, and positively reviewed, address to Congress last week, President Trump showed how easy it could be to unite Washington around a big-budget centrist agenda on health care, immigration, taxes, infrastructure and the military. But the continued accusations surrounding his campaign’s alleged Russian connections, and the President’s conspiratorial responses, have insured that the battle lines have only hardened.
Marines set hearing on charges related to Muslim recruit’s death
The family of a Muslim Marine recruit from Michigan who died in a fall at boot camp said Friday they don’t believe the charges announced so far in their son’s death are severe enough for the hazing and abuse he endured. “The charges appear to be insufficient and do not address the magnitude of the torture, assault, abuse, hazing, neglect and maltreatment” to which Raheel Siddiqui, a 20-year-old former high school valedictorian from Taylor, was subjected, his family said through their lawyer, Shiraz Khan, Friday evening.
Number of military suicides still high, but help is on the rise
As the mental health flight commander at Maxwell Air Force Base, she believes in erasing the stigma of mental illness and providing the help needed for people in an Air Force community who fall into depression and who attempt or consider suicide. A 10-day Intensive Outpatient Program she implemented, and which started Monday, is working to do just that, as it is designed for those at a higher risk of suicide or who need more intensive care.
DOD to increase drug testing for military recruits
The Department of Defense will increase its drug testing for new recruits, checking them for the same 26 drugs that are prohibited for active military members. As of April 3, new recruits will be tested for substances such as heroin, codeine, morphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, hydromorphone and oxymorphone along with synthetic cannabinoids and benzodiazepine sedatives.
2 critically ill in San Francisco after drinking toxic tea
A bloody, shirtless man with what appeared to be a broken wine bottle turned a balmy evening of soccer practice and batting cages into a scene of chaos and panic. A bloody, shirtless man with what appeared to be a broken wine bottle turned a balmy evening of soccer practice and batting cages into a scene of chaos and panic.
Editorial: Headless policy on driverless cars
Interpret that to mean a field day for Republicans determined to gut everything from environmental protection to rules that might keep banks and telemarketers from ripping you off. The coming slash-and-burn is one reason the GOP puts up with Trump, who party leaders gleefully hope will carry out their crusade against regulations, which they castigate as “job-killers” and impediments to business.
Trump’s most trusted adviser, Steve Bannon, is an Al-Qaeda ally
Donald Trump’s chief strategist and former Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon shares the same opinion as the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, in that both believe the West is locked in an existential war with Islam. A recent edition of al-Qaeda’s Al Masra newspaper featured Bannon on the cover, with the story about the White House advisor’s perspective on Islam.
Latta: GOP can’t afford to wait on repeal
U.S. Rep. Bob Latta said in an interview with The Blade on Friday he supports the partial Affordable Care Act repeal bill backed by House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Trump. “We gotta get this thing started,” Mr. Latta said.