The Environmental Protection Agency today, acting in response to a lawsuit by the Natural Resources Defense Council, reinstated a rule that will protect the public from more than five tons of mercury discharges each year from dental offices across the nation. The
It’s Official: Ana Galindo-Marrone of the US Office of Special Counsel has issued a ruling that White House Director of Social Media Dan Scavino, Jr. violated the Hatch Act, when he tweeted as a White House official.
Tired of getting nowhere with convincing Senator McConnell to allow a vote on a bill to force disclosure of Trump’s financial holdings, Senator RonWyden placed a hold on Trump’s Treasury nominee until the administration discloses Trump’s financial dealings w/ Russia:
Dear Democratic Colleague, It has been reported that days before President Trump fired Comey, the FBI Director had asked for more resources for the Russian investigation. Given Director Comey’s confirmation of the Trump-Russia inquiry, the President’s actions raise questions about whether this
Who wrote this for his signature? Did he even bother to read it or is he functionally illiterate? Read paragraph #2. That is truly bizarre.
REP. LIEU LEADS LETTER TO DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL ROSENSTEIN REQUESTING APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL Today, Representative Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County), along with Representatives Kathleen Rice and Stacey Plaskett, sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein formally
Senators to Trump: ‘These monuments have been built upon the support of local communities and are economic drivers across the United States’ Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall led a group of 31 Democratic senators in condemning President Trump’s executive order which threatens
Today, at the only scheduled committee hearing to review Chairman Hensarling’s Wrong Choice Act 2.0, a bill that would destroy the most important parts of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the
There’s an excellent piece in today’s Washington Post regarding the tracking for key appointments filled thus far by the Trump administration. I can’t help but compare and contrast Trump with his Republican majorities in both houses with Obama’s 2008 Democrat majorities in
