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Lowell Sun
July 16, 2018
In fact, he's raised doubts about U.S. demands for Russia to return to ... Pompeo said the United States honors "the citizens of the RussianÃâà...
SpacePolicyOnline.com
July 16, 2018
HOT TOPICS IN PUBLIC POLICY: THE SECOND SPACE AGE, July 18, 2018, DC, ... We have designed this event to fully comply with US Senate Rule ... 41-47, and the U.S. Executive Branch Gift Rules regarding the “widelyÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
July 16, 2018
During his past 12 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of ... Supreme Court, the executive branch released all the internal WhiteÃâà...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
July 16, 2018
By “long-standing practice,” Congress and the executive branch give ... Compare, for example, Mueller's job relative to that of the U.S. attorneyÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
July 16, 2018
... Williamson came to the U.S. in 1973 when he was promoted to the ... Williamson was a member of the executive branch of the Academy ofÃâà...
LifeZette
July 16, 2018
U.S. Needs New Justice Who Understands Immigration Law ... or the executive branch may exercise according to their sole discretion, without ... alien to the United States are, under the Plenary Power Doctrine, not subject toÃâà...
ZDNet
July 2, 2018
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been advised by the Executive Branch to deny China Mobile entry to the United StatesÃâà...
RealClearPolitics
April 13, 2018
In fact, Madison wrote very specifically, he said, "The executive branch is the branch most prone to war. Therefore, we have with studied care vested that authority into the ... We are building roads and bridges and schools for people that hate us. It is not in our national interest". That's a direct quote. So, theÃâà...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
United States District Judge Manuel Real in Los Angeles issued a permanent, national injunction against the federal funding rules, giving the city an important win in a long-running legal battle with .... He added that Congress, not the executive branch, has the authority to control government spending.
Sierra Sun Times
April 13, 2018
(a) The United States Postal Service (USPS) accounts for almost half of global mail volume and is regularly cited as the Federal agency with the highest public approval rating. However, a number of factors, including the steep decline in First-Class Mail volume, coupled with legal mandates that compel theÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 13, 2018
"The only branch of power responsible for international relations is the executive branch, that is why the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should consider the ... In December, US president Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announced his decision to move the US embassy in IsraelÃâà...
WAMU 88.5
April 13, 2018
The United States' popularity in Latin America has dropped sharply since Trump took office. A Gallup poll found just 16 percent of the region's residents approve of the president's performance. Trump has accused immigrants from Mexico and Central America of bringing crime and drugs to the U.S. He'sÃâà...
Jacksonville Journal-Courier
April 13, 2018
Also, those from the executive branch who testify before Congressional committees know full well that Congress cannot have them arrested or charged ... There it was, in black and white: Article II, Section 4: “The president, vice president, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from officeÃâà...
Reno Public Radio
April 11, 2018
However, they are still the number two person in the executive branch, just like the U.S. Vice President, and in that way, the position could be seen as a stepping stone to the Governor's Mansion. That comes with a caveat, though, that in the modern electoral era, only two LG's have ever become Governor:Ãâà...
The Hill
April 3, 2018
... attorney general of the United States and counsel to the president in the George W. Bush administration. He is now the Doyle Rogers distinguished professor of law and dean of the Belmont University College of Law. Patrick Glen is a senior attorney in the civil division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Reason (blog)
April 3, 2018
... the Director of the CFPB is the single most powerful official in the entire United States Government, at least when measured in terms of unilateral power," Kavanaugh [right?] concluded. That ruling was later overturned by the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and it could be on its way to the U.S. SupremeÃâà...
New York Times
April 3, 2018
At the same time, we know from documents that have recently been released by the F.B.I. that the executive branch is overseeing the Department of Justice and the F.B.I., who are following Black Lives Matter protesters. I think it allows us to see how these televangelists, who make connections with theÃâà...
Diginomica
April 3, 2018
The CLOUD Act – Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data – allows U.S. law enforcement officers to force technology companies to hand over user data regardless of the storage location. It also permits the DoJ, the State Department and other members of U.S. Government executive branch to enter intoÃâà...
The Intercept
April 3, 2018
But after World War II, the executive branch staged a breakout. President Harry Truman called the Korean War, which began in 1950, a “police action,” and sent hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops to Korea without any kind of formal approval from Congress. During this police action, the U.S. used moreÃâà...
Diginomica
April 3, 2018
The CLOUD Act – Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data – allows U.S. law enforcement officers to force technology companies to hand over user data regardless of the storage location. It also permits the DoJ, the State Department and other members of U.S. Government executive branch to enter intoÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
April 3, 2018
Homeland Security discovers possible phone spying in Washington, D.C. ... For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and ... It could also lead to conflict with U.S. intelligence and law enforcement.
Barron's
April 2, 2018
And he's also yelling at tech bellwether Amazon.com (AMZN) again because it's getting too good a deal from the U.S. Postal Service. (If only he were actually running the executive branch of the U.S. government and could do something about it!) Amazon is down about 1.75% in premarket trading.
Motherboard
April 2, 2018
Shareholders have earned a big payday; former Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will earn about $126 billion from the sale, making him the richest man in the United States. He will presumably take a long vacation. The US government has nationalized industries before: During World War I, the USÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 2, 2018
Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director at the nonprofit U.S. Public Interest Research Group, said Mulvaney's proposals would take away the ... down the law's "for cause" provision, meaning that the president could remove the bureau's director for any reason, as with other executive branch appointees.
Vox
April 2, 2018
The call is noteworthy for its substance — Putin hasn't visited the US since 2015 — and for its timing. At the time of ... On March 26, six days after the call, the United States and about 20 other countries would join Britain in expelling Russian officials, leading to a total of 150 Russians being sent back home.
Scranton Times-Tribune
April 2, 2018
The state constitution, like the U.S. Constitution, holds the legislative, executive and judiciary to be equal branches of government in our representative democracy. They obviously ... Now, a group of bills has been introduced to usurp the regulatory power that rests with the executive branch. Although theÃâà...
Vox
March 24, 2018
That would let the head of the executive branch essentially take a red pen to legislators' work, editing out the parts he doesn't like. “To prevent the omnibus situation from ever happening again,” Trump said, “I'm calling on Congress to give me a line-item veto for a government spending bills.” There's onlyÃâà...
The Intercept
March 24, 2018
The United States government is also well aware of these abuses. ... What's more, the Trump administration has cut funding from the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, which supported efforts to strengthen Mexico's criminal justice system, while U.S. military fundsÃâà...
New York Times
March 24, 2018
Against that backdrop, law enforcement officials have revived talks inside the executive branch over whether to ask Congress to enact legislation mandating the access mechanisms. The Trump White House circulated a memo last month among security and economic agencies outlining ways to think aboutÃâà...
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
March 24, 2018
Joni Ernst is proposing to move executive branch agencies out of the Washington “bubble insulated from common sense” to parts of the country where the cost ... to Congress and the White House would be exempted from her legislation, which is a companion to a piece introduced in the House by U.S. Rep.
Politico
March 24, 2018
The memorandum, which drew swift condemnation from gender rights groups, states that while the secretary of defense and other executive branch ... It added that “the Secretary of Homeland Security concurs with these policies with respect to the U.S. Coast Guard,” which would also be affected by theÃâà...
New York Times
March 23, 2018
Mr. Bolton complained on Fox News that “a munchkin in the executive branch” was responsible for the leak and called it “completely unacceptable.'' ... “The person who will be first in first out of the Oval Office on national security matters passionately believes the U.S. should launch pre-emptive war againstÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 21, 2018
In on exchange, Freddy Aragon, the head of the government agency regulating firearms, tells Mamani that he stands to pocket 5 percent of future public works projects authorized by the executive branch in his district. In another, Kuczynski's lawyer hands the waffling lawmaker the transportation minister'sÃâà...
Roll Call
March 21, 2018
... President Donald Trump on Tuesday retained the expanded war powers he inherited from his post-9/11 predecessors, as the Senate shot down a measure that would have ordered him to cease most U.S. military operations in Yemen. Trump scored a victory on behalf of the executive branch's ability toÃâà...
Politico
March 20, 2018
THINK OF THIS: Could a snowstorm that hits the D.C. area push the government close to a shutdown? .... The package could be applied to more than 100 products, which Trump argues were developed by using trade secrets that China stole from U.S. companies or forced them to hand over in exchange forÃâà...
CCN
March 20, 2018
President Donald Trump's executive order banning US residents from engaging in transactions related to Venezuela's “Petro” cryptocurrency could give the ... Indeed, the IEEPA gives the executive branch the authority to not only regulate and prohibit not only transactions in foreign exchange but also theÃâà...
New York Times
March 20, 2018
Tuesday's debate ultimately turned on two separate issues: whether the United States forces in Yemen were, in fact, active participants in hostilities and how lawmakers should confront and potentially curtail foreign policy set by the executive branch. Proponents of the resolution to rein in AmericanÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 20, 2018
Last Friday, President Trump signed into law the Taiwan Travel Act, which makes it a U.S. policy to allow high-level meetings between Taiwan and U.S. ... be a proper part of their congressional duty to oversee that the executive branch is “faithfully executing” the laws of the United States (including this Act).
Digital Trends
March 19, 2018
The U.S. executive branch issued an executive order prohibiting the use or purchase of Venezuela's Petro cryptocurrency, claiming the currency was ... “All transactions related to, provision of financing for, and other dealings in, by a United States person or within the United States, any digital currency,Ãâà...
OCRegister
March 19, 2018
While Congress has largely ceded this responsibility in favor of blank checks to the executive branch, it's time that Congress reassert this authority. With S.J. Res 54, Congress has the opportunity to end American complicity in one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world today and perhaps begin theÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 12, 2018
The bill stems from then-U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz's departure from Congress last year, and lawmakers' ensuing battle with the governor, who set up a special election to pick a replacement. Lawmakers wanted to have a say in that but were powerless to act when Herbert refused their request for a special session.
The American Conservative
March 12, 2018
Now that key senators have introduced measures that would end U.S.-aided hostilities in Yemen, we can expect that a coordinated backlash from the military ... Typically they will purport to demonstrate catastrophic danger or damage to the United States if Congress ends a use of the United States ArmedÃâà...
Newsweek
March 12, 2018
The framers of the Constitution divided the U.S. government into three equal branches: The executive branch, the legislative branch and the judicial branch. ... "As Attorney General of the United States, I am shocked by the actions of certain judges who fail to respect the constitutional responsibilities of theÃâà...
MyCentralJersey.com
March 10, 2018
Lance also said that Russian President "Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime tries to sow discontent" and that the "United States must respond forcefully to Russian interference ... The legislation targeted officials of the Russian government who took part in foreign interference during the 2016 U.S. elections.
U.S. News & World Report
March 10, 2018
The Governor's Appointments Office does have authority to choose employees for certain positions, including executive branch employees, direct or ... "Approximately a year ago we received an email telling us that the procedure for hiring at-will staff was changing," said Isabelle Horon, former director of theÃâà...
The Hankyoreh
March 10, 2018
1 meeting with US steel industry CEOs, China and the EU strongly protested the measures and warned of direct action in response. Many members of the US executive branch and Congress tried to dissuade him. National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, one of Trump's top economic advisors,Ãâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 10, 2018
The White House is seen as the sun sets in the third week of the new Trump administration in Washington, U.S., February 7, 2017. ... In its letter, the White House said it would "update" the committee at an "appropriate time" on the progress an Executive Branch working group has made to review andÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 10, 2018
This context is important for understanding the Castle letter, which makes clear the executive branch's view that the joint resolution will have no legal effect on current U.S. activities in Yemen if enacted but on narrower legal grounds than some fear. Further, while the joint resolution's significance is likely toÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 9, 2018
This context is important for understanding the Castle letter, which makes clear the executive branch's view that the joint resolution will have no legal effect on current U.S. activities in Yemen if enacted but on narrower legal grounds than some fear. Further, while the joint resolution's significance is likely toÃâà...
Vox
March 9, 2018
His reason: Foreign countries' current trade practices with the United States are a threat to national security. ... collect taxes, duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States,” and regulate trade between the US and other countries.
