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Gov. Rick Scott’s anti-science purge begins: State employee banned for uttering ‘climate change’ A Florida state employee has been reprimanded and told not to come to work after Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) administration banned the use of the terms “climate change” and “global warming.” Earlier this month, reports said that officials in the Scott administration ordered Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) administrators not to use the terms in documents or meetings because they asserted that the climate science behind global warming was not a “true fact.” More
Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
Republicans to back Obama's student loan plan House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More
GOP boycotts health care advisory board House and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More
2024 Candidate Roundtable Discussions On March 16, 2024, at 1 p.m. at Kathmandu restaurant, five candidates on the ballot for the Town of Nederland’s April 2 election sat and engaged in the first of two Roundtable Discussions hosted by ... 03/23/2024 - 11:09 am | View Link
Assessing Claims That U.S. Billionaires Get a Free Ride on Taxes Billionaires are subject to the same income and capital gains taxes as all Americans, and their payments to the IRS make up a significant portion of the country’s tax proceeds. How much do American ... 03/22/2024 - 8:33 am | View Link
Lawmakers question Biden budget as tax experts plan ahead The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing to discuss the Biden administration's recently unveiled budget and tax proposals, as tax experts try to predict what will happen after the election. 03/21/2024 - 1:39 pm | View Link
Congress Should Revisit 2017 Tax Law’s Trillion-Dollar Corporate Rate Cut in 2025 A growing body of research shows that the corporate rate cut has delivered large gains to top earners but done little for everyone else. 03/21/2024 - 1:59 am | View Link
IRS chief zeroes in on wealthy tax cheats in AP interview WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has a message for high-wealth tax cheats who are wrongly deducting private jet travel and otherwise shorting the government on their taxes: Pay your ... 03/20/2024 - 1:31 am | View Link
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said the Republican party is currently threatening democracy and that the nation is undergoing a political shift, USA Today reports.
Said Cheney: “Certainly, what’s happening in the Republican party is dangerous. We now have one of our two major political parties that has abandoned the Constitution.”
She added: “We know Trump tried once not to leave office, and he will have no incentive to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power and to leave office should be selected again.
“Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro told Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Wednesday he had no reason to have sought asylum at the Hungarian embassy, after the court summoned him to explain why he stayed at the diplomatic compound for two nights in February,” Reuters reports.
The White House announced a new rule to curb so-called “junk health insurance,” rolling back a Trump-era expansion of short-term health insurance plans, CNN reports.
“A judge ruled Wednesday that the Georgia Republican Party’s first vice chairman, Brian Pritchard, violated state election laws when he voted nine times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
On Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s website is a campaign event created by a supporter called “the Save RFK Jr. Rally” which demands that he fire his campaign manager — who is RFK’s daughter-in-law — for “promoting a CIA, feminist agenda.”
“Kari Lake, a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona who has amplified former president Donald Trump’s false claims about rigged elections, has decided not to defend statements she made about a top election official in the state’s most populous county who sued her for alleged defamation,” the Washington Post reports.
“Attorneys for Lake, her 2022 campaign for governor and an affiliated nonprofit group on Tuesday asked a judge to begin the process of determining damages as part of a lawsuit brought by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer (R), in his personal capacity.”