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18 Nov 2016, 7:13 am
The policy is in some ways far more rigid than President Barack Obama’s groundbreaking lobbyist ban. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 7:37 pm
Barack Obama has led international environmental-protection efforts; Donald Trump plans to oppose them. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 3:02 pm
The advantage to reconciliation is that passage of the legislation only requires a simple majority in the Senate making it impossible for the minority party to filibuster it; the disadvantage is that provisions in budget reconciliation must expire at the end of the budget window, usually a ten-year period (the 2012 Bush tax cuts were temporary and led to the deal with President Barack Obama to make some of the 2001 brackets permanent) and provisions that have no budgetary… [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 5:14 am
While President Barack Obama held out hope that the TPP could be salvaged during the “lame duck session” of Congress that occurs immediately after the election, his administration was quickly forced to concede that the deal has become politically toxic and stands no chance of passage. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 4:22 am
"Donald Trump's election has triggered a whiplash-inducing role reversal in D.C. legal circles, as liberals who spent the past eight years defending President Barack Obama's use of his executive authority prepare to challenge Trump's plans on issues like immigration, the environment and transgender rights, while conservatives who railed against Obama for acting unilaterally on those fronts seem ready to back the new president's moves. [read post]
16 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm
Republicans at some point noticed that the Constitution does not specify what counts as advice or consent, and there certainly is nothing requiring them to hold a hearing or take a vote on President Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland.To get a sense of why this is such a surprisingly difficult constitutional question, consider what could have happened if Hillary Clinton had won the electoral vote and had faced a Republican blockade of her judicial nominations. [read post]
16 Nov 2016, 1:06 pm
The GOP pointed out that the FCC halted major rulemakings eight years ago after the election of Barack Obama when prompted by a similar request by Democrats. [read post]
16 Nov 2016, 3:57 am
” But the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times urges the Senate to forestall that eventuality by confirming Garland before the end of President Barack Obama’s term, arguing that by waiting for a more conservative nominee in the upcoming Trump administration, Sen. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm
Some Trump voters also voted for Barack Obama in the last two presidential elections.In the coming years, I intend to criticize Trump and the Republican Congress unflinchingly. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 5:19 pm
For example, in the 114th Congress (2015-2016), President Barack Obama has vetoed five CRA disapproval resolutions presented to him by Congress. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 10:02 am
Fast forward to today when overnight in commentary released by China's communist party mouthpiece, Xinhua, which usually is a conduit for the official of the politburo, token author Chen Shilei took a vicious stab at Barack Obama, mocking his trip abroad, and saying that Obama's last overseas visit while in office, "which became a last-minute conciliatory trip after Donald Trump's victory in the presidential elections, will in the end reassure nobody. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 9:40 am
US President Barack Obama on Monday acknowledged [press release] the difficulties he has encountered trying to shut down the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, blaming his failure on congressional restrictions. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 7:16 am
President Barack Obama had nominated Solomon--who had then been serving as Acting General Counsel after the General Counsel had resigned--to serve as General Counsel, but the Senate had not acted on the nomination. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 5:30 am
“Some of the Gulf elites hope that, as a tough-talking Republican, he will be harder on Iran than Barack Obama...Conversely, the revolutionary establishment in Tehran welcomes Trump’s election because it thinks this will accelerate what it sees as inevitable US decline,” she wrote in The Guardian. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 7:56 pm
President Barack Obama delivered a veiled rebuke to Hillary Clinton today for spending the summer and much of the fall taking it easy as Donald Trump barnstormed the nation. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 7:45 pm
NIGEL FARAGE has revealed that Donald Trump will re-install a bust of Winston Churchill removed from the Oval Office by Barack Obama - in a clear sign of the friendship the new President wishes to foster with Britain. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 4:08 pm
On energy and environment issues, President-elect Donald Trump appears likely to spend the next four years working to unravel the expansive agenda President Barack Obama has cultivated. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 12:11 pm
Ever since Barack Obama took office and turned the Democratic Party hard to the Left, they have lost ground in every single election cycle throughout the country. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 9:57 am
The result is that we now find ourselves confronting a remarkable controlled experiment of sorts as we lurch from the exquisitely presented moral anguish and self-involved seriousness of Barack Obama to the proud, almost avowed moral emptiness of Trump. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 6:59 am
— Obama's mortgage relief plan.The Tea Party has had a lasting effect on American politics, and I don't think we'd have seen the same thing at all if it had begun as a freakout on seeing Barack Obama elected. [read post]
