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27 May 2021, 8:25 am
Overview of the WTC Health Program In early 2011, then-President Barack Obama signed the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 into law. [read post]
26 May 2021, 8:22 am
”He was vice president when former President Barack Obama agreed to a historic detente with then Cuban President Raul Castro. [read post]
20 May 2021, 10:09 am
” First of all, the 10-year time frame in this statement is artificial: It omits Congress’ remarkable output just over 10 years ago, during President Barack Obama’s first two years in office, when Congress passed the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. [read post]
19 May 2021, 1:37 pm
” Rodríguez, a Yale Law School professor and former official at the Department of Justice, shared the drivers’ seat with co-chair Bob Bauer, an NYU Law professor and former White House counsel to President Barack Obama. [read post]
19 May 2021, 8:07 am
” “Revelations about the no-bid contract last week generated sharp criticism; Walter Shaub, a former top White House ethics official under President Barack Obama, suggested on Twitter they might reflect violations of the federal contracting procedures. [read post]
18 May 2021, 9:03 pm
Later, a program known as “Countering Violent Extremism” (CVE), established under President Barack Obama and renamed under President Trump, increased counterterrorism surveillance of Muslim Americans by allowing DHS, federal prosecutors, and FBI agents to work closely with local officials to infiltrate Muslim American communities. [read post]
16 May 2021, 9:10 pm
We are confident they will follow the message offered by President Barack Obama, when he said: “Keep exploring. [read post]
12 May 2021, 3:38 pm
Under former President Donald Trump, the EPA’s Climate Change Indicators website was not updated, as it had been under his predecessor, Barack Obama…” EPA – Climate Change is Happening Now – “The Earth’s climate is changing. [read post]
12 May 2021, 8:44 am
After the highly militarized police response to people protesting the police killing of Michael Brown in 2014, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13688 in order to curb the transfer of military equipment to state and local police and to establish transparency and oversight of the 1033 program. [read post]
11 May 2021, 2:55 am
The Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, is a law signed by former US President Barack Obama in 2010 and designed to extend health coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. [read post]
10 May 2021, 6:00 am
” Gorsuch, appointed by President Donald Trump, was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, both appointed by President Barack Obama. [read post]
10 May 2021, 6:00 am
” Gorsuch, appointed by President Donald Trump, was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, both appointed by President Barack Obama. [read post]
7 May 2021, 10:44 am
That is why President Barack Obama instituted the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program as a stop-gap measure in 2012. [read post]
6 May 2021, 8:29 am
Barack Obama talked idealistically but delivered drones and defended investor-state dispute settlement, special tribunals for corporations largely to attack the regulatory state in the developing world (something Biden has categorically repudiated, by the way). [read post]
4 May 2021, 7:34 pm
But Judge Jackson, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011, ruled that the memo contained strategic advice, and that Mr. [read post]
4 May 2021, 5:30 am
On May 1, 2012, President Barack Obama’s proclamation for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month recognized two major anniversaries. [read post]
3 May 2021, 8:03 am
In 2010, President Barack Obama and Congress addressed the by-then iconic disparity, enacting the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the disparity to 18:1 and eliminated the mandatory five-year sentence for crack. [read post]
28 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm
The answer was that, as a constitutional matter, the president must treat the debt ceiling as nonbinding and borrow the amount of money necessary—but no more than that amount—so that he can faithfully execute the taxing and spending laws.During the years when the Republicans were using the debt ceiling to try to extort concessions from the Obama administration (2011-16), most people simply assumed that a president would have no choice but to refuse to spend… [read post]
28 Apr 2021, 8:28 am
” Order’s Details The White House fact sheet says the new Executive Order builds on President Barack Obama’s Executive Order 13658, which was issued in February 2014 and required federal contractors to pay employees at least $10.10 per hour. [read post]
25 Apr 2021, 7:01 am
While Barack Obama and Donald Trump had significantly different foreign policy outlooks, each came to office determined to reduce America’s focus on the Middle East. [read post]
