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VA Secretary Denis McDonough stated, “We’re mandating vaccines for Title 38 employees because it’s the best way to keep Veterans safe, especially as the Delta variant spreads across the country. [read post]
” Earlier in July, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the COVID-19 pandemic “pushed” an additional 124 million people into extreme poverty, so that about one in three people around the world did not have access to adequate food in 2020. [read post]
27 Jul 2021, 5:01 am by Michel Paradis
Soon after taking office, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin sponsored the most recent initiative and appointed the so-called Independent Review Committee (IRC) to assess what reforms should be made. [read post]
27 Jul 2021, 2:25 am by NCC Staff
Jefferson resigned as Secretary of State in late 1793 as part of a struggle with Alexander Hamilton, the Treasury Secretary, over the centralized role of the new federal government. [read post]
27 Jul 2021, 12:00 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  Would the optics look better if Democrats passed a bill embodying a Gephardt Rule: "The debt ceiling is to be adjusted by the amount that Secretary of the Treasury determines is necessary to allow all of the government's legally binding financial commitments to be met, after taking account of the provisions in this bill and in all existing laws that bind the United States and could impinge on the nation's full faith and credit"? [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 4:16 pm by INFORRM
Those paragraphs state, correctly, that he served as Secretary of State for the Colonies, helped draft the treaty that created the Irish Free State, opposed Indian independence, and was Prime Minister during the Second World War – a period that also included the Bengal Famine, about which he has been criticised. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 3:02 pm by Jon L. Gelman
But we must do more to fight disinformation and encourage vaccine-hesitant communities and individuals,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 12:52 pm by Genevieve Lakier
“Our precedents indicate,” Justice William Rehnquist wrote for the majority, “that a State normally can be held responsible for a private decision only when it has exercised coercive power or has provided such significant encouragement, either overt or covert, that the choice must in law be deemed to be that of the State. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 12:52 pm by Genevieve Lakier
“Our precedents indicate,” Justice William Rehnquist wrote for the majority, “that a State normally can be held responsible for a private decision only when it has exercised coercive power or has provided such significant encouragement, either overt or covert, that the choice must in law be deemed to be that of the State. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 10:26 am by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, the highest-ranking Biden administration official to visit China thus far, raised a number of  issues during the talks in Tianjin, including atrocities in Xinjiang, reduced political freedoms in Hong Kong, alleged Chinese cyberattacks and military operations in the South China Sea. [read post]
  Wednesday, July 28, 2021: After its 9 a.m. business meeting, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing on the nominations of Kenneth Lee Salazar to be the U.S. ambassador to Mexico; Jessica Lewis to be assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs; Donald Lu to be assistant secretary of state for south Asian affairs; and Marcela Escobari to be  assistant administrator of U.S.A.I.D. for Latin America and the Caribbean. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 5:00 am by Elin Hofverberg
The bill provides the courts with the power to fine legal representatives personally – including the Secretary of State and the Home Office’s representatives – for “improper, unreasonable, or negligent behaviour. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 12:00 am by Eric Segall
 In the Sinking Fund Act of Aug. 12, 1790, Congress authorized open market purchases of debt, in the form of U.S. securities, under the direction of the President of the Senate, the Chief Justice, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General.... [read post]
25 Jul 2021, 3:14 pm by lennyesq
By KATHRYN RUBINO *** A new federal lawsuit (click on link for complaint and exhibits) alleges former New York state trial judge Matthew Rosenbaum subjected his secretary to forced sex acts and other harassment between March 2005 and June 2009. [read post]
23 Jul 2021, 6:53 pm by Arthur F. Coon
Assembly Bill No. 819 (AB 819), was signed by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on July 16, 2021, and as non-urgency legislation will become effective on January 1, 2022. [read post]
23 Jul 2021, 2:00 pm by Geoff Schweller
The OIG report states that the FBI failed to respond to the allegations against Nassar “with the utmost seriousness and urgency that the allegations deserved and required, made numerous and fundamental errors when they did respond to them, and failed to notify state or local authorities of the allegations or take other steps to mitigate the ongoing threat posed by Nassar. [read post]
23 Jul 2021, 10:27 am by Ana Popovich
RSVP to National Whistleblower Day 2021 here to see speakers including DOL Secretary Marty Walsh. [read post]