"Sen. Schumer on Democratic opposition under Trump" PBS NewsHour 1/23/2017ExcerptSUMMARY: As the Republican-led House and Senate seek to help President Trump deliver on many of his cam… Read More
Amid protesters’ shouts of “Shame!” and “Respect our votes!” the South Dakota Senate voted Wednesday night to repeal an Anti-Corruption Law that Voters passed a… Read More
Congressional Republicans want to undo an Obama Administration Initiative designed to keep Mentally Ill people from buying Guns.
The House of Representatives voted Thursday, mostly along P… Read More
Legislation to require Proof of U.S. Citizenship before Registering to Vote in Virginia Elections passed the Republican-controlled House of Delegates on Wednesday on a 64-33 vote along Party… Read More
A North Carolina Court on Wednesday Temporarily Halted a New State Law stripping Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of some of his Authority.
The Republican-led State Legislature restricted the inc… Read More
President Trump on Thursday signed Legislation ending a Key Obama Administration Coal Mining Rule.
The Bill quashes the Office of Surface Mining's Stream Protection Rule, a Regulation to p… Read More
Legislative Updates
Arizona: The House has given initial approval to proposals that will ask Voters to Repeal or Revise a 1998 Law that keeps Lawmakers from repealing or Changing Voter-Appr… Read More
aka 'Your Health is Too Expensive to Fund Act'"Hospitals worry an ACA repeal could harm their financial health" PBS NewsHour 2/27/2017ExcerptSUMMARY: Efforts by the Trump administratio… Read More
Lately, I was quite busy and actually not in a good mood, so I wasn’t publishing my trade adjustments against US Steel (X) and Seagate Technology (STX).
I was able to roll those trades… Read More
President Trump plans to sign an Executive Order rolling back Obama's Policies to curb Planet-Warming Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Prui… Read More
Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News for this post.
Alaska Representative Gabrielle Ledoux (R-Anchorage) introduced HB 200 on March 29. It converts Alaska Elections to an Open Pri… Read More
Emboldened by the Environmental rollbacks of President Trump, State Legislatures are following suit, taking aim at items as varied as Solar Incentives, Chemical spill Protections, and Anti-P… Read More
Hours after Senate Republicans’ failed attempt to Overturn an Obama-era Rule regulating Methane Emissions, the Trump Administration announced it will take matters into its own hands… Read More
This is the President's Executive Order creating the Voter Fraud Commission.
ESTABLISHMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON ELECTION INTEGRITY
By the authority vested in me as Presid… Read More
A new GOP House Bill is putting Internet Privacy back in the spotlight, just weeks after President Trump signed Legislation killing Privacy Protections passed during the Obama Administration… Read More
"Three Strategies to Defend GOP Health Bill: Euphemisms, False Statements and Deleted Comments" by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica 5/25/2017Since the passage of the American Health Care Act, Re… Read More
Republican Businessman Greg Gianforte won a special House Election in Montana, just one day after being charged with Assault for allegedly body slamming a Reporter who asked him about repeal… Read More
Tens of thousands of Undocumented Immigrants have been granted Work Permits by the Trump Administration under an Obama-era Deferred-Action Program that President Trump had promised to End on… Read More
MBO Partners recently released its 7th Annual State of Independence in America study. This report looks at the world of independent workers, including self-employed workers, part-time… Read More
"Shields and Brooks on the Senate health care bill unveiled, Trump’s tape clarification" PBS NewsHour 6/23/2017ExcerptSUMMARY: Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Time… Read More
Due to Term Limits, popular City Council Member Dan Garodnick [D-District 4] and my Council Member, is not allowed to Run for Reelection this year, leading to a crowded field of Competitors… Read More
The Senate Rejected a Key Proposal Repealing and Replacing ObamaCare on Tuesday night, as Senators start a days-long Debate on Healthcare. Senators voted 43-57 on a Procedural hurd… Read More
Two months ago, Texas Lawmakers quietly did something Rare in this Statehouse, They sent Gov. Greg Abbott a Bill designed to make Voting easier for thousands of Texans. Abbott praised that e… Read More
President Trump late last week instructed the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, to Cease all Work on Studying of Public Health Effects of Mountaintop Removal coal Mi… Read More
The Republican-led Congress Failed to Reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) over the weekend, spreading uncertainty and Panic among some States that Funding f… Read More
"How does the GOP tax plan affect you? You asked, we answer" PBS NewsHour 12/13/2017ExcerptSUMMARY: Republicans are poised to work out their differences on the tax overhaul bill… Read More
"The surprising winners and losers of the latest GOP tax bill" PBS NewsHour 12/18/2017ExcerptSUMMARY: Who benefits most from the latest GOP tax plan? Who won -- and who lost -- i… Read More
For as little as $6 Million in a $168 Billion State Budget, New York could join 37 States in Allowing Voters to Cast Ballots before Election Day, to Switch or Join a Party in time to Vote in… Read More
Fighting an almost impossible 88-day timeline, The People of Maine turned in more than 80,000 Signatures on Feb. 3rd, 2018, to keep Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) alive.
In November of 2016, RC… Read More
Citing President Trump’s “racially charged language,” a Federal Judge in Brooklyn ruled on Thursday that a Lawsuit seeking to Preserve a Program that Protects hundreds of t… Read More
On Tuesday, Trump Signed an Executive Order Repealing Protections for the Oceans and Great Lakes. Trump’s Executive Order gives Priority to Ocean Industry and particularly Oil and Natu… Read More
In 2017, Seattle rolled out “Democracy Vouchers”, a program through which it would give eligible Residents Vouchers totaling $100 to Donate to the Local Candidate of their choice… Read More
Led by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, 22 States filed a Brief yesterday supporting an Effort to Reverse the Federal Communications Commission (FEC)’s Unpopular Decision t… Read More
The State of California Agreed Not to Enforce the State Net Neutrality Law until a Final Court Decision on the Trump Administration's Decision to Overturn the 2015 Obama-Era Open Internet Ru… Read More
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), holds a News Conference following the 2018 Midterm Elections on Nov. 7th, 2018. Pelosi expects to Lead the House Democrats and Plans an Agenda focu… Read More
One of the most contentious Fights of Republicans’ 2017 Tax Overhaul is about to go another round. Democrats from High-Tax States, including California, are preparing to launch a New P… Read More
The Department of Education and the Department of Justice Officially Rescinded a piece of Obama-era Guidance Designed to Protect Students from Racist School Discipline on Friday.
The Repeal… Read More
Missouri Governor Mike Parson (R) believes a Repeal-and-Replace effort is necessary for a New Voter-Approved Constitutional Amendment Revising the way Missouri’s Legislative Districts… Read More
"Shields and Brooks on border wall negotiations, Mueller updates" PBS NewsHour 1/11/2019ExcerptSUMMARY: Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks anal… Read More
Lawmakers or Top Officials in at least Nine States have introduced or pledged to introduce Legislative Packages in 2019 that could dramatically Expand Voting Access for many Americans. More… Read More
Oral Arguments were presented Friday in the most Prominent Lawsuit challenging the Federal Government’s Repeal of Broadband Access Rules known as Net Neutrality.
The Federal Communica… Read More
At the end of March, the Supreme Court Heard Oral Argument in Two Cases challenging Federal Congressional Districts in North Carolina and Maryland as the Product of Unconstitutional Partisan… Read More
Lagos Assembly speaks on ‘scrapping pension’ for Tinubu, Fashola, others
The Lagos State House of Assembly says it will not repeal the state’s pensions law permitting for… Read More
Washington looks on course to become the Second State in as many months to Restore Voting Rights to Felons as soon as they Leave Prison.
Last week a State Senate Committee Approved a Bill R… Read More
Maine is facing Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) Pushback from Republicans who Don't want it in the Fall Presidential Election.
Earlier this Month the State Republican Party filed Paperwork propo… Read More
The Supreme Court sidestepped its First Major Case on the Second Amendment in nearly a Decade, by Ruling that New York City's Repeal of a Transportation Restriction on Gun Owners Rendered th… Read More
The country is deeply polarized and so every issue is viewed from the prism of the political dispensation of the person attempting to understand the issue. There is a need to take a dispassi… Read More
President Biden isn't wasting any time to Reverse some of the Damage that Trump has done to our Country. The Executive Orders:
- Rejoin the World Health Organization
- End Travel Restri… Read More
Legislative Updates
Alabama: A House committee Wednesday approved legislation that would explicitly ban curbside voting in Alabama. HB 285, sponsored by Rep. Wes Allen, R-Troy, would forbid… Read More
The House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Thursday, Advanced a Measure to Repeal a nearly Two-Decade-Old Authorization for the use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq. This is lawmakers’ Fi… Read More
President Biden has Revoked a Trump Order, put in place, that targeted a Controversial Law that Shields Tech Companies from Liability for Content Posted on their Platforms, by Third Parties… Read More
The Biden Administration is moving to Undo a Trump Rule that vastly Shrank the Number of Streams and Wetlands Protected by the Clean Water Act, taking on a Politically Combustible Issue that… Read More
The House, on Thursday, Voted to Repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Iraq War, in what Lawmakers are Framing as a First Step in a Broader effort to Claw back Presidential War Powers.
The… Read More
The Biden Administration is Reversing a Series of Trump-Era Immigration Rulings that Narrowed Asylum Standards by Denying Protection to Victims of Domestic Violence and those who said they w… Read More
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), on Thursday, Voted to Expand the Regulatory Agency's Enforcement Powers, a Signal of Democratic Commissioners' willingness to Crack-Down on Alleged Anti-C… Read More
President Biden Signed Three Congressional Review Act (CRA) Bills on, June 30th, Reversing Three Administrative Rules, implemented near the End of Trump's Administration.
The CRA is a Fede… Read More
On November 2nd, 2021, New York State Voters, will be asked to Approve a Constitutional Amendment revising the Redistricting Process to be based on the 2020 Census. If the Constitutional Ame… Read More
After weeks of waiting, the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is on the move in the Senate, as Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took Action on the Bill Nov. 15th.
The… Read More
Legislative Updates
Georgia: Gov. Brian Kemp officially signed the new Floyd County Elections board bills into law, dissolving the current three-member board and replacing it with a new fiv… Read More
In Himachal Pradesh, India, the government has decided to implement the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) from April 1, which will put a burden of Rs 1,000-crore on the state exchequer. The cabinet a… Read More