Numerous Trump allies have urged disempowering public health agencies — stripping the CDC of much of its research and promotional authority while streamlining NIH and adding congressional oversight over its grant-making. Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation blueprint disavowed by Trump butwhose authors...
Numerous Trump allies have urged disempowering public health agencies — stripping the CDC of much of its research and promotional authority while streamlining NIH and adding congressional oversight over its grant-making. Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation blueprint disavowed by Trump butwhose authors...
or lured by one more football season find it hard to graduate. Congress has tried to help students with college costs through Pell Grants and other forms of tuition support. But some of their fixes have made the problem worse. The stack of congressional regulations governing federal student gran...
A Congressional vacancy occurred in the representation from California Presentation The activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward); She gave the trophy but he made the presentation Representation A factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter in...
In the footnotes of a quippy 2019 congressional testimony, Powell included a photo of Seurat’s famous “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” painting that was so zoomed in, it became distorted. “As you can see, if you are too focused on a few dots, you may miss ...
Policy Evaluation through Congressional Testimony Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner testifies b efore a Congressional Oversight Panel evaluating the effectiveness of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) June 22, 2010. Geithner argued that the TARP program, often criticized as ...
Our Sixty Days of Nuclear Chicken Have Begun– by Matt Taibbi – https://www.racket.news/p/our-sixty-days-of-nuclear-chicken– “In an irony so miserable it must be true, widespread belief that peace talks are coming after Donald Trump’s inauguration is pushing Russia and the U.S. in...
Mail service was for the first time turned over to private contractors after congressional pressure on the post office with the Air Mail Act of 1925, also known as the Kelly Act. This was the first chess piece to be moved in an effort to accelerate aviation technology and aircraft performance...
What Is Meant by Soft Money? Soft moneyrefers to a type of political giving that does not support specific candidates. Rather, it is donated to political parties and can be used for general party support. However, in practice, the line between supporting a political party versus its candidates...
Does U.S. Tax Indexing Require Congressional Approval? No. The U.S. government is allowed to use tax indexing every year, so this change does not have to wait on legislative approval. The Bottom Line Tax indexing is when various rates of taxation are adjusted in response to inflation and ...