He aims to address that by replacing many staff throughout the agencies, which Kennedy has accused of being too sympathetic to large food and drug companies. As a co-chair ofTrump's transition, Kennedy has been vetting a slate of staffers who could fill top positions throughout the Trump a...
assembling “landing teams” for federal agencies, vetting a slew of potential political appointees, hammering out ‘Day One’ policy plans and doing all the other prep work the next leader of the free world needs. But now that there is the official winner, much of this work moves into the...
I've changed, if subtly, and in ways that trouble a friend here and there. But my thinking is pretty much the same as it was when I was in my 20s. As a "liberal", I never really trusted Big Labor. I've never liked the "politically correct" speech regimen many traditional liberals...
Jason Chaffetz is holding a hearing this morning titled, “White House narratives on the Iran Nuclear Deal” to examine the process by which the Obama administration negotiated the Nuke deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama’s Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was invited to ...
one for another valid reason, such as to receive a certain benefit or service. But federal law requires states to regularly maintain their voter rolls andremove anyone ineligible, a process that identifies immigrants living in the country illegally in addition to other state-level ...
As a candidate, Trump called for a temporary ban on all Muslim immigration to the U.S. He later shifted his focus to putting in place “extreme vetting” procedures to screen people coming to the U.S. from countries with terrorism ties. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it wo...
I myself, like many other academics working long-term in the United States, have certainly experienced my own share of immigration bureaucracy, starting with various glitches in the renewal or application of my J-1 and O-1 visas, then to the lengthy vetting process for acquiring perman...
Part of the issue is the lack of participation and involvement in the design, implementation, validation, and vetting of ADS. On the other hand, one Salon participant pointed out that given all the issues with bias and exclusion, “maybe they would trust an ADS even less if they ...
google launched a limited service that just recognized public figures and was offered only to customers in the media after careful vetting. mitchell and gebru believed their successes derived in part from the fact that their team provided refuge from google’s internal culture, which they and some...
What about immigrants who are hiding from sight out of fear and not registered by the government?” He cautioned evaluators to not forget about folks in the community who are totally missed out and skipped over, and how the use of new technology could make that problem even greater. Another...