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Biden said he hoped for a resolution to the standoff "before the clock strikes twelve"

/PRNewswire/ -- Kelley Drye & Warren LLP today announced that Senior Government Relations Counsel Laurie Rubiner has joined the firm. Drawing from her...

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Change. is that whats going on here? >> it could be. you know, if you look at it, joe manchin you think of as kind of a new deal democrat, a humphrey democrat who opposes the cultural liberalism of the party but historically has been basically okay with the idea of government spending money to expand opportunity in a poor state. west virginia ranks 44th in child poverty, it ranks near the bottom in the share of kids born premature. it has enormous needs in poverty. it would benefit very directly...

Objections to kind of the core domestic programs in this bill with both the need in his state and his previous record, which makes you wonder is there something else going on and could the something else be the climate provisions, which have already been scaled back as you know, tremendously to try to get his assent. but those -- today in his statement he really leaned on the argument that the bill would transition the u.s. away from fossil fuels too fast which i dont think there are a lot of cl...

A headline on Newsweek’s web site grabbed my attention in early May: “Wokeness Has Come for Adoption. It’s the Children Who Will Suffer.” This is a subject I know well: My wife and I have fostered three child refugees—from Zimbabwe, Guatemala, and Honduras respectively. These foster children

Invasive Plant Species Month News Reporter With your Southeast Regional Ag Report, Im Trevor Williams. April is “Invasive Plant Pest and Disease Awareness Month.” Invasive insects and plant diseases can cost the U.S. an estimated $40 billion in damages each year to trees, crops, and they threaten the economy, food supply, and the environment, especially here in the Southeast. Samantha Simon. the USDA’s Executive Director of Emergency and Domestic Programs, says April is typica...

By Sister Dana Van Iquity– Sister  Dana sez, “Happy St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)! Even though I’m Irish and will surely drink green beer and Irish whiskey on that day, I still will never quite understand why we celebrate a man who drove the snakes out of Ireland.” UNITED NATIONS’ observance of  INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY was held on March 8. The theme was “Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world, on the way to the Generation Equality Forum.” This ...

Compromise. do you think this is a good deal for the country? is it going to go through? >> i do. i do think its a good deal. look, we have a job to do and i think that as a governor you dont have the luxury of not doing your job and i think thats what americans want people in washington to do. do your job. less grandstanding. more compromise. more getting things done. no budget is perfect. as you say i reluctantly signed our budget because, unfortunately, the legislature decided to make cuts to...

He wants to get rid of the filibuster rule in the senate. both things are not happening. does he understand how this works? >>. >> no, he doesnt. listen, this is the biggest wholesale failure legislatively of donald trumps administration, no two ways about it. he proposed a budget that cut a lot of domestic programs, all of those kud cuts were rejected. democratic priorities were funded in this bill. the fact that he tried to new answer his way into science this, frankly, is a disappointment to ...