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On Wednesday, January 13, 2021, the President signed into law: H.R. 221, the “Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act,” which elevates the Sp

Veterans have no better friend than President Trump. VP Michael Trump to Americans unedited: This president and our administration understand that veterans’ benefits are not entitlements – they’re earned. They are the ongoing compensation for services rendered in the uniform of the United States. And since the outset of our administration, we’ve taken decisive action to make good on our promise to the heroes who’ve served. President Trump has signed the most substantial veterans’ h...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: It may come as some surprise that embedded within the over 5,500-pages of the recent COVID-19 relief and government funding bill (the Consolidated Appropriations Act) are several (not-insubstantial) changes to copyright and trademark law and procedure.   Specifically, the relief package — which was signed into law on December 27, 2020 — incorporated the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020, the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claim...

Published: January 6, 2021 Anne Gilson LaLonde Gilson on Trademarks South Burlington, Vermont, USA Global Advisory Council—North America; Legislation & Regulation Committee—United States Subcommittee Verifier: Rod Enns ...

The Trump International Hotel in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal appeals court has sided with more than a dozen members of Congress in their attempt to get their hands on details about the Trump Organization’s lease on the luxury hotel located in the capital’s historic Old Post Office building. In an opinion released Tuesday morning, the D.C. Circuit held that the lawmakers have standing to pursue their case against the head of the General Services Administ...

FreightWaves Classics: Trucking companies’ names range from A to Z (Part 5) 1 1,146 9 minutes read Serving eight states in the Mountain West, this AFS tractor pulls twin-trailers of grocery store products. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) Deregulation of the U.S. trucking industry began in the late 1970s. Congress passed the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 and it was signed into law by President Carter on July 1, 1980. This ended 45 years of onerous regulation by the federal Interstate Co...

Energy Technology Export Controls Executive Summary Dual-use products and materials, those with both military and civilian applications, are subject to export controls. These export controls make U.S. clean energy technologies less competitive in the global market just as governments and consumers are prioritizing efforts to combat climate change. Trade barriers to the export of U.S. clean energy technologies, such as export controls, should be reformed to reduce their impact on the innovation...

Nuclear energy policy represents a bipartisan path forward on climate for the Biden Administration Joe Biden speaking with attendees at a 2019 fundraiser in Clear Lake, Iowa. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr/Wikimedia Creative Commons) ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Original Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/48573410561/ With former Vice President Joe Biden now the President-elect of the United States, enthusiasm on the left is tempered by...

Fri, 12/11/2020 - 3:42pm admin U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill.has been elected by his House Republican colleagues to serve as the lead Republican on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee. The committee works to set the party’s agenda on veterans issues and leading oversight efforts of the administration.  Should Republicans gain the majority in Congress in the next election, Bost would be in line to become the chairman of the full committee. Bost represents the 12th C...

Liberals completely unwilling to hold political parties to account on privacy by Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press Posted Dec 12, 2020 6:00 am EDT Last Updated Dec 12, 2020 at 6:12 am EDT OTTAWA — A leading expert on personal-information law says the Trudeau government is unwilling to hold political parties to the same level of accountability it is demanding of other organizations in its current revamp of the federal privacy regime. Teresa Scassa, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, ...