President Joe Biden's selection of a Manatt adviser to oversee Affordable Care Act policymaking and Medicare reimbursement on Friday makes crystal clear that veterans of major law firms and state attorneys general offices will be pivotal players on the president's health care team. Here, Law360 looks at key names to know.
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Ex-WilmerHale Temp Says White House Atty Lied For Toyota
Law360 (February 18, 2021, 4:53 PM EST) A former WilmerHale attorney who now works at the White House has been subpoenaed after a former temp accused him of lying under oath to help Toyota cover up corrupt practices in Thailand, including hiding defects in some of its car models.
Michael Posada was subpoenaed Tuesday and is one of several former WilmerHale lawyers at the White House who have been called to testify in Florida state court in the case brought by Andrew Delaney, a former Big Law attorney who worked for a staffing agency under WilmerHale s direction on an internal investigation for Toyota.
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American Dream and Foreign Policy of Pakistan
By Prof Shazia Cheema
The writer Shazia Cheema is an analyst writing for national and international media outlets including Pakistan Observer, Eurasia Diary, InSight, and Mina News Agency. She heads the Thought Center of Dispatch News Desk (DND). She did her MA in Cognitive Semiotics from Aarhus University Denmark and is currently registered as a Ph.D. Scholar of Semiotics and Philosophy of Communication at Charles University Prague. She can be reached at her: Twitter @ShaziaAnwerCh Email: shaziaanwer@yahoo.com
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in his statement over the new US administration said that the US administration has a clear stance about the protection of human rights and US President- Joe Biden had a clear perspective about the South Asian region.
Governors Wind Energy Coalition
Acting heads for DOE, Interior, EPA named Source: By Timothy Cama, E&E News reporter • Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2021
David Huizenga will serve as President Biden’s acting Energy secretary, the new administration announced yesterday. Partnership for Public Service
President Biden yesterday named a slate of officials to be acting heads of federal agencies while his nominees await Senate confirmation.
The officials are mostly senior career employees. They are meant to keep agencies running and carrying out their missions, and are unlikely to implement major policy changes before Cabinet officials take charge.
In at least some cases, Biden is picking different acting officials than the ones President Trump’s administration had lined up.