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Kenneth C. Frazier to Retire as Merck CEO; Board Elects Robert M. Davis as Successor; Frazier to Continue as Executive Chairman
February 4, 2021 GMT
KENILWORTH, N.J. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 4, 2021
Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman and chief executive officer, will retire as CEO, effective June 30, 2021. Mr. Frazier will continue to serve on Merck’s board of directors as executive chairman, for a transition period to be determined by the board. The Merck board of directors has unanimously elected Robert M. Davis, Merck’s current executive vice president, global services and chief financial officer, as chief executive officer, as well as a member of the board, effective July 1, 2021. Mr. Davis will become president of Merck, effective April 1, 2021, at which time the company’s operating divisions Huma
7 key areas of legislative and policy successes by the ABA in the 116th Congress
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The first session of the 116th Congress started in 2019 with a politically divided government and the longest federal government shutdown in history. It ended with the impeachment of the president by the Democratic-led House of Representatives.
The second session started in 2020 with the Republican-led Senate acquittal of the president, followed quickly by the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The rapidly spreading virus compelled Congress to close its doors to the public, transformed daily life throughout the nation and dominated much of the legislative agenda for the remainder of the year. The 116th Congress ended with a presidential election, concerns over the peaceful transition of power, and a rush to fund the government for the remainder of FY 2021 and provide additional coronavirus relief prior to adjournment.
U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright has assumed leadership of a House Appropriations subcommittee, a promotion that he thinks means more federal dollars for Northeast Pennsylvania.
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Policymakers should provide at least $100 million in additional funding for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) for this fiscal year in the face of rising need, which would help low-income people cope with urgent legal problems arising from COVID-19 and the resulting economic crisis.
The LSC is a non-profit corporation that policymakers established to provide financial support for legal aid programs. It receives annual appropriations ($465 million in fiscal year 2021) that it distributes to more than 130 independent non-profit legal aid agencies across the country. Those grantees, in turn, provide legal assistance to people and families with incomes at or below 125 percent of the federal poverty line in non-criminal legal matters involving things like housing, family issues (e.g., adoption, child custody, domestic abuse, and divorce), access to health care, income support and other benefits, employment law, and consumer finance and debt collection.
As eviction crisis looms, priest highlights the legal needs of the poor Los Angeles County Sheriff s deputies walk up to an apartment to carry out an eviction in Los Angeles Jan. 13. (CNS photo/Lucy Nicholson, Reuters)
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select Dominican Father Pius Pietrzyk poses for a May 8, 2019, photo in a chapel at St. Patrick s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, Calif. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth) DENVER In the waning months of 2020, the United States watched as the Senate conducted hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic mother of seven. President Donald Trump had nominated Barrett to fill the Supreme Court seat left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.