China will establish coordination mechanisms at both regional and national levels to facilitate concerted efforts to protect the country s longest waterway, according to the newly passed Yangtze River Protection Law, the nation s first such legislation.
Adopted on Saturday after a third review by the Standing Committee of the National People s Congress－the country s top legislature－the law states that a national mechanism will guide and coordinate Yangtze conservation work in accordance with the principle of promoting well-coordinated environmental conservation and avoiding excessive development .
Aside from deliberating on major protection policies and planning, the mechanism will also conduct coordination of major trans-regional and departmental issues, as well as supervise and inspect the implementation of major Yangtze conservation work, according to the law, which will take effect on March 1.
Mnuchin s loyalty to Trump could end with painful setback as president shreds stimulus deal
Jeff Stein, The Washington Post
Dec. 26, 2020
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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Saturday continued to demand changes to the $900 billion stimulus deal that Democrats and Republicans approved on Dec. 21, raising the odds that the government could shut down on Tuesday and the economy could suffer a devastating shock in the final days of his presidency. I simply want to get out great people $2000, rather than the measly $600 that is now in the bill, Trump wrote in a tweet.
His demand for $2,000 stimulus checks is a direct rejection of the $600 checks that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had personally proposed and negotiated with Democrats and Republicans. Now, Trump s rejection of the deal has confounded many leaders on Capitol Hill because they had thought Mnuchin negotiated the package on behalf of the president. The treasury chief s standing with many lawm
Dodin first Arab named in Biden’s White House
Dodin first Arab named in Biden’s White House
25th Dec 2020
Nadine Osman
Palestinian-American Reema Dodin is to be appointed Deputy Director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, making her the first Arab American woman to hold the post and the first Arab-American in President-elect Joe Biden’s Adminstration. Dodin, who shares the position with Shuwanza Goff, will be joining the Legal Affairs team in January 2021.
She currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff and Floor Director to the Democratic senator Dick Durbin. She previously served as Durbin’s floor counsel and research director. Dodin also served as an aide to the Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, which Durbin chaired.
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