Huma Abedin, vice chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for President of the United States was revealed to have emailed classified information to her then-husband Anthony Weiner. On Thursday, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) was reported to have called for a prosecutor to look into whether Hillary Clinton’s staff had broken the law, when she had […]
Punctuating the Product-Safety Year: A Rush of CPSC Activity at the End of a Largely Inactive 2020 Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Like virtually every other institution, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was profoundly shaped in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic. The challenges of a dispersed workforce and operational uncertainty limited the agency’s operations and forced redesign of processes, from virtual Commission meetings to banners on the agency’s website warning consumers that some companies may be unable to provide recall remedies.
The CPSC’s 2020 was also profoundly shaped by political gridlock and instability. The Commission reached consensus on few significant issues – it took two tries to set a Fiscal Year 2021 Operating Plan – and commissioners were unusually pointed in their disagreements, most prominently Commissioner Peter Feldman and Acting Chairman Bob Adler questioning each other’s enforcement bona fides. The agency’s most no
Trump Pardons Former Campaign Aide, Two Former GOP Lawmakers Bloomberg 12/23/2020 Justin Sink
(Bloomberg) President Donald Trump issued a slew of pardons on Tuesday, including for two people convicted as part of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe and for two former Republican congressmen convicted of a range of financial crimes.
From the Mueller investigation, Trump pardoned former campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who was convicted of lying to the FBI, and Alex van der Zwaan, a lawyer who was also convicted of making false statements during the Russia probe. He also pardoned four men who worked as security guards for Blackwater and had been convicted in relation to the 2007 killing of Iraqi civilians.
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Sen. Cruz Blocks Bill that Would Create TPS Pipeline from H.K.
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Late last Friday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz blocked a current bill that would effectively create an asylum pipeline for millions of Hong Kong citizens to come to the U.S. under Temporary Protection Status.
Sen. Cruz prudently stated that the legislation while helping some refugees flee persecution would pose a grave national security risk by allowing the Chinese Communist Party to exploit the system and insert spies and other communist actors into the U.S. population.
Cruz added that the legislation was part of a current political and big business movement to open U.S. borders, flood the already loose labor market, and would be used “to advance their long-standing goals on changing [US] immigration laws.”